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Lets all be anxious/depressed together.

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    #2552
    Temaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    Im also on it and find it good with no side effects. Different folks diff.......


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    #2553
    Kaching
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Kaching


    Loved Mirtazapine but the taste was mank


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    #2554
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Took a pretty bad confidence knock today. Feel like **** :(


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    #2555
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    cloud493 wrote: »
    Took a pretty bad confidence knock today. Feel like **** :(

    me too.


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    #2556
    Kaching
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Kaching


    me 3


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    #2557
    thrilledskinny
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭thrilledskinny


    Kaching wrote: »
    Cant pull myself out of bed but glad most others are doing well :)


    Cant pull myself out of bed either....

    Its pull myself out of it tomo or resign !!

    Cant continue doing this for another year ;-(

    Need to change something ;-~)


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    #2558
    Kaching
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Kaching


    thrilledskinny wrote: »
    Cant pull myself out of bed either....

    Its pull myself out of it tomo or resign !!

    I've already resigned


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    #2559
    sam34
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,073 ✭✭✭sam34


    folks, can we dial back on recommending/not recommending particular drugs/drug combinations, please.

    that's not advice that can be given online, without knowledge of someone's illness, history and other health issues and meds.

    and remember, different people tolerate meds differently, so just because something doesnt work for one person that doesnt make it a useless drug etc.


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    #2560
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    I wish these thoughts of suicide and self-harm would go away.


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    #2561
    Kaching
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Kaching


    nesf wrote: »
    I wish these thoughts of suicide and self-harm would go away.

    Im trying to make them go away for the last 4 years .


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    #2562
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    The Samaritans are good I've found.


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    #2563
    Kaching
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Kaching


    nesf wrote: »
    The Samaritans are good I've found.

    Ive given up on helplines . I dont have anything left to say :(


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    #2564
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Kaching wrote: »
    Ive given up on helplines . I dont have anything left to say :(

    I've found that just talking in general helps if it's 4am, you can't sleep and feel cripplingly alone. Even if it's the same stuff as you always say.


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    #2565
    Kaching
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Kaching


    nesf wrote: »
    I've found that just talking in general helps if it's 4am, you can't sleep and feel cripplingly alone. Even if it's the same stuff as you always say.

    If you find it works for you mate keep doing it. Personally I just feel im a lost cause fighting a losing battle ;that I wont win and am so close to submission


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    #2566
    WalterMitty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭WalterMitty


    sam34 wrote: »
    folks, can we dial back on recommending/not recommending particular drugs/drug combinations, please.

    that's not advice that can be given online, without knowledge of someone's illness, history and other health issues and meds.

    and remember, different people tolerate meds differently, so just because something doesnt work for one person that doesnt make it a useless drug etc.
    I think you are reffering to my post. I only suggested the person discuss alternative antidepressant classes with their doctor as their own list of previous meds seemed to be only modern highly marketed drugs. A lot of doctors seem reluctant to prescribe anything that a pharma rep hasnt "talked" to them about. The amount of people that seem to be rotated through every SSRI and modern SNRI without any great improvement is disspiriting.
    http://www.psychotropical.com/ad_rev.shtml


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    #2567
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Kaching wrote: »
    If you find it works for you mate keep doing it. Personally I just feel im a lost cause fighting a losing battle ;that I wont win and am so close to submission

    Been where you are and got out of it again. There's always hope even if you can't see it etc.


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    #2568
    Kaching
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Kaching


    nesf wrote: »
    Been where you are and got out of it again. There's always hope even if you can't see it etc.

    For people like me I doubt it


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    #2569
    talullah
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭talullah


    Gggrrrrrrrr, feel so unbelievebly crappy today, just wanted to curl up in a corner and not have to talk to anyone, so sick of people telling me to think of all the good things i have etc..it's not as simple as that :( i know they mean well though :( . This place is quite a nice outlet so think i'll be using it alot more....


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    #2570
    girlonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭girlonfire


    Kaching wrote: »
    For people like me I doubt it
    As cheesy as it sounds, as long as you're above ground, there's always hope. For Everyone. I've been to some pretty dark places which I thought I'd never come out of and I have.

    Going through a rough patch at the moment. I'm in the middle of exams and I know I have so much more to give, but I'm finding it so hard to concentrate and focus. Hopefully the next one will be better. I'll keep trying. Really want to curl up in bed for a week but it's not an option at the moment


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    #2571
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Kaching wrote: »
    For people like me I doubt it

    10 year mix of psychosis, mixed episodes, chronic depression, anxiety, anger issues and a personality disorder. Up until two weeks ago I was doing better than I had since childhood. There's always hope.


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    #2572
    Kaching
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Kaching


    girlonfire wrote: »
    As cheesy as it sounds, as long as you're above ground, there's always hope. For Everyone. I've been to some pretty dark places which I thought I'd never come out of and I have.

    Going through a rough patch at the moment. I'm in the middle of exams and I know I have so much more to give, but I'm finding it so hard to concentrate and focus. Hopefully the next one will be better. I'll keep trying. Really want to curl up in bed for a week but it's not an option at the moment

    I'm due a lot of bad karma so what's the point in living just to see the bad karma that's going to follow me ?


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    #2573
    Seren_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    Kaching wrote: »
    I'm due a lot of bad karma so what's the point in living just to see the bad karma that's going to follow me ?
    Don't worry about karma or things like that, or try not to anyway. You make your life and your decisions. The past is the past. I do feel slightly hypocritical saying that, as I'm constantly going over things that have happened in my head and how I could have acted differently.

    I don't think anyone could possibly insult me in any way that I haven't already said to myself.


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    #2574
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Kaching wrote: »
    I'm due a lot of bad karma so what's the point in living just to see the bad karma that's going to follow me ?

    Have you considered meditation?


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    #2575
    Kaching
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Kaching


    nesf wrote: »
    Have you considered meditation?

    doesnt work for me


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    #2576
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Kaching wrote: »
    doesnt work for me

    Not trying to be funny but this is like trying to have a conversation with myself from 3 years ago. It gets better, it's impossible to see it now but it does. :)


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    #2577
    Kaching
    Registered Users Posts: 478 ✭✭Kaching


    nesf wrote: »
    Not trying to be funny but this is like trying to have a conversation with myself from 3 years ago. It gets better, it's impossible to see it now but it does. :)

    Maybe it is Ive given 100% to everything Ive tried to make myself better ... nothing just seems to work . I feel maybe im not meant to be better


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    #2578
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    Kaching wrote: »
    Maybe it is Ive given 100% to everything Ive tried to make myself better ... nothing just seems to work . I feel maybe im not meant to be better

    Everyone is meant to feel better. Everyone. The night is darkest just before the dawn.


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    #2579
    girlonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 337 ✭✭girlonfire


    Kaching wrote: »
    Maybe it is Ive given 100% to everything Ive tried to make myself better ... nothing just seems to work . I feel maybe im not meant to be better
    There was a time that I thought I'd never ever come back from. I tried everything and felt very hopeless. I came through it. I know it feels as though there's no hope Kaching, but I promise you that there is. There's always hope. Keep hanging in there. (It used to drive me mad when people said this to me, but do hold on)


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    #2580
    nesf
    Registered Users Posts: 27,645 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Kaching wrote: »
    I feel maybe im not meant to be better

    Completely and utterly normal in your position. What we're all saying to you is from experience we know these feelings are incorrect and a product of the illness rather than anything rational or realistic.

    Depression fundamentally interferes with your ability to rationally view the world, what you think now isn't realistic in many respects, that's part and parcel of the illness. The trick is not to get sucked into it and not get trapped in a spiral of negative thinkings (nearly bloody impossible to manage most of the time).

    We say all this stuff to you not because you'll agree with it now but because despite how you're feeling you need to hold onto it like a mantra and make it a matter of faith rather than reason. It's impossible for you to agree that you'll recover right now but that doesn't mean you can't hold out (what seems like) irrational hope.


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    #2581
    Temaz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭Temaz


    Doctor changed my sleeping pill so here's hoping for a good night's sleep.


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