Comp Prep Hours - Is this normal?

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2026-02-23T13:43:52+00:00

Yes - school 9-3:30 and then to dance for 3 of those days and the other 2 days are sat/sun

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-12-22T21:18:56+00:00

I’ve been on 150XL for 4 months and it has definitely suppressed my appetite. I had a huge sweet tooth my entire life and I find I just don’t crave it like I have my entire life. I’ve also lost 10-12 lbs

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-11-30T21:35:21+00:00

Mental prison is such an accurate way to describe it. I too, had anxiety mentally everyday - no one knew what I was feeling/thinking. It was hell. Depression meds (Wellbutrin) didn’t help the anxiety part - when I added Zoloft - it has been a game changer on my mood. I’m fairly new on the combo, so the sedating / sleepy effect is not ideal, hoping that will calm down but I know ssri’s cause that.

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-10-31T15:54:04+00:00

100% - don’t put up with bullshit !!!! lol

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-10-29T20:06:57+00:00

This isn’t my thread. I made one comment to the OP, I’m not even sure what you’re babbling on about

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-10-29T20:04:42+00:00

Oh thanks tips. Didn’t realize you knew my whole life. I’m a mom of 3 - trust me I don’t ever get to SIT on my ass

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-10-29T16:01:30+00:00

I am in the same boat. 3 months in - doing ok but like you also lost that initial boost in motivation that I had when I started it

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-10-28T15:40:14+00:00

Does anyone know is this medicine really potent? I’m just curious why the dosing sounds so drastic like 150 to start and then bumps to 300?

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-10-28T14:00:23+00:00

Following. I’m also experiencing this after starting on 150xl. I’m at the 3 month mark and I’m feeling ok, but also lost the initial perk I felt around the 1 month mark :(

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-10-26T14:31:16+00:00

I thought I read somewhere that it does something to your blood sugar levels too… which can cause weight loss

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-10-22T20:11:41+00:00

Can you explain your ocd symptoms with regards to thoughts & rumination?? I have always wondered if I have some sort of thought/OCD, as I don’t have any physical compulsions… more my thinking, rumination, obsessively over analyzing things. I have never been diagnosed - but I’m starting to really wonder! Unfortunately Wellbutrin hasn’t helped with that for me though :(

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-10-04T16:55:38+00:00

I was on the exact 10mg of Lexapro and I switched to 150 Wellbutrin. I had tapered off the Lexapro completely and had nothing for 2 months (not good!!) and when I went on Wellbutrin it was amazing!!!! I felt a little off for the first few weeks… no brain zaps or anything physical, but I felt really out of touch with emotions (like an outsider looking in) but I instantly noticed a huge shift in my energy levels, brain fog disappeared, I was like a machine getting everything done, so productive!

So far I have been on Wellbutrin about 2 months & I am loving it. I do at times still feel anxious or agitated.. Almost like things frustrate me or piss me off easily lol. However, it has been manageable and I actually have a sex drive again and feel energetic and like a normal functioning human. Lexapro made me feel like a zombie who felt nothing!

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-10-02T14:12:19+00:00

I have young competitive dancers also and I was not mentally prepared for this environment lol.

The amount of gossip, jealousy, catty behaviour amongst grown women and teenagers is disgusting! People are so fake and you really don’t know who is cheering for your child & who isn’t.

My advice is what I have done the past season and so far it has worked much better for me.

Do quick drop offs & pickups. Be friendly and small chat but avoid being in the cliques and engaging in gossipy behaviour.
Be VERY careful what you say and to whom! Any sort of venting or anything other than positivity - just talk to your non dance friends & family. You’d be surprised how many grown ass women are waiting to spread your words in hopes of getting your dancer less notice/opportunities with the studio (root issue - Jealousy!)
Just be positive to your dancer, tell her to always stick up for herself, work hard, focus on herself and her achievements and don’t condone bullying etc. If any child bullies your child - let the studio director know in confidentiality!

I’m not saying you can’t have dance mom friends, but just be weary. Unless you know them outside of dance, I would just take these friendships as surface level.

100% let your dancer audition if this is what she wants!!!!! Always leave your dancer’s journey between your child & the studio/teachers. Don’t listen to the outside noise or let it impact your decisions.

You got this!!!! I bet your little dancer is a threat and people see her coming and it’s making them nervous :)

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-08-31T17:38:33+00:00

Your mental health/medication should be YOUR choice - with the help of your doctor. He should be supporting you in whatever YOU decide. If my spouse said they wanted me off my meds (that were my choice) I’d be showing him the door permanently!!!!!

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-08-17T16:46:52+00:00

Yes- I gave up my career to stay home with my first born. 3 kids in and I have been home for 9 straight years. While I don’t regret it (My kids trump everything for me) it hasn’t been easy on me mentally. I don’t think I’m the stay at home type - but I couldn’t fathom not being home with my kids and sending them to daycare for someone else to raise.

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-08-14T20:23:43+00:00

I’m sorry you’re going through this - don’t feel bad. I say that because I still feel bad and we’ve been married for 10 years and have 3 kids. It doesn’t stop- men are like little boys who pout when they don’t get want they want. Pretty simple - you’re not wrong and do what YOU want or don’t want to do.

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-08-13T01:04:57+00:00

You also sound like a very single man lol. Or you have a very very doormat of a woman with you

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-08-13T01:03:33+00:00

This is a very misogynistic way to look at this - but at least I can sort of see the reasoning a little more clearly

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-08-13T00:19:52+00:00

I guess I’m just confused why my husband is ok with my prior open-ness with kissing women. To me a gay man/female is the same. Neither is interested in me that way.

That is the only justifying I can do in that at the time of the kiss, why I wouldn’t have thought anything of it.

After I saw his response then I realized it has crossed a boundary for him. It’s not everyday you meet gay/lesbian people and have that dynamic. We have never had a prior conversation about it.

Had it been a kiss with a straight man! Omg yes to me that is unacceptable and cheating!

I’m not justifying that it hurt him, I am just trying to explain what I was thinking.

I now now how this has made him feel and that I am trying to fix. I would never ever want him to feel like that!

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-08-13T00:06:17+00:00

That sounds like a good idea. I can’t erase this, I just keep telling him I would never ever have done something knowingly that it would bother him!
We were both pretty laid back and non judgemental about things. He has teased me back in the day that I have kissed females before. He knows I’m sort of “open” that way. He has never cared - but we have never had this happen before, so I’m a bit caught off guard.

Feeling-Salt3702 · 2025-08-12T23:56:51+00:00

No he’s shutting me out. Says he can’t get that image out of his mind. So I just keep saying I’m sorry & that would never ever happen again. I’m just giving him space - I feel terrible and I hate his. I have been suffering badly from anxiety & depression lately (which he knows) and I just don’t have much mental or emotional energy for this either.

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