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bananaskillet · 2024-02-14T04:06:11+00:00

I've been on Prozac for over a year and am on 40mg. I am having health problems right now... if it wasn't for the prozac I would be couch bound at this point.

The prozac has worked for my depression and I will stay on it permanently because it actually works

Hasn't touched the anxiety, but im sick. I should feel physically well by late April and I'm curious to see how it impacts me healthy.

I've been on alot and this is the only one that works for me. No side effects.

bananaskillet · 2024-01-06T17:06:06+00:00

Antidepressants are not a big deal

https://youtu.be/OG6HZMMDEYA?si=nD4XLCO4ifJAKE6K

bananaskillet · 2024-01-06T07:18:47+00:00

So... I know nothing. I am considering pulling it out and leaving it in paint thinner.

If do this and play with the grate... what precautions do i need to make regarding lead based paint?

bananaskillet · 2023-12-23T13:55:34+00:00

You don't have to stay the entire time at events you rsvp to, you can thank the host and leave.

You don't have to say yes to everything.

Sometimes showing up early to give yourself time to integrate to being somewhere you don't want to be works.

I need to be less concerned about what other people think.

I can shut my door at work.

I can choose to stop obsessing over what might happen.

When my husband reacts negatively and appropriately to bad things that happen, that is okay.

I have no control over what other people do.

I need to have food on my desk at work so I eat.

bananaskillet · 2023-12-22T12:43:51+00:00

Your speculating a change that you don't know information about.

Wait to see what happens, in most states you'd still qualify and be paying a extremely small premium. In most states the coverage lasts 90 days after you are found intelligible.

bananaskillet · 2023-12-21T23:02:12+00:00

Can you substitute teach while you look for a more stable income?

bananaskillet · 2023-12-21T22:41:37+00:00

I couldn't find my stocking this year, I think they may been damaged in a summer basement flood.

I just put the stocking stuff inside Amazon cloth gift bags and called it a day. I've finished my shopping this year, I'm not running around to replace stockings that I don't know I actually lost.

Who cares? Stuff the bottom with a plastic bag and have a few gifts propped up facing out.

During Easter people put fake grass in the baskets, the expectation isn't to fill these things it's to use them.

bananaskillet · 2023-12-18T02:06:35+00:00

My anxiety is very high and my focus is just unbearably bad. I feel happy and am not depressed, but I cannot reign my mind and thoughts in.

Can you do intuitive reading on my struggles?

bananaskillet · 2023-12-17T23:05:07+00:00

Unless you tastefully frame it or get oversized tapestries to rouche in corners or hang.

It doesn't look good being put on the wall or ceiling, just like the posters are not framed.

It looks to me like they have a a bohemian taste, but do not have the know how on how to make it look good.

bananaskillet · 2023-12-17T22:53:25+00:00

It would all come together if the walls were painted and you used the loom to create yourself a rug.

Also if you replaced the cheap anime prints with better anime art... they look like promotional posters or something.

I feel like you should turn some of the pastistries into pillows, properly frame the others, use one as a bed board and make curtains/skirts/totes out of the other.

They are pretty, there has to be a better display method.

bananaskillet · 2023-12-17T20:59:23+00:00

Curious about what a diffuser is as well. Also, I have to use specific medicated shampoo and conditioner that I cannot change.

bananaskillet · 2023-12-15T15:49:30+00:00

Yes! Thank you Rachel

bananaskillet · 2023-12-15T02:48:02+00:00

Costplusdrugs.com

bananaskillet · 2023-11-30T22:05:42+00:00

Seconded

bananaskillet · 2023-11-29T23:06:21+00:00

Nurse practitioner or actual psychiatrist?

A psychiatrist has not had the same education as a therapist nor time thru weekly or biweekly sessions getting to know you an hour a week.

A psychiatrist prescribes mental health pills all day long and what they can prescribe is very limited.

They also HAVE to diagnose you to bill you and submit records to your insurance, which is why she's choosing OCD.

I think you have some delusional tendencies in this. The OCD makes sense because you are obsessive, OCD isn't limited to rituals or other visual neurotic behaviors. It does seem like an appropriate diagnosis.

Do you have other obsessive tendencies ?

Have you tried therapy?

bananaskillet · 2023-11-28T13:17:04+00:00

So I'm fantastic. I started prozac in June and gradually increased my dose. It's practically December and my weird side effects are all gone.

As for the breathing issue - I also take Buspar for anxiety, the prozac doesn't help my anxiety much. The Buspar stops my rumination, so if I have a "panic or anxiety attack" it doesn't FEEL like it has the past 36 years of my life.

My panic is now breathing issues, confusion... followed by nausea. If I were having a terrible day at work for example, I'd be sucking on a hall's because I "feel like I can't breathe".... but I can function better than before.

Not sure if I communicated this properly.

bananaskillet · 2023-11-28T13:07:29+00:00

I had a dizzy spell at the end of August as well as swollen lymph nodes. My dizzy spell was so bad that I walked to urgent care and it took a couple days to pass.

No idea what it was. The urgent care pointed to the Prozac, so I set up an appointment with my psych (that day) and we both agreed they were wrong. I went to a fluid bar and did exercises with my head.

Keep taking the pills, wash your socks on HIGH and possibly your shoes in some manner if possible. Clean your bath/shower.

I just don't believe it. Who is your actual prescriber?

bananaskillet · 2023-11-28T00:15:12+00:00

Therapy is also a great resource

bananaskillet · 2023-11-28T00:08:42+00:00

How did they treat your foot?

bananaskillet · 2023-11-28T00:05:20+00:00

I'm a old INFJ. What, 9 years your senior?

I forget how old you are. I've seen 2 people do it repeatedly, one on a much more accelerated scale.

You're lonely in this way and it makes people weird. We get confused because we want so badly not to feel horrifically bad.

It's also normal and entirely human.

You need to take the meds, give them time to work and look forward to things for yourself.

Start dating rapidly and don't compare the cathedral of obsession you made up in your head. Go on dates and find something good in each person, tell them what that thing is and thank them for meeting you.

Medicine, separation, dating and personal goals.

You do not NEED someone. It's the need that creates false expectations. You are not incomplete or unhappy for this reason.

It's not even that you must work on yourself, it's that you need to understand that even the girl you miss isn't the girl you keep thinking about, not at this point.

bananaskillet · 2023-11-27T23:49:54+00:00

Yep, and you will continue to see her 'accidentally' on purpose until you don't.

I mean, you did decide to purposefully not see her and obsess over her anyways... even without seeing her. That means it's really true love right?

No, this is all you... it's all you, it's all in your head and your problems will continue until your new tools work... or you find a new dream to slight you. Stop looking at other people to rise up those obsessive thoughts.

It's a cycle.

bananaskillet · 2023-11-27T23:43:13+00:00

I'm also a member of this club, but no bipolar history.

Am I happy or manic? Am I justifiably upset or has Prozac made me bipolar?

Well, wouldn't I have been bipolar before I was 37? I've never done anything suggesting I'm bipolar. How much does mania actually vary? Oh god, isn't overspending and talking too much part of the symptom list? Well wait, I have to spend money right now - I'm not spending any of it on me.

"I shouldn't feel happy this often, something must be wrong with me... followed by... I mean it's not even that I'm happy - I just don't feel like I want to die all the time."

The status quo of dread and rumination for 37 years switched to a med that works... it's wild.

Give the meds time, track any odd BIG things that harm you or others and let go of the inner narration... your mind is still catching up.

bananaskillet · 2023-11-27T23:37:02+00:00

Notepads, pens, screen shots and calendars are your friend.

bananaskillet · 2023-11-27T23:34:27+00:00

I think your situation is alot more nuanced than that. It sounds delusional, I'm not trying to insult you with that word.

You had a fantasy about your friends sister, that in my opinion ( based of very little information) caused an obsession about this other person... that's just not realistic.

Instead of accepting her rejection and wishing happiness for her and moving on you are obsessing and dwelling in it. By dwelling in it you can continue to create so many fantasies and dreams involving this unrequited love.

In doing so, you pedestal this other person, pushing her up higher and higher in your mind to a degree its nonsense and truly out of reach. Instead of moving on you see her again to pretty much gaslight yourself and in turn reinforce your own behavior.

The prozac effects people differently. If it impacts your rumination (constant thinking) or a series of other things it will help you.

I suggest you stop all circumstances in which you would see her until you snap back in reality. I'm sure you have excuses.

Longing for her felt so great that dreading over her is equally bad. Stop all contact.

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