I have no motivation or desires. When he asks me whether I want to do something I always say I don't care. I'd rather sit at home by myself than spend the day at the movie theater with him. Not...
If they tell you what you are doing isn't working but refuse to help you find an alternative solution then they are not helping you. If your family is not supporting you then maybe you should avoid...
I'm already on Abilify and Lexapro and now my doctor is thinking of switching me to Effexor because I am still having spells of depression and lack of motivation. I'm not sure I want to try it...
Yes. It is a pretty common 'side effect' of being bi-polar. Mania effects everyone a little differently. Some people have very high sex drives, racy thoughts, urges... wait! You mean "racy" as in...
Hello. I've been on Abilify for a few months but on a very low dose. In the past two months, since my dose was elevated to 2.5 I've gained 8 pounds. I've a stomach problem that keeps me from gaining...
Hi everyone. Lots of new people here. I haven't visited in a long time but I see a few familiar screen names. Anyway I just wanted to say I'd been doing fairly well the past six months or so. Not as...
Hi everyone! I am doing pretty well since being prescribed abilify. Even though I am on a very low dose, it seems to make my Lexapro do it's job. Atleast for the moment. The one problem is......
Really really depressed. I don't know how to keep doing this again and again and again. It's been four or five months since I started on Lexapro and it's stopped working when I need it the most....
Thank you everybody. I only usually get on here between the 20th and 5th of the months, when I'm a bit nutty or on a new med. Sometimes to answer questions. But anyway, not that often, yet every time...
My doctor has decided to take me off my anxiety medication, Ativan, and in response to my furious complaints decided to put me on Ambilify. Can someone share their experience of it with me. I'm only...
Well I spoke to him today. Told him what I researched and why I don't think it fits me. But I do and did admit that exposure therapy seems like a very useful tool in treating panic/anxiety and such...
Hi guys. Long time, no post. Anyway as I was saying my therapist in DBT keeps saying he thinks I have PTSD which I think is a load of crap. It seems to be the new fad diagnosis these days and he's...
Sorry it didn't work out. I'm enrolled in DBT twice a week and drugged up enough to not feel anything the vast majority of the time thus not on here often enough to have been much use. It was a good...
Don't worry about it. I mean the student body being comprised of idiots and your best friend calling you a phsycho. Because the social aspect of school doesn't matter one fig. It's a lie. The sooner...
Poor girl. You need a long nap. But you probably can't sleep so maybe try some meditation in a dark room with some nice scented oils. Sounds like that medication hasn't run it's course yet or it has...
I have written a book. Four of them. Publishing is a pain though. I am feeling better. Considering getting a dog but worried that I am making this decision out of desperation instead of a wise mind....
Mon Dieu! If I took that much Citrucel and Metamucil I would be nothing but a withered husk. I'm already half a husk as it is. Constipation is not one of my issues. I seem to be on the other end of...
Can someone recommend something gentle that won't cause cramping or anything like that?...
Wait wait, there is a minor misunderstanding. I'm bemoaning yes. But it's mostly out of sheer unfettered lonliness. And, It's Genetic, my love, I have been in therapy since I was eight. Right now I...
I haven't cleaned the house. I haven't folded the laundry or put in the second load I should have done days ago. I rest on the couch, checking my Facebook while drifting in and out of consciousness....
I went cold turkey off Paxel and it was a nightmare. This is not a medication to take lightly. Do it under a doctors care. If you cannot then maybe check out the book The Road Back which helped me go...
I don't intentionally mock religion. I don't hate it. I just can never find a place for myself in any of them so I become jaded and angry. Besides I lack faith in pretty much all aspects of life and...
Thank you all. I'm not sure quite what is going on in there. I know I've had pain just above my belly button for ten years. Nausea, diarrhea, and am unable to gain weight. I've had to cut gluten out...
Xanax is okay but for me it stopped working. And it leaves your system pretty quickly. I have tried Valium, Xanax, Vistiril and something else and they all fudged out on me rather quickly though I...
But I don't want to be alone!!! And I don't want to be okay with being alone. For awhile I thought, "I'll just accept it and find myself. Be at peace with being with me." However the more layers of...
There is a lot I can't watch. Television is too much of a sensory overload for me. Music is worse because I create the imagery myself. And I try my hardest never to step foot into a movie theater. I...
Hello friends, I've been lurking in the shadows, posting little. But here I am. Still going. Better than I was? I've found a combination of medication that works for me (for the moment) Ativan,...
I get rashes from food and sunlight. Maybe your rash is a symptom of some other element in your life and just pops out when your under stress. For instance, when I am really stressed I stop caring...
It is so hard to get any help without insurence. This last doctor I saw referred me to a GA with the a diagnosis of "Diarrhea" pretty much ensuring this guy will never take my case. How about 10...
Ah! Poetry, how lovely. And I love that you keep little notebooks around to capture them. A good poem/idea is a lot like a butterfly. It appears, a brief and dazzling dancer at the corner of your...
Thank you all! Yeah my biggest problem is finding foods that don't set whatever this is off. The older I get the more I seem to react to just about anything. I used to be able to eat dairy but now it...
Okay, I've been having a lot of stomach trouble recently which makes me very sad as I thought I finally had it somewhat under control. And I need help because the doctors simply are not helping me. I...
Thank you everyone. I appreciate your answers. I was especially fond of Happy Bills proverb there. Very Buddhist. And it makes good sense. Perhaps my days of painting and writing are done and I am...
I've found that whenever I'm put on... anything, I am instantly a useless lump of decaying human flesh. Rotting on the couch becomes my soul desire. Now there was a time I wrote novels. I used to...
I think that anyone who has been hurt by this illness should be welcome to rant here. I mean, we who have this disease or others like it are the best people to advocate for it. So when someone comes...
I think perhaps you are being driven deeper into despair by this. Thinking about it all the time. Obsessing over it. And on top of that you have to take care of you wife, who you distrust and...
I... I honestly do not know what to say. I'm not good at relationships so I just don't have them. Hurting people hurts too much. But that you've stood by your wife through THREE acts of infidelity...
Took me forever to figure out what emet was. I suppose you mean you are a Emetophobe? Which means your fear throwing up and likely that fear is making you panic which makes you want to be sick even...
If you want to go off again and are determined to do so I really recommend the book The Road Back. I used it some of the tapering and nutritional tips from it when I went off Zoloft and it went...
Yeah I don't like the jitters. I think my topamax helps. I've been drinking camamile tea before bed. You could try Melatonin or a benadryl to help with the insomnia. I can't because they make me...
Oh honey, you are having the Zaps! Don't worry. Any time you're on an antidepressant and go off you are going to get them. It is annoying and maddening but I promise it will go away. Omega 3 will...
Also if you are in dire straights and your therapist refuses to treat you because you cannot pay, shop around until you find one who will work on a sliding-fee scale. There are bound to be some. They...
My theory has always been this: Better to be poor, mildly-content and semi-sane than rich and miserable. But that is just me. I'd work three laid back part time jobs in nice environments as opposed...
Notably I've had a lot of different medications pumped through my veins over the last month of hell before landing on Lexapro, but now I'm so depressed. And I keep waking up jittery and afraid. And I...
PFt! Right treatment. I've been to the doctors. Over and over and over. In the beginning when I had insurance they put a camera down my throat and found polyps all over inside my stomach. The...
I'm looking for answers. I'm going through some mental whatnot right now and having a lot medication changes. Minor crisis's and generally just feeling bad. But the worst part is my stupid stomach...
My father was very angry when I was growing up. He'd snap into this blind rage and smash everything he could get his hand on. He'd punch holes in the walls and scream so loud the neighbors would talk...
I've not sure whether I have IBS because I am uninsured but I've been a sufferer of nearly daily diarrhea and gastrointestinal distress and acute stomach pain with polyps since 16. I recently cut...
Ugh, reading all that food... BLARF! I think most my problems stem from just having digestive tract and stomach that's torn up anyway and now everything is hell on it. I eliminated Gluten from my...