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Posted 8/18/2021 8:16 PM (GMT 0)
I'm trying to be hopeful but need encouragement please. I had successfully taken 20mg for 20 years then increased it two years ago to 25 mg which worked. Now I am on 30mg in hopes it will help again. Its been 6 days. I need hope that my health anxiety will improve. Please help. Thank you.
Posted 8/18/2021 9:49 PM (GMT 0)
You said, "I'm trying to be hopeful but need encouragement please."

You can be encouraged by the fact that you live in the era of modern medicine. If you were born 100 years before, like my grandmother with bipolar like I have, you'd be in real trouble. They had little or no medicine and lived in institutions with high walls, long distances from their homes.

So you were born in the right time and can be thankful for that. Luck of the draw.

Also you can be positive that the increase will work and that you can be treated in your home. Impossible 75-100 years ago. You're just lucky, I guess.
Posted 8/19/2021 1:30 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you Tim for putting things in perspective. So so true and thank you for your encouraging last sentence that the increase will work!!
Posted 8/19/2021 4:31 PM (GMT 0)
One reason I wrote the last sentence was, I got to use the word positive, which I wasn't for many years.

Do you generally have a positive attitude? I found it increases my chances of succeeding.
Posted 8/22/2021 12:53 AM (GMT 0)
Leen50,
I hope your Paxil increase is helping. I was on 60mg at one point and while it did help so I am sure yours will as well. I had to change meds because it was wearing off at 60mg. So I am on Celexa at 50mg and it is doing a world of good for me. Tim Tam is right though being positive is a big part of your state of mind. It is hard to get used to and get in the habit of doing but you can. I hope you are doing well.
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