Mental Health Update

From a re-posted blog post, a story about how the book Atlas Shrugged helped get through a bad spot.

To help me get through some of the worst times with my boyfriend, I picked up one of my favorite books - Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. I’d read it some years before and loved the story. This time I read it for the "you can do it" message just so I could make it one day to the next. At that point I was in a deep depression with severe anxiety from the stress of living with an abusive, suicidal man, and therapy wasn’t enough to override the downward spiral of his health and my feelings. Atlas did the trick. Needless to say, I pretty much maxed out the depression scale when I first went in to the doctor’s for treatment. After two weeks of reading Atlas, I felt alive, and confident, and *strong* for the first time in months. My depression scale score went from a 37/40 to a 2 before the meds could have any effect. The enthusiasm from the book did wear off slowly, but it gave me a shot in the arm when I was scraping the bottom of the barrel, and there’s a good chance it saved one or more lives at least once.

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