Generally with most psyche med's they can work great when you take them ,but take a med vacation or any number of prescription screw ups and second time around people more often then not either don't respond or don't tolerate Re introduction, but the fleecing of your pocket or insurance goes on , for every drug that fails in a patient that's still a win to big drug makers, and they will continue to have an endless array of other ones for you to try. Look at the commercials on insomnia last year sponsored by Merck, my first thought was they don't have a hypnotic , sure enough six months later out pops Belsomra ( suvorexant) these companies don't make public service commercials during prime time because they care , they do it to introduce there drug ( I will say I love the wake and sleep cats in that commercial though, there marketing guys get a big thumbs up for originality ) , when I got accepted to medical school my Late Mom saw trouble coming and invited every doctor on the planet to the house that she new, to talk sense into me, which was a double edge sword, I turned it down because everyone told me if you enjoy patient care stay in the street, if you want to deal with a insurance and burecratic log jam of paperwork go to school, so I stayed a Paramedic and study medicine for "fun", never imagining a set of rare diseases was going to consume me and end my career extremely prematurely, if I had of become a Physician this wheelchair would not be an obstacle,I try not to look back at those moments using what I know now, because it just will bring heartache , our little turtle is going thru that now, an evaluation of his overall life and finding he has regrets that he needs a safe place for, I went thru this just over three years ago, to my benefit all of my closest friends are Psychologists or in the mental health field somewhere and I had them to lean on, I have done the personal work on my self already because I am 48 and not expected to see fifty ( my body has tried though , its latest was a stroke,not very impressive when you consider I am already in a wheelchair and type using one thumb,it should try harder to kill me) our little turtle has seniority on me , but I certainly can connect with where he is at, the personal cleansing that we need to do ( in the service they would call us short timers, the guys that are just days or hours away from rotation home, the guys that you don't send out to lead a patrol and catch a stray round, freak accidents have our name on them) I am and we are here for you turtle, we may not be doing the same thing but the issues are similar, my biggest regret was not speaking my mind, it's not a regret anymore because I am living my second chance, and I seldom shut up ( you might have noticed I am the "mouthiest" in the room) I have about 16 or so community's I tend to , in some I am a mentor and resource for new people , and some I am just one of the crowd my hobbies are radios, computers, lights and electronic engineering,and an overall gear head, love my old cars, I bet you had already figured some of those out all old Fireman and Medic's love there lights, like volunteer Guys I used to know you had to ask "does that car go faster when the lights are on" , if you remember the early Datsuns ( now Nissan is there brand) they were God awfull cars , kinda like Yugos but not as pathetic. I take Remeron(mirtazapine) it is the only stuff I am not allergic to.

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