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Anxiety and/or depression discussion.

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    #6002
    mg1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭mg1982


    Took 5mg of diazepam. Hopefully will calm my brain down and might get a peaceful night.


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    #6003
    Father Ted Crilly
    Site Banned Posts: 217 ✭✭Father Ted Crilly


    mg1982 wrote: »
    Took 5mg of diazepam. Hopefully will calm my brain down and might get a peaceful night.

    If you look at bright screens soon before you go to bed you won't be able to sleep. However, don't let my statement hinder your use of boards.ie. :p


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    #6004
    mg1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭mg1982


    Father Ted Crilly wrote: »
    If you look at bright screens soon before you go to bed you won't be able to sleep. However, don't let my statement hinder your use of boards.ie. :p

    Im terrible for that, on labtop playstation or watching telly till 2am.


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    #6005
    heyday30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭heyday30


    mg1982 wrote: »
    Im terrible for that, on labtop playstation or watching telly till 2am.

    I'm a divil for gawping at the phone in bed.


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    #6006
    mg1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭mg1982


    heyday30 wrote: »
    I'm a divil for gawping at the phone in bed.

    When sleep isnt coming it passes the time. Must get back to reading books. :o


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    #6007
    Hugo Stiglitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Hugo Stiglitz


    Oddly enough, bright screens just before going to sleep doesn't bother me too much.


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    #6008
    heyday30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭heyday30


    mg1982 wrote: »
    When sleep isnt coming it passes the time. Must get back to reading books. :o

    That's true too. Nothing worse than staring at the walls!


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    #6009
    mg1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭mg1982


    Hugo Stiglitz wrote: »
    Oddly enough, bright screens just before going to sleep doesn't bother me too much.

    Me either. It seems to help me doze off if anything.


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    #6010
    heyday30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭heyday30


    mg1982 wrote: »
    Me either. It seems to help me doze off if anything.

    Look at Facebook be asleep in 20 mins lol


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    #6011
    Father Ted Crilly
    Site Banned Posts: 217 ✭✭Father Ted Crilly


    When I can't sleep I take out my laptop and Father Ted box set, then I decide which episode to watch. However my choice doesn't matter. Most likely due to the fact that I end up watching EVERY SINGLE ONE.

    Father Ted can be watched over and over again unlike the likes of Mrs. Brown's Boys. I am not a Father Ted addict and I can see no other reason to suggest otherwise.

    Off-topic...


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    #6012
    heyday30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭heyday30


    Father Ted Crilly wrote: »
    When I can't sleep I take out my laptop and Father Ted box set, then I decide which episode to watch. However my choice doesn't matter. Most likely due to the fact that I end up watching EVERY SINGLE ONE.

    Father Ted can be watched over and over again unlike the likes of Mrs. Brown's Boys. I am not a Father Ted addict and I can see no other reason to suggest otherwise.

    Off-topic...

    Apt user name so.


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    #6013
    mg1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭mg1982


    heyday30 wrote: »
    Look at Facebook be asleep in 20 mins lol

    Not on facebook thankfully but i know what you mean.


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    #6014
    Father Ted Crilly
    Site Banned Posts: 217 ✭✭Father Ted Crilly


    Off-Topic

    I'm having awful trouble sleeping. Tomorrow, today in fact, I'm going to be kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse!


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    #6015
    scrimshanker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 738 ✭✭✭scrimshanker


    I have started to draw. Never previously have I quite taken to the art of journal keeping, but this time is different because I'm drawing.

    As human beings we are nothing more than the sum of our experiences. The nature and nurture argument is nullified because the sum of them determine how we experience life. Our ability to work, to love, our personality and how we interact with the world, they all derive from the sum of what we have experienced to date.

    So my journal does not need a dialogue, because it is me. It simply needs my experiences. Whether my entries correspond to events is irrelevant, because it is my experience of those events that needs to be collected, and that can be done by drawing the personal experience of the day; of the sum of the day's events. Then I can add my thoughts to it. I can expand and put all the stabs and the slashes of my mind on the page in written sections. Because my diary is for me, it doesn't have to make sense to anyone else. It makes sense to me. It's cathartic to take the thoughts, the images burned across my mind and give them substance. My diary makes sense to me and to me alone. And I revel I'm it.

    Some of you may also enjoy drawing your day.


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    #6016
    Hugo Stiglitz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Hugo Stiglitz


    scrimshanker wrote: »
    I have started to draw. Never previously have I quite taken to the art of journal keeping, but this time is different because I'm drawing.

    As human beings we are nothing more than the sum of our experiences. The nature and nurture argument is nullified because the sum of them determine how we experience life. Our ability to work, to love, our personality and how we interact with the world, they all derive from the sum of what we have experienced to date.

    So my journal does not need a dialogue, because it is me. It simply needs my experiences. Whether my entries correspond to events is irrelevant, because it is my experience of those events that needs to be collected, and that can be done by drawing the personal experience of the day; of the sum of the day's events. Then I can add my thoughts to it. I can expand and put all the stabs and the slashes of my mind on the page in written sections. Because my diary is for me, it doesn't have to make sense to anyone else. It makes sense to me. It's cathartic to take the thoughts, the images burned across my mind and give them substance. My diary makes sense to me and to me alone. And I revel I'm it.

    Some of you may also enjoy drawing your day.

    Well said there Scrim.

    I might give it a try.


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    #6017
    greenfrogs
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    scrimshanker wrote: »
    I have started to draw. Never previously have I quite taken to the art of journal keeping, but this time is different because I'm drawing.

    As human beings we are nothing more than the sum of our experiences. The nature and nurture argument is nullified because the sum of them determine how we experience life. Our ability to work, to love, our personality and how we interact with the world, they all derive from the sum of what we have experienced to date.

    So my journal does not need a dialogue, because it is me. It simply needs my experiences. Whether my entries correspond to events is irrelevant, because it is my experience of those events that needs to be collected, and that can be done by drawing the personal experience of the day; of the sum of the day's events. Then I can add my thoughts to it. I can expand and put all the stabs and the slashes of my mind on the page in written sections. Because my diary is for me, it doesn't have to make sense to anyone else. It makes sense to me. It's cathartic to take the thoughts, the images burned across my mind and give them substance. My diary makes sense to me and to me alone. And I revel I'm it.

    Some of you may also enjoy drawing your day.

    That is a really cute idea Scrimshanker. It sounds very therapeutic. I have a diary which I write in from time to time. I'm not in any way artistic so writing suits me. Colouring books for adults have become popular recently. They are meant to be good for mindfulness and relaxation. I have one ordered at the moment so I'll see how that goes.


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    #6018
    heyday30
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,877 ✭✭✭heyday30


    scrimshanker wrote: »
    I have started to draw. Never previously have I quite taken to the art of journal keeping, but this time is different because I'm drawing.

    As human beings we are nothing more than the sum of our experiences. The nature and nurture argument is nullified because the sum of them determine how we experience life. Our ability to work, to love, our personality and how we interact with the world, they all derive from the sum of what we have experienced to date.

    So my journal does not need a dialogue, because it is me. It simply needs my experiences. Whether my entries correspond to events is irrelevant, because it is my experience of those events that needs to be collected, and that can be done by drawing the personal experience of the day; of the sum of the day's events. Then I can add my thoughts to it. I can expand and put all the stabs and the slashes of my mind on the page in written sections. Because my diary is for me, it doesn't have to make sense to anyone else. It makes sense to me. It's cathartic to take the thoughts, the images burned across my mind and give them substance. My diary makes sense to me and to me alone. And I revel I'm it.

    Some of you may also enjoy drawing your day.

    Good idea. It's all about getting the emotion...the thoughts out. If by doing so with drawings and scribbles helps then that's fantasic.

    Sometimes it's hard to find words or there's no words for what one might be feeling. Might try that scrim. Thanks


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    #6019
    greenfrogs
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    I feel really stressed at the moment. I have so much tension in my shoulders and back it hurts when I sit up. I had an initial assessment for a dbt type programme today. She said I would be suited for it. However I have to go back for another assessment in a few weeks. I'm worried that I won't get to do the programme as there are a large number of referrals for this programme.

    Also I am sick of people critising me and telling me what to do. Especially on ****e that doesn't even matter.


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    #6020
    Father Ted Crilly
    Site Banned Posts: 217 ✭✭Father Ted Crilly


    This might be going off-topic but does anyone here think about Heaven and Hell and that sort of stuff? And do you ever think about that when you are depressed? I personally don't care what happens in this life as long as I am reunited with all of my loved ones in the next life, forever and ever and ever and ever and ever......

    I don't suffer from depression, what's the point? If there is nothing at the end of it, what's the point in living a good life?


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    #6021
    carzony
    Registered Users Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭carzony


    Father Ted Crilly wrote: »
    This might be going off-topic but does anyone here think about Heaven and Hell and that sort of stuff? And do you ever think about that when you are depressed? I personally don't care what happens in this life as long as I am reunited with all of my loved ones in the next life, forever and ever and ever and ever and ever......

    I don't suffer from depression, what's the point? If there is nothing at the end of it, what's the point in living a good life?

    I do, Truth be told i'm terrified of old age and death.


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    #6022
    GeneralC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 754 ✭✭✭GeneralC


    At which point in our lives are we going to wake up and realise there is a bigger world out there? When we're in our 80s still worrying about our problems? life will have passed us then.

    I am in my 20s, and already feel 'old'. I see changes in my body, probably from age or maybe it's from the strain of aniexty. I feel I have missed out on so much already. I am sure there is people on here who have had this illness longer than I have (9 years). At which point do you we put a stop to this? We ultimately control this anxiety, we're the ones letting it cripple us, harsh but true. Yes we can take medication, go to therapy, but at the end of the day, YOU and only YOU can control this. We can all talk about this until we're blue in the face and exhausted, but you can change this.

    I want everyone on here to write in one sentence what they're actually worrying about, what thoughts provoke that anxiety, write it down, and let everyone look at it. Let's see if we can make sense of all this....


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    #6023
    mg1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭mg1982


    Father Ted Crilly wrote: »
    This might be going off-topic but does anyone here think about Heaven and Hell and that sort of stuff? And do you ever think about that when you are depressed? I personally don't care what happens in this life as long as I am reunited with all of my loved ones in the next life, forever and ever and ever and ever and ever......

    I don't suffer from depression, what's the point? If there is nothing at the end of it, what's the point in living a good life?

    I do think of it a fair bit. When i was younger if i thought if i topped myself i would rot in hell for eternity which i know is bs. Nobody knows what happens when you die, it wouldnt matter to me if there was an afterlife or not.


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    #6024
    gemmaS6988
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭gemmaS6988


    mg1982 wrote: »
    Took 5mg of diazepam. Hopefully will calm my brain down and might get a peaceful night.

    I found xantac worked better apologies for the bad spelling had another one but can't remember name and it knocked me out totally woke up in the mind of the night and it was the same as being drunk I try and get the name of it


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    #6025
    gemmaS6988
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭gemmaS6988


    mg1982 wrote: »
    Took 5mg of diazepam. Hopefully will calm my brain down and might get a peaceful night.

    I found xantac worked better apologies for the bad spelling had another one but can't remember name and it knocked me out totally woke up in the mind of the night and it was the same as being drunk I try and get the name of it


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    #6026
    gemmaS6988
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭gemmaS6988


    mg1982 wrote: »
    Took 5mg of diazepam. Hopefully will calm my brain down and might get a peaceful night.

    I found xantac worked better apologies for the bad spelling had another one but can't remember name and it knocked me out totally woke up in the mind of the night and it was the same as being drunk I try and get the name of it


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    #6027
    GeneralC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 754 ✭✭✭GeneralC


    There is a support group on this evening at 6pm in the Mater Hospital on 63 Eccles St. The group is primarily aimed at people with Social Anxiety, but does not exclude other anxiety illnesses. I know it's short notice for this evening, but keep it in mind for the future,it's on every two weeks - I'll be there


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    #6028
    mg1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭mg1982


    gemmaS6988 wrote: »
    I found xantac worked better apologies for the bad spelling had another one but can't remember name and it knocked me out totally woke up in the mind of the night and it was the same as being drunk I try and get the name of it

    I think xanax is the name of it. It's pretty strong alright. I find the diazepam better.


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    #6029
    scrimshanker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 738 ✭✭✭scrimshanker


    mg1982 wrote: »
    I think xanax is the name of it. It's pretty strong alright. I find the diazepam better.

    Yeah it has a fairly strong effect alright. I find it good for very quickly relieving the worst of the anxiety to let me get on with what I want to do. If my anxiety is really very high it doesn't make me remotely sleepy, but if it's high rather than severe it makes me sleepy


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    #6030
    mg1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭mg1982


    scrimshanker wrote: »
    Yeah it has a fairly strong effect alright. I find it good for very quickly relieving the worst of the anxiety to let me get on with what I want to do. If my anxiety is really very high it doesn't make me remotely sleepy, but if it's high rather than severe it makes me sleepy

    For me it's the only thing that can stop anxiety in its tracks is benzos. I know doctors are very much against prescribing them but they work for me. And I have tried pretty much every kind of therapy.


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    #6031
    scrimshanker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 738 ✭✭✭scrimshanker


    mg1982 wrote: »
    For me it's the only thing that can stop anxiety in its tracks is benzos. I know doctors are very much against prescribing them but they work for me. And I have tried pretty much every kind of therapy.

    Yeah they are very effective. The SSRI stuff seems to do nothing for me but xanax actually works.


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