Depression

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Troll_sl

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I'm kind of glad I didn't just drop my therapist. Had a session the other day. It was the first proper length session we've had, really.

She was tough on me, which was a good thing. I'm impatient to get this shit worked out, and she said she figured as much. I'm actually feeling hopeful.
 
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Missed my calc class because of a depression meltdown today. I've made an appointment with my doctor. It's back trying to find an antidepressant.
 
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Calc 1. I basically know all the material, I just have never taken the class for credit. Which I kind of need, considering my major. And I kind have to be in class because they actually take attendance.
 
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Funny, when I started my slide I had a semester with 4 A's and 2 F's in classes I never attended. One was.. calc.
 
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So I've started on Wellbutrin. Which may be a good thing, because I've also got ADD. Here's hoping this is the one.

(Please no more sucidial thoughts like with Prozac...)
 
lindz

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Going to the doctor to have my medication switched today. Almost two months on it and it is definitely not helping. Fuse doesn't feel as short which is good, but moods are still up and down like crazy. The worst part I'm experiencing with Celexa though is the dreams. Holy shit I get the most crazy vivid dreams every single night. Wakes me up 3-4 times a night so I'm just not feeling rested these days. I'm getting 9 hours of sleep and waking up exhausted in the morning.

Also kinda getting bummed with my therapist. After like 4 months in therapy I feel like I should be making progress. Doesn't feel like anything has changed. I have a referral to see a psychiatrist next month so we'll see how that goes.
 
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Started Brintellix today - exhausted all non-MAOH meds and refused to take those. The SSRI's worked but I would sometimes go four days without being able to sleep and I wouldn't be able to get it up if a Penthouse Pet sat on my dick. It's new and supposedly very powerful, but it's ridiculously expensive - once my samples wear out I'll probably have to get my parents to help me out with it - and it can cause some pretty severe nausea when you first start it. Hoping it's worth it.

Edit: Troll, make sure you're not doing anything/taking anything contraindicated with Welbutrin. It gave me seizures, but I was being prescribed it along with some other med (don't remember - I was a kid) that's definitely not supposed to be taken with it. The guy could have gotten himself sued.
 
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Worst thing about being in an open relationship is you can be in a perfectly happy relationship and still be super fucked up about a break up. I broke up with my girlfriend recently and it was just.... bad. One of those things where she is being immature about it, so you don't get closure. I'm sure most of you know what I'm talking about. There are a lot of other things going in my life that are causing me stress and I'm just running out of resources to deal with it.
 
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I know it usually takes at least a week or two for things to kick in, but I think the Wellbutrin is starting to have an effect. I feel more... balanced. Not the chemical high of Venlafaxine. I don't feelgood, but... normal? Not sad. I was even able to think about the things that normally trigger a downward spiral and, well, not spiral down. They were just not-particularly-happy thoughts.
 
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It definitely sounded like you were having mania issues when you first started posting about your experiences. Feeling TOO good is a warning sign that you are in for a roller coaster ride. You don't want drugs to make you feel great, unless you want to wind up like Bubbles.

I told the doc from the start that I just wanted to hold off the really deep lows and minimize side effects so I could make it through the day. Of course if you remember that didn't work out so great because HOLY RAGING PANIC ATTACKS and now I'm on benzos to counter that, which are one of the worst precursors to addiction, so yay. Currently, the only downside is some days I just fuck off and sleep for an hour or two in the middle of the day.
 
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Off the Celexa now and on Saturday night I had my first dreamless sleep in over a month. It was wonderful. I swear I never want to have another dream again.
 
Kreugen

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I have that on Prozac/Klonopin for sure. Sometimes I'm not sure if I was ever actually asleep or if I was just laying awake thinking of random shit for hours and hours. (omg Inception)

Lack of REM sleep is a noted side effect of both I believe. Probably why I nap so much.
 
lindz

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Kreugen_sl said:
Sometimes I'm not sure if I was ever actually asleep or if I was just laying awake thinking of random shit for hours and hours. (omg Inception)
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Yeah that's exactly it. It's terrible. I had two nights at the end of last week where I was in tears at bedtime because, while I wanted to sleep, my body had clearly had enough of the vivid dreams and constant waking and just couldn't fall asleep at all.

I'm on Prozac now. Supposedly insurance companies want you to try two SSRIs before they will pay for different type of drugs so need to give it a try. Stayed away from Paxil because it is very similar to Celexa and my doctor thought it would have the same effect on me. Really hoping it won't be as bad.
 
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It's a gaming forum. You can assume we're all fucked up in some way. It's the ones who aren't aware of their psychosis who you need to worry about.

It's always amusing when someone is swinging their dick around in warcraft chat, putting down others etc. Uh, hey bro, you're playing world of warcraft.

Hell, Robin Williams apparently was a trade chat troll.
 
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So far, so good with the Wellbutrin. Only side effect has been a loss of appetite which, frankly, is probably not a bad thing for me.
 
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Troll_sl said:
So far, so good with the Wellbutrin. Only side effect has been a loss of appetite which, frankly, is probably not a bad thing for me.
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I was given Wellbutrin to help combat migraine/headache issues and found that as a mood leveling med, it worked quite well. In the end I couldn't keep taking it since it turned out I was allergic to it, but in general it was very good.

As it turns out several month back I ended up quit severly depressed and have gone through a number of different meds - Lexapro, Zoloft which I had to stop taking because of the various side effects, and am now on Nefazodone. Does anyone have any first hand experice with Nefazodone? I'm still in my first week and was told explicitly that it will take several weeks for it to get the effect, but in particular the dizzying effect is pretty prevelant. It's not continuous, just little spikes where for a split second I feel like i'm slightly out of place.
 
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