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Anxiety and/or depression discussion.

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    #2372
    stop animal cruelty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭stop animal cruelty


    been without lexapro for a week now (hard to get a lift to see my doc) really starting the feel the effects without them now...overthinking...feel on edge....crying, cant stop thinking about ex, easily pissed off....becoming restless....please god l get to see her this week


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    #2373
    CZ 453
    Registered Users Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭CZ 453


    stop animal cruelty wrote: »
    been without lexapro for a week now (hard to get a lift to see my doc) really starting the feel the effects without them now...overthinking...feel on edge....crying, cant stop thinking about ex, easily pissed off....becoming restless....please god l get to see her this week

    Your ex?


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    #2374
    stop animal cruelty
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    CZ 453 wrote: »
    Your ex?

    no no my doc


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    #2375
    CZ 453
    Registered Users Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭CZ 453


    stop animal cruelty wrote: »
    no no my doc

    Good stuff. Hope you can get to the docs soon. Is the bus an option?


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    #2376
    Hugo Stiglitz
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    stop animal cruelty wrote: »
    been without lexapro for a week now (hard to get a lift to see my doc) really starting the feel the effects without them now...overthinking...feel on edge....crying, cant stop thinking about ex, easily pissed off....becoming restless....please god l get to see her this week

    Sorry to hear that SAC.

    Are you giving up meds yourself or just out of a prescription?


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    #2377
    stop animal cruelty
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    Hugo Stiglitz wrote: »
    Sorry to hear that SAC.

    Are you giving up meds yourself or just out of a prescription?

    just out of my prescription, hope lm like this because l havent had them in a week and not a relapse :( bit more calm now


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    #2378
    stop animal cruelty
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    CZ 453 wrote: »
    Good stuff. Hope you can get to the docs soon. Is the bus an option?

    it is but the times are kinda all over the place, like ld have to wait a few hours for 1 to go back to my hometown....l only live 10min away from the place...tempeted to cycle but its pissing rain on and off the whole time


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    #2379
    Hugo Stiglitz
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    stop animal cruelty wrote: »
    just out of my prescription, hope lm like this because l havent had them in a week and not a relapse :( bit more calm now

    I'd say it's just the withdrawal SAC.


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    #2380
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    SAC if you call your doctor she might post a prescription to you. I'm sure she doesn't want you off your meds unsupervised. But at the same time, a ten minute walk away is really not worth putting yourself through that. Why not just walk or cycle.


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    #2381
    mg1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭mg1982


    Hey all. Long time reader first time poster. Glad to meet like minded people on here. My diagnosis is Major depression, dysthymia and generalised anxiety disorder, oh and i also have personality disorder traits so i guess im messed up. I take olanzapine and escitalopram but i find olanzapine more effective for anxiety. Did anyone on here ever suffer with depersonalisation/derealisation?


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    #2382
    cookie24
    Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭cookie24


    Gongoozler wrote: »
    SAC if you call your doctor she might post a prescription to you. I'm sure she doesn't want you off your meds unsupervised. But at the same time, a ten minute walk away is really not worth putting yourself through that. Why not just walk or cycle.

    I've had my doc post prescriptions out to me


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    #2383
    Roquentin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Roquentin


    mg1982 wrote: »
    Hey all. Long time reader first time poster. Glad to meet like minded people on here. My diagnosis is Major depression, dysthymia and generalised anxiety disorder, oh and i also have personality disorder traits so i guess im messed up. I take olanzapine and escitalopram but i find olanzapine more effective for anxiety. Did anyone on here ever suffer with depersonalisation/derealisation?

    yea i have that. i sort of zone out from time to time


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    #2384
    Roquentin
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    CZ 453 wrote: »
    Is there anyone here or looking in who has defeated/beaten anxiety(if you can say that)? Are you on the other side of it? Do you have control over it without meds?

    I know we all have anxiety to help us get things done in life so it can't just be gotten rid of. Did anyone have that day where they just woke up and the world was a better place?

    Maybe there should be a bit of hope on here. A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. A goal. A path shown to those who still need to walk it.

    anxiety is unconscious and to tap into the unconscious mind is hard. A psychologist tries to do that in trying to find out what is the unconscious drive of a patient and acceptance of ones unconscious drive in theory makes people less anxious.

    Anxiety thus because it is unconscious is hard to manipulate. If you are standing at the edge of a cliff and you try to tell yourself not to feel anxious you cannot because unconsciously you are aware of where you are.


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    #2385
    loveisdivine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,463 ✭✭✭loveisdivine


    There is a page of "success" stories on Anxiety no more. The first one also mentions how they also experienced derealisation. I've found it reassuring to read :)

    http://www.anxietynomore.co.uk/success_stories.html


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    #2386
    cloudatlas
    Registered Users Posts: 3,709 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    Having a bad evening. Was explaining my financial problems due to working arrangements to a friend and they come out with the old cliche 'life's what you make it' :mad:

    After all that I've done to try and better my situation that hurt.


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    #2387
    black_magic
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭black_magic


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    Having a bad evening. Was explaining my financial problems due to working arrangements to a friend and they come out with the old cliche 'life's what you make it' :mad:

    After all that I've done to try and better my situation that hurt.

    It hurt yes, because you let it hurt. Everybody has stuff going on, it's how you deal with it that's the key. I don't know what you have done or haven't done, but it sounds like you need to quit being so hard on yourself. OK?


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    #2388
    cookie24
    Registered Users Posts: 317 ✭✭cookie24


    cloudatlas wrote: »
    Having a bad evening. Was explaining my financial problems due to working arrangements to a friend and they come out with the old cliche 'life's what you make it' :mad:

    After all that I've done to try and better my situation that hurt.

    rant away. I've had the same type of things said to me.

    At the minute I'm feeling down as 2 job interviews and 2 rejections. Trying to stay positive for lucky number 3 on Friday, but the anxiety is really making these interviews hard :(


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    #2389
    CZ 453
    Registered Users Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭CZ 453


    cookie24 wrote: »
    rant away. I've had the same type of things said to me.

    At the minute I'm feeling down as 2 job interviews and 2 rejections. Trying to stay positive for lucky number 3 on Friday, but the anxiety is really making these interviews hard :(

    How did you feel after the first 2 interviews?


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    #2390
    black_magic
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭black_magic


    cookie24 wrote: »
    rant away. I've had the same type of things said to me.

    At the minute I'm feeling down as 2 job interviews and 2 rejections. Trying to stay positive for lucky number 3 on Friday, but the anxiety is really making these interviews hard :(

    2 job interviews and 2 rejections is nothing! I've applied for hundreds of jobs over the past few months, and I got rejection emails daily, but I eventually got afew job offers, and all on the same day as it happened! The more interviews you do, the more experience you will have, and the better you will be perform. There are positives to everything in life, you just have to find them. Anxiety is difficult, I battled it for a long long long time, and eventually I succumbed to meds after realising I couldn't keep fight it myself. I have my life back on track now, at least for the present moment, but thats what matters. Chin up :)


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    #2391
    Roquentin
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    #2392
    fiftythree
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭fiftythree


    hope you are all doing ok.
    hopefully the next interview will be successful cookie24.


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    #2393
    Hugo Stiglitz
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    The job situation is poopy enough at the moment. Am trying to change jobs myself. Fingers crossed for us all.


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    #2394
    cookie24
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    CZ 453 wrote: »
    How did you feel after the first 2 interviews?


    Knew I did badly in 1st one. Thought 2nd one was OK after the initial 15 mins. I know 2 fails is nothing really, and I'll keep plugging away and get better each time. Its time for positivity :)
    Out again this weekend and am actually excited about it so thats some progress. Probably the meds


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    #2395
    CZ 453
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    cookie24 wrote: »
    Knew I did badly in 1st one. Thought 2nd one was OK after the initial 15 mins. I know 2 fails is nothing really, and I'll keep plugging away and get better each time. Its time for positivity :)
    Out again this weekend and am actually excited about it so thats some progress. Probably the meds

    The next one should be a lot easier. You'll know what to do and what not to do. Best of luck with it :)


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    #2396
    handbagmad
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    Love to be in a position health and mental health wise to look for work.

    Must be nice to have a purpose.


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    #2397
    fiftythree
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭fiftythree


    handbagmad wrote: »
    Love to be in a position health and mental health wise to look for work.

    Must be nice to have a purpose.

    me too. doesn't seem so long ago i was.
    but feels like a long time ago now.
    we'll get there handbag.


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    #2398
    handbagmad
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    fiftythree wrote: »
    me too. doesn't seem so long ago i was.
    but feels like a long time ago now.
    we'll get there handbag.

    yeah we will friend.
    Im in sort of limbo at the moment, im waiting on social welfare to be sorted (6long months now) so I can't do feic all,

    Love to do a course even a few hours a week when I get sorted


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    #2399
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    it has to be only a matter of time guys


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    #2400
    handbagmad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 650 ✭✭✭handbagmad


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    it has to be only a matter of time guys

    that's what I keep telling myself jimmy.

    Going to try work on my confidence n anxiety in the mean time.
    Small steps.


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    #2401
    Hugo Stiglitz
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    handbagmad wrote: »
    Must be nice to have a purpose.

    You do have a purpose H :)


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