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Had my first panic attack and called 911 UPDATE: 6 MONTHS LATER
2024.05.13 05:19 atypicalorange Had my first panic attack and called 911 UPDATE: 6 MONTHS LATER
It has been 198 days since I had my first panic attack (original post).
The past 6 months have been the worst period of my entire life but I think it’s safe to say I am near fully recovered now. I want to give my story to inspire you all to never give up on fighting this horrible mental condition.
In the months following my panic attack, I developed agoraphobia and a fear of being without my “safe people” (my parents). Below are how my months played out:
November 2023: I was physically recovering from the attack. The first couple days felt like torture. I had almost zero appetite and could not sleep for more than a couple hours at a time. I was constantly checking my heart rate and was consistently over 120bpm at any given moment. At 19 years old, I had to sleep in my mom’s bed because I was so terrified I was going to die in my sleep. I developed agoraphobia and was deathly afraid of leaving my house, but was forced to go back to school 3 hours away for some exams. Every night I spent alone I would shake violently. My throat felt tight constantly and I would randomly have the pressure in my nose change making it feel clogged. At one point my nose felt clogged for a whole week and I felt like I was constantly on the verge of panic. Eventually I was checking my heart rate so much I could accurately guess my bpm based on how I was feeling. I was constantly traveling back and forth between home and my dorm and my dad would drive at one point 18 hours in a week for me. I was terrified of riding the bus because I didn’t want to have a panic attack again in a place where I’d feel trapped. I often felt trapped in my own skin.
December - January: I turned 20 in December and spent my birthday alone in my dorm. It was finals week and I failed nearly all of my classes because I couldn’t focus. I became extremely depressed as I was now put on academic probation and could fail college if I didn’t lock in for the following spring semester. Meaning, I could not take my much needed semester break to recover. I was forced to take classes again, but this time I was home nearly 24/7. My mom broke her ankle and was home with me too, so I felt safe. I was able to start eating and sleeping alone again, but I still didn’t trust my body. At any moment it could turn on me. I was constantly listening to my heart rate and any “strange” bodily sensation would immediately have me freaking out. It was generally hell, however, I had a big victory: I traveled BY CAR with a friend to another state for a concert. This was planned months in advance before the anxiety so I had to go. I was terrified…so I just went terrified. It was worth it. I spent 3 days in that other state, and it gave me a much needed confidence boost. Still, most of my time was spent at home.
February - March: By this time I had been comfortable enough to go to stores with my family, although I couldn’t go alone. I started EDMR therapy. The main focus was to get me to feel comfortable with my dorm room again so I could go back for college. I was deeply unsettled by that room. Tbh, I dont think the therapy did too much, but I was given some useful advice about changing up the room to give it a more homely feel. Additionally, I started medication: 10mg Celexa (Citolapram). The medication worked wonders for the depression, and I think removing that extra layer of mental illness helped me feel more level headed to deal with the anxiety causing it.
April - present: After a couple months of the medication kicking in, I feel like I am at a stabilized state. I would not say I feel agoraphobic anymore and I can be alone. I barely passed spring semester, but I feel ready for school in summer. I have been alone in my dorm room for 2 weeks and near zero anxiety! I even applied for a job :D. I don’t listen to the random bodily functions anymore, I just let it be. Every time I feel my anxiety spike, I can easily breathe out of it. Long distance trips don’t bother me anymore. I would say I am 90% recovered.
What I have learned:
My anxiety was definitely not as severe as some of you guys here. It was hell sure, but short. But I want to say what I have learned and things that have helped me.
Obviously this post was a a condensed version of the mess my life was in spring, but I am happy to answer any questions and get specific about things that helped me. Thank you for all the support I have been given from this community. I hope you make it out of this too :) ❤️
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The past 6 months have been the worst period of my entire life but I think it’s safe to say I am near fully recovered now. I want to give my story to inspire you all to never give up on fighting this horrible mental condition.
In the months following my panic attack, I developed agoraphobia and a fear of being without my “safe people” (my parents). Below are how my months played out:
November 2023: I was physically recovering from the attack. The first couple days felt like torture. I had almost zero appetite and could not sleep for more than a couple hours at a time. I was constantly checking my heart rate and was consistently over 120bpm at any given moment. At 19 years old, I had to sleep in my mom’s bed because I was so terrified I was going to die in my sleep. I developed agoraphobia and was deathly afraid of leaving my house, but was forced to go back to school 3 hours away for some exams. Every night I spent alone I would shake violently. My throat felt tight constantly and I would randomly have the pressure in my nose change making it feel clogged. At one point my nose felt clogged for a whole week and I felt like I was constantly on the verge of panic. Eventually I was checking my heart rate so much I could accurately guess my bpm based on how I was feeling. I was constantly traveling back and forth between home and my dorm and my dad would drive at one point 18 hours in a week for me. I was terrified of riding the bus because I didn’t want to have a panic attack again in a place where I’d feel trapped. I often felt trapped in my own skin.
December - January: I turned 20 in December and spent my birthday alone in my dorm. It was finals week and I failed nearly all of my classes because I couldn’t focus. I became extremely depressed as I was now put on academic probation and could fail college if I didn’t lock in for the following spring semester. Meaning, I could not take my much needed semester break to recover. I was forced to take classes again, but this time I was home nearly 24/7. My mom broke her ankle and was home with me too, so I felt safe. I was able to start eating and sleeping alone again, but I still didn’t trust my body. At any moment it could turn on me. I was constantly listening to my heart rate and any “strange” bodily sensation would immediately have me freaking out. It was generally hell, however, I had a big victory: I traveled BY CAR with a friend to another state for a concert. This was planned months in advance before the anxiety so I had to go. I was terrified…so I just went terrified. It was worth it. I spent 3 days in that other state, and it gave me a much needed confidence boost. Still, most of my time was spent at home.
February - March: By this time I had been comfortable enough to go to stores with my family, although I couldn’t go alone. I started EDMR therapy. The main focus was to get me to feel comfortable with my dorm room again so I could go back for college. I was deeply unsettled by that room. Tbh, I dont think the therapy did too much, but I was given some useful advice about changing up the room to give it a more homely feel. Additionally, I started medication: 10mg Celexa (Citolapram). The medication worked wonders for the depression, and I think removing that extra layer of mental illness helped me feel more level headed to deal with the anxiety causing it.
April - present: After a couple months of the medication kicking in, I feel like I am at a stabilized state. I would not say I feel agoraphobic anymore and I can be alone. I barely passed spring semester, but I feel ready for school in summer. I have been alone in my dorm room for 2 weeks and near zero anxiety! I even applied for a job :D. I don’t listen to the random bodily functions anymore, I just let it be. Every time I feel my anxiety spike, I can easily breathe out of it. Long distance trips don’t bother me anymore. I would say I am 90% recovered.
What I have learned:
My anxiety was definitely not as severe as some of you guys here. It was hell sure, but short. But I want to say what I have learned and things that have helped me.
- Imo, the cure to anxiety of the fear of panic attacks is TRUST. You must TRUST your body. When you have a panic attack, it feels as if your body has betrayed you. It is extremely difficult, but you need to trust that your body knows what it is doing. TRUST your heart rate is fine even if it’s high. TRUST that despite feeling a tight throat you can still swallow. TRUST that despite feeling like you can’t breathe, YOU CAN BREATHE. Every time I felt like something was wrong with my body, I repeat to myself that I am just gonna let it work itself out. No matter how many times my nose feels clogged, I AM breathing and I KNOW IT.
- Time heals all. In hindsight, running away from places that scared me wasn’t a good idea. I just reinforced to my brain that I had something to fear. Still, I think spending time home over the spring helped me a lot. It was good to just focus on trusting my body rather than deal with the fears of loneliness and panic on top of that.
- Do not be afraid of medication! I typically am med avoidant and was really afraid of taking any for anxiety. I didn’t want to get on the wrong one and set myself back in progress. However, Celexa clutched up and idk where I’d be without it 💪
- EXPOSURE THERAPY IS THE WAY!!!!! I cannot say this enough. The brain is a muscle, if you keep running away you’re reinforcing the anxiety. I definitely could’ve avoided much strife if I had just not run away. If you are anxious to do something, DO IT ANXIOUSLY. All those times I spent terrified in my dorm room started to pay off. I can finally be there now. I also started small and now I can go outside alone again!
- Have hope. Anxiety doesn’t have to rule your life. It may take years, but have hope one day you’ll come on top.
Obviously this post was a a condensed version of the mess my life was in spring, but I am happy to answer any questions and get specific about things that helped me. Thank you for all the support I have been given from this community. I hope you make it out of this too :) ❤️
2024.05.12 17:41 Kitten_Chronicles Why won’t Moroccan doctors treat my anxiety disorders with appropriate medication?
I have diagnosed agoraphobia, panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, cptsd and panic attacks.. I have sought treatment to only get treated like a drug seeker . I can not take SSRI medication it causes serotonin syndrome Zoloft 50mg had me hospitalized for 4 days and it took 3 weeks for the intense headaches and jaw clenching to go away lexapro made me jaw clench so bad I broke 3 teeth and I couldn’t move my neck . The only thing that actually works is .5 mg of Xanax or 3mg of Zespam ( bromazapam) .. instead they constantly RX me SSRI medication and antipsychotics that cause me terrible side effects like headaches involuntary muscle movements jaw clenching so bad I have broken 3 teeth , gastrointestinal issues , vomiting diarrhea stomach pain .. I don’t have bi polar disorder I am not schizophrenic and I am not in psychosis. I do not abuse medication.. I take .5 mg of Xanax at night and if my panic attacks are bad during the day I will take 1/2 of a .5mg . With zespam 3mg at night was enough to suppress my panic attacks during the day without having to take another dose even in high stress situations. Yet I am treated like a drug addict for seeking treatment that is beneficial to me and my anxiety. The worst side effects I have ever had from a benzodiazepine was a good night sleep reduced anxiety and the ability to function like a normal human being .. make it make sense 😔 I have tried celexa Zoloft Prozac lexapro Wellbutrin esalith .. now they want me to start Seriquil and I am petrified to even try it I don’t have any of the diagnoses that it’s supposed to treat .
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2024.05.11 18:47 pug_with_a_hat_on Wellbutrin and Lexapro Together?
It's pretty sad that I don't feel like I can trust medical professional sbut he seemed pretty hesitant when adding 150 mg Bupropion to my 20mg lexapro that I've been on for 2 years and I love. The only reason I want to add the wellbutrin is because it can be more "activating" and increase energy which I need. Lexapro had eliminated my anxiety and OCD symptoms which has helped my depression but it has made me constantly sleepy which is having a negative impact on my life. I was on wellbutrin 10+years ago with whatever the max dose of Celexa is for the same reason and it was great. Idk why in so nervous about seizures and serotonin syndrome now. Can anyone share their experience with being on a high dose of Lexapro and wellbutrin?
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2024.05.11 14:56 rabbitinredlounge Scared someone will hurt me
Hello.
I work the front desk at a chain hotel in small town. My schedule is a bit over the place, but typically I work days on weekends and nights during the weekdays. The bad thing is that the evening shift is my primary one and I’m alone in the hotel during it, the only employee. I keep feeling scared someone will hurt me or even try to kill me. I’ve only been here for a few weeks, but I’ve already had some frightening experiences. I had someone block my car from leaving in the parking lot in the middle of the night. I’ve had belligerent people, mainly angry about check in policies. A few days ago, I finally let loose on someone that was trying to intimidate me by cussing him out and threatening to call the cops on him (my manager told me I could over the phone). He finally left. But he called my manager the next day and apologized, so she said he can stay here again. Fuck…so now I’m scared of seeing this guy again. He told her he has a temper blah blah and that he wished he could hug me like wtf…last thing he said to me was THIS ISN’T OVER! I get scared here someone will whip out a weapon or something.
I’ve been on Celexa for about eight years, starting when I was 15/16. My anxiety was through the roof in high school but then dropped down to tolerable in college, but now that I’m working it’s going back up. The job before this one I quit after two days because A) it was a terrible fit and B) the trainer was extremely rude to me. No wonder they told me the turn over rate was high there. This is supposed to be a summer job, though, until I can maybe get something with my degree. I’m lucky that managers are very chill with me, particularly because my mom also works here, but we almost never are at work at the same time. The job really isn’t that bad aside the customer part. The system we use is very outdated though and we have lots of maintenance problems out of my control, but I get the brunt of the complaints. I’m okay usually although it gives me lots of dread, particularly if they use a tone with me. I don’t mean to use it as a crutch, but I was exposed to domestic violence as a child, so anger / aggression either really scares me or really angers me in return.
Ugh.
Just any advice. I’ve talked to my coworkers about this and they assure me it’ll be okay, it’s just a rite of unfortunate passage. They have more backbone than me, as I hate confrontation because I’m scared the person will hurt me. Or that I’ll be wrong place, wrong time person. I have pepper spray, but I get afraid someone will hurt me before I could get away. The door to the desk area doesn’t even lock, so I would have to run to our break room if someone tried something. I just feel bad like I’m creating a terrible precedent. This is my third job and the longest I’ve been at one (around six weeks). Like I mentioned, I worked that one job for two days. I had a summer job a few years ago for like two weeks, but quit after a student hit me and the management half assed did anything. But I managed a four month internship that I loved aside the lack of pay.
And to be fair, I’ve pretty much always had the fear of someone killing me. As a kid, I would put pillows on my body when I slept because I was afraid of being stabbed in my sleep. I had to hide the knives in our house once because I was convinced my dad would kill my mom (he threatened to before).
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I work the front desk at a chain hotel in small town. My schedule is a bit over the place, but typically I work days on weekends and nights during the weekdays. The bad thing is that the evening shift is my primary one and I’m alone in the hotel during it, the only employee. I keep feeling scared someone will hurt me or even try to kill me. I’ve only been here for a few weeks, but I’ve already had some frightening experiences. I had someone block my car from leaving in the parking lot in the middle of the night. I’ve had belligerent people, mainly angry about check in policies. A few days ago, I finally let loose on someone that was trying to intimidate me by cussing him out and threatening to call the cops on him (my manager told me I could over the phone). He finally left. But he called my manager the next day and apologized, so she said he can stay here again. Fuck…so now I’m scared of seeing this guy again. He told her he has a temper blah blah and that he wished he could hug me like wtf…last thing he said to me was THIS ISN’T OVER! I get scared here someone will whip out a weapon or something.
I’ve been on Celexa for about eight years, starting when I was 15/16. My anxiety was through the roof in high school but then dropped down to tolerable in college, but now that I’m working it’s going back up. The job before this one I quit after two days because A) it was a terrible fit and B) the trainer was extremely rude to me. No wonder they told me the turn over rate was high there. This is supposed to be a summer job, though, until I can maybe get something with my degree. I’m lucky that managers are very chill with me, particularly because my mom also works here, but we almost never are at work at the same time. The job really isn’t that bad aside the customer part. The system we use is very outdated though and we have lots of maintenance problems out of my control, but I get the brunt of the complaints. I’m okay usually although it gives me lots of dread, particularly if they use a tone with me. I don’t mean to use it as a crutch, but I was exposed to domestic violence as a child, so anger / aggression either really scares me or really angers me in return.
Ugh.
Just any advice. I’ve talked to my coworkers about this and they assure me it’ll be okay, it’s just a rite of unfortunate passage. They have more backbone than me, as I hate confrontation because I’m scared the person will hurt me. Or that I’ll be wrong place, wrong time person. I have pepper spray, but I get afraid someone will hurt me before I could get away. The door to the desk area doesn’t even lock, so I would have to run to our break room if someone tried something. I just feel bad like I’m creating a terrible precedent. This is my third job and the longest I’ve been at one (around six weeks). Like I mentioned, I worked that one job for two days. I had a summer job a few years ago for like two weeks, but quit after a student hit me and the management half assed did anything. But I managed a four month internship that I loved aside the lack of pay.
And to be fair, I’ve pretty much always had the fear of someone killing me. As a kid, I would put pillows on my body when I slept because I was afraid of being stabbed in my sleep. I had to hide the knives in our house once because I was convinced my dad would kill my mom (he threatened to before).
2024.05.09 18:59 Motor_Success_5589 Celexa weight gain
I was on Luvox for about 2 months earlier this year and gained almost ten pounds. I’ve been off of it since about mid April, and while I haven’t lost all the weight, I’ve lost some and I feel SO MUCH BETTER. Clothes that I thought I was going to have to get rid of fit me again. (I’m short so the weight is pretty obvious on me).
I’ve tried a couple meds since then, Prozac and lexapro, and neither worked out for me, so I was talking to my psychiatrist about different options. She suggested celexa and I said sure why not. It’s one of the few I haven’t tried yet. She said she was sending it in but then hit me with the bombshell that it’s more likely to cause weight gain than other SSRIs. I DO NOT want that weight back. Has anyone here taken it and not gained weight? I’m considering just taking nothing at this point. I feel pretty bad off of medications, but I feel bad on them too. It’s just a different bad.
edit to add: I also have extremely high cholesterol (it runs in the family and I take another medication that increases it), to the point where I am going on cholesterol medication as a healthy 19 year old male. I am afraid gaining any more weight will just make it worse.
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I’ve tried a couple meds since then, Prozac and lexapro, and neither worked out for me, so I was talking to my psychiatrist about different options. She suggested celexa and I said sure why not. It’s one of the few I haven’t tried yet. She said she was sending it in but then hit me with the bombshell that it’s more likely to cause weight gain than other SSRIs. I DO NOT want that weight back. Has anyone here taken it and not gained weight? I’m considering just taking nothing at this point. I feel pretty bad off of medications, but I feel bad on them too. It’s just a different bad.
edit to add: I also have extremely high cholesterol (it runs in the family and I take another medication that increases it), to the point where I am going on cholesterol medication as a healthy 19 year old male. I am afraid gaining any more weight will just make it worse.
2024.05.07 08:27 HauntingResult Constant Lightheadedness, Said To Be GAD, Don't Believe It
20M 210LBS Celexa 10MG Amlodipine 2.5MG
So I started having panic attacks after finding out I had high blood pressure. They'd barely happen only when I'd stay up too late of the night time. Not an every night thing and usually didn't last too long. Anyways I went to the ER because at first I didn't know they were panic attacks I've never had them before. They told me they'd give me compazine to help with me freaking out after they did EKGs and blood tests determining it was just anxiety.
As soon as the nurse injected the meds, full blown lightheadedness and boom another attack happened but this time my heart rate was in the 150s. They made me go through the whole episode not giving me anything else and I ended up leaving a bit after and tried to go to sleep but couldn't because my heart was beating out of my chest.
I went back in and they gave me a heart rate medicine that's supposed to lower heart rate and blood pressure. I finally started feeling a bit better but my heart rate was high for days after in the 90s. I went to my normal doc and got holter and ekg and everything and all came back fine, but everything isn't fine except turns out I was allergic to it and got a rash but it went away days later. I started having massive lightheadedness and feeling out of it, started having constant anxiety / panic attacks.
I went back to my doc and he said I got generalized anxiety disorder and prescribed me 10mg celexa. After about two weeks my lightheadedness and anxiety was at an all time low, but here recently it's starting to come back up again and I'm lightheaded again. This has been a month now counting today since the incident at the ER happened, and I'm still lightheaded and having a bit of general anxiety. Is this because of the compazine they gave me? I'm at a loss here as idk how this possibly started.
Really need some opinions here, thanks!
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So I started having panic attacks after finding out I had high blood pressure. They'd barely happen only when I'd stay up too late of the night time. Not an every night thing and usually didn't last too long. Anyways I went to the ER because at first I didn't know they were panic attacks I've never had them before. They told me they'd give me compazine to help with me freaking out after they did EKGs and blood tests determining it was just anxiety.
As soon as the nurse injected the meds, full blown lightheadedness and boom another attack happened but this time my heart rate was in the 150s. They made me go through the whole episode not giving me anything else and I ended up leaving a bit after and tried to go to sleep but couldn't because my heart was beating out of my chest.
I went back in and they gave me a heart rate medicine that's supposed to lower heart rate and blood pressure. I finally started feeling a bit better but my heart rate was high for days after in the 90s. I went to my normal doc and got holter and ekg and everything and all came back fine, but everything isn't fine except turns out I was allergic to it and got a rash but it went away days later. I started having massive lightheadedness and feeling out of it, started having constant anxiety / panic attacks.
I went back to my doc and he said I got generalized anxiety disorder and prescribed me 10mg celexa. After about two weeks my lightheadedness and anxiety was at an all time low, but here recently it's starting to come back up again and I'm lightheaded again. This has been a month now counting today since the incident at the ER happened, and I'm still lightheaded and having a bit of general anxiety. Is this because of the compazine they gave me? I'm at a loss here as idk how this possibly started.
Really need some opinions here, thanks!
2024.05.07 08:21 HauntingResult ER IV Compazine, GAD Result
20M 210LBS Celexa 10MG Amlodipine 2.5MG
So I started having panic attacks after finding out I had high blood pressure. They'd barely happen only when I'd stay up too late of the night time. Not an every night thing and usually didn't last too long. Anyways I went to the ER because at first I didn't know they were panic attacks I've never had them before. They told me they'd give me compazine to help with me freaking out after they did EKGs and blood tests determining it was just anxiety.
As soon as the nurse injected the meds, full blown lightheadedness and boom another attack happened but this time my heart rate was in the 150s. They made me go through the whole episode not giving me anything else and I ended up leaving a bit after and tried to go to sleep but couldn't because my heart was beating out of my chest.
I went back in and they gave me a heart rate medicine that's supposed to lower heart rate and blood pressure. I finally started feeling a bit better but my heart rate was high for days after in the 90s. I went to my normal doc and got holter and ekg and everything and all came back fine, but everything isn't fine except turns out I was allergic to it and got a rash but it went away days later. I started having massive lightheadedness and feeling out of it, started having constant anxiety / panic attacks.
I went back to my doc and he said I got generalized anxiety disorder and prescribed me 10mg celexa. After about two weeks my lightheadedness and anxiety was at an all time low, but here recently it's starting to come back up again and I'm lightheaded again. This has been a month now counting today since the incident at the ER happened, and I'm still lightheaded and having a bit of general anxiety. Is this because of the compazine they gave me?
Really need some opinions here, thanks!
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So I started having panic attacks after finding out I had high blood pressure. They'd barely happen only when I'd stay up too late of the night time. Not an every night thing and usually didn't last too long. Anyways I went to the ER because at first I didn't know they were panic attacks I've never had them before. They told me they'd give me compazine to help with me freaking out after they did EKGs and blood tests determining it was just anxiety.
As soon as the nurse injected the meds, full blown lightheadedness and boom another attack happened but this time my heart rate was in the 150s. They made me go through the whole episode not giving me anything else and I ended up leaving a bit after and tried to go to sleep but couldn't because my heart was beating out of my chest.
I went back in and they gave me a heart rate medicine that's supposed to lower heart rate and blood pressure. I finally started feeling a bit better but my heart rate was high for days after in the 90s. I went to my normal doc and got holter and ekg and everything and all came back fine, but everything isn't fine except turns out I was allergic to it and got a rash but it went away days later. I started having massive lightheadedness and feeling out of it, started having constant anxiety / panic attacks.
I went back to my doc and he said I got generalized anxiety disorder and prescribed me 10mg celexa. After about two weeks my lightheadedness and anxiety was at an all time low, but here recently it's starting to come back up again and I'm lightheaded again. This has been a month now counting today since the incident at the ER happened, and I'm still lightheaded and having a bit of general anxiety. Is this because of the compazine they gave me?
Really need some opinions here, thanks!
2024.05.06 13:34 mister--misanthrope Zoloft as a recovering meth addict
Anybody else been prescribed Zoloft while in recovery from meth addiction? I have been on other antidepressants before over the years(celexa and paxil), before I ever used meth, but none ever felt quite like zoloft. When I started it 5 days ago, I almost instantly felt it. Any other antidepressant I've ever taken, it took at least a week to even be able to tell a difference. But with this one, it seems to give me the same serotonin boost that "uppers" like meth and mdma and even lsd have given me (that's why I used meth, for the increase in serotonin it gave me). Not necessarily a "high" but definitely a similar buzz inside my head if that makes sense. I even grind my teeth like I used to when I was on meth. Anyone else have a similar experience?
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2024.05.06 09:51 HauntingResult Trying to find root cause (need advice badly)
20M 6"5 210 Pounds ADHD Not Medicated
So I'm going to say I've never ever really had too bad of anxiety. I've had butterflies in my stomach before and sick feeling when nervous, but never actual anxiety with attacks. Recently a month or so ago, I got diagnosed with hypertension / high blood pressure. My numbers were around 140 / 80 - 90. I got prescribed metoprolol 25mg. Some nights I'd get into these weird episodes where I'd have all anxiety symptoms which I thought was low blood sugar and I'd chug stuff with sugar and it'd go away after a bit.
Fast forward and these episodes usually only happened at night when I'd stay up late. I quit the metoprolol and got prescribed something else because I felt a bunch of anxiety and started feeling sick when I wouldn't take the meds in time. Switched meds and the episodes kept happening until one day I was eating supper and I tried a coke again for the first time in a month. After a couple of sips and ate some more food, an episode came full swing. Lightheadedness almost pass out like, fast heart rate, tingling, sick like, all the common symptoms.
I went to the ER after this episode and they did blood work and EKG and couldn't find anything. They injected compazine into my IV to calm me down which made me have another episode and they did an EKG while it was happening and said it was SVT. Well I showed my primary doc and he said it was just sinus tachycardia and not SVT and got on a Holter for 7 days which the results were clean just had sinus tachycardia. After that hospital visit though, I've had constant anxiety, constant lightheadedness and dizziness, and a sick feeling.
I got prescribed celexa 10mg from primary doc and it finally started working after about two weeks no more lightheadedness and dizziness and the panic attacks. Until here recently I'm about a month in now and I'm starting to have the lightheadedness again along with minor chest pains, dizziness, and that sick feeling again.
I'm overthinking now but I really want to believe there's a cause to this all of a sudden anxiety as in medically. I'm thinking about asking the doc for deficiency tests even though the ER said mine was fine, or something similar that involves a blood test. I DO remember briefly a week where I got super sick feeling with something similar to anxiety and I was on ADHD meds at the time and when I took the meds I felt better. I don't know if it's correlated to this or not but I also didn't have all the symptoms I have now like the lightheadedness and stuff.
I just feel out of it all the time now kinda just nonstop lightheaded and woozy. I've had chest pains for years and already have been sent for an heart CT scan but when I went to go my heart rate was too high from anxiety in the upper 80s that I couldn't get it done so i have to get it scheduled again but I'm not worried about my heart even though I have the dizziness and lightheadedness. I feel like there's something else up causing the anxiety though. I've had like four EKGs in the past and all came back super healthy. Someone please help a fellow anxiety ridden user out here, I really need some advice.
Also forgot to mention this but I don't know how I get lightheadedness and dizziness, because I don't hyperventilate or anything.
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So I'm going to say I've never ever really had too bad of anxiety. I've had butterflies in my stomach before and sick feeling when nervous, but never actual anxiety with attacks. Recently a month or so ago, I got diagnosed with hypertension / high blood pressure. My numbers were around 140 / 80 - 90. I got prescribed metoprolol 25mg. Some nights I'd get into these weird episodes where I'd have all anxiety symptoms which I thought was low blood sugar and I'd chug stuff with sugar and it'd go away after a bit.
Fast forward and these episodes usually only happened at night when I'd stay up late. I quit the metoprolol and got prescribed something else because I felt a bunch of anxiety and started feeling sick when I wouldn't take the meds in time. Switched meds and the episodes kept happening until one day I was eating supper and I tried a coke again for the first time in a month. After a couple of sips and ate some more food, an episode came full swing. Lightheadedness almost pass out like, fast heart rate, tingling, sick like, all the common symptoms.
I went to the ER after this episode and they did blood work and EKG and couldn't find anything. They injected compazine into my IV to calm me down which made me have another episode and they did an EKG while it was happening and said it was SVT. Well I showed my primary doc and he said it was just sinus tachycardia and not SVT and got on a Holter for 7 days which the results were clean just had sinus tachycardia. After that hospital visit though, I've had constant anxiety, constant lightheadedness and dizziness, and a sick feeling.
I got prescribed celexa 10mg from primary doc and it finally started working after about two weeks no more lightheadedness and dizziness and the panic attacks. Until here recently I'm about a month in now and I'm starting to have the lightheadedness again along with minor chest pains, dizziness, and that sick feeling again.
I'm overthinking now but I really want to believe there's a cause to this all of a sudden anxiety as in medically. I'm thinking about asking the doc for deficiency tests even though the ER said mine was fine, or something similar that involves a blood test. I DO remember briefly a week where I got super sick feeling with something similar to anxiety and I was on ADHD meds at the time and when I took the meds I felt better. I don't know if it's correlated to this or not but I also didn't have all the symptoms I have now like the lightheadedness and stuff.
I just feel out of it all the time now kinda just nonstop lightheaded and woozy. I've had chest pains for years and already have been sent for an heart CT scan but when I went to go my heart rate was too high from anxiety in the upper 80s that I couldn't get it done so i have to get it scheduled again but I'm not worried about my heart even though I have the dizziness and lightheadedness. I feel like there's something else up causing the anxiety though. I've had like four EKGs in the past and all came back super healthy. Someone please help a fellow anxiety ridden user out here, I really need some advice.
Also forgot to mention this but I don't know how I get lightheadedness and dizziness, because I don't hyperventilate or anything.
2024.05.05 21:44 These-Excitement-550 Effexor for GAD
Hello everyone! I did a cross taper from celexa to zoloft back in December. I've been on different dose of zoloft throughout the months and I'm now on 150mg for 1 month. My anxiety is still high and need rescue meds. I was on celexa for 20 years and did great till it stopped working. Does effexor work for gad and depression? Im having such a difficult time right now and trying to decide if I should switch to effexor. I've never been on a snri before so I'm kind of worried. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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2024.05.05 08:34 ajsheuwoao Rant post because I don't have ADHD, got put on Concerta, now I can't close my eyes
Just a vent post about my so far not great experience lol
For reference, I was originally put on common SSRIs (taking them with the concerta 18mg) to combat the cognitive issues that come with PTSD. I've never been screened for ADHD, but my doctor is confident I don't have it.
Somehow this led to me being put on concerta because I can't pay attention to boring things, especially high school related stuff. For some reason my doc put me on concerta, there was a small study I found that said it can help ptsd symptoms? but I've been taking it for a week, and I feel like shit. I've been put on meds with bad side effects before (Celexa can make you surprisingly anxious), so I know how this kind of thing goes.
However, I literally cannot stop moving, my eyes are like pried open, my nervous system feels not great! its like my hyperarousal symptoms got put on steroids or something. I know its supposed to help you focus, and I feel pretty mentally present, but I also feel like there is a very hungry chicken trying to peck its way out of my chest
I'm not sure if it's going to be worth continuing? I was already regularly getting 4 hours of sleep and this week of trying to adjust to concerta has knocked it down to only being able to sleep for like 2 hours after school
I heard 18 mg is pretty low, too? I mean it makes sense as I'm a teen who hasn't taken it before
If anyone has a similar experience or advice on how to regulate a deep fried nervous system, lmk!! sorry if this post is frantic and poorly written, as you can see, I'm not at peak performance rn
I see this is a common experience for a lot of people, but I don't even have ADHD or ADD so idk if I should continue it or ask my psychologist to stop, any advice is appreciated
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For reference, I was originally put on common SSRIs (taking them with the concerta 18mg) to combat the cognitive issues that come with PTSD. I've never been screened for ADHD, but my doctor is confident I don't have it.
Somehow this led to me being put on concerta because I can't pay attention to boring things, especially high school related stuff. For some reason my doc put me on concerta, there was a small study I found that said it can help ptsd symptoms? but I've been taking it for a week, and I feel like shit. I've been put on meds with bad side effects before (Celexa can make you surprisingly anxious), so I know how this kind of thing goes.
However, I literally cannot stop moving, my eyes are like pried open, my nervous system feels not great! its like my hyperarousal symptoms got put on steroids or something. I know its supposed to help you focus, and I feel pretty mentally present, but I also feel like there is a very hungry chicken trying to peck its way out of my chest
I'm not sure if it's going to be worth continuing? I was already regularly getting 4 hours of sleep and this week of trying to adjust to concerta has knocked it down to only being able to sleep for like 2 hours after school
I heard 18 mg is pretty low, too? I mean it makes sense as I'm a teen who hasn't taken it before
If anyone has a similar experience or advice on how to regulate a deep fried nervous system, lmk!! sorry if this post is frantic and poorly written, as you can see, I'm not at peak performance rn
I see this is a common experience for a lot of people, but I don't even have ADHD or ADD so idk if I should continue it or ask my psychologist to stop, any advice is appreciated
2024.05.01 19:44 Inevitable-Plenty203 The Psych Drug induced suicide of Robin Williams
The Psychiatric Drug-Induced Suicide of Robin Williams - Two Years Later by Gary G. Kohls, MD FEBRUARY 10, 2020
55 years ago (July 2, 1961) an American literary icon, Ernest Hemingway, committed suicide at his beloved vacation retreat in Ketchum, Idaho. He had just flown to Ketchum after being discharged from a psychiatric ward at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN where he had received a series of electroconvulsive “treatments” (ECT) for a life-long depression that had started after he had experienced the horrors of World War I. In the “War To End All Wars” he had been a non-combatant ambulance driver and stretcher-bearer.
One of Hemingway’s wartime duties was to retrieve the mutilated bodies of living and dead humans and the body parts of the dead ones from the Italian sector of the WWI battle zone. In more modern times his MOS (military occupational specialty)might have been called Grave’s Registration, a job that - in the Vietnam War - had one of the highest incidences of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that arose in that war’s aftermath.
Hemingway, just like many of the combat-induced PTSD victims of every war, was likely haunted for the rest of his life by the horrific images of the wounded and dead, so there was no question that he had what was later to be understood as combat-induced PTSD with depression, panic attacks, nightmares, auditory and/or visual hallucinations and insomnia.
Unfortunately for Papa, the psychiatrists at the Mayo Clinic were unaware of the reality of the PTSD phenomenon. They mistakenly thought that he had a mental illness (depression) of unknown etiology. (The diagnosis of PTSD wasn’t validated by the American Psychiatric Association as a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) diagnosis until 1980.)
Hemingway, a legendary chronic alcoholic who consumed large volumes of hard liquor daily, had also been wounded by shrapnel in WWI so he probably also had physical pain issues. Therefore, like many other soldier-victims of combat-induced PTSD he used alcohol to self-medicate his physical pain as well as his psychic pain, anxiety, insomnia, nightmares, failed marriages and the financial stresses related to the alimony payments to his ex-wives.
Following his Mayo Clinic misadventure, Hemingway rapidly came to understand that his latest ECT “treatments” had erased his memory and creativity, and, because those realities were essential for him to continue his writing career and feeling that he no longer had a reason for living - ended his life. There is no record of what psychiatric drugs he had been prescribed over the years, but ECT is typically only attempted after all psychiatric drug options had failed.
The Parallel Paths of Artistic Geniuses Like Hemingway and Williams (and Michael Jackson and Prince)
53 years after Hemingway’s self-inflicted death, another American icon, actor and comedian Robin Williams, entered the Hazelden psychiatric facility and addiction treatment center - also in my home state of Minnesota. He was treated with a cocktail of (undisclosed) psychiatric drugs for a month and, shortly after his discharge, committed suicide by hanging (August 11, 2014) at his California home. The cocktail of brain-altering drugs surely was a major factor in his becoming increasingly depressed, losing appetite, losing weight and withdrawing from his loved ones.
His discharge medications, which included the so-called “antidepressant” drug mirtazapine (Remeron – which is well-known to increase the risk of suicidal thinking), the so-called anti-psychotic drug Seroquel (probably prescribed off-label for his insomnia) plus an unknown anti-Parkinsonian drug caused him to be somnolent, despondent, despairing and increasingly depressed.
Remeron, it should be emphasized, is well-known to cause suicidal thinking (and attempted suicide) and carries the Food and Drug Administration’s “Black box” warning for suicidality. After he returned home, he was said to have slept in his darkened bedroom, up to 20 hours a day, in a probably drug-induced stupor.
Remeron, it is helpful to remind readers, was one of the two psych meds (the other was the anti-psychotic drug Haldol) that the infamous Andrea Yates was taking before she irrationally drowned her five children - including her 6-month-old baby Mary - in the family bathtub. The devoutly religious Texas mother was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment but – at re-trial – had her conviction changed to “not guilty by reason of insanity” (rather than “not guilty by reason of the intoxicating, insanity-inducing and homicidal effects of psychiatric medications!”). She is now spending the rest of her life in a psychiatric facility, no longer a threat to children.
Robin Williams was said to have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease while at Hazelden. The symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease are well known to be caused by antipsychotic drugs such as Seroquel. Children who have been given anti-psychotic drugs (most commonly foster care children) are now coming down with Parkinson’s Disease at an early age, an illness totally unheard of prior to the formation of the subspecialty of Pediatric Psychiatry.
The Secrets of NIMH (and Hazelden)
30 years ago or so a cartoon movie was released about lab rats that were trying to escape extermination by the National Institute of Mental Health. The movie was titled “The Secret of NIMH”. I tried to watch it a few years ago and was disappointed to discover that it really didn’t expose any of the real secrets of NIMH, its American Psychiatric Association foundations or the psychopharmaceutical industry’s unholy alliance with NIMH. I understand that a remake of the film is planned. I hope some of the real secrets will be revealed in the new film.
Robin Williams left no suicide note, and so far Hazelden is mum on what happened behind closed doors during that fateful – and failed – month-long stay.
“What Brain-Altering Drugs was Williams or Michael Jackson or Prince On?”
Williams’ legendary cocaine and amphetamine use are certainly factors to consider as contributing causes for his suicide, for such drugs are notoriously toxic to mitochondria and brain cells. What is also deserving of consideration is the fact that when patients abruptly quit taking an antipsychotic drug, withdrawal symptoms can occur - even if the drug was first prescribed for non-psychotic issues like insomnia. Those withdrawal symptoms can include irrational thinking, loss of impulse control, psychoses, hallucinations, insomnia and mania, any of which can lead a physician to falsely diagnose “schizophrenia” or “bipolar disorder” or any number of mental disorders “of unknown cause”.
Some of Williams’ closest friends are logically wondering about what was the effect of the newly prescribed drugs that may have motivated Williams to so illogically kill himself. Hollywood journalists swarmed all over the tragic event two years ago, but characteristically avoided even speculating about the possibility of psychiatric drug-induced suicide, the most logical explanation for the series of events, especially for any thinking person who knows anything about the connections between psychiatric prescription drugs and suidicality, homicidality, aggression, violence, dementia, and irrational thinking and actions (whether while taking the drugs or withdrawing from them).
Such informed people have already asked themselves the question: “I wonder what psych drugs Robin (or Hemingway or Michael Jackson or Prince) was taking?” Tragically, the media has been totally unhelpful in discussing that important question or in offering any answers to the question. Iatrogenic (doctor-caused or prescription drug-induced) causes of morbidity and mortality are apparently not to be discussed in polite company.
It is important to point out that a bottle of Seroquel with 8 pills missing was found in Williams’ bedroom and drug toxicity testing revealed Remeron in Williams’ bloodstream at autopsy. The coroner emphasized that the dose of the legally-prescribed drug was at “therapeutic levels”, which is, of course, totally unhelpful information, given the fact that the undesired effects of a drug have no correlation to dosage.
The Taboo Reality of Iatrogenesis: Psych Drugs Can Cause Suicidality
There have been millions of words written about how much everybody was shocked by Williams’ suicide. There have been thousands of flowers placed at any number of temporary shrines “honoring” his legacy. There have been thousands of comments on the internet from amateur arm-chair psychologists spouting obsolete clichés about suicide, mental illness, drug abuse, alcoholism, cocaine addiction, and how wonderful psychoactive prescription drugs have been.
And there have been hundreds of dis-informational essays and website commentaries written by professional arm-chair psychiatrists who have financial or career conflicts of interest with Big Pharma, Big Psychiatry, Big Medicine, Big Vaccine and the rehab industries. Most of those commentaries distract readers from making the connections between suicidality and psych drugs. Some of the comments I have read have preemptively tried to discredit those who are publicly making those connections.
Whenever unexpected suicides or accidental drug overdose deaths occur among heavily drugged-up military veterans, active duty soldiers, Hollywood celebrities or other groups of individuals, I search the media – usually in vain - for information that identifies the drugs that are usually involved in such cases. But revealing the drug names, dosages, length of usage or who prescribed them seems to be a taboo subject. One has to read between the lines or wait until the information gets revealed at www.ssristories.org(a Big Pharma-exposing whistle-blowing website that should be mandatory reading for everybody who prescribes or consumes psychiatric drugs).
Patient confidentiality is usually the reason given for the cover-ups – and why important potentially teachable moments about these iatrogenic (drug-induced or vaccine-induced) tragedies are averted.
Big Pharma, the AMA, the APA, the AAP, the AAFP, the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, the NIMH, Wall Street and most of the patient or disease advocacy groups that sponsor the annual fund-raising “searches for the cure” events all understand that the hidden epidemic of iatrogenic illnesses must be covered-up. And, simultaneously, the altruistic whistle-blowers among us will be black-listed, denigrated, labeled as nuisance conspiracy theorists or even criminalized.
The well-funded corporate entities mentioned above also know how useful it is if patients (rather than the system) are blamed for causing their own health problems. Typical examples include: “you eat too much”, “you don’t exercise enough”, “you smoke too much”, “you don’t eat right”, “your family history is bad”, “you don’t take your meds correctly”, “you don’t come in for your screening tests/routine exams often enough”, “you don’t get all the vaccinations like you are told to do”, etc).
Highly unlikely “genetic” causes are energetically promoted as preferable root causes of totally preventable iatrogenic illnesses (because inherited disorders are not preventable and are also essentially untreatable). This reality ensures that researchers can annually demand billions of dollars for research while at the same time short-changing and discrediting simple, cheap, do-it-yourself preventive efforts that don’t need a doctor.
The confidence of the American public in Big Pharma’s drug and vaccine promotions must not be disturbed. Wall Street’s rigged stock market does not permit the publication of any information that could destroy investor confidence in the pharmaceutical or vaccine corporation’s highly profitable products, even if the (corporate pseudo-)science behind the drugs and vaccines is bogus and the unaffordable products are also dangerous.
The beauty of an unbiased public inquest, which I advocated for in this column two years ago, should have been done in the case of Robin Williams and all the school shooters, is the subpoena power of a grand jury to open up the previously secretive medical records and enforce testimony from Williams’ psychiatric treatment team. The public could finally hear information that could make comprehensible the mysterious death of yet another high-profile suicide victim - and start the process of actually de-mystifying America’s suicide and violence epidemics.
An inquest would likely reveal that Robin Williams did not have a “mental illness of unknown cause” or “bipolar disorder of unknown cause” or “depression of unknown cause” or “suicidality of unknown cause”.
An inquest would obtain testimony from feared whistle-blower experts in the fields of medicine, psychiatry and psychopharmaceuticals such as Peter Breggin, MD, Joseph Glenmullen, MD, Grace Jackson, MD, David Healey, MD, Russell Blaylock, MD, Fred Baughman, MD and other well-informed medical specialists who don’t own stock in Big Pharma corporations and who know very well how dangerous their drugs can be.
Robin Williams did not have a Mental Illness of Unknown Etiology
Just knowing a little about the life and times of Robin Williams and others on the long list of celebrity victims of psychiatric drugs (like Michael Jackson and Prince both of whom “died too soon”) would easily disprove most of the unscientific theories about their deaths that have widely published online.
Why did many of us psych drug sceptics and psychiatric survivors want an inquest in Robin Williams’ suicide? We wanted to know the names of the ingredients in the cocktail of drugs that had been tried on him (and the dosages and length of time they were taken). We wanted to know what side effects he had from the drugs and what his responses were. We wanted to know what was the reasoning behind the decision to prescribe unproven combinations of powerful drugs on someone whose brain was already compromised by the past use of known illegal brain-damaging drugs.
And we wanted to know, for the sake of past and future victims of these neurotoxic substances, if the prescribing practitioners informed Williams about the dangers of those treatments, particularly the black box suicide warnings for Remeron.
Stress-induced and Drug-induced Mental Ill Health Doesn’t Mean One is Mentally Ill
Robin Williams gained fame and fortune as a comic actor, starting with what was to become his trade mark manic acting style (stimulant drug-induced mania?) on “Mork and Mindy”. As have many other famous persons that attained sudden fame and fortune, Williams spent his millions lavishly and – in retrospect – often foolishly. After his third marriage he found that he could no longer afford his Hollywood lifestyle.
But long before his two divorces and the serious financial difficulties caused him to decompensate and again fall off the sobriety wagon, Robin Williams had lived in the fast lane, working long exhausting days and weeks and partying long exhausting nights with the help of stimulant drugs like the dependency-inducing drug cocaine (that overcomes sleepiness and fatigue) and artificial sleep-inducing tranquilizers whose mechanism of action resembles long-acting alcohol. Sedative drugs artificially counter the drug-induced mania and drug-induced insomnia that predictably results from psycho-stimulants like cocaine, nicotine, caffeine, Ritalin, Strattera, Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Wellbutrin, Provigil, amphetamines, etc, etc).
Williams had acknowledged that he was addicted to both cocaine and alcohol when his famous comedian buddy John Belushi died of an accidental drug overdose shortly after they had snorted cocaine together (March 4, 1962). Shortly after Belushi’s overdose death, Williams quit both drugs cold turkey, and he remained sober and cocaine-free for the next 20 years. There is no public information about his use of addictive prescription drugs, but it is well-known that many Hollywood personalities like him have close relationships with both prescription-writing physicians and illicit drug pushers, many of whom make house calls.
However, Williams relapsed in 2006 and started abusing drugs and alcohol again, eventually being admitted to a Hazelden drug rehab facility in Oregon. After “taking the cure” he continued his exhausting career making movies, doing comedy tours and engaging in personal appearances in order to “pay the bills and support my family”.
After two expensive divorces, huge indebtedness and an impending bankruptcy, Williams was forced, in September of 2013, to sell both his $35,000,000 home and his even more expensive 600-acre ranch in Napa Valley. He moved into a more modest, more affordable home in the San Francisco area, where he lived until his death.
But despite solving his near-bankruptcy situation (which would make any sane person temporarily and deeply sad), Williams continued having a hard time paying his bills – especially his alimony payments, so he was forced to go back to making movies (which he despised doing because of the rigorous schedule and being away from his family for extended periods of time). And he hated the fact that he was being financially forced to sign a contract to do a “Mrs. Doubtfire” sequel later in 2014.
For regular income, he took a job doing a TV comedy series called “The Crazy Ones”, but the pressures of working so hard got him drinking again, even using alcohol on the set, which he had never done before. He was making $165,000 per episode and was counting on continuing the series beyond the first season in order to have a steady income.
So when CBS cancelled the show in May 2014, humiliation, sadness, anxiety and insomnia naturally set in, and he decided to go for professional help at the Minnesota Hazelden addiction facility, spending the month of July 2014 as an patient there.
The public deserves to know what really happened inside that facility.
We certainly deserve to know the full story. There are many painful lessons that can be learned. Those who think that we can’t handle the truth are wrong.
The psychiatric drug-taking public deserves to know what were the offending drugs that contributed to his pain, anguish, sadness, nervousness, insomnia, sleep deprivation, hopelessness and the seemingly irrational decision to kill himself.
And the family, friends and fans of Robin Williams certainly deserve to know the essential facts of the case which, if not revealed to us, will otherwise just result in a blind continuation of America’s “mysterious” iatrogenic suicide, violence and dementia epidemics. Ignorance of the well-hidden truths will just allow the continuation of Big Pharma’s ill-gotten gains and its deception of the medical profession and their patients for so long - and destroying the memory, creativity, brains and lives of millions of patients simultaneously.
For more information on the above very serious issues, check out these websites: www.ssristories.com, www.madinamerica.com, http://rxisk.org/www.mindfreedom.org, www.breggin.com,www.cchrint.org, www.drugawareness.org, www.psychrights.org, www.quitpaxil.org, www.endofshock.com.
Appendix A
The Powers-That-Be That Would Keep Us Ignorant
Big Pharma, the AMA, the APA, the AAP, the AAFP, the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, the NIMH, Wall Street and most of the patient or disease advocacy groups that sponsor the annual fund-raising and very futile “searches for the cure” all understand that the hidden epidemic of iatrogenic illnesses must be de-emphasized. And, simultaneously, the altruistic whistle-blowers among us will be black-listed, denigrated and labeled as nuisance conspiracy theorists.
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55 years ago (July 2, 1961) an American literary icon, Ernest Hemingway, committed suicide at his beloved vacation retreat in Ketchum, Idaho. He had just flown to Ketchum after being discharged from a psychiatric ward at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN where he had received a series of electroconvulsive “treatments” (ECT) for a life-long depression that had started after he had experienced the horrors of World War I. In the “War To End All Wars” he had been a non-combatant ambulance driver and stretcher-bearer.
One of Hemingway’s wartime duties was to retrieve the mutilated bodies of living and dead humans and the body parts of the dead ones from the Italian sector of the WWI battle zone. In more modern times his MOS (military occupational specialty)might have been called Grave’s Registration, a job that - in the Vietnam War - had one of the highest incidences of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that arose in that war’s aftermath.
Hemingway, just like many of the combat-induced PTSD victims of every war, was likely haunted for the rest of his life by the horrific images of the wounded and dead, so there was no question that he had what was later to be understood as combat-induced PTSD with depression, panic attacks, nightmares, auditory and/or visual hallucinations and insomnia.
Unfortunately for Papa, the psychiatrists at the Mayo Clinic were unaware of the reality of the PTSD phenomenon. They mistakenly thought that he had a mental illness (depression) of unknown etiology. (The diagnosis of PTSD wasn’t validated by the American Psychiatric Association as a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) diagnosis until 1980.)
Hemingway, a legendary chronic alcoholic who consumed large volumes of hard liquor daily, had also been wounded by shrapnel in WWI so he probably also had physical pain issues. Therefore, like many other soldier-victims of combat-induced PTSD he used alcohol to self-medicate his physical pain as well as his psychic pain, anxiety, insomnia, nightmares, failed marriages and the financial stresses related to the alimony payments to his ex-wives.
Following his Mayo Clinic misadventure, Hemingway rapidly came to understand that his latest ECT “treatments” had erased his memory and creativity, and, because those realities were essential for him to continue his writing career and feeling that he no longer had a reason for living - ended his life. There is no record of what psychiatric drugs he had been prescribed over the years, but ECT is typically only attempted after all psychiatric drug options had failed.
The Parallel Paths of Artistic Geniuses Like Hemingway and Williams (and Michael Jackson and Prince)
53 years after Hemingway’s self-inflicted death, another American icon, actor and comedian Robin Williams, entered the Hazelden psychiatric facility and addiction treatment center - also in my home state of Minnesota. He was treated with a cocktail of (undisclosed) psychiatric drugs for a month and, shortly after his discharge, committed suicide by hanging (August 11, 2014) at his California home. The cocktail of brain-altering drugs surely was a major factor in his becoming increasingly depressed, losing appetite, losing weight and withdrawing from his loved ones.
His discharge medications, which included the so-called “antidepressant” drug mirtazapine (Remeron – which is well-known to increase the risk of suicidal thinking), the so-called anti-psychotic drug Seroquel (probably prescribed off-label for his insomnia) plus an unknown anti-Parkinsonian drug caused him to be somnolent, despondent, despairing and increasingly depressed.
Remeron, it should be emphasized, is well-known to cause suicidal thinking (and attempted suicide) and carries the Food and Drug Administration’s “Black box” warning for suicidality. After he returned home, he was said to have slept in his darkened bedroom, up to 20 hours a day, in a probably drug-induced stupor.
Remeron, it is helpful to remind readers, was one of the two psych meds (the other was the anti-psychotic drug Haldol) that the infamous Andrea Yates was taking before she irrationally drowned her five children - including her 6-month-old baby Mary - in the family bathtub. The devoutly religious Texas mother was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment but – at re-trial – had her conviction changed to “not guilty by reason of insanity” (rather than “not guilty by reason of the intoxicating, insanity-inducing and homicidal effects of psychiatric medications!”). She is now spending the rest of her life in a psychiatric facility, no longer a threat to children.
Robin Williams was said to have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease while at Hazelden. The symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease are well known to be caused by antipsychotic drugs such as Seroquel. Children who have been given anti-psychotic drugs (most commonly foster care children) are now coming down with Parkinson’s Disease at an early age, an illness totally unheard of prior to the formation of the subspecialty of Pediatric Psychiatry.
The Secrets of NIMH (and Hazelden)
30 years ago or so a cartoon movie was released about lab rats that were trying to escape extermination by the National Institute of Mental Health. The movie was titled “The Secret of NIMH”. I tried to watch it a few years ago and was disappointed to discover that it really didn’t expose any of the real secrets of NIMH, its American Psychiatric Association foundations or the psychopharmaceutical industry’s unholy alliance with NIMH. I understand that a remake of the film is planned. I hope some of the real secrets will be revealed in the new film.
Robin Williams left no suicide note, and so far Hazelden is mum on what happened behind closed doors during that fateful – and failed – month-long stay.
“What Brain-Altering Drugs was Williams or Michael Jackson or Prince On?”
Williams’ legendary cocaine and amphetamine use are certainly factors to consider as contributing causes for his suicide, for such drugs are notoriously toxic to mitochondria and brain cells. What is also deserving of consideration is the fact that when patients abruptly quit taking an antipsychotic drug, withdrawal symptoms can occur - even if the drug was first prescribed for non-psychotic issues like insomnia. Those withdrawal symptoms can include irrational thinking, loss of impulse control, psychoses, hallucinations, insomnia and mania, any of which can lead a physician to falsely diagnose “schizophrenia” or “bipolar disorder” or any number of mental disorders “of unknown cause”.
Some of Williams’ closest friends are logically wondering about what was the effect of the newly prescribed drugs that may have motivated Williams to so illogically kill himself. Hollywood journalists swarmed all over the tragic event two years ago, but characteristically avoided even speculating about the possibility of psychiatric drug-induced suicide, the most logical explanation for the series of events, especially for any thinking person who knows anything about the connections between psychiatric prescription drugs and suidicality, homicidality, aggression, violence, dementia, and irrational thinking and actions (whether while taking the drugs or withdrawing from them).
Such informed people have already asked themselves the question: “I wonder what psych drugs Robin (or Hemingway or Michael Jackson or Prince) was taking?” Tragically, the media has been totally unhelpful in discussing that important question or in offering any answers to the question. Iatrogenic (doctor-caused or prescription drug-induced) causes of morbidity and mortality are apparently not to be discussed in polite company.
It is important to point out that a bottle of Seroquel with 8 pills missing was found in Williams’ bedroom and drug toxicity testing revealed Remeron in Williams’ bloodstream at autopsy. The coroner emphasized that the dose of the legally-prescribed drug was at “therapeutic levels”, which is, of course, totally unhelpful information, given the fact that the undesired effects of a drug have no correlation to dosage.
The Taboo Reality of Iatrogenesis: Psych Drugs Can Cause Suicidality
There have been millions of words written about how much everybody was shocked by Williams’ suicide. There have been thousands of flowers placed at any number of temporary shrines “honoring” his legacy. There have been thousands of comments on the internet from amateur arm-chair psychologists spouting obsolete clichés about suicide, mental illness, drug abuse, alcoholism, cocaine addiction, and how wonderful psychoactive prescription drugs have been.
And there have been hundreds of dis-informational essays and website commentaries written by professional arm-chair psychiatrists who have financial or career conflicts of interest with Big Pharma, Big Psychiatry, Big Medicine, Big Vaccine and the rehab industries. Most of those commentaries distract readers from making the connections between suicidality and psych drugs. Some of the comments I have read have preemptively tried to discredit those who are publicly making those connections.
Whenever unexpected suicides or accidental drug overdose deaths occur among heavily drugged-up military veterans, active duty soldiers, Hollywood celebrities or other groups of individuals, I search the media – usually in vain - for information that identifies the drugs that are usually involved in such cases. But revealing the drug names, dosages, length of usage or who prescribed them seems to be a taboo subject. One has to read between the lines or wait until the information gets revealed at www.ssristories.org(a Big Pharma-exposing whistle-blowing website that should be mandatory reading for everybody who prescribes or consumes psychiatric drugs).
Patient confidentiality is usually the reason given for the cover-ups – and why important potentially teachable moments about these iatrogenic (drug-induced or vaccine-induced) tragedies are averted.
Big Pharma, the AMA, the APA, the AAP, the AAFP, the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, the NIMH, Wall Street and most of the patient or disease advocacy groups that sponsor the annual fund-raising “searches for the cure” events all understand that the hidden epidemic of iatrogenic illnesses must be covered-up. And, simultaneously, the altruistic whistle-blowers among us will be black-listed, denigrated, labeled as nuisance conspiracy theorists or even criminalized.
The well-funded corporate entities mentioned above also know how useful it is if patients (rather than the system) are blamed for causing their own health problems. Typical examples include: “you eat too much”, “you don’t exercise enough”, “you smoke too much”, “you don’t eat right”, “your family history is bad”, “you don’t take your meds correctly”, “you don’t come in for your screening tests/routine exams often enough”, “you don’t get all the vaccinations like you are told to do”, etc).
Highly unlikely “genetic” causes are energetically promoted as preferable root causes of totally preventable iatrogenic illnesses (because inherited disorders are not preventable and are also essentially untreatable). This reality ensures that researchers can annually demand billions of dollars for research while at the same time short-changing and discrediting simple, cheap, do-it-yourself preventive efforts that don’t need a doctor.
The confidence of the American public in Big Pharma’s drug and vaccine promotions must not be disturbed. Wall Street’s rigged stock market does not permit the publication of any information that could destroy investor confidence in the pharmaceutical or vaccine corporation’s highly profitable products, even if the (corporate pseudo-)science behind the drugs and vaccines is bogus and the unaffordable products are also dangerous.
The beauty of an unbiased public inquest, which I advocated for in this column two years ago, should have been done in the case of Robin Williams and all the school shooters, is the subpoena power of a grand jury to open up the previously secretive medical records and enforce testimony from Williams’ psychiatric treatment team. The public could finally hear information that could make comprehensible the mysterious death of yet another high-profile suicide victim - and start the process of actually de-mystifying America’s suicide and violence epidemics.
An inquest would likely reveal that Robin Williams did not have a “mental illness of unknown cause” or “bipolar disorder of unknown cause” or “depression of unknown cause” or “suicidality of unknown cause”.
An inquest would obtain testimony from feared whistle-blower experts in the fields of medicine, psychiatry and psychopharmaceuticals such as Peter Breggin, MD, Joseph Glenmullen, MD, Grace Jackson, MD, David Healey, MD, Russell Blaylock, MD, Fred Baughman, MD and other well-informed medical specialists who don’t own stock in Big Pharma corporations and who know very well how dangerous their drugs can be.
Robin Williams did not have a Mental Illness of Unknown Etiology
Just knowing a little about the life and times of Robin Williams and others on the long list of celebrity victims of psychiatric drugs (like Michael Jackson and Prince both of whom “died too soon”) would easily disprove most of the unscientific theories about their deaths that have widely published online.
Why did many of us psych drug sceptics and psychiatric survivors want an inquest in Robin Williams’ suicide? We wanted to know the names of the ingredients in the cocktail of drugs that had been tried on him (and the dosages and length of time they were taken). We wanted to know what side effects he had from the drugs and what his responses were. We wanted to know what was the reasoning behind the decision to prescribe unproven combinations of powerful drugs on someone whose brain was already compromised by the past use of known illegal brain-damaging drugs.
And we wanted to know, for the sake of past and future victims of these neurotoxic substances, if the prescribing practitioners informed Williams about the dangers of those treatments, particularly the black box suicide warnings for Remeron.
Stress-induced and Drug-induced Mental Ill Health Doesn’t Mean One is Mentally Ill
Robin Williams gained fame and fortune as a comic actor, starting with what was to become his trade mark manic acting style (stimulant drug-induced mania?) on “Mork and Mindy”. As have many other famous persons that attained sudden fame and fortune, Williams spent his millions lavishly and – in retrospect – often foolishly. After his third marriage he found that he could no longer afford his Hollywood lifestyle.
But long before his two divorces and the serious financial difficulties caused him to decompensate and again fall off the sobriety wagon, Robin Williams had lived in the fast lane, working long exhausting days and weeks and partying long exhausting nights with the help of stimulant drugs like the dependency-inducing drug cocaine (that overcomes sleepiness and fatigue) and artificial sleep-inducing tranquilizers whose mechanism of action resembles long-acting alcohol. Sedative drugs artificially counter the drug-induced mania and drug-induced insomnia that predictably results from psycho-stimulants like cocaine, nicotine, caffeine, Ritalin, Strattera, Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Wellbutrin, Provigil, amphetamines, etc, etc).
Williams had acknowledged that he was addicted to both cocaine and alcohol when his famous comedian buddy John Belushi died of an accidental drug overdose shortly after they had snorted cocaine together (March 4, 1962). Shortly after Belushi’s overdose death, Williams quit both drugs cold turkey, and he remained sober and cocaine-free for the next 20 years. There is no public information about his use of addictive prescription drugs, but it is well-known that many Hollywood personalities like him have close relationships with both prescription-writing physicians and illicit drug pushers, many of whom make house calls.
However, Williams relapsed in 2006 and started abusing drugs and alcohol again, eventually being admitted to a Hazelden drug rehab facility in Oregon. After “taking the cure” he continued his exhausting career making movies, doing comedy tours and engaging in personal appearances in order to “pay the bills and support my family”.
After two expensive divorces, huge indebtedness and an impending bankruptcy, Williams was forced, in September of 2013, to sell both his $35,000,000 home and his even more expensive 600-acre ranch in Napa Valley. He moved into a more modest, more affordable home in the San Francisco area, where he lived until his death.
But despite solving his near-bankruptcy situation (which would make any sane person temporarily and deeply sad), Williams continued having a hard time paying his bills – especially his alimony payments, so he was forced to go back to making movies (which he despised doing because of the rigorous schedule and being away from his family for extended periods of time). And he hated the fact that he was being financially forced to sign a contract to do a “Mrs. Doubtfire” sequel later in 2014.
For regular income, he took a job doing a TV comedy series called “The Crazy Ones”, but the pressures of working so hard got him drinking again, even using alcohol on the set, which he had never done before. He was making $165,000 per episode and was counting on continuing the series beyond the first season in order to have a steady income.
So when CBS cancelled the show in May 2014, humiliation, sadness, anxiety and insomnia naturally set in, and he decided to go for professional help at the Minnesota Hazelden addiction facility, spending the month of July 2014 as an patient there.
The public deserves to know what really happened inside that facility.
We certainly deserve to know the full story. There are many painful lessons that can be learned. Those who think that we can’t handle the truth are wrong.
The psychiatric drug-taking public deserves to know what were the offending drugs that contributed to his pain, anguish, sadness, nervousness, insomnia, sleep deprivation, hopelessness and the seemingly irrational decision to kill himself.
And the family, friends and fans of Robin Williams certainly deserve to know the essential facts of the case which, if not revealed to us, will otherwise just result in a blind continuation of America’s “mysterious” iatrogenic suicide, violence and dementia epidemics. Ignorance of the well-hidden truths will just allow the continuation of Big Pharma’s ill-gotten gains and its deception of the medical profession and their patients for so long - and destroying the memory, creativity, brains and lives of millions of patients simultaneously.
For more information on the above very serious issues, check out these websites: www.ssristories.com, www.madinamerica.com, http://rxisk.org/www.mindfreedom.org, www.breggin.com,www.cchrint.org, www.drugawareness.org, www.psychrights.org, www.quitpaxil.org, www.endofshock.com.
Appendix A
The Powers-That-Be That Would Keep Us Ignorant
Big Pharma, the AMA, the APA, the AAP, the AAFP, the CDC, the FDA, the NIH, the NIMH, Wall Street and most of the patient or disease advocacy groups that sponsor the annual fund-raising and very futile “searches for the cure” all understand that the hidden epidemic of iatrogenic illnesses must be de-emphasized. And, simultaneously, the altruistic whistle-blowers among us will be black-listed, denigrated and labeled as nuisance conspiracy theorists.
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2024.04.30 12:31 VRLink64 How to make friends and date if your 32 "M" never dated before, have history of bullying and have social anxiety and a mild learning disability and Mood Disorder, PTSD, and Panic Attacks?
Hi I'm hoping I can get advice here. I'm 32 years old late in the dating area. Been feeling lonely and comparing my self to others. Have bad social anxiety. Been wanting to get out and have a mild disability. Etc. Bipolar II with Mania, Depression, PTSD, and Panic attacks. Etc. Have a hard time talking to people due to being bullied for being in special ed. Had a girl in my Junior Year in high school crush my self esteem. "She was a master manipulator" almost had me institutionalized etc. Accused me of stalking. Got my family involved. Etc. Currently seeing a therapist. My question is. How do you guys cope with this crap? I've taken allot of anti depressiants that haven't worked for me. Busbar, Paxil, Celexa, Abilify, etc. None of them work. My social anxiety is affecting my daily life. Yes I'm still living with my parents. Working with a government program that helps people with disabilities work and get a job. Etc. I always have it bad making friends. And I am always getting rejected by women. Sometimes girls do flirt with me though. But they "friend zone" me if I ask them out. It really sucks. How do you guys cope with this stuff? I listen to Guided Meditations on YouTube. People tell me about maniatifation and crap. Abd listen to affirmation videos on YouTube. I can't afford a good therapist because I'm on SSI. And I live in the States. Trying to get my life together etc. I feel like a failure at this point. I want to stop comparing my self to others. Etc. No mean comments please. How do you guys manage? When I do work with these gonverment workers they ALWAYS blame my anxiety when they try to help me find a job. Etc. So it never works out. And I want to move out of my parents place. I feel better when I leave my house though and get away from everyone. But I suck at talking to people. And keeping friends. :( I try to make friends online my age. But you don't know who you're talking to. Etc. I would do online dating. But I heard scary stuff about it. So idk. Hope someone can give me some advice. Been practicing meditation as well. So I feel like I'm stuck with making friends in general. And getting a girlfriend. Sorry. Just on that lonely phase is all. Lol. :( And pretty sure no girl would wanna date someone who's on disability. I do love to work tho but if I do get a job employers don't take it well because I have to have a job coach etc. I have a history of being harassed in the work place. Sorry. :( Due to my disability. Just afraid ill get flat out rejected for my disability is all. Sorry.
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2024.04.30 00:19 throwaway_627_ Unsure what to do with this medicine due to fatigue, looking for advice
I started 5mg Lexapro on February 14th and went up to 7.5mg on April 15th, so I'll be hitting my 11th week since I first begun taking lexapro. I was actually prescribed 10mg after being on 5 for a while but didn't want to just jump straight there. I also switched to taking it in the evening.
The first week of 7.5mg was ok, pretty fatigued but nowhere near as bad as I am now. I don't always feel quite this way but I drank 3 drinks on Saturday (and loads of water) and I feel like a total zombie still on Monday. Before I started drinking that day I also felt very fatigued.
Even when I haven't been drinking, I often still feel extremely fatigued and heavy and as if I'm just dead weight and as though i'm stuck to whatever I'm sat or lying on - I was feeling very fatigued before I even started drinking on Saturday.
It's definitely helped a bit for the anxiety, but the fatigue is definitely a huge issue, especially when it comes to trying to work - I basically just can't, and I'm also meant to be starting a new job soon. Overall I don't really feel all that much better as the fatigue is pretty much just as debilitating as the anxiety was. I also have quite a high temperature on this and at times it's a bit concerning.
I have seen some people talk of a 'let down' effect and that eventually the fatigue can go away, but I also see a lot of people the fatigue never went away for them.
I'm wondering if going up to 10mg would be a bad idea - it seems like this'll make my fatigue even worse so I'm wondering if anyone here has seen a reduction in fatigue or an improvement overall by increasing to 10mg? Additionally, I am also considering stopping the medicine - can anyone recommend anything to switch to? I was on Celexa a few years back, 10mg, and I don't recall side effects being this bad.
Unfortunately Wellbutrin is not available in my country either.
Thank you
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The first week of 7.5mg was ok, pretty fatigued but nowhere near as bad as I am now. I don't always feel quite this way but I drank 3 drinks on Saturday (and loads of water) and I feel like a total zombie still on Monday. Before I started drinking that day I also felt very fatigued.
Even when I haven't been drinking, I often still feel extremely fatigued and heavy and as if I'm just dead weight and as though i'm stuck to whatever I'm sat or lying on - I was feeling very fatigued before I even started drinking on Saturday.
It's definitely helped a bit for the anxiety, but the fatigue is definitely a huge issue, especially when it comes to trying to work - I basically just can't, and I'm also meant to be starting a new job soon. Overall I don't really feel all that much better as the fatigue is pretty much just as debilitating as the anxiety was. I also have quite a high temperature on this and at times it's a bit concerning.
I have seen some people talk of a 'let down' effect and that eventually the fatigue can go away, but I also see a lot of people the fatigue never went away for them.
I'm wondering if going up to 10mg would be a bad idea - it seems like this'll make my fatigue even worse so I'm wondering if anyone here has seen a reduction in fatigue or an improvement overall by increasing to 10mg? Additionally, I am also considering stopping the medicine - can anyone recommend anything to switch to? I was on Celexa a few years back, 10mg, and I don't recall side effects being this bad.
Unfortunately Wellbutrin is not available in my country either.
Thank you
2024.04.29 04:20 Glittering-Lion2340 If you had to pick a medication for pure h ocd which would be best?
Out of viibryd, cymbalta, effexor, pristiq, trintellix, paxil which would you recommend that is efficient even at a low dose? Ik everyone is different but just wondering anyone’s advice, thoughts, experience etc!
Other ssris I tried don’t help pure ocd at low doses (didn’t even help max lexapro it actually made it worse) and I can’t do high doses bc of side effects idek if they would work on my ocd at high doses but effects just get worse everytime I’ve upped it and can’t be stay long term so eventually have to switch. Out of the options or maybe options you might have which should I try next? For background I’ve tried celexa, lexapro, zoloft, prozac, buspar, lamictal, perscribed abilfiy and anafranil and they’d honestly probs work really well but side effects will be too much for me to deal with long term esp anafranil as I have some overeating problems and really can’t gain anymore weight (tca have big weight gain) I’ve already gained 30 pounds in a little over a month but that’s another story. I’m also rly sensitive to any seretonin and anafranil is one of the strongest so I’m scared to try it I just know I’ll feel really bad. If I could have some help I would appreciate it so much or if you could lmk your experiences. Thank you😊
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Other ssris I tried don’t help pure ocd at low doses (didn’t even help max lexapro it actually made it worse) and I can’t do high doses bc of side effects idek if they would work on my ocd at high doses but effects just get worse everytime I’ve upped it and can’t be stay long term so eventually have to switch. Out of the options or maybe options you might have which should I try next? For background I’ve tried celexa, lexapro, zoloft, prozac, buspar, lamictal, perscribed abilfiy and anafranil and they’d honestly probs work really well but side effects will be too much for me to deal with long term esp anafranil as I have some overeating problems and really can’t gain anymore weight (tca have big weight gain) I’ve already gained 30 pounds in a little over a month but that’s another story. I’m also rly sensitive to any seretonin and anafranil is one of the strongest so I’m scared to try it I just know I’ll feel really bad. If I could have some help I would appreciate it so much or if you could lmk your experiences. Thank you😊
2024.04.26 09:16 Matoskha92 Is psychosis psychosis if I know it's psychosis?
Fair warning, I haven't been diagnosed with this. But I've been in a bout of pretty severe depression for about 5 months now.
Part of what is making this so difficult is I have to constantly fight thoughts that someone is doing this too me. That my friends are talking about me behind my back. That someone accused me of some terrible crime. That everyone hates me and doesn't want me around. During my darkest moments I know, with 100% certainty, that this is my fault and I deserve this for being such a horrible person.
However, in brief moments of respite, when I can lift my head above the water for a short gasp of normalcy, I know how wrong all that is. I'm generally well liked, my friends love me, I haven't don't anything significantly wrong recently.
So is it psychosis (an inability to judge reality) if I realize that it's psychosis?
Edit: I'm currently in talk therapy, am excercizing daily, eating as well as I can, am taking a extreme high dose vitamin D supplement, and am sleeping as well as this thing allows me too, sometimes with the help of alprazolam.
I'm also doing martial arts twice a week, going to church twice a week, and playing tennis with friends on a semi-regular basis.
Frustratingly nothing is helping.
I've also gone to see a psychiatrist, which was a highly frustrating experience. He was in his late 80s, was unable to hear me half the time, couldn't understand what I meant when I said I'm in emotional pain (he kept asking me to point on my body where it hurts), and ended up just giving me a low dose celexa prescription. He didn't make a formal diagnosis as far as I can tell from my chart without snooping in epic which I'm not supposed to do.
So yeah.
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Part of what is making this so difficult is I have to constantly fight thoughts that someone is doing this too me. That my friends are talking about me behind my back. That someone accused me of some terrible crime. That everyone hates me and doesn't want me around. During my darkest moments I know, with 100% certainty, that this is my fault and I deserve this for being such a horrible person.
However, in brief moments of respite, when I can lift my head above the water for a short gasp of normalcy, I know how wrong all that is. I'm generally well liked, my friends love me, I haven't don't anything significantly wrong recently.
So is it psychosis (an inability to judge reality) if I realize that it's psychosis?
Edit: I'm currently in talk therapy, am excercizing daily, eating as well as I can, am taking a extreme high dose vitamin D supplement, and am sleeping as well as this thing allows me too, sometimes with the help of alprazolam.
I'm also doing martial arts twice a week, going to church twice a week, and playing tennis with friends on a semi-regular basis.
Frustratingly nothing is helping.
I've also gone to see a psychiatrist, which was a highly frustrating experience. He was in his late 80s, was unable to hear me half the time, couldn't understand what I meant when I said I'm in emotional pain (he kept asking me to point on my body where it hurts), and ended up just giving me a low dose celexa prescription. He didn't make a formal diagnosis as far as I can tell from my chart without snooping in epic which I'm not supposed to do.
So yeah.
2024.04.25 13:09 Distinct-Style8015 SSRI poop out
So I have this problem where l find a medication that worked for me for a couple of years (lexapro) but then it pooped out and my symptoms returned. I’ve switched to another SSRI (celexa) that I have high hopes for.
My question is do you see a lot of patients with chronic mental health conditions continually poop out their SSRIs? Am I going to need to switch medications again in a couple of years?
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My question is do you see a lot of patients with chronic mental health conditions continually poop out their SSRIs? Am I going to need to switch medications again in a couple of years?
2024.04.24 20:52 alexa4k9 Should I discontinue antidepressants if I'm planning to become pregnant?
 | Hi. I just started taking Celexa 1 month ago. Honestly, I am not enjoying the side effects, & I thought I was having a great month (no depression before my period), but now I've had just as bad depression (with bonus anxiety!) during my period (been over a week so far). submitted by alexa4k9 to PMDD [link] [comments] I know it takes a long time for antidepressants to start working, but we are planning to become pregnant again soon, & I am wondering if this is all worth it? I felt so great during my last pregnancy (it wasn't bad until postpartum) -- when hormones are high & level, I'm feeling great! I know I should ask my NP/OB, but I'm curious what you guys think? Does anyone have experience with this that recommends one way or another? (pictured: my cat snuggled up on me last night when I was feeling really depressed. I swear they know. 😸) |
2024.04.24 19:05 Jazzzzz10 Gabapentin and Celexa
I recently have been prescribed 100mg of gabapentin for anxiety I haven’t taken it yet but I was wondering if it has helped anyone else. I have severe anxiety to the point where I can’t even get in the car or go outside without freaking out. I have postpartum depression, they stopped my busprion 5mg 3x a day and have now started me on gabapentin. I get really bad anxiety from taking any new medication. I’m terrified of feeling high from medication or it making my anxiety worse. I take 10mg of Celexa. Does anyone have any good stories about it. I’m very scared to take it since I also have a baby to take care of too
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2024.04.21 20:04 sheola Two SSRI
Hello, I am very afraid of serotonin syndrome. My psych added 50 mg of Luvox and I already take 30 mg of Celexa. If Luvox will be working she may transit me to it. Is it really so high risk with this doses? She said no.
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2024.04.17 01:36 rhint002 I missed crying!!
So i’ve been on celexa for 10+ years for suicidal thoughts/ depression. Im now 2 weeks off of celexa, I tapered very slowly over the span of a few years. I just want to know if anyone else has experienced this- celexa kept me pretty “numb”. I definitely had saddness and happiness but It was never too low or too high. Now that im off of it im slowly starting to feel more! I watch sad movies now and I can cry and it feels good to feel those human emotions. Crying feels really good to me now- in a healthy way. It feels so relieving and it makes me feel human and alive. Its weird to say but I really missed crying. On the other side I can feel immense happiness, love, and empathy. I wanted to post this to share the idea that although these drugs like celexa are life saving- and did save my life. Staying on them years past their intended use, I feel robbed of some emotional moments I couldve felt. I wish everyone on their celexa and medication journey in general luck!
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2024.04.15 14:28 Siwa1998 Feeling dissociated - too high dosage
I've been on 40 mg for nine weeks now and I feel no improvement.
I feel almost constantly dissociated. Not really like "out of my body", but I've got horrible brain fog.
Could it be that 40 mg is too high? Should I try 30 mg for example?
Does anyone know this feeling of dissociation on Celexa?
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I feel almost constantly dissociated. Not really like "out of my body", but I've got horrible brain fog.
Could it be that 40 mg is too high? Should I try 30 mg for example?
Does anyone know this feeling of dissociation on Celexa?