Mental Health Thread • Page 449

Grief def leads people to interesting paths. When my sisters ex husband got cancer the second time she got religious and was posting a lot about God and listening to Christian music and stuff. Now they're divorced and she and her bf wear upside down crosses and 666 stuff and she kinda pretends the religious phase never happened lol. My stance has always been as long as it's not hurting anyone. A few people in my life are into crystals. I'm not, but recently I had someone gift me one for protection and while I don't believe in it for that purpose I was touched at the thought and I keep it on my shelf as a reminder that someone cared to think of that for me. Same with an angel thing some coworkers got me when my grandma died. I'm an atheist but appreciate the sentiment and thought so I display it too

 

I was raised Lutheran, checked out of Christianity pretty early into high school and stayed that way until last month. With all of the medical costs my cat was going through and the two dog attacks on my parents requiring hospitalization, I felt totally helpless (and even angry with God for a time, read about misotheism a lot). At the end of the day, though, I started praying and whether that's a "real" thing or a mental/emotional thing for myself, it helped me. And now with my family growing, I intend to stay on that path, at least personally. I don't plan on badgering my wife or anyone else about it. I don't even plan on attending church necessarily (though if I do, I work at a Catholic university and can attend a short weekly mass during working hours). I just feel like it's something that has been beneficial to me and that personal relationship I have with whatever is up there has had a positive impact on my life, and that's more important than being loud or obnoxious about what anyone else believes.

 

Awesome. Religion can be a good thing. When politics get involved, like reproductive rights and LGBT issues…it’s not.

 

Yeah, any belief system that limits those things is not a belief system of mine. That's why I'm hesitant to even label it. It's just a personal relationship with faith that has improved my life.

 

my partner rediscovered her faith after her miscarriage and abortion in the same year and it has helped her deal with that trauma and loss immensely and I support her 100% and I almost wish I could find comfort in a higher power but after years being chewed up and spit out by 12 step programs I’m even more adverse to religion than I was before

 

Has anyone in here been prescribed Bupropion and feel like sharing their experience with it? I’m on day 2 of it right now.

 

I tried an extended release of it for a little while. Don't remember it doing a ton for me despite playing with different dosages.

Hopefully it works better for you.

 

my wife likes it

 

I will say that, for me at least, it's been fairly touch and go. At first I thought it wasn't doing much of anything so they upped my dosage and I felt the difference almost immediately. Then, however, I had a life situation come up that I felt like I just couldn't handle and I was pretty low again so they upped my dosage again and this time I think it was just too high for me. My hands were constantly shaking like crazy and eventually my restless leg syndrome was out of control. So we cut my dosage back to where we were before and I think that works fine for me. It was so bad that when I'd raise a spoon to my mouth, I could almost never get it into my mouth in time because everything would spill and I was starting to fear that I was developing early signs of Parkinsons (a fear of mine because my grandfather died of Parkinsons).

 

Thank you everyone. Hoping it helps. Started with 150mg the first week and 300 the next.

Been a long weekend. Feeling pretty low and struggling to keep myself together.

 

I hope it helps you! Finding that right med really isn’t fun nor is the start of it

 

This has been my experience too. I was on 450 for a long time, never really felt like it helped, now I’m down to 150 and taking 90 cymbalta instead and feeling better than I did on the 450 bupropion

 

Goddamn do I hate when people get pissy with you for not reading their mind

 

I started on just Lexapro and felt like it did not much for me at all, though I'm sure it has in the background. Adding Bupropion though was IMMEDIATE and has helped me tremendously. The first few days were very chaotic as my mood was a bit all over the place due to life events happening but as I got more used to it the benefits were massive

 

Was it for anxiety or depression? Or both

 

Yeah, the last couple days on it have felt like an emotional rollercoaster for me. Today is the first day I haven’t felt that range so it definitely seems to hopefully be balancing out.

 

both.

 

I can’t wait to get off Sublocade so I can start taking Zoloft again I just refuse to take them together since Sublocade is basically an opioid I just don’t like the way I feel on both. I don’t like the way sublocade makes me feel at all on its own but I need it in early recovery to keep my cravings in check (it’s a monthly injection basically the same thing as suboxone). But I really need to get back on my Zoloft because my emotions have been really out of whack lately and I’ve been swinging from extremes like crazy and just random shit makes me cry I haven’t cried as much in years as I have the last four months.

 

I’m a mess right now. My cat has to go into surgery. This whole vet visit cost me so much. I really don’t want to lose him

 

Hoping for all the best

 

me and my cat are sending love

 

On Lexapro and Vyvanse right now. It’s almost scary how quiet my mind is. I used to require music on at work to focus and now find myself not needing it at all, even on the drive home.

While I feel like this combo makes me a more pleasant partner and father and certainly better at my job, there’s a part of me that’s worried it will make me less “interesting” since my focus is now lasered on tasks at hand vs thinking outside the box (which is what I get paid to do as a consultant). I also worry it makes me less inclined to be creative, but I used to use creativity as a procrastination tactic. I would rather paint something than do laundry. I would rather play guitar than do the dishes. Now I do all the latter things first and then I see if I’m inspired to do the others. Sometimes I am and those are very fruitful, especially with music. And sometimes I realize I’m tired and my brain needs a break. That also never used to happen until my tank was bone dry.

 

Me and my wife got a gym membership for our whole family. Gotta say it’s been doing wonders for my mental health. I usually jog around my neighborhood but just interacting more with people had maybe made it better for me. Also I can go to multiple locations and they have awesome pools for the whole family to enjoy

 

My cat peed at the last min before surgery time so they’re going to wait on the surgery. If he blocks again then surgery will be needed since this was his second time . I hope he doesn’t block again.

 

fingers crossed for your kitty