Topic Title: help please
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, Fri 24 Mar 06:22
Hey everyone I am new here. I started SJW Wednesday. My depression has been at an all time high this week so I was desparate. But today I feel aggitated and like I want to just jump out of my skin. Has anyone felt this way when they started the med?
I have tried so many AD'S but couldn't handle the side effects I'm getting really desparate now. When will this make me feel better. I'm taking 300mg 3x a day. I just want to go to bed and make it go away!! Thanks guys (:
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, Fri 24 Mar 11:12:
Its probably working if your having an effect. Try cutting back your dose, it may take longer to get in your system but it will. Try taking ½ pill during the early morning only. If that does not work try ¼ pill. The more fustrated you get toget better the worse you will feel. I find accepting the way I feel is temporary. With knowledge, life changes, and time, I will improve. I will be better than when I felt normal, because I am more informative about stress, depression and anxiety. I wont force God on anyone, but praying to God and believing he will help is important. It causes you to focus mentally and deeper in your mind and spirit where most of our problems are. He will see us both though this. If you need to talk, email me at [email protected]. Positive talk helps. I would like to say thinks to Kelly for this site. I never knew I had underlying stress that was affecting my brain chemistry. Eating sweets sometimes in the place of meals and sleeping 2 or 3 hours per night caused me to develop depression. Than I began to have, anxiety attacks from shortness of breath from tiredness. I tired Zoloft for 4 days at 50mg and 25mg and it made me feel the same way. I had to stop because I could not take the effects. It felt like every nerve in my body was hurting. I just started taking Amyron ( a combination herb with st johns wort included) on 3/8/06. I noticed it did begin to lift my mood at the end of the second week but I still experienced anxiety. You may have anxiety that is when your mind becomes over alert from the effects of your body. I had fear from shortness of breath when I was tired, I thought I would die, It gave me fear, which put my mind in a locked alert mode. Any little negative thing in your body can make you increasingly alert. I am beginning to seek Psychiatric help to find a way to deal with fear of breathing until my brain chemistry is in balance and I continue to feed my thoughts that I can breath fine. I just started taking ativan for the anxiety, I was given that at the emergency room the first time a doctor told me what I was dealing with. I will only take ativan when needed to sleep, because it is very addictive. I take .5 or 1mg to clam me down. My sleep doc gave me some trazodone for depression and to help me sleep. I will start it Saturday 3/25/06. I wonted to stop taking the Amyron because it has 5-HTP which should not be taken with trazodone. This may help me sleep and not use Ativan. Trazodone is said not to be addictive. Try to find if there is a underlying thought in you that has caused you to go on alert when your body experiences stress. You will get better when you began to learn more about your mind and how it responds. I feel overly alert now, but I took a Ativan last night and Im just ignoring the tension in my chest and neck throughout the day. As my brain nerve cells change from the meds and a positive mental attitude to therapy, this will pass.
[this message was edited by GRock on Fri 24 Mar 13:38]
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| | | "Re(2):help please" , Fri 24 Mar 14:43
GRock you are a sweetie. I don't fully understand what you mean about finding out if there is an underlying thought. Maybe if I tell you a little about me it would help you to explain it some. I have had depression since I was little. Dad abused my Mom in front of me(FOR YEARS) when I was young and have had trouble since. I now have guardianship over my 27 yo sister who haS mild retardation. That in itself is very hard to handle at times. I have two kids, one who turns 19 next month. He is troubled to say the least and I worry about him constantly. My biggest problem I believe is GAD. I worry about anything and everything. I have been so bad this week that I don't care what I have to do but this has got to change. This is really affecting my marriage and my kids. I've had counseling years ago but I believe my depression is worse now than ever. Thank you so much for replying. Wishing you well (:
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| | | "Re(3):help please" , Fri 24 Mar 17:03
Jant, what I mint was a negative thought or thoughts that you try to block out of your mind. Sorry Jant that you experienced some negative things that may still hurt you. You should go to a professional doc soon if it seems you cant handle it on your own. They can give you something to help you clam down quick. I’m finding that talking to someone about your problems is therapy. I would talk to my wife and sisters when I thought I could not take the pain. I noticed it felt like I would get little bits of relief from their positive encouragement. Even when I went to the emergency room and talked to nurses and doctors that seemed like they cared (again little bits of relief). Sometimes when our minds have had an overload we need something to give us quick relief, like meds. Try to find a counseling group in your area that will allow you to express what you are feeling that worries you. They my have partners that can become your regular mentor. A trained mental professional in the group would help with answers. Sometime mental docs can’t spend enough time with us because they have to earn a living by seeing other penitents. I use to go the church on Sundays and hear good words of God. That helped me to put my trust in him and not worry so much. Going to church and hearing a good word about how God is interested in you is like therapy for the mind and spirit. I will start going back to church this Sunday. Jant I am new to this, but I have learned that meds only help us mask and produce what our minds and body where already created to do. We are a product of what we think. Find lots of positives to input in your mind though different sources, example: books, good friends, council groups, church, vacation, etc. Find positive happy things that you can make a part of your regular life. I wont tie up Kelly’s great forum, so email my address directly ([email protected]) and tell me what good things you have started to do.
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| | | "Re(4):help please" , Fri 24 Mar 18:03
Thanks again friend (:
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| | | "Re(5):help please" , Sat 25 Mar 09:47
Jant, best of luck in your pursuit o happiness... it WILL happen, it just sometimes takes some time and patiences but you're on the right track. The only comment that I wanted to make is that you're taking the right amount 3/day at 300mg, and I wouldn't reduce this amout until quite a while from now. After you feel much better and it's been working for some time, that's when you could try reducing the dosage. But many people will want to take it for a few months first and see from there.
Have a nice weekend,
Kelly
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| | | "Re(6):help please" , Sat 25 Mar 14:22
Kelly thank you for replying. I have been having a bad headache also. But I have those pretty often they just seem to be worse.Is that a comman complaint? I hope it stops soon! Thank you (:
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