Hey everyone, I went to the doctors yesterday and was prescribed a 10 day course of penicillin to clear my strep throat. I'm wondering if this is going to interact with my medication at all, though?...
nate, a lot of things have changed, and that is part of the problem. I do not feel like the same person anymore. My health declined and got better, now my mental health has declined. I am in a lot of...
It doesn't matter what I do. I feel I will always be stuck. I've been searching for a purpose that I don't feel exists anymore. I used to enjoy things, going places, being around my friends - now I...
All the doctors, psychologists, and specialists all try to help but in the end I always end up back at square one. Any and all progress I make just makes that fall to the ground so much worse, and so...
I'm so frustrated by the decisions I made in the past. Trying to "fight" the depression with a "positive attitude" and "compassion" just exhausts me. I don't have a lot of hope for the future...
I'm sorry about your situation. That's horrible. :( As for disability, you could try applying. IMO it's probably not going to be an easy or quick process, and from my experience they will grill you...
I know how you feel. I made poor choices all my life. Right now I feel powerless to change that, and so I destroy more and more. I know I'm doing it but can't seem to stop. I don't really have any...
You aren't alone. I know exactly how you feel. I want that same close relationship with someone but I always bolt before that can happen. It's a miracle that I've stuck with my husband for so long....
I've always wondered had things been different growing up, would I be happy? I'm envious of people who grew up well adjusted. It's taken a while for me to realize that my mom was abusive and...
Thank you everyone. I hope in time this will pass....
I'm just so tired of picking myself up. It's this never-ending cycle of having to get up and dust myself off and all I want to do is rest. I don't adjust well to change or failure. I know I should...
That's how I feel. I'm 30. Haven't ever had a steady job or career. No real support network outside of my mom and my husband. I don't understand basic things. I mean, I can budget our finances and do...
The anxiety and depression are so crippling right now. I am too scared to take medications. Too upset and angry to try to find another therapist. It feels so hopeless. Why did she have to put so much...
pb4, I know exactly how you feel. I also have Crohns' disease. Three years ago I went through an extremely bad flare-up that lasted two years! At one point they treated me with 6mp and that landed me...
And does it ever truly get better? I've been in a crisis for about 5-6 mos now. It started with some very heavy feelings of being disconnected from my brain/body. Now it's high anxiety, depression,...
I didn't realize how messed up my life was. I started seeing a therapist for about a year and she basically shred me to pieces, pointing out all my issues and reasons for why I'm not happy....
Anyone else experience this? Lately my stress has been very high and I'm having these weird thoughts like "what if I snap" or feeling like I am becoming a terrible person. Then I get these images in...
She can't even prescribe medication but she pushed that a lot even though I said from the start that I would prefer not to take medication (I didn't think it was necessary). Over time, I think she...
It's just that she left such a bad impression on me that I feel like the mental health system is a joke. I feel paranoid about going to another one. My last one would do these weird "tests" to see...
For about 4 months now, I've been going through some kind of weird depression that comes with feeling numb all the time. The only emotion I feel capable of right now seems to be anger, and it's...
Hey everyone. New to the depression forums. I generally lurk over at Anxiety, but right now depression seems to be the worst. Long story short, I was working with a really bad therapist for about a...
My doc prescribed me liquid lexapro, 2.5mg to start and then up to 5mg, etc. I'm ridiculously hesitant to start these drugs but I feel so hopeless lately and I don't know what to do. I'm more...
Thanks andwes...
I guess that's true but I've never felt this way before and it's scary! Lately I've been having odd thoughts too, not just about my sanity but about all this weird philosophical stuff like "We're all...
I feel like I am going nuts. I used to analyze things a lot, now that has turned inward towards analyzing my own mind and it's frightening! I'm afraid I'm going crazy, that I'm not myself anymore,...
So I have felt pretty awful for months now. Constantly angry, depressed, anxious, in my head, etc. I caved a few nights ago and started taking ativan - I've taken it for 3 nights now. I don't know if...
Hey everyone, When I first came here, I told you about how I felt about my previous therapist. Most days I am just so angry and upset. I should've listened to myself from the start and now a year...
I think I may have to go on them though. I just have all these fears about taking antidepressants. My big fear is that they will make me go crazy and I'll end up killing myself or something, which...
Well when it comes to getting support when you're not able to get out, or distracting yourself, that's OK. But like, I google stuff all the time trying to figure my stuff out and all it does it feed...
I dunno, there's so much information out there to sort through and it can become very overwhelming - and damaging. I know this because I am a frequent googler and it always makes everything worse :P...
Hey guys, So I left my last therapist about 2 months ago and I have been struggling a lot since. My anxiety is high, and my anger towards her is also very high. Sometimes I question my sanity because...
I always thought I had my life under control but ever since I started working with a psych, I feel overly analytical and anxious about stuff I was never anxious about before....
Being told you have anxiety just makes me more anxious. Feeling judged and like I'm being evaluated, makes me anxious. I'm sure on some level anyone going into therapy would be anxious. I just wonder...
The weird thing is, I didn't have hives or anything! The only time I have EVER had "hives" was once when I was a kid and I stepped/made contact with something on the beach and my leg broke out in...
Maybe it's a release type thing for you? All that pressure building and once it's finally out, you feel better? Sucks that it has to come out in the form of a panic attack though haha...
That seems to be my new symptom! First panic attack I had was at the dentists back in October and I remember the feeling of not being able to swallow. It scared the shit out of me. I recently had...
Thanks for the replies everyone. Can someone with allergies tell me what it feels like? I want to put this in perspective....
Hi there, I've had palpitations before. I got them all the time when I was on prednisone a couple years ago, and I get them sometimes now if I am very anxious/stressed out. I know they suck and are...
Good morning everyone (or noon/night depending on where you are), I have a question: Does anyone else have this fear? Mine recently developed over the last few months because I had a "reaction" back...
First off, thank you to everyone who commented on my intro post. I decided to email my therapist and let her know that I was feeling very angry and hurt and that I needed to take a long break - which...
Hi everyone, thank you for the comments. It's a hard decision to make. I have been back and forth a lot. She has helped me a lot before but, whatever I'm going through now just doesn't seem normal....
There's more stuff too. She was constantly late when we first started working together, she would sometimes switch my time slot for someone else, her phone would vibrate a lot during sessions (she...
Hey everyone, So basically I've always been an anxious person. Type A, that kind of thing. I've struggled most of my life with anxiety and a chronic illness. I was in therapy from 13-16 years old and...
I would contact your GI about everything. Is there a reason for the entocourt vs prednisone? I know entocourt is supposed to be safer and have less side effects, but if you're flaring really badly...
Life has a funny way of knocking you off your feet sometimes, that's for sure! It takes so much longer to get yourself back together than it does to fall apart....
Thank you, I'll keep trying. It's hard trying to convince your brain to get over something when you don't know what happened. It's weird that it went to the allergy conclusion! Hopefully this will...
I definitely think I had a panic attack that night. But I'm not sure *why*. The swallowing thing seemed to come out of no where. Although I had been stressed before I went out to eat so maybe that...
Yeah but it only happened the one time? I don't want to get worked up about it if it was really nothing. :\...
My big fear is/was anaphylaxis. It has taken a while to get my brain to stop going there when I eat. I have to battle myself mentally. I've never had food allergies, although I do have Crohns...
I had medication frustration two years ago. I must've gone through all the big ones. 6mp caused me to have pancytopenia and put me in isolation for about a week, almost killed me. :\ My current...