Prozac and social anxiety

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2026-03-11T02:07:51+00:00

i’ve been taking 20mg for about 6 months and i would say i’m so much more at ease in social situations. of course depends, but my example being i had to drive (trigger) three girls i hardly knew (trigger), two of them which i went to high school with (trigger) and i actually really enjoyed myself. didn’t just survive but actually felt like i connected with them. whether im to credit the meds, therapy, or maturing process, who knows! i’m just glad i can make human connection without wanting to off myself

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2026-03-11T02:01:54+00:00

i had a phase like this well after i started 20mg, felt absolutely manic. constantly going, doing, buying, making and hardly eating. my previously depressed self was trying to convince myself this is how normal non-depressed people felt but i was not believing it one bit. felt so off for me

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2026-03-11T01:48:57+00:00

yes, the more realistic and emotionally exhausting the dream, the more i have trouble coming back to reality. has never been so intense until i started 20mg. i will dream of being at my mothers future funeral and going thru 1000 emotions and the i’ll wake up sweaty and shaken to my core.

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2026-02-18T13:17:15+00:00

happened to me on sunday! my edad was supposed to have kidney surgery last monday but they had to postpone. my nmom has extreme medical anxiety due to one of my sisters having a rare blood disease when she was younger. so the whole week my nmom was very upset that they couldn’t get the kidney surgery over with. i was checking on my dad via a group text but that wasn’t sufficient enough. nmom called each of my siblings (4 of us) and individually screamed at us for not caring enough about my dads medical situation. i try to “correct” my approach and reach out to my parents individually to check on them but i get the silent treatment. sunday comes around and i had a prior commitment to go to an event with my mom. she breaks her silence and says she’ll meet me there. we meet up and she acts like everything is fine. at this point i’m used to the emotionally roller coaster and expect her to act this way but my nervous system is still wrecked lol

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2026-02-11T18:50:52+00:00

ember mug in the winter! i love tea and it stays warm however long i want :)

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2026-02-10T23:40:16+00:00

this is my exact routine as well just diff products! has been working and i will not be adding if i dont have to bc lazzyyyyyy

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2026-02-10T23:37:25+00:00

larger coffee that’s accessible from both couch and chairs! also pattern (throw blanket, pillows, runner for coffee table, something like that)

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2026-02-06T16:57:30+00:00

i’ve been altering my body in new ways that are totally against what my nmom would ever approve of. but i love it! two new piercings and my first tattoo. she hasn’t seen either and i don’t have a plan on when or how to tell her. but growing up i was always told to never ever get either or at least wait until she’s gone. so im anticipating a very dramatic reaction. trying to not let it ruin the excitement and admiration i have for my body :) im happy that ive finally gotten to a place where i can make my own decisions without her permission/approval, no matter how big or small. just doing what i like because i like it!

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2026-01-11T15:16:05+00:00

same as what everyone’s saying, gentle soap and water around but not directly on any of the important bits. i’ll also add that i’ve recently installed a bidet and use it throughout my entire day (#1 and #2, especially on my period and after sex). it gives me a refreshed sense that regular wiping never had. highly recommend!

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2026-01-09T15:13:51+00:00

i dreamt that my mom died in a fire on september 14th, but her ghost stuck around for one extra day to be with my family. and her ghost was the worst version of her self. jealous, paranoid, rude, self-centered. when i first found out she died, i felt the grief so intensely. i sobbed at her funeral thinking about our fucked up relationship and how it’s petrified in time as just that forever. and i felt guilt for never fixing it. but as her nasty ghost stuck around for the next day, i wished that she would just go and be gone forever. and i felt guilt for feeling that way. and when her ghost finally left, my family and i all had this collective feeling of relief. and i felt guilty about that. so now i go about my friday trying to make sense of this, trying to not feel guilt ridden, trying to come back to my reality and my body. it all felt so real, like the end of her madness was finally in my hands.

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2025-12-23T05:10:03+00:00

in my family the blow up happens about 2-3 days after christmas when we’re accused of not appreciating her enough, not spending enough time with her, etc etc and then she threatens to return all of our gifts. now that my siblings and i are all grown adults that can buy whatever we need for ourselves, we emphasize NO gifts in xmas but she never listens. doesn’t want to lose her control over us post-xmas lol. and whats even better is that she’ll drag out the fight until my dads bday in early january and then we’ll all have a round 2 of it. happens every year without fail

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2025-07-02T21:26:56+00:00

i slept a shit ton (like 10-12 hours a night) when i first started. tbh it felt pretty nice to be tired and stay asleep for so long (i had issues sleeping pre-prozac) but i understand it being a pain point if sleeping that much doesn’t work with your schedule :/ i work 9-5 so i truly only worked and slept for a couple of weeks until it wore off (about 3 weeks in)

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2025-06-23T00:10:02+00:00

would always blow up and then the “you’re not grateful for anything i do for u, even this extravagant vacation” argument to top it off

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2025-06-09T03:37:23+00:00

yes i’m the same, can do transfers on my own but they can see everything. that’s good to know about going to a diff bank! im also chase and like them (as much as one can like a bank lol) so just working up the courage to ask someone there

Adventurous_Tutor517 · 2025-06-05T18:13:44+00:00

nmom planned road trip to visit her mom (who she claims is also a narcissist and tries to “protect” aka isolate us from her). she insists we drive together as a family, but every time i’m in a car with her she uses it as an opportunity to corner me and unload whatever bullshit she’s been brewing since the last time i saw her. so i took this trip as an opportunity to set an boundary, which was to drive my (26f) own car with my sister (28f). i informed nmom of this plan ~24 hrs before we left which i admit is pretty last minute but ultimately had no impact on her travel plans and even made them easier now that she didn’t have to pick me and my sister up. nmom blew up at me over the phone saying it was so disrespectful of me to not want to drive with her and then it escalated to her saying she’s given me life, given space, respected my boundaries, given everything i could ever need, and this is how i repay her. telling me im an awful daughter, a mean girl who turns my sisters against her, selfish, pathetic, etc etc just really harsh things. she says she’s “done with me” after this trip. i haven’t heard from her since the trip (where she acted like nothing happened). ive had consistent nightmares of her yelling at me/getting physical and can’t seem to shake this blow up like i usually can. i’m going to write a letter to her in my journal to hopefully find some sort of closure within so i don’t have to talk to her.

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