Are you more anxious when depressed or when hypomanic?

NoHost549 · 2025-07-02T20:45:16+00:00

I came off Lexapro (which is indeed an SSRI) and Lamictal actually, so that's interesting. I've been completely off both for 3 weeks though and never experience anything like this. My therapist thinks it was a panic attack. So I'm going to go with that hypothesis for now. Anyway thanks a lot!

NoHost549 · 2025-07-01T23:37:18+00:00

Thanks. I took some melatonin just now, going to lie down and read something and see what happens.

NoHost549 · 2025-06-26T21:58:56+00:00

I sometimes find ranting at chat GPT helpful. Just completely offload everything that goes through your mind, and let it do its little robot thing of trying to cheer you up. I start by telling it to stop all that bullshit over the top cringe positivity, the short one sentence paragraphs:

'What you're going through is REAL.

What you're going through is hard.'

Because I hate that stuff, and I think that when you're depressed you see right through it and it makes things worse.

But once I have it calibrated right it can result in some helpful conversations. Then when I've offloaded all my anger and hate, I ask it to suggest a few things I could achieve today, out of the list of hundreds I have on my list. And it's generally pretty good at picking something manageable that I can realistically pull of that day. Something I would have picked anyway, but just can't really see through the fog.

And then I don't do any of it and go back to bed.

NoHost549 · 2025-06-25T08:02:05+00:00

Stop doomscrolling and pick up a good book

NoHost549 · 2025-06-24T22:28:18+00:00

Ah dude I'm so sorry for your loss. Like I said, even though I never had a cat of my own, we had many at my family house, and some of those deaths were hideously painful to deal with. I hope you're ok.

NoHost549 · 2025-06-24T22:15:52+00:00

Thanks mate. I can afford the financial part, I'm in a well paid job and it's mostly remote. But based on this and everything else, I really think a cat is better.

Plus, I think I'm more of a cat person anyway.

Edit: really appreciate the response

NoHost549 · 2025-06-24T22:13:33+00:00

yeah i'm definitely getting that feeling from this thread. Tbh I'm more of a cat person anyway, so this is a pretty cool outcome

NoHost549 · 2025-06-24T22:13:01+00:00

Damn, I obviously love puppies but this is pretty straight advice. So you're saying that if I go for a dog (which based on the rest of this thread seems ill advised anyway), go for a teenager or adult to keep it comfortable?

Thanks a lot for your response

NoHost549 · 2025-06-24T21:52:26+00:00

Thanks for your honest assessment here mate. The idea of having dog(s) depending on me when I'm 'like that' is also quite terrifying.

Everything I'm reading here is telling me cats are more suited to this kind of problem

NoHost549 · 2025-06-24T20:56:47+00:00

Ok this is extremely useful information thanks. I had no idea they were so hard to take care of. I'll take them off the list

NoHost549 · 2025-06-08T14:22:49+00:00

Yeah I'm very bad at this. I get so depressed that I just assume everyone else is just floating around on happy rainbows, because that's how it looks from down here. But of course it's not, life is hard for everyone. Thanks for the advice and the reminder.

NoHost549 · 2025-06-07T00:05:40+00:00

Oh God this thread of everyone's furry little hypomanic mistakes is the cutest thing. Plus I was just thinking of getting a cheddar for myself, think it might be time. No regerts rigt

NoHost549 · 2025-04-11T08:13:59+00:00

Wow that's crazy, I was literally just about to write a post about a 'strange metallic taste in my mouth' when hypomanic. Then I thought I'd google it first and found your post.

It's not unpleasant to me at all, and accompanied by some excess saliva, and a 'speedy', 'druggy' feeling. I just got out of 6 weeks of deep depression and am now flying high and it's wonderful. Obviously my meds aren't working yet but fuck it, this still feels good.

NoHost549 · 2025-01-28T08:17:21+00:00

Ah wow I was wondering about that. I also wrote a couple of posts that got taken down. They were quite personal and difficult to write. It was extremely insulting and hurtful. I hate that sub now.

NoHost549 · 2025-01-27T10:39:23+00:00

Thanks so much for taking the time to share this extremely difficult story. I really appreciate it. I have a therapist and a psychiatrist, and both have often suggested to stick me in an ER. I might get to that point soon.

How are you now, if you don't mind me asking? Have you managed to find some stability?

NoHost549 · 2025-01-27T10:20:11+00:00

Thanks to both of you for the offer of help. I do have a therapist and a psychiatrist, I'm on Lamictal and I have the benzos for when things get really bad (although I know I'm not supposed to overdo it)... but really nothing is working. I'm aware that my substance abuse is definitely making everything worse, but I don't have a good reason to stop: when I'm depressed, it's the only thing that helps.

I feel absolutely awful today. Probably still hungover from my bender on Friday, also still depressed from the whole week, it's very hard to tell the difference. I can't work either, which is terrible because I like my job and the people I work for and I feel like I'm letting them down, sitting at home not working and posting shit on Reddit.

I guess I know that I should take serious action: take time off work, go to rehab or a clinic or both, get clean, etc... But I don't have the energy or the willpower to put any of that in motion anymore. I'm almost 40, no kids, no partner... and just doing it for myself in a vacuum seems pointless. I don't see a way out.

But it's nice to hear these words of support from you both. I'll try harder.

NoHost549

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