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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Jul 20, 2017 8:57:50 GMT
Cymbalta, Seroquel and Xanax I'm also on Cymbalta, gave me diarrhea first day then on the third day made me feel like I was drunk, to the point where I would lay down and the room would spin until I threw up. It gets like that I take them more than 3 days in a row. Did it do that to you? I'm worried about taking them for longer periods. No, Cymbalta hasn't caused me any problems. But many of these drugs affect individuals differently. I was prescribed a drug for narcolepsy (a condition I do not suffer from) to somehow stimulate my mood. I took it for 3 days and had to stop as it made me feel strange, and did not stimulate anything other than my heart racing and my blood pressure rising. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2017 9:10:47 GMT
I'm also on Cymbalta, gave me diarrhea first day then on the third day made me feel like I was drunk, to the point where I would lay down and the room would spin until I threw up. It gets like that I take them more than 3 days in a row. Did it do that to you? I'm worried about taking them for longer periods. No, Cymbalta hasn't caused me any problems. But many of these drugs affect individuals differently. I was prescribed a drug for narcolepsy (a condition I do not suffer from) to somehow stimulate my mood. I took it for 3 days and had to stop as it made me feel strange, and did not stimulate anything other than my heart racing and my blood pressure rising. Yeah my grandfather and mother now myself all have an aversion to mood pills. None of them affect us like they should |
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Post by Utpe on Jul 22, 2017 0:50:05 GMT
I feel bad for people that suffer from mental illness. I have relatives that take Xanax and Klonopin for anxiety. When they tried to withdraw from it by going cold turkey, they acted as though they were about to crawl out of their skin. It isn't pretty.
I believe mental illness should be made more aware. It is something that can go undiagnosed. It's a really dangerous and quiet condition to have.
I do my part by donating a few bucks towards the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
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Post by skribb on Jul 22, 2017 2:43:32 GMT
I feel bad for people that suffer from mental illness. I have relatives that take Xanax and Klonopin for anxiety. When they tried to withdraw from it by going cold turkey, they acted as though they were about to crawl out of their skin. It isn't pretty. I believe mental illness should be made more aware. It is something that can go undiagnosed. It's a really dangerous and quiet condition to have. I do my part by donating a few bucks towards the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). Some clarificatoins that I feel are needed: 1. Mental illness is an umbrella term. 2. Klonopin and Xanax are two different kinds of benzos, anti-anxity medication. they are not pills used for "mental illness in general". 3. quitting cold turkey with any psychotropic drug is fucking dumbass move. You will feel great for a few days and then you will be a walking corpse for months or years depending on what meds you were on. Benzos specifically are very tough to quit as they are quite narcotic, and easily abused (much more so than say, any first-line antidepressant or anxiolytic like SSRI, SNRI, atarax.) I imagine antispychotics and "off-label" antidepressants (like opiates) are nearly fatal to quit cold turkey. 4. We are seeing an uprise in mental illness awareness which I think is great, so this will hopefully, and likely, improve further in the coming years. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2017 16:54:42 GMT
I work with people who suffer from anxiety and depression, my advice... 1. Limit your exposure to news. 2. Look up 'Radical Acceptance' and 'Mindfulness' as it pertains to DBT. 3. Practice some kind of meditation. 4. Seek out things that make you feel awe. I read an article last year that said it's impossible to feel anxiety and depression at the same time you're feeling awe. The vastness of the universe, the amazing implications of quantum physics... find something. 5. Similar to #4. Notice when you're focusing your attention inward on yourself and focus it outward. Do something nice for other people, get out of your own head. Good luck. this is interesting because I read quantum physics books to calm me down. It feels, though, more like because it's so heady and involved, so inclusive, that I'm not really able to give the anxiety as much attention. I read way too many physics books "for pleasure" than what's probably considered normal. But good to know it works for others too. |
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Post by OldSamVimes on Jul 22, 2017 17:03:58 GMT
I work with people who suffer from anxiety and depression, my advice... 1. Limit your exposure to news. 2. Look up 'Radical Acceptance' and 'Mindfulness' as it pertains to DBT. 3. Practice some kind of meditation. 4. Seek out things that make you feel awe. I read an article last year that said it's impossible to feel anxiety and depression at the same time you're feeling awe. The vastness of the universe, the amazing implications of quantum physics... find something. 5. Similar to #4. Notice when you're focusing your attention inward on yourself and focus it outward. Do something nice for other people, get out of your own head. Good luck. this is interesting because I read quantum physics books to calm me down. It feels, though, more like because it's so heady and involved, so inclusive, that I'm not really able to give the anxiety as much attention. I read way too many physics books "for pleasure" than what's probably considered normal. But good to know it works for others too. I like to think about things like the spaces between molecules in an object being comparatively as large as the spaces between planets in our solar system. And that the harder an object is, the faster it is moving. So just like you can't throw an egg through a helicopter blade you can't push your finger through a rock because the rock is moving too fast.
Our senses tune out vast amounts of what's really going on around us for the benefit of our survival. Existence is so wonderfully absurd. At some point you will see a breathtaking scene of natural beauty and you'll realize you're actually looking into a mirror. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2017 18:50:55 GMT
I work with people who suffer from anxiety and depression, my advice... 1. Limit your exposure to news.Yep this helped the most for me. I quit reading the news a couple of years ago. Good list overall, I also want to add regualar exercise to that list and a good diet. That seems obvious but it's tough to do something when you don't feel like doing it. |
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Post by knuckles2017 on Jul 22, 2017 21:52:54 GMT
Have you considered any CBT or Gestalt Therapy techniques ?
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