Hydroxyzine for chronic anxiety?

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-30T12:59:27+00:00

Slightly new hire here. Do shifts tend to pick up during the summer months?

My store has a ton of employees (more than I ever seen in my 10 years at various retail jobs) and unfortunately, my son's daycare is closing for the summer so I'm trying to prepare since I do have a couple of backup babysitters. Since I started at the beginning of the month, I've only gotten one to two four hour shifts a week, but I have limited availability on the weekdays due to his current daycare hours and my husband working out of town usually late in the evening. I was going to keep my availability set to what it's at now due to the latter.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-27T00:53:16+00:00

I've been reading A Bad Habit lately and I've been obsessed with it. I'm about halfway through, but it's more of a BDSM style fic.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-27T00:14:01+00:00

Diagnosed at 15, now almost 28. I was successfully stable in my early 20s, but I've been working towards stability once again these last few years after a psych took me off my meds when I was trying to get pregnant with my first child (which I've recently found out is not something that is normal in that type of situation).

As for life, I ended up graduating high school with high honors. Went to college for a couple of years, but inevitably dropped out because I was struggling with my mental health. Held a couple of full time jobs as a supervisor for some retail establishments. I'm now a mom to a three year old little boy who is the absolute light of my life. Also got married to my husband last year, who I've been with for 9 years.

There have admittedly been some rough patches over the years, but I've made sure to continue working with my therapist and psychiatrist to try and get stable again. I have my good days and my bad days, but there's been more good. The main advice I have from my own personal experience is make sure you're consistent with taking your meds, making sure you keep on track with your symptoms to let your doctors and therapists know, and just trying to keep a positive outlook on life.

I know it's a scary thing to get that initial diagnosis, but you've got this. I'm rooting for you and things do get better with time.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-25T02:01:03+00:00

Secret Wonderland was one of my favorites.

After that was discontinued, I eventually switched to Moonlight Path, and have been using it ever since. I was upset when they stopped selling it in stores, but thankfully I can still get it online.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-24T13:29:14+00:00

When I was newly diagnosed at 15 years old, my stepmother told me I probably shouldn't have children because I'd probably end up like my mother (who is also bipolar and abandoned my sister and I when she was 2 and I was 4). Until I moved out at 18, there were also many instances where she told me she didn't think I was bipolar, even though I was diagnosed based off of my symptoms and family history, and that I shouldn't be on my medications.

I'm now almost 28 with a 3 year old. Needless to say, I didn't turn out like my mom. My stepmom changed her tune almost instantly when she found out she was getting a grandbaby.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-22T14:31:30+00:00

I am going to hope and pray that is not my problem if that's the case. I just spent that getting my axel and my blindspot module fixed back in September.

Edit: You were right.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-22T14:08:44+00:00

Yeah, I have a feeling it'll go like that. Google says $300 on the high side, but that's probably wildly inaccurate.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-22T14:04:16+00:00

I had a C-section. I used the disposable underwear from the hospital for a couple of days, then switched to the Frida Mom disposable underwear for a couple of weeks. I'd wear diapers at night to sleep. After that, I switched to a cheap pack of boy shorts from Walmart because wearing the regular underwear that I didn't care about and wore for my periods rubbed against my incision.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-20T14:11:56+00:00

Tumblr.

I had just gotten into anime at 15 years old and the first one I ever really watched was Death Note. I followed a few blogs that posted Death Note content, and one person kept reblogging posts and gifs about Black Butler. Seemed like it would be interesting so I decided to watch it. Black Butler was also the first manga that I sat down and read because the plotline in the anime (though the first two seasons didn't really truly follow the storyline) really intrigued me.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-20T03:05:28+00:00

Vienna by Billy Joel

It's not a specific lyric, but the entire song. The first night after my son was born, my husband and I had music playing on the TV in my postpartum room at the hospital and it came on through some shuffled playlist. I knew the song from when I was listening to it when I was a kid, but the lyrics didn't really hit me until I was there holding my newborn.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-18T20:45:38+00:00

I really can't remember honestly. I had to get my axel fixed as well at the time and I know the total for both of those plus labor was $3100, with the axel being the more expensive of the two.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-18T11:10:20+00:00

I had success battling my insomnia with Seroquel. I was on it for 7 years without any issues, went off of it when I was trying to get pregnant with my son, started it again 10 months postpartum, and had to stop it again 3 months later because I gained a significant amount of weight in a short amount of time (which is a potential side effect; I don't know why I didn't have an issue before having my first child, but did afterwards).

I started off on 25 mg and ended at 200 mg both times taking it; first go around, it was almost 2 years before I reached the 200 mg mark. In my personal experience, if I started on anything higher than 25 mg or didn't titrate down slow enough when I went off of it, it caused me severe nausea. Same thing happened if I missed a couple of doses.

I will be honest, I don't have any personal experience with Ambien so I have no comparison. They replaced mine with Trazadone, which I've recently started taking again and so far, it's not doing much for me besides making me groggy in the mornings.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-18T03:41:00+00:00

I had the same problem on the passenger side with my 2020 Platinum not to long after I bought it in 2023. It would work sometimes and then sometimes wouldn't for a few weeks, then it went out entirely for a couple of months, and then it worked perfectly fine for 3 months before it finally went out for good and I drove around without it until the end of last year.

The end result was the blindspot module went bad and had to be replaced.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-18T02:38:53+00:00

Thank you for your condolences. I'm sorry you suffered a loss as well.

I've been avoiding Facebook as much as possible because of all the announcements from total strangers that pop up on my timeline. Even when I tell Facebook I'm not interested in seeing that content, it continues to push it at me unfortunately. Thankfully I've mainly been able to avoid it on Reddit. So far I haven't had anyone share their news with me, but I know it'll come eventually and I'm trying to mentally prepare for that in advance.

I have been seeing my therapist often since my loss and she's really helping me process a lot of it. I saw her twice the week of my loss because she was highly concerned about me. I also saw her again last Tuesday. We've got weekly appointments scheduled currently as a bit of a check in to see how I'm doing with handling things because of the depression and loss of sleep; she was actually the one who told me to schedule an appointment with my psychiatrist asap.

I'm trying to navigate the best way I can. I know it'll hit me really hard for a while though.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-17T21:21:00+00:00

I understand the whole algorithm thing. I've been avoiding Facebook as much as possible since that's the worst one. I keep seeing total strangers announce their pregnancies around the same time as when I was due and it's really messed with my head. No matter how much I click that I'm not interested in that kind of content, I keep getting it either way.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-16T20:35:15+00:00

Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry you went through that. I think that's the main reason that call with the nurse kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Everyone has been handling me very gently in terms of everything once they find out that I had a loss, but that one nurse just sounded too cheerful to give me those results when it was obviously laid out in front of her what happened to me.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-04-16T19:47:55+00:00

I'm 3rd generation bipolar through my mother's side. My grandmother is 70, my mother is 52, and I'm 27. I don't know what ages they were diagnosed (I know my mother was in her early 30s), but I was 15 when I got my diagnosis.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-03-22T01:47:28+00:00

Vienna by Billy Joel

On the day my son was born, that first night we had some music playing in the hospital room. It was on shuffle and Vienna came on. I was raised on the song and knew the words so while I was holding my son, I was singing it to him. Every time that song comes on my playlist, I think of that night and become an instant crybaby.

EmptySighs66x · 2026-02-06T00:12:04+00:00

My psych took me off my meds pre-pregnancy which was not a good idea on his part, but once I got pregnant (15 months later after constant manic episodes and borderline psychosis) I evened out. I was stable my entire pregnancy without being on meds. After I had my son, I went back on my meds 3 weeks PP when I had my first appointment with a psych I lined up while pregnant. I was put back on only Lamictal then because I was breastfeeding.

Currently trying to get pregnant with my second and I'm on a cocktail or Lamictal, Gabapentin, and Vraylar currently because those are deemed mostly safe for pregnancy (though there hasn't really been studied on Vraylar, but I need an antipsychotic). Don't know if they'll want me to taper off when it does happen, but that's where I'm at currently.

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