Near death experiences

[Phatt Matt s]

Quit whining. Is it that time of month?

[Chas]

Quit whining. Is it that time of month?

You need to adjust your meds.

[Little lunch]

When I was about 13 we had a large cyclone in my hometown, Mackay.
Our closest bridge was under, but the high rail bridge was still a couple of metres above water.
I thought it would be cool to hang from the sleepers like they did on that movie,'The Lost Boys'. The river was flowing extremely rapidly and was full of trees and logs.
As I was hanging there I sought of realised that falling in would be certain death.
When I tried to pull myself up I hooked my shirt on a bit of twisted iron. I tried and tried, getting weaker and weaker, always being pulled back by my shirt. Eventually it ripped and I made it. Freaked me out.
Then when I was 19 I drove a car off a cliff in Eungella and smashed into a concrete water tank, which was lucky because the cliff kept going straight down 300 metres.
And that's all I could see was the bottom of the cliff out the front window.
I remember thinking,'oh well, that's it then.'
That's what gets to me about near death experiences is that some poor bugger has had that same panicked feeling and actually died.

Thundercunt, may I ask what they've got you on Seriquil for?
It's a very zombifying drug. At least it was for me on 100 mg twice a day.
I was becoming a terrible nuisance and they wanted to keep me off the streets, I reckon.

[Phatt Matt s]

It is to stop manic episodes and it helps me fall asleep. Yeah it is zombifying but I don't take it during the day and it wears off after 8-10 hours. Supposedly it works with antidepressants to treat depression. I don't understand how a drug that lowers dopamine levels could treat depression however.

I would rather be zombie like than have psychotic breaks or anger. However, it doesn't really zombify me and I get more sleep on it. Tolerance to it goes up as well. I knew a lady who was on the absolute max 1500 mgs a day and she wasn't zombie like at all. She didn't even seem drugged.

[Little lunch]

Getting more sleep is always a bonus.
I just found that I felt stagnant, like paused.
I wasn't going forwards or backwards.
I felt I needed to change my motivation rather then stop it all together.
I suppose I'm suggesting that Seriquil is better for short term only.
Although I'm not qualified to say anything of the sought.
To me, depression is like having bald, flat tyres.
You stop, fix it, and get back on the road again, knowing that any of the other tyres may blow anytime.
But you still have a destination. That's the important bit, in my opinion. :-)

[Jackalope]

It is to stop manic episodes and it helps me fall asleep. Yeah it is zombifying but I don't take it during the day and it wears off after 8-10 hours. Supposedly it works with antidepressants to treat depression. I don't understand how a drug that lowers dopamine levels could treat depression however.

I would rather be zombie like than have psychotic breaks or anger. However, it doesn't really zombify me and I get more sleep on it. Tolerance to it goes up as well. I knew a lady who was on the absolute max 1500 mgs a day and she wasn't zombie like at all. She didn't even seem drugged.

On that last point, I've been told by a physician that Seroquel is more sedating at lower doses. My former psychiatrist attempted to get me though the zombie feeling by increasing the dosage. For whatever that's worth, I gave up on it after a year. I would have not been able to keep working.

[Cinjin]

Have you ever had a near death experience?

No, but oddly enough I have two friends who on separate occasions, managed to get themselves on operating tables whereupon they were considered technically dead by doctors; one for 5 minutes and the other for 8 and half minutes. Both reported nothing. They saw nothing, they felt nothing. They said it was identical to having dreamless sleep.

[Clueless Morgan]

No, but oddly enough I have two friends who on separate occasions, managed to get themselves on operating tables whereupon they were considered technically dead by doctors; one for 5 minutes and the other for 8 and half minutes. Both reported nothing. They saw nothing, they felt nothing. They said it was identical to having dreamless sleep.

I know a man who has been very very sick for the last year or so (with health problems stretching back several years), and just recently I was told that he had called his kids in to see him and said his good byes, that he was ready to meet his savior and was ready to die. When his wife (who told me the story) came in to check on him later, she accidentally woke him up and he said, "Oh, I'm still here?" because he thought he was going to die when he fell asleep.

Not exactly a near death experience, but an interesting expectation that wasn't met.

[Little lunch]

My dad was dying and just before the end I was alone with him while he was sleeping.
He stopped breathing and went completely still.
I put my hand on his chest and said his name.
He started breathing again, looked up at me and said the last words I ever heard from him, 'Don't bloody wake me up when I'm asleep!'
He died about 15 min later.
Had a good laugh about it.

[psychoslice]

So really it is a near death experience, but that's all it is, an experience.