Your Mental Health

[Mike Strutter]

These days:
Have my own apartment
Full time stable job
Plenty of money
Exercise Daily
Am in actually very good shape

- But I don't feel happy.

Made a doctor's appointment for tomorrow and I think I'll have to ask him for a script for anti-depressants. I quit them last August. I did it properly. Weened myself off them over many months. First couple of months off them was plain sailing. I felt great. But the depression started creeping back in slowly. Now I'm at the point where I might have to start taking them again. The side effects are fucking crazy though. Last pill I was on Lexapro. Works like a charm for depression. But I have restless legs syndrome and it make sit much much worse. It also kills your sex drive completely. Now I wasn't riding anyone, but I couldn't even have an occasional Hilary Swank. It also made my concentration levels go to pot. Couldn't really watch movies, couldn't read in bed.
So I obviously don't want to go back on that fucking shit. They're basically doctor prescribed narcotics. Like MDMA they work by overloading serotonin in your brain, artificially. And like MDAMA etc they're addictive, they come with side effects, they cause long term damage, and they're a nightmare coming off.

Would they work for you if you took a small dose like every second day? Just enough to take the edge off?
Problem with the prescribed anti-depressants is that there are so many and it takes a few weeks for them to get to work. There's so many side effect too. Weight gain, brain zapps, low libido etc etc it's very difficult too determine which is best. I've been on some for years and used to take them in the morning, but sleeping was/is an issue. I had a bad 'episode' last year and was changed to a tab I take before bed to help with the sleep. I put on savage weight, cranky all the time, so I self weened it down to half a night and the weight has improved but I'm still short tempered. Anxiety is through the roof.

 

[The High King]

These days:
Have my own apartment
Full time stable job
Plenty of money
Exercise Daily
Am in actually very good shape

- But I don't feel happy.

Made a doctor's appointment for tomorrow and I think I'll have to ask him for a script for anti-depressants. I quit them last August. I did it properly. Weened myself off them over many months. First couple of months off them was plain sailing. I felt great. But the depression started creeping back in slowly. Now I'm at the point where I might have to start taking them again. The side effects are fucking crazy though. Last pill I was on Lexapro. Works like a charm for depression. But I have restless legs syndrome and it make sit much much worse. It also kills your sex drive completely. Now I wasn't riding anyone, but I couldn't even have an occasional Hilary Swank. It also made my concentration levels go to pot. Couldn't really watch movies, couldn't read in bed.
So I obviously don't want to go back on that fucking shit. They're basically doctor prescribed narcotics. Like MDMA they work by overloading serotonin in your brain, artificially. And like MDAMA etc they're addictive, they come with side effects, they cause long term damage, and they're a nightmare coming off.

Have you really changed though?
Bar exercise which seems to be a solitary activity for you it seems you sit around on your own Procing or playing computer games.
You need to get out of your comfort zone and socialise. Join some clubs meet some women maybe even act normally around them.

Giving up drink and even replacing it with exercise( which is a great way to stop drinking )isn't enough for life change.
Going back on drugs is a step back imo.
I still don't think you've done enough to give real change a chance.
This isn't me having a go by the way.
I think you've achieved a lot.

 

[PussyinBoots]

Have you really changed though?
Bar exercise which seems to be a solitary activity for you it seems you sit around on your own Procing or playing computer games.
You need to get out of your comfort zone and socialise. Join some clubs meet some women maybe even act normally around them.

Giving up drink and even replacing it with exercise( which is a great way to stop drinking )isn't enough for life change.
Going back on drugs is a step back imo.
I still don't think you've done enough to give real change a chance.
This isn't me having a go by the way.
I think you've achieved a lot.

i mightn't have a choice but to go back on the drugs. Depression and Anxiety has gone so bad I'm struggling to leave the gaff. I work from home most days but I really struggle the day I'm in the office.
Appetite gone. I've lost 1.5 stones (although to be honest I needed to lose some weight as i over-bulked).
The meds actually make you worse cause i was nothing like this before I went on them. i actually went on them originally for health anxiety, not depression. But since I came off them I know what depression is. So I really don't want to go back on them but I'm not sure I have a choice.

 

[The High King]

i mightn't have a choice but to go back on the drugs. Depression and Anxiety has gone so bad I'm struggling to leave the gaff. I work from home most days but I really struggle the day I'm in the office.
Appetite gone. I've lost 1.5 stones (although to be honest I needed to lose some weight as i over-bulked).
The meds actually make you worse cause i was nothing like this before I went on them. i actually went on them originally for health anxiety, not depression. But since I came off them I know what depression is. So I really don't want to go back on them but I'm not sure I have a choice.

Good luck with it m8.
I always think doctors are way too quick to prescribe really powerful drugs when other things are possible.
I mean anxiety is a natural consequence of alcoholism and it doesn't go away after you give up. If anything it can increase in the short term.
My mother was prescribed Zanex after my Dad died. That's another unreally powerful drug and not something you should give as an easy fix to deal with natural grief.
Luckily she got off it after 6 months but there are thousands of people walking around addicted to unnecessary drugs.

 

[PussyinBoots]

Good luck with it m8.
I always think doctors are way too quick to prescribe really powerful drugs when other things are possible.
I mean anxiety is a natural consequence of alcoholism and it doesn't go away after you give up. If anything it can increase in the short term.
My mother was prescribed Zanex after my Dad died. That's another unreally powerful drug and not something you should give as an easy fix to deal with natural grief.
Luckily she got off it after 6 months but there are thousands of people walking around addicted to unnecessary drugs.

That's how it works though. They give you a pill and tell you fuck off.

 

[fed up]

i mightn't have a choice but to go back on the drugs. Depression and Anxiety has gone so bad I'm struggling to leave the gaff. I work from home most days but I really struggle the day I'm in the office.
Appetite gone. I've lost 1.5 stones (although to be honest I needed to lose some weight as i over-bulked).
The meds actually make you worse cause i was nothing like this before I went on them. i actually went on them originally for health anxiety, not depression. But since I came off them I know what depression is. So I really don't want to go back on them but I'm not sure I have a choice.

That sounds like agoraphobia and anxiety.

 

[Blue Jasmin]

i mightn't have a choice but to go back on the drugs. Depression and Anxiety has gone so bad I'm struggling to leave the gaff. I work from home most days but I really struggle the day I'm in the office.
Appetite gone. I've lost 1.5 stones (although to be honest I needed to lose some weight as i over-bulked).
The meds actually make you worse cause i was nothing like this before I went on them. i actually went on them originally for health anxiety, not depression. But since I came off them I know what depression is. So I really don't want to go back on them but I'm not sure I have a choice.

It's a decision for you alone to take, your GP won't prescribe xanax at any rate, that's only a short-term fix.

 

[PussyinBoots]

It's a decision for you alone to take, your GP won't prescribe xanax at any rate, that's only a short-term fix.

I remember in the early noughties everyone had Xanax. The doctors used prescribe it like they were m&ms. You'd be out on the lash and someone would always be passing around Xanax. I distinctly remember the box. I wouldn't advise drinking on it though as you'd always black out for hours. I think I blacked out so badly one night on it by the time I came through I was down Charlie's bar and watching Ireland play Cameron in the 2002 world cup in the morning.(That sort of thing is probably why I'm fucked up these days)
Doctors don't give you anything like that anymore though. They must have had half of Cork hooked up Benzos

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

That's how it works though. They give you a pill and tell you fuck off.

Ever considered counselling?

 

[Blue Jasmin]

I remember in the early noughties everyone had Xanax. The doctors used prescribe it like they were m&ms. You'd be out on the lash and someone would always be passing around Xanax. I distinctly remember the box. I wouldn't advise drinking on it though as you'd always black out for hours. I think I blacked out so badly one night on it by the time I came through I was down Charlie's bar and watching Ireland play Cameron in the 2002 world cup in the morning.(That sort of thing is probably why I'm fucked up these days)
Doctors don't give you anything like that anymore though. They must have had half of Cork hooked up Benzos

Yeah, it will be either an SRRI or SNRI if anything that he will prescribe. Xanax hasn't gone away though.