2 weeks out

[our_nest]

well howdy ho lj. like most people on here who have jumped ship, it's been a slow death of my journal. gesh i've kept this thing since 2001 when i was in college

Comments

[thatpatti]

oh man, i'm so glad you got some real help. are you back on some kind of med that is helping too?

anxiety is such a terrible beast, and the inability to escape it feels like torture.

buspar is working REALLY well for me. i think i have a pretty different brand of anxiety than you (and no PTSD), but for me it's worked wonders. i can still feel when my anxiety is triggered, but it sort of fails to really take hold now. it's kind of amazing.

glad you updated. :)

[our_nest]

oh gosh yes i am back. i wish i'd been under the care of a psychiatrist the whole time. i strongly recommend one for this sort of stuff. i am back on the one drug that has helped (celexa) but at a lower dose with an addition of buspar to boost it's effectiveness. i feel "okay" which is satisfying.

[thatpatti]

okay is better. :)

[muirichinnahali]

so glad to hear you're coming out the other side of rock bottom in a more positive place :)

[our_nest]

Absolutely. Trying to manage my illness everyday but feeling good so far

[therachel]

((hand holding, nacho eating))

[our_nest]

YES

[tooby3]

Awesome to see you here and thank you for sharing all the hard work you are doing. It is important stuff.

[kjames]

I was really happy to see you decided to go to the tx program. I really want you to heal from the inside out. Here's to those first steps!

[our_nest]

I don't know of I'll ever heal but I'm play with that! If all I can do is "manage my illness" then sign me up! I feel like I learned a lot of great things about how to manage and relapse prevention so every experience has put me farther on the path of wellness than before I guess.