Rethinking My Meds

After reading Doctor Daniel G. Amen's book Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, I learned that gabapentin would improve temporal lobe function and control any possible seizures and aggression, as well as maintain emotional stability, relieve headaches, treat depression, and bipolar disorder.

Like mirtazapine, gabapentin has a good safety profile. While the former drug acts as a major sedative without the risk of benzodiazepine addiction, gabapentin has only moderate potential for the human body to develop a tolerance to it.

Indeed, this new psycho-pharmaceutical drug increases my ability to improve my mood by keeping it stable and thus improves my mental health.

After I chose mirtazapine because of its safety profile, I later was able to receive a prescription for gabapentin from my doctor after stating to him that I needed to manage pain and emotional stability.

After adding gabapentin to my medication regime of mirtazapine I've notice a change in my behavior and productivity.

To give you an idea of productivity, I'll list some things I got done in a day:

• created four videos to upload to Youtube.
  
• uploaded a couple pictures to Flickr and Picasa.
  
• created 3 songs for my new music album at Mix.DJ.

With the motivation and drive that gabapentin has given me, I believe that my darkest days in December are now over, for Friday (yesterday) is when I saw the light of day as a new beginning. As a result, I am inspired to change my life by improving my social skills so that they may be used to help others. Although this inspiration may be due to me experiencing the placebo effect, it is my strong belief that life has become brighter due to self-hypnosis with affirmations to uplift mood and aid in making positive choices to help and be of service to others. Such self-hypnosis is necessary to my recovery with the aid of mirtazapine and gabapentin.

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References:

Wikipedia on Daniel G. Amen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_G._Amen

Meet Doctor Amen: http://www.amenclinics.com/meet-dr-amen/ - Doctor Amen has a chain of clinics which use SPECT brain scans to get see in real-time the brain in action.

For people who are leery of having radio-nucleotides (radioactive markers used by medical specialists for making medical diagnoses) put in their blood stream, the Quackwatch website will confirm their fears: http://www.quackwatch.com/06ResearchProjects/amen.html

See also http://www.quackwatch.com/06ResearchProjects/amen_response.html

Disclaimer: the decision to ask for a month's supply of gabapentin was not originally due to reading Doctor Amen's book. In fact, I had been researching and studying many of the medications listed in the Appendix of his book on pages 307-313 (paperback edition) since 2006. Gabapentin showed up several times as having a high safety profile like mirtazapine.