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Lets all be anxious/depressed together.

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    #2882
    degausserxo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭degausserxo


    Taken off epilim and put back on seroquel and a sleeping tablet. Really looking forward to a decent sleep tonight.


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    #2883
    Temaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    degausserxo wrote: »
    Taken off epilim and put back on seroquel and a sleeping tablet. Really looking forward to a decent sleep tonight.

    I hate the feeling seroquel gives me!!


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    #2884
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    I have absolutely no motivation. I got up and even got dressed and all to go into the library to do some work, but I'm still here in my house three hours later >.<


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    #2885
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    I have absolutely no motivation. I got up and even got dressed and all to go into the library to do some work, but I'm still here in my house three hours later >.<


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    #2886
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    degausserxo wrote: »
    Taken off epilim and put back on seroquel and a sleeping tablet. Really looking forward to a decent sleep tonight.

    Nice for some! 400mg of Seroquel couldn't sedate me. :(


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    #2887
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Day started ok, getting lower and lower as the day goes on though. Ah well.


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    #2888
    jammstarr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,805 ✭✭✭jammstarr


    cloud493 wrote: »
    I'd like to take something right now :/ cos its been a few years, and therapy hasn't helped. And its got worse. Just absolute, nothing ness. Nothing. Just hopelessness. That I can't beat.

    Hey Cloud, hope you're doing better since you posted that.

    You sound like you're in a similar situation to myself - I found that CBT etc wasn't working as I wasn't taking any medication at the time. Now I'm on meds and it has helped me a lot - I'm far from perfect believe me but it certainly took the edge off the issue.


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    #2889
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    jammstarr wrote: »
    Hey Cloud, hope you're doing better since you posted that.

    You sound like you're in a similar situation to myself - I found that CBT etc wasn't working as I wasn't taking any medication at the time. Now I'm on meds and it has helped me a lot - I'm far from perfect believe me but it certainly took the edge off the issue.

    Yeah, sounds about right.

    But, to cut a long story short, I was in England last year, and I was feeling pretty low, so instead of hurting myself, I made a post on an internet forum. Then someone on the site, traced my IP, and had the police round my house at 5am, and I spent a week on a psychiatric ward before being allowed to come back to Dublin. So, not that keen on doctors since.


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    #2890
    jammstarr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,805 ✭✭✭jammstarr


    cloud493 wrote: »
    Yeah, sounds about right.

    But, to cut a long story short, I was in England last year, and I was feeling pretty low, so instead of hurting myself, I made a post on an internet forum. Then someone on the site, traced my IP, and had the police round my house at 5am, and I spent a week on a psychiatric ward before being allowed to come back to Dublin. So, not that keen on doctors since.

    Did you find the stay in hospital beneficial at all?


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    #2891
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    No, it was just boring, and I still felt like **** :( they locked the door, so you couldn't get out, but people could bring you in pretty much anything, so it was rubbish, basically. In a 5 day period, I saw a psychiatrist twice? The rest of the time, lying in a bed bored. And its all done is turn me off doctors completely.


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    #2892
    jammstarr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,805 ✭✭✭jammstarr


    When I was really bad back in 2009 I wanted to go into hospital. My Dad is a retired psychiatric nurse and he said I'd be better off at home. From what you've just said there it sounds like he was right.

    Are you totally without meds at the moment man?


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    #2893
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Nope, not taking anything right now. And yeah, it was rubbish. If you were in that much danger of hurting yourself, maybe.


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    #2894
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Not all hospital stays in Ireland are like this, just to make the point. I found St. Pats much more pleasant than your experience cloud.


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    #2895
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I'm sure some are better than others like. But having the police bang on your door at 5 in the morning, then being driven in a police car and forcibly admitted to a hospital because of an internet post, certainly sours ones view of things, so to speak.


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    #2896
    jammstarr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,805 ✭✭✭jammstarr


    It's far from ideal but if you're in danger then it might of been best.

    Maybe get an appointment with a doctor tomorrow and tell them how things are. Obviously I can't tell you to take this or that medication but I found it easier with meds. There's no shame in asking for help.


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    #2897
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I don't doubt your right, any of you. And I appreciate you bothering with me at all :) I'm just scared that if I do, they'll put me back in a hospital again.


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    #2898
    jammstarr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,805 ✭✭✭jammstarr


    We're all in the same boat here - sure the specifics might be different but still affected by whatever "it" is. Personally I love getting a few things off my chest in here - just to ease the tension within.

    You shouldn't be afraid to tell the doctor what's up(easier said than done I know), they're there to help you after all.


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    #2899
    Aoifums
    Registered Users Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Aoifums


    cloud493 wrote: »
    But, to cut a long story short, I was in England last year, and I was feeling pretty low, so instead of hurting myself, I made a post on an internet forum. Then someone on the site, traced my IP, and had the police round my house at 5am, and I spent a week on a psychiatric ward before being allowed to come back to Dublin. So, not that keen on doctors since.

    Can people actually do that? :eek: I'd have assumed that my friends were taking the piss if they had said that to me.


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    #2900
    Aoifums
    Registered Users Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Aoifums


    I had my first counselling session today. I thought it went fine until I was halfway home and I started having mega doubts about it. j0I didn't get to mention half the things I should have so I'm dreading the second one now :( Stupid brain. We're supposed to be trying mindfullness, some kind of meditation type thing, next week. I'm already stressing about it. I know what happens whenever I meditate and I don't like it. Once I take my mind off it, the floodgates open and that's not something I feel like I can deal with anytime soon. Or at least not right now.


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    #2901
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Aoifums wrote: »
    Can people actually do that? :eek: I'd have assumed that my friends were taking the piss if they had said that to me.

    Apparently :/ I've still got my account on that website, haven't used it since mind. And it's great you've started counselling, doesn't matter if you missed s few things out, great start :)


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    #2902
    Aoifums
    Registered Users Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Aoifums


    Ok, that is terrifying!! Yeah, I wouldn't have used it either. I'm guessing they thought it was the right thing to do, just in case. Like if you had died then whoever tracked the IP would have felt responsible if they had done nothing.


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    #2903
    jammstarr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,805 ✭✭✭jammstarr


    Aoifums wrote: »
    I had my first counselling session today. I thought it went fine until I was halfway home and I started having mega doubts about it. j0I didn't get to mention half the things I should have so I'm dreading the second one now :( Stupid brain. We're supposed to be trying mindfullness, some kind of meditation type thing, next week. I'm already stressing about it. I know what happens whenever I meditate and I don't like it. Once I take my mind off it, the floodgates open and that's not something I feel like I can deal with anytime soon. Or at least not right now.

    I was going to see a guy (not sure if he was a counsellor or psychotherapist or what). We'd do some hypnotherapy stuff and I'd have an aul cry too. Not too sure what to make of it all still - it was kinda awkward at the time but good to think out loud for a change.


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    #2904
    Aoifums
    Registered Users Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Aoifums


    jammstarr wrote: »
    I was going to see a guy (not sure if he was a counsellor or psychotherapist or what). We'd do some hypnotherapy stuff and I'd have an aul cry too. Not too sure what to make of it all still - it was kinda awkward at the time but good to think out loud for a change.

    Crying??? :eek: Fair play :) I think that's a couple of steps away from me yet.


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    #2905
    jammstarr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,805 ✭✭✭jammstarr


    Aoifums wrote: »
    Crying??? :eek: Fair play :) I think that's a couple of steps away from me yet.

    I was mortified to say the least.


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    #2906
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    jammstarr wrote: »
    I was mortified to say the least.

    It's hardest the first time. The strategically placed box of tissues on the desk always made me laugh a little before it happened for me. :p


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    #2907
    creation mark
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭creation mark


    thrilledskinny wrote: »
    WOW congratulations on coming off tabs after all those years.

    I forget how the years go by, Was only talking with my psych earlier today, have been on tabs three yrs.
    But now I'm feeling much better in myself since the start of the year I'm actually happy to stay on a low dose, would be scared to go down hill again, and see my whole life go down hill, just when its on an up.

    Sorry to here bout your job, hope your mood evens out soon ;-) and who know hopefully leaving your job wouldnt be the end of the world, look on it as an opertunity, to get out nad about and ecercise during the day or something, look on the bright side eh ;-)

    Thanks thrilledskinny, fair play to you, i had started on the lower dose myself, down to 5mg (from 25mg to 10mg) for a couple of months,i was doing great, felt positive then got mugged & stabbed over a parking space, long story, but that knocked me for six, back to square one but i was adament i was gonna try come off them, just leaving the hospital & my missus decided to tell me we were going to have our first baby.

    Best thing thats ever happened to me, Abigail was born 18th October just gone,was very emotional for a while, i'm a stocky guy, shaved head, tattoos long goatee & was crying like a baby haha.
    Anyway, got let go from the job,a days notice after 17 years, that rattled me but have decided to follow the positive path & start up my own plumbing business, i'm already flat out with job offers starting next month...its all good for now lol.

    You're dead on about the excercise, best advise to give, natural anti depressants!! i felt exactly the same as you going onto the lower dose,I was crapping it that i'd slip back into the gloom, just take the good with the bad, Best of luck on your lower dose, no bother to you!!

    Sorry about the essay guys,stay strong me hearties!!:cool:

    Mark


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    #2908
    Temaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    Comfortably numb from the valium,still feel I can't cope with things at the minute.


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    #2909
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Had a few hours of feeling really good* last night. T'was nice. :)


    *Not really good for any bipolar people reading this. ;)


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    #2910
    thrilledskinny
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭thrilledskinny


    nesf wrote: »
    Had a few hours of feeling really good* last night. T'was nice. :)


    Its a constant struggle isnt it ? ;-(

    My mistake thinking you were a mod on here 'category moderator' confused me, anyway I'm sure you do a good job in politics and parenting?

    And like I said your posts on here help folks a lot too ;-)


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    #2911
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    thrilledskinny wrote: »
    Had a few hours of feeling really good* last night. T'was nice. :)


    Its a constant struggle isnt it ? ;-(

    My mistake thinking you were a mod on here 'category moderator' confused me, anyway I'm sure you do a good job in politics and parenting?

    And like I said your posts on here help folks a lot too ;-)

    Thanks.


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