Hexagram 29 unchanged - Should I continue to use the antidepressant?

[arte33]

Hello everybody. After a long time i needed to ask a question because i felt a difficulty to interprete the answer given by IC?

I have been using an antidepressant for 4 days and today i asked IC to understand the outcome of the continuation of the medicine? I have reveived hexagram 29 unchanged.

According to Balkin the image of the hex 29 is as below: I have some doubts about the message given to me. Could you please help me? Regards


Water flows incessantly toward its goal:
This is the image of the Abyss repeated.
Thus the superior person walks in lasting virtue
And carries on the work of edification.
Water flows incessantly toward its goal. It never gives up. In the same way
you must be determined to see things through. No matter how severe the
obstacles that you face, you must carry on. The world is testing you. You
must maintain your patience and your devotion. Take things one day at a
time. Just make sure that you keep going and do not lose heart.
The enemy you confront is more than a set of forces in the outside
world. The enemy is pessimism and lack of faith in yourself. This is the abyss
that is the subject of the hexagram. It is not a physical abyss but a spiritual
one. To give up and give in now is the worst possible thing that you could do.
It leaves you trapped in the abyss. To get out of the abyss you must free your-
self from negative thinking. You must not allow yourself to become a pris-
oner of despair. To ride through the danger that is without, you must face
up to and vanquish the danger that is within. Hence you must follow the ex-
ample of water, which stops for nothing, which pushes through every crack
and crevice, which never loses heart, but continually flows forward until it
reaches its goal.
Your ability to withstand difficult times depends on your inner strength.
Adversity breeds character, but character is necessary to survive adversity.
Therefore, you should not wait for danger to arise to test your mettle. You
should develop habits of persistence and devotion and make them part of
your everyday life. If you carry on the work of edification each and every
day it will be easier to get through the rough times when they occur.

 

[Hans_K]

I have been using an antidepressant for 4 days and today i asked IC to understand the outcome of the continuation of the medicine? I have reveived hexagram 29 unchanged.

Hexagram 29 unchanged - Should I continue to use the antidepressant?​

Your mental health is too important to leave this to an oracle whose answer you don't fully understand. Even when people on this forum give their interpretation, are you willing to risk your mental health based on that information?
My advice is to let your therapist or doctor determine what is right in this situation. These are professionals who have medical knowledge and experience with mental health issues.

Take care of yourself

 

[Liselle]

Doesn't it take a lot longer than a few days to take effect? Is it even possible to make a decision yet? Why are you thinking of stopping? Are you having side effects?

On the surface, I'd say 29 means keep going, keep a connected heart, be brave (however that might apply) - all the things Balkin and others say. Unchangingness can be a factor of its own, though. Maybe what's behind the question could help decipher it - ?

 

[arte33]

Doesn't it take a lot longer than a few days to take effect? Is it even possible to make a decision yet? Why are you thinking of stopping? Are you having side effects?

On the surface, I'd say 29 means keep going, keep a connected heart, be brave (however that might apply) - all the things Balkin and others say. Unchangingness can be a factor of its own, though. Maybe what's behind the question could help decipher it - ?

Dear Liselle. Thank you very much for your answer. Yes, i am having the side effects and i know that i need more time to get accustomed to the medicine. I was addicted to marijuana and some sexual disorders. Before i started to use this antidepressant, i had an infection on my body and i thought that i was cancer or something serious. I mean i had fears and i went to a psychoterapist by the suggestion and may be a little bit of force of my girlfriend. I asked to the doctor about the duration of this medicine use and she said that it would last 3 months. I guess side effects are prominent at this stage.

 

[Liselle]

Well...I'm not a doctor, but if a big reason for taking this is because you were understandably terrified about cancer...and now you talk about that in the past tense (do you know now that you don't have cancer?) - is there as much reason to take it anymore?

Obviously that's something to think about yourself and talk to your doctor about, but I think it could fit the reading. 29 could be the side effects, and the unchangingness question-mark could be asking whether you really have to go through it.