Comments | allygrace: night one of medicine - nausea and i dreamed of sexual child abuse

allygrace

night one of medicine - nausea and i dreamed of sexual child abuse

Mar 01, 2005 09:42

so i went to see a psychiatrist yesterday. i was really looking forward to it actually. i thought he'd talk through what i'm doing, help me prioritize, convince me not to freak out about certain things, and i would leave his office calmer and be able to take life on again ( Read more... )

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allygrace March 1 2005, 17:35:49 UTC

i'm just scared of becoming dependent on it.

by the way, how'd it go with the cute lil'red-head?

pee_turkey March 1 2005, 20:14:55 UTC

i don't know much about psychiatrists, but it sounds shady to me that after one visit you'd get prescriptions for two kinds of antidepressants. i know that i don't know you all THAT well and i'm certainly no psychology student (and zane is), but that puts up a red flag in my mind. my understanding is that medicine is a last resort & should be applied towards a chemical imbalance. sounds like your problems stem at least partly from stress.

i do know that, pills or no, God will pull through for you because you have people in your life who care about you. i met you once or twice and i'm concerned!

one thing i would like to share with you: i had a friend put on antidepressants and it turns out she was anemic, and that her problem wasn't psychological at all. have you thought about a second opinion, just in case?

darua March 1 2005, 22:55:02 UTC

Not to scare you or anything, but I took Lexapro and...its like part of me died. I feel like it erase most of the bad feelings but it also erased my carefree nature. Really, I think you're stressed but who am I to diagnose you with something. Im not a doctor. But you wont become dependant on it. You will have to cut down on how much you take after a time. I would forget to take a pill and get dizzy and I couldnt focus my eyes.

allygrace March 2 2005, 05:32:35 UTC

i'm feeling that. doug says "how was your day?" i say "neither good nor bad. i'm not happy or sad. i'm just here."

Hang in there! deftones_gurl March 2 2005, 14:35:07 UTC

Hey I've been on Zoloft since my senior year of highschool. I don't take it very regularly now but I did there for 2 years. Your body will let you know when you don't need it anymore. You'll start to skip taking it on accident and keep forgetting just because you don't feel bad and don't remember to *l*. I don't know about Xanax but zoloft is pretty great. It made me act like myself again and I don't really have any side effects from it that I know of. I'm on it for acute OCD and just stressing out in general. My mom and grandmother take it also so I'm assuming it's just genetic lol. It's a really low dosage. and talking about feeling abnormal? who is normal anymore really. Just don't let them talk you into thinking your crazy and don't let them pump u up with drugs. I'm sure once you get done with school you'll feel much better. I know personally that I feel like i'm drowning between 16 hrs of school and 2 jobs! You'll pull through, I think we all go a lil crazy during this "crunch" time of finishing up school. Don't ( ... )