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Posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:20:34
My life sucks, all I do is sit at home and watch tv. I keep hoping one of these meds will give me a life.
Posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:23:09
In reply to Life sucks, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:20:34
I'm starting to eat again, I sleep and extra 3 hours a day, again.
Is it because I take the lamictal at bed time?
Posted by linkadge on November 28, 2004, at 14:26:17
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:23:09
I agree.
Posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:36:21
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:23:09
Maybe its the increased zyprexa again. But I was not realy gaining weight for the first 2 months. Or maybe I was. I've put on 15 lbs over the last 6 months. I needed the 10 mg zyprexa because, I was getting angry. Now I'm just lazy and eating and depressed again. Should I go back to 7.5 mg zyprexa? Even after I went back to 10 mg zyprexa it was not enough, so my doc insisted on adding anouther med, here take: 15 mg zyprexa, depakote, lamictal. After a long think about it all I took the lamictal, and I stoped being angry. Only now I sleep 3 hours after work, 1 hour after I wake on the weekend, Just about every day this week. I was take 100 mg lamictal and sleepy, sort of stupid; I don't know if it is even helping any more. So I took it in night, still. So I went back to 50 mg, where I was feeling very good before, but this time I just feel worse. I don't know what to do anymore, just want to stop taking so much medicine. But maybe I will get angry again.
HELP!!
Posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:37:31
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by linkadge on November 28, 2004, at 14:26:17
Thanks, want to jump off a cliff? Just kidding..
Posted by mmcconathy on November 28, 2004, at 14:40:52
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:23:09
Try to develop a new perception of yourself, recreate your personality.
Same to myself, but all stupid brain does is adapt to the medication, and i dont feel any diffrent, after a couple months.
I am pessimist also, so i notice the side-effects before anything.
God made me in a bad mood
Cheers.....
Posted by linkadge on November 28, 2004, at 14:41:27
In reply to Re: Life sucks » linkadge, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:37:31
Its a good thing when the amotivation/procrastination superceeds the suicidiality. (eh, I'll kill myself when I get around to it)
Linkadge
Posted by ed_uk on November 28, 2004, at 14:42:35
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by linkadge on November 28, 2004, at 14:26:17
When I was 18 I left college and spent all day at home with depression. I hoped that I would find a med that would give me back my life.
Now I realise that meds probably only played a small part in my recovery. It is very difficult not to be depressed when you spend all day watching TV. I only recovered from the depression when I went back to college. Only then did my life have meaning again. Medication alone is rarely enough to make a person happy, it is only an adjunct. You will have to find other ways to give your life meaning. As a psych once said to me... 'you can't say you're anhedonic if you never do anything fun!'
By the way, don't worry about not having sex on Celexa. Sex does not bring happiness, but a good relationship might. I haven't had sex for ages but my life is no worse without it. Sex never was as good as I expected!
Regards,
Ed.
Posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:49:19
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by mmcconathy on November 28, 2004, at 14:40:52
I constantly think of how to change my perception. But it feel like an up hill battle. I mean I do it a little at a time, working on it and working on it, my activities never change, just a little of my perception. I want to have fun 24 7. I feel old at 28. I don't know what to do anymore, where to go..
Thats the thing, the meds are depressing me. I actualy feel better off them. My life suffers, like my job.
Posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:51:36
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by linkadge on November 28, 2004, at 14:41:27
Basicly. I mean, who wants to die anyways, what fun would that be. I just hate the life I do have. Please ... Give me anouther one.Please...
Posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:56:58
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by ed_uk on November 28, 2004, at 14:42:35
I just went to college and was deppressed. Now I work and be depressed. Watch tv and be depressed. I Don't know how to stop the nothing and being depressed. Its sort of like all I did for a while, months just sitting in a room watching tv.
Posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:58:41
In reply to Re: Life sucks » ed_uk, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:56:58
I fear the outside world.
Posted by lostforwards on November 28, 2004, at 15:01:19
In reply to meds suck, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:36:21
Lamictals antidepressant effects go away at higher doses. It works well alone for bipolar depression and supposedly it's good to take with an AD for treatment resistant depression.
Posted by ed_uk on November 28, 2004, at 15:03:34
In reply to Re: meds suck, posted by lostforwards on November 28, 2004, at 15:01:19
Hello,
Which ADs have you tried? You're not on any at the moment?
Ed.
Posted by linkadge on November 28, 2004, at 15:06:30
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:58:41
I just don't know who to get angry at anymore.
Linkadge
Posted by mmcconathy on November 28, 2004, at 15:07:43
In reply to Re: Life sucks » mmcconathy, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:49:19
Right now im disguested with my myself, i have force optimism on myself, i sit and argue why there is something that can look forward too, and i SICK of telling myself to take a pill, or something, it convinced that it will make it better, but i became dissatisfied with everything, nothing now changes my view.....
not even amphetamines.Thats what i mean by changing personality, find a new view, i feel i just "flout" through life, look for its rewards, have a feeling like something good is going to happen, everything is alright, i guess that would natrually increase your dopamine levels.
Im not therapist, i dont have awnser to pessimism, all i know is i need a diffrent view to a have a new perspective of life.
Cheers....
Posted by lostforwards on November 28, 2004, at 15:10:44
In reply to meds suck, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:36:21
Didn't you say you were schizoaffective?
I have heard of using dopamine agonists with antipsychotics for treatment of negative symptoms in schizophrenia. I don't know if it's actually practiced and I'm not sure if this is relavant to your illness. They mostly talk about improving working memory.
Posted by linkadge on November 28, 2004, at 15:12:05
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by mmcconathy on November 28, 2004, at 15:07:43
What makes me so angry is not that I have it so bad, but that others have it so good.
If everyone felt as crappy as me then I'd be a little more satisfied.
Linkadge
Posted by mmcconathy on November 28, 2004, at 15:19:11
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by linkadge on November 28, 2004, at 15:12:05
I just realized i had the same thought. Pessimism i belive is part of personality, which is why i have concluded change to the personality is the solution, slowly pick up new views, instead of the lifeless ones before.
Posted by mmcconathy on November 28, 2004, at 15:31:41
In reply to Re: Life sucks » mmcconathy, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:49:19
I think why your feel dead, is lack of confidence that your can influence your enviorment.
If you do get new view, get a confident view.
Dr. Bob your now can redirect this post.
Posted by denise1904 on November 28, 2004, at 16:13:47
In reply to Life sucks, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:20:34
Hi,
Well all I can say is that I hope your at least able to concentrate on the television and that you're getting some pleasure out of it, that would be something.
Denise
Posted by HermanMunster on November 28, 2004, at 23:45:10
In reply to Life sucks, posted by Sebastian on November 28, 2004, at 14:20:34
Thats a good attitude, wait for a medication to give you a free get out of jail card and make it so you don't have to work at it.
Get off you @ss and quit being so lazy and pitty yourself. Do you serve cheese with that wine you have?
May I bring pajamas to your next pitty party?
My recomendation is go buy a 357 magnum and get creative.
Posted by SDA on November 29, 2004, at 4:30:54
In reply to Re: Life sucks, posted by HermanMunster on November 28, 2004, at 23:45:10
> Thats a good attitude, wait for a medication to give you a free get out of jail card and make it so you don't have to work at it.
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> Get off you @ss and quit being so lazy and pitty yourself. Do you serve cheese with that wine you have?
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> May I bring pajamas to your next pitty party?
>
> My recomendation is go buy a 357 magnum and get creative.Paging Dr. Bob
Posted by linkadge on November 29, 2004, at 9:17:15
In reply to Re: Life sucks » HermanMunster, posted by SDA on November 29, 2004, at 4:30:54
Our right to complain about our state of affairs is what makes us human.
Tell a person to suffer and to shut up about it and I'll show you somebody who's really messed up.
Those are the people who really snap, the ones who live through hell and don't feel they have the right to complain about it.
I think what you said was nasty and inaprropriate.
Linkadge
Posted by lostforwards on November 29, 2004, at 9:27:58
In reply to Well excuse me !!!!!, posted by linkadge on November 29, 2004, at 9:17:15
I agree. I read it...that guy went WAY over the line.
I was going to write you earlier in response to "What makes me so angry is not that I have it so bad, but that others have it so good" to you that being depressed , at least once, may have an upside. It may give you insights and sensitivities that other people don't experience. Better than being the blissfully ignorant bimbo-teenybopper ( figuratively speaking ) in my opinion.
Maybe some others don't have it so good, if you know what I mean.
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