Hello, It is very hard to live with someone like this as I was once one of these people. I was always angry and depressed. I was always yelling at my partner and being demanding and apoligizing for...
Hello, I would suggest some deep relaxation methods maybe a low impact yoga to help with the anxiety. Or just listening to some relaxation cd's in your car on the way to wrk in the morning. just a...
Hi, you might want to call your doc and have him/her check you for thrush. just a suggestion....
Hi, First I want to say I can relate to you as I grew up in a violent family and a house that was falling down around me. I wish there was something I could do for you, but all I can do is support...
Hi, Have you asked your doctor for samples of medications maybe they would be willing to give you samples so you wouldn't have to pay for them. Some times the Pharm. Co. have applications for extra...
Hi, I'm sorry to hear that your dad isn't doing well but know that your have lots of support here. It's difficult to lose anyone but more when it is a parent I think. It is spring time a time of new...
Went to see my psych. doc and she changed my meds to 450mgs of wellbutrin with others. This was in hopes that we could get the depression under control soon. I've been out of work for a while and it...
greetings, there are days when I have to work through the pain just to get a few things done even just around the house. However; the next day I find that I pay for it. I try so hard to stay active...
Hello, I'm sorry that you are alone, and that you are feeling all this. Depression is such a serious thing and I can so relate because I'm there. I use to and use it as a release. Now I'm on...
Hello, First I'm sorry you have to go through this...it's hard when your away to have to deal with everything. I can't begin to remember the number of times I was running to the hospital for my...
Greetings, I so can relate, and yes partial Hospital can help as I have had to do that just to stay on top of life. I'm unemployed and suffer from depression and anxiety so much that I don't want to...
Hello, I've always used a pill cutter in the past to do mine. However; do they come in a lesser dose the seroquel other than 100's I can't remember it has been awhile since I've taken it. Just a...
I have been vvery depressed lately and also have had a great deal of anxiety and on top of that I am finding that my medication is causing part of the anxiety. So I called the on call service...
Hello, It's amazing what pain will do to us ha, bring us to our knees to to speak...I suffer from low back and hip pain after a back surgery in 04 and there are days when I think this is my last day...
Hello, I'm on SSD,SSi and am able to work part-time up to a certian amount per month before they start to deduct from my income. they drop the ssi payment, but keep the SSD. If you call or write SSA...
I've been out of work for about three years as I suffer from depression and anxiety. I had an interview yesterday and thought the whole time I was going to pass out. I had taken my medication before...
Hello, I'm on anti-depressants and they work for about two years and then we have to change them to something different. So far I've been lucky and have been able to find others to go on, but I'm...
I'm from way up north in N.Y. and I feel your pain...my goal is to move to Georgia in the next five years. The pain is getting worse every time I turn around. The weather dosen't help and I know what...
Well I have a job interview today and it has been about four years since I've worked due to depression. My anxiety is thu the roof. I hardly slept at all last night as I kept going over in my mind...
Hello, Yes it is hard to watch them just sink into depression and sleep all the time...they act like they don't care and maybe it is because they can't care. Maybe she needs supported housing of...
Hello, Just wanted to share that for the longest time I have had depression but no anxiety and then a while back it hit me. I ended up in the hospital thinking it was my heart when in fact it was an...
Today was a very hard day as it was very cold out and when that happens the pain seems to be worse. I was to have an appointment with my therapist when my car had trouble and I was already in pain...
Hello, I can all to well relate to what you are saying I've gained over 100lbs in the last 5yrs due to the meds. Then they put me on cymbalta for the depression and I began to lose weight. I lost my...
Hello, I found that I had to eat more fiber and drink more water to get things moving. Sometimes when things didn't move I would have to go for a walk to get things moving. The other thing I noticed...
Hello, I'm sorry to hear that you are having such difficulty and I can relate as my PCP is doing the same thing. He has me on hydrocodone 5-500's which do nothing for pain. I think for myself I have...
Hello, Welcome, I am kindof new here as well but I htink that they are right that you always have the option to come home when you feel unsafe. However; the more exposure that you get the more...
hello, for my anxiety I use alot of relaxation tech. such as hot baths, walks, music, art, ect. creativity seems to help me to release what ever is going on for me. Excersise helps a great deal as...
Hello, I've had anxiety for awhile now and they have had me on a few different meds however; at present I'm on adivan.5 5x aday. keeps me calm. or sain which ever. I also have to do a great deal of...
Yesterday I woke with exstream pain in lowerback and today the pain is in lower right back and hip. With the pain comes depression and the reality that I can't do what I use to do. I use to be so...
CP woke up this morning at 5:00a.m. in extream pain but then I went to bed that way.....I took my usual pain meds and it didn't work so then I had to put on the tens unit which I haven't used in...
Went to PCP and was in exstream pain in lower back. Back in 04 had surgery on L5S1 and now wish I hadn't. Needless to say I'm back on pain medication. My PCP is sending me to a pain clinic in...
Hello, First, I'm so sorry that you lost your job as it is so difficult to have an illness and then to lose a job that helps support you. I know all to well about depression as I suffer from it...
Hello, so sorry to hear that you are having such a difficult time and there are so many things that could be going on. I have depression and for me I know that my meds cause different things to...
Hello, I would suggest distraction of sorts at least that's what works for me when I'm in anxiety. Sometimes a relaxing bath with candles, or music. Deep breathing, T.V. going for a walk and getting...
Hello, I know that this will never get read but I'm going to say it anyway, ECT sucks.....my significant other had to have it and lost there past memories of children when they were little ect. Our...
Hello, I don't know your situation with your mom but it sounds serious. Sounds like she needs an advacate and case manager. What medications do they have her on. What surgery did she have. My monther...
Hello, I'm on wellbutrin XL to be helpful but it is in combination with other medications at this time. Before I started taking it I wasn't geting out of the house or talking to people so my...
Hello, Was on cymbalta for depression and at first had no desire to eat and lost weight however; when it kicked in I was doing so well. Life was "normal" for the first time in years. I found it to be...
Hello, I know that for myself that when I get tired sometimes I need to have my vitiamin levels checked such as B12 and D and such. You might want to think about it. You might just need a boost with...
Hello, Why are you so afraid? and is it hard to be off the vicodin as I'm trying to come off it myself. I'm wondering if the two are connected in someway. I know for myself that vicodin messes with...
A couple years ago my GI told me that I had IBS and I went along with it. The last year I've been worse and my guestion is how do you know when you have colitis? I don't think this GI is being up...
Hello, Woke up this a.m. in bad pain in my lower back and it took ice and a tens unit and pain medication before I had releif and then it didn't last all day. I'm better now and it's almost six at...
Hello, I take Bentyl but for intenstnal pain however; it does work and I've been on it for about two years. I hope that you find it helpful. I've also had my gallbladder out aswell....
I've in the past had a lumbar fusion in 04' and since have had pain around my L5-S1 however; in the past couple of weeks I've had unbearable pain in my left hip. It feels like tissue but I can't be...
Hello, First of all I'm sorry that you are feeling the way you are, and second I don't think you are going crazy....anxiety maybe. It can be helped with a simple med. For me it is adivan which helps...
Hello, I would suggest maybe you find an adult that you trust that you feel comfortable talking to that might help you out. You need to eat to keep up your strength and well living on caffine only...
Hello, Yes it's the disorder not you and maybe you need to step back and let the staff take over more....as much as you love them you need to love your self aswell. Sometimes that means taking care...
Hello, When I toook cymbalta I took off like a rocket worked like a charm! felt normal for the first time in years. Yes the side effects go away. I thought that it was the greatest med in the world....
Hi, first off I'm so sorry for your loss I can honestly sit here and say I know what your feeling as I lost my step son a couple years ago. It was a tragic accident and the grief was unreal. At first...
I know what you mean I had to write of 09' and in hopes that 10 goes better I've been looking for a job for a while. I guess if you just take one thing at a time brake it down. You sound like you...