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Need help! Depression and anxiety
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Jan 20, 2024 | Replies (227)Comment receiving replies
Have had to deal with being depressed since I was young. Have had to deal with it on my own also. Parents did not believe in helping with therapy, Meds. Has been hard to get thru it at times on my own. Ended up in the psych ward a few times, tried to kill myself. On Meds and in therapy again now. When will it ever end? Just want to feel normal for once. I am so tired of therapy and have been trying to get my therapist so mad at me that will will tell me that she can no longer see me. Pushing my family away, pushing everyone as far away from me as possible. Work is becoming so hard to get up to go to. I feel so lost right now and I don't know what to do. Any suggestions?
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I'm doing good thought I had answered you but it may have been someone else. Don't give up there is meds just have to get the right one! My 1st miracle drug was Prozac back in 1995 when it had a bad name! I'm back on 20 mg Prozac along w Cymbalta which helps w depression and Arthritis! Hope you get better <br><br>
I am taking Cymbalta for peripheral neuropathy, and Wellbutrin for depression, and the doctor thought my depression would be improved when I added the Cymbalta, but I couldn't feel any change. I wonder if adding Prozac might help. I think I'll give the psychiatrist a call and see what he thinks.
I would try if that doesn't help I'd go for TMS. I was on Wellbutrin until 4-6 yrs ago but had to increase it every so often. She put me on Cymbalta 60mg and. It did help depression and took away my severe spinal stenosis pain in my neck within a month! I call it my 2nd miracle drug! Good luck you may need the Prozac it brought me out if that dark hole I felt I was a basket case!
ECT would my last resort!
Prozac was a nightmare for me, it just goes to show how one drug helps one person and not another.
As I mentioned before the only drug that helps me is Parnate a MAOI. It takes away the depression most of the time (once in a while I still get a little down but so doesn't the general public.) It also works very well for anxiety. I'll probably be on this med. for the rest of my life unless they come out with a miracle drug and I don't see that happening soon.
Have a good day everyone!
Mine too, but if I got seriously depressed and nothing else worked I wouldn't hesitate to do ECT.
Clonzepam 2x day helps my anxiety and sleep!
I already take 450mg of Wellbutrin, which, I think, is the maximum. I haven't discussed TMS with a doctor yet, and I'd be willing to do ECT if I could get it closer to home. I don't know if I meet the criteria now, as depression has stabilized. Neuropathy is my current primary issue, and the longer the pain continues and worsens, the more it effects my depression level.
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How are you doing now? I'm sorry life is so difficult for you right now. It's hard to understand why, when you're in the middle of a crisis. We all can look back at past tough situations and have a level of understanding about the "why" questions, and see the growth we've experienced. That may or may not help us get through what's happening now. I went through a long time of deep depression, and now I'm just trying to maintain. I know the feelings of hopelessness and pointlessness and worthlessness from personal experience, and it's not fun. I, also, ask the question, "How long will this last?" We're in good company. David asked God the same question - one time he asked is found in Psalm 6. We do get weary of illness. I'll be praying for you to have the strength for each day.