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Anxiety and depression thread (Please read OP)

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    #6782
    Skybirdjb
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Skybirdjb


    Kitty6277 wrote: »
    Anxiety levels high over something that happened yesterday evening. Not sure what to do to rectify it, which is just making me more anxious.

    Hope your ok kitty ? Mabey try writing down what happened and read over it to process it ?


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    #6783
    Kitty6277
    Registered Users Posts: 6,204 ✭✭✭Kitty6277


    Skybirdjb wrote: »
    Hope your ok kitty ? Mabey try writing down what happened and read over it to process it ?

    I’m okay, just hate letting people down and pissing them off, both of which I did yesterday and I’m not sure where I stand with said person at the moment


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    #6784
    One More Toy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    Have the worst bout of man flu :(


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    #6785
    123sheepdip
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭123sheepdip


    Kitty6277 wrote: »
    I’m okay, just hate letting people down and pissing them off, both of which I did yesterday and I’m not sure where I stand with said person at the moment

    Just be upfront and apologise if you believe you were in the wrong. People always respond positively if people are sincere. It will also lessen your anxiety instantly if you make amends.


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    #6786
    Skybirdjb
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Skybirdjb


    One More Toy wrote: »
    Have the worst bout of man flu :(

    Oh god :( my husband had that too


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    #6787
    Kitty6277
    Registered Users Posts: 6,204 ✭✭✭Kitty6277


    123sheepdip wrote: »
    Just be upfront and apologise if you believe you were in the wrong. People always respond positively if people are sincere. It will also lessen your anxiety instantly if you make amends.

    It was more that something else came up that was out of my hands, which I apologised for at the time. They sent me a thing on Snapchat today though which lessened my anxiety slightly.


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    #6788
    TG1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭TG1


    Woke up in full anxiety attack mode, heart racing, head pounding, sweats, dizzy.... No clue what brought it on as I literally woke up in full attack mode!

    Anyway, the positive is I sat for about five minutes telling myself over and over that as nothing set this off there was no real reason for it. Talked myself down and didn't need an emergency Xanax.

    Haven't had one like that in a long time, and never with nothing setting it off. Was just very strange.


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    #6789
    BohsCeltic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭BohsCeltic


    TG1 wrote: »
    Woke up in full anxiety attack mode, heart racing, head pounding, sweats, dizzy.... No clue what brought it on as I literally woke up in full attack mode!

    Anyway, the positive is I sat for about five minutes telling myself over and over that as nothing set this off there was no real reason for it. Talked myself down and didn't need an emergency Xanax.

    Haven't had one like that in a long time, and never with nothing setting it off. Was just very strange.

    I do get similar too in the morning sometimes. I usually just get up and get a glass of water or something to try and take my mind off it and convince myself there is nothing to worry about.

    Looking forward to watching Celtic play today in cup final so gives me a bit of a lift. Well hopefully we win.

    I watched the late late show last night and seen Jonathan Walters nearly break down talking about the losses in his life. I never knew about it before. He's a strong person for talking about it.


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    #6790
    One More Toy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    BohsCeltic wrote: »
    I do get similar too in the morning sometimes. I usually just get up and get a glass of water or something to try and take my mind off it and convince myself there is nothing to worry about.

    Looking forward to watching Celtic play today in cup final so gives me a bit of a lift. Well hopefully we win.

    I watched the late late show last night and seen Jonathan Walters nearly break down talking about the losses in his life. I never knew about it before. He's a strong person for talking about it.

    Must watch it on the player once I get rid of this flu


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    #6791
    BohsCeltic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭BohsCeltic


    One More Toy wrote: »
    Must watch it on the player once I get rid of this flu

    He held it together so well, i nearly welled up listening to his story. But it gave me some inspiration too . We CAN fight anything life throws at us.


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    #6792
    One More Toy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    BohsCeltic wrote: »
    He held it together so well, i nearly welled up listening to his story. But it gave me some inspiration too . We CAN fight anything life throws at us.

    Drinking an infusion of lemsip and Jameson so hopefully will get round to it soon!


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    #6793
    123sheepdip
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭123sheepdip


    TG1 wrote: »
    Woke up in full anxiety attack mode, heart racing, head pounding, sweats, dizzy.... No clue what brought it on as I literally woke up in full attack mode!

    Anyway, the positive is I sat for about five minutes telling myself over and over that as nothing set this off there was no real reason for it. Talked myself down and didn't need an emergency Xanax.

    Haven't had one like that in a long time, and never with nothing setting it off. Was just very strange.

    Hope the day went smoothly TG1. Do you think it was heightened anxiety due to the lower dose you are taking. This can make people feel they are not ready to reduce but it's just the meds ... keep the faith !


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    #6794
    TG1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭TG1


    I really don't know... I'm about three weeks in to the lower dose now so it might have just been a weird blip.

    I have an amazing friend who called out for lunch and ended up staying for the day. We went out and tidied up my horse and chatted for the day and my mind was taken right off it all.

    Put it down in the journal I'm keeping for my psychologist anyway so I'm sure it will be discussed in two weeks time. Fingers crossed it was a one off blip.


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    #6795
    SMC92Ian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭SMC92Ian


    Is there any side effects to people on meds?


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    #6796
    BohsCeltic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭BohsCeltic


    SMC92Ian wrote: »
    Is there any side effects to people on meds?

    Sometimes drowsiness. I tried Prozac first but felt like a burning sensation and tingly feeling on my skin. Next was Citalapram. Was fine with that but it didn't work for me. Now on Sertraline.

    It will differ with different people as to the side effects.


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    #6797
    123sheepdip
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭123sheepdip


    SMC92Ian wrote: »
    Is there any side effects to people on meds?

    Inability to sleep unaided unless I'm tired. But even though I excercise in gym and walk every day, I'm rarely tired going to bed. Thought I was the problem but now thinking it's the meds. On Lexapro.
    Edit . I never had a problem sleeping before the meds. Could snooze in the day and still sleep at night.


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    #6798
    SMC92Ian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭SMC92Ian


    Yeah see this is what's keeping me off meds, side effects, it's already bad and i'm struggling along still here so don't wanna risk something worse if I spoke to a GP and they wanted to put me on meds.


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    #6799
    123sheepdip
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭123sheepdip


    SMC92Ian wrote: »
    Yeah see this is what's keeping me off meds, side effects, it's already bad and i'm struggling along still here so don't wanna risk something worse if I spoke to a GP and they wanted to put me on meds.

    Side effects can be minimal. There are a good few in the starting two weeks but most sort themselves out. If you can cope with the daily dose of depression/anxiety, you could be better off going it alone but if not, the meds are worth a shot as when they work and you can operate much better. In my case, there are non addictive sleeping meds available and for other side effects there could be a solution. I was freaked out by reading negative reviews on the net, but am now aware that most people who bother to review something do so because they had a negative experience. I'm not intending to stay on these long term but time will tell.


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    #6800
    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,475 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    A very interesting NHS funded study on the effectiveness of low grade Electro microcurrent Therapy for people suffering from anxiety.
    Drug free remission rate after 12 weeks is 48% and improvement noted in 2/3s of patients.

    Low grade EST designed to modify BrainWave to alpha state.
    Device can be purchased privately but is currently under review for NHS funding.


    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/31103808/


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    #6801
    TG1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭TG1


    SMC92Ian wrote: »
    Is there any side effects to people on meds?

    I'm on venlafaxine, had very few going up the doses,dry mouth was really the only one that hung round more than a week. Sleep was disrupted for about a week any time my dose changed.

    Starting to come back down now, and again, nothing major, bit of dizziness the first couple of days of a dose change, sleep disruption the first couple of days but it seems to even out again fairly quickly so far


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    #6802
    Gremlinertia
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 59,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    I had very little disruption with my antidepressants, the seroquel made me very drowsy at times but adjusted easily to it..


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    #6803
    One More Toy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    banie01 wrote: »
    A very interesting NHS funded study on the effectiveness of low grade Electro microcurrent Therapy for people suffering from anxiety.
    Drug free remission rate after 12 weeks is 48% and improvement noted in 2/3s of patients.

    Low grade EST designed to modify BrainWave to alpha state.
    Device can be purchased privately but is currently under review for NHS funding.


    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/31103808/

    I'm on the path for full on ect


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    #6804
    SMC92Ian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭SMC92Ian


    I used to suffer from nightmares but now it's worse, I'm having these very vivid detailed dreams. Has anyone else ever had that? Dreaming of someone you lost, loved, died I dunno whatever? I'm having these dreams of me being loved up with what was the love of my life, mental in love, super happy, all these dreams are things we were meant to be or doing, dreams of how happy life would of been before last summer, then I wake up in some awful depression because it'll never be and some sort of anxiety attack comes over me, some mad desire to hurt myself takes over to make me feel something other than these feelings of loss. Sorry if I make no sense here. It's mental how these dreams have suddenly started and affect me so much. Worse than nightmares.


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    #6805
    123sheepdip
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭123sheepdip


    That's a heavy load to carry. Dreams can sometimes be random or just memories from the days events. Or they can be a window into our deepest desires or fears. I read an account of a poor woman who had to make the decision to turn her husbands life support off, when she took a sleeping med which had vivid dreams as a side effect, she dreamt about him berating her for doing that. Obviously this thought had been lurking in her guilty mind. In your case they are your hearts desire and waking up after is a cruel blow. I remember that few seconds after you wake and yr happy until you remember yr loved one is gone. I presume you are getting therapy for your loss ?Do you discuss it with friends ? It really does help to talk about it. You'll never forget this person and they will always be around you and no doubt they are trying to help you cope in these dark days, but you have to try to find some chink of light in the dark for your own future wellbeing. Would doing something in their memory help ? Doing a challenge for charity? Focusing on doing something active can help you find a purpose and it will help you cope with this sadness of loss.


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    #6806
    SMC92Ian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭SMC92Ian


    123sheepdip wrote: »
    That's a heavy load to carry. Dreams can sometimes be random or just memories from the days events. Or they can be a window into our deepest desires or fears. I read an account of a poor woman who had to make the decision to turn her husbands life support off, when she took a sleeping med which had vivid dreams as a side effect, she dreamt about him berating her for doing that. Obviously this thought had been lurking in her guilty mind. In your case they are your hearts desire and waking up after is a cruel blow. I remember that few seconds after you wake and yr happy until you remember yr loved one is gone. I presume you are getting therapy for your loss ?Do you discuss it with friends ? It really does help to talk about it. You'll never forget this person and they will always be around you and no doubt they are trying to help you cope in these dark days, but you have to try to find some chink of light in the dark for your own future wellbeing. Would doing something in their memory help ? Doing a challenge for charity? Focusing on doing something active can help you find a purpose and it will help you cope with this sadness of loss.

    Nope I don't talk to anyone, haven't gone to a specialist or a GP. Don't have close friends either to say this kind of stuff to. It'll be a year in 2 months and I still feel the same, people say things get easy or you move on but you don't, you just learn to live with it.

    I wish I could forget, I've always said I wish we were like computers, we could put memories in the bin and empty it. Yes I'd forget great memories but at the same times it's all these memories that are killing me every day so it's a lose lose.


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    #6807
    123sheepdip
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭123sheepdip


    You really need to talk to someone. You have to see how internalising this is making you feel. What have you got to lose ? Yr at the bottom of the miserable well already, the only way is up ..it will be slow but at least it would be in the right direction.


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    #6808
    SMC92Ian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭SMC92Ian


    123sheepdip wrote: »
    You really need to talk to someone. You have to see how internalising this is making you feel. What have you got to lose ? Yr at the bottom of the miserable well already, the only way is up ..it will be slow but at least it would be in the right direction.

    I don't care is probably what's causing me not to talk to someone, I've long given up on my life. If you watched this show on Netflix, After Life I think it is. I'm basically that guy Ricky Gervais plays.


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    #6809
    123sheepdip
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭123sheepdip


    If this was back when you were enjoying your life and this was happening to someone you loved, what would you advice have been to them ?


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    #6810
    BohsCeltic
    Registered Users Posts: 1,574 ✭✭✭BohsCeltic


    There is hope out there. Go talk to someone. I turned to drink but yesterday i went to an AA meeting. My best friend brought me to make sure i went.

    Now his daughter has a really rare disease but he took time to help me despite his busy life between working and with his sick Daughter.

    I have a signed Robbie Keane Celtic jersey which i am going to give to him. I've had it for years but i think this will be a good gesture as they will be having a fundraiser soon to adapt their home so hopefully it will help.


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    #6811
    One More Toy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭One More Toy


    BohsCeltic wrote: »
    There is hope out there. Go talk to someone. I turned to drink but yesterday i went to an AA meeting. My best friend brought me to make sure i went.

    Now his daughter has a really rare disease but he took time to help me despite his busy life between working and with his sick Daughter.

    I have a signed Robbie Keane Celtic jersey which i am going to give to him. I've had it for years but i think this will be a good gesture as they will be having a fundraiser soon to adapt their home so hopefully it will help.

    That's a very generous idea bohs fair play!


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