Topic Title: dsthymia....SJW..JOY or just theraputic?
| |  "dsthymia....SJW..JOY or just theraputic?"
, Thu 23 Feb 09:49
Hey, I am, or was a student in college, and was unknowingly suffering from depresion, and mild anxiety. The doctor had also prescirbed a medication that caused the building depression to spiral downward even more until I had my first panic attack and major depression. For the past few months I have been on several anti depressants this were my results:
Leprexo: worked wonderful and I had feelings of joy and confidence like never before, but left me unable to concentrate and pretty much a zombie, oh yeah sexual side effects.
Effexor: complete opposite, made me really nervous and completely lose my appetite, awful
Prozac: did not help just made me feel very medicated and occsionally feeling more aggressive than my usual self.
After prozac and learning that a adverse drug reaction was causeing my problems to be worse, i said enough.
i went off antidepressants for a week and a half and then went on SJW.
I think i have realized that I have dsthymia and have most of my life, bc of the feelings i had while on leprexo and some on effexor. I have been taking SJW for 4 days now and it seems to be helping but mainly only theraputic way. I havent really experienced the joy yet. Will I? or does this just kinda mellow you out. The thing is my life doesn't suck its actually pretty good, I just cant seem to appreciate it, my thoughts wonder, waking up is really hard, and I know this is hard on my parents, I just wanna feel better but I have been at this a long time. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be truly happy, confident, and content. I am trying to find a solotion and be patient, it just feels like my life is slipping by me, which is esp hard when a lot of ppl my age are out haveing fun and finding themselves. I'll stop rambeling, but can you really experince joy from SJW? Leprexo was almost instant, i felt confident and just loved life pratically the day after taking it. Its hard now bc i know what I am missing, Anyone else have dsthymia??
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| |  "Re(1):dsthymia....SJW..JOY or just theraputic"
, Sun 26 Feb 18:43
Yowzers! What a question!!! Isn't that the crux of our searches?!?
Here is my experience since being on SJW for 3 months. It seems that everyone responds differently, so its always interesting to hear if you experience something else.
I could imagine that I have dysthymia because I've been working through my general "blues" and cynicsm for over 20 yrs now. I also have short bursts of mania for minutes/hours/a day; but they are usually followed by some sort of low.
I loved SJW for the first month especially. Mostly because it had such a rapid and dramatic effect for me. I felt hyper and alert after the first pill. After 6 days I already dropped from 900 to 600mg, because I was starting to feel so manic.
However, I had a big plateau after the first month because, well, reality set in and the difficulties of life remained (plus I had to pick up the pieces from my period of depression and inactivity). The SJW did not give me joy, exactly, it just gave me energy and most definitely did help to kick-start my neurochemicals back into a healthier level of functioning. It also gave me slight mania, such as a sense of well-being and defintely a strong self-confidence and desire to succeed. It was exciting! I hadn't felt that enabled in a long time. Not joyfull, but did I feel joy from my energy.
My theory of life has begun to solidify into the fact that joy comes from within. From the way you decide to look at life. The pills just help to give you back your psychological energy to pursue whatever makes you happy.
Hope this helps. Please, if you experience something different, share with us! I think we all wonder about just that question you asked.
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