Mental Health Thread • Page 432

Yeah that has always been my mentality but this is like life changing money for me so I’m kind of selling my soul.

 

I feel like it's a bunch of older out of touch people at the top that refuse to fathom a different type of work structure. And if they had to work out of an office and work a zillion hours a week, so does everyone else. When I moved to my current position I made it a point to set way more boundaries because at my old office I was working every holiday and tons of weekends. I was getting paid but I was exhausted. I don't want the constant overtime even if it's nice to get the extra money. I want a work life balance and my sanity.

 

As Limp Bizkit once said, “it’s just one of those days”.

Nothing bad happened, nothing amazing happened. Just one of those days that makes up hundreds to thousands of days in our lives but just woke up in a funk. It’s interesting how (working from home) no one will ever know I was in a funk today and who knows how many friends, family members, coworkers maybe were also in a funk today or will be tomorrow.

Just one of those days where I just felt slightly off and I’m excited to go to bed and try again tomorrow lol

 

Anyone have experience with Effexor? Transitioning off of Zoloft and onto that. I think the stimulant aspects will be good for my energy and focus, but I'm concerned about how different/worse the side effects could be (w/r/t sexual stuff and weight gain specifically). I've also heard horror stories about the withdrawals.

 

I'm on effexor. I've had no side effects I'm aware of. SSRIs never worked for me. They didn't make things worse but also didn't make things better so he wanted me to try a different class. Mine is a bit different because I take it along with mirtazapine for sleep, which my doctor said also increases the effectiveness of effexor. But I've def not had as severe depression/anxiety since being on it. I used to get a lot of dread and depression which sort of immobilized me and I'd lay on the couch a lot just sort of paralyzed with dread, and then made the cycle worse because I'd feel shame and guilt for being immobilized. But I haven't had those issues since being on effexor.

 

I’m on it. It helped at first but it’s been so long since I started that I can’t really notice anymore, if that makes sense?

I did try to go off it in 2019ish and holy shit I’ve never felt so insane in my life. I don’t know how else to describe it other than I truly thought I was losing my mind. My psych was like “well, that’s just some of your anxiety and depression coming back!” and let me tell you it was NOT that. I went right back on it and have been on it ever since and probably will be forever.

 

That sounds exactly how I felt last week when my Zoloft was doubled. Couldn't remember what I had done a few hours before, constantly disoriented, sleepy, itchy. Felt like I was going insane.

 

I was on Effexor for a few months but I was also not sober and on several illegal things so I truly have no idea what effect it had on me if any.

 

Effexor made me extremely on edge and irritable. I stopped taking it after a few weeks

 

Tbf half my day is meetings so I would get absolutely no work done in that situation lol

 

I literally have the worse luck. They’re renovating the apt upstairs and full on gut everything and they want to transfer me because they said it’s going to be super noisy and they worried about my cat. There’s no 1 bed avail and it will be a 2 which is a little more than 100 a month. I’m already struggling. The asst manager said she was gonna try to see if they’ll lower it a little. But just when I try to save, something goes way up

 

If they’re making you move they should charge you the same price for whatever apartment you move into.

 

If not compensate you in some way. That's bullshit.

 

Yeah hit em with that fuck you pay me.

 

Job fired me for taking a leave of absence to deal with the loss of my mother/adjusting to an SSRI. Had full paperwork, doctor's notes, approvals, and then 2 months AFTER I RETURN to work, they fire me sighting that some of the days were not excused. They told me I could reapply if I wanted lol. So now I am on unemployment with no clue wtf to do with my life. I swear, it is always something fucking you in this world.

 

That's so fucked. I'm really, really sorry.

 

The move is not voluntary. They have to pay the difference.

 

If you have doctors notes/paper work I would sue the fuck outta them

 

Agreed, I would check if it qualifies as lawful termination because it doesn't seem like it does.

Also I really like how they told you could potentially work there again as if you wanted to after they pulled shit like this.

Companies can get fucked.

 

They asked if I was willing to transfer. It’s not like something leaked and I had to so idk. They worked it out and I got a slightly bigger unit with everything included (w/d, w/s/g, pet rent) for a little less than what I’m paying now). I didn’t have a w/d before because I couldn’t afford it. The style of the unit isn’t exactly ideal of what I want, but it is less rent. I worry about my cat with all the noise if I were to stay. The unit is on the other side of the complex. I just hate that I have to move stuff

 

The way rentals and housing is handled today is just absurd. I can't believe this is the world we live in.

 

I would love to own a house one day. But I don’t see that for me ): it sucks more because being single means paying for everything on your own. And CA sucks ass and housing is out the ass

 

I’m on Long Island and the other day my best friend sent a Zillow listing to our group chat for the house across the street from her that sold for 1.4 MILLION. And then she went on about how happy she was her and her husband bought when they did (about 3 years ago for 900k). All while knowing I still live with my mom in an apartment lmao. I’m actually very proud of myself for not going off on her because what the fuck. Some people truly live in a different world.

 

We should just take everything back ourselves. This world is crazy.

 

So I saw the unit I’ll be transferring into. They’re going to fix it up with new carpets and paint, new bathroom vanity etc. the w/d is a European style and where it’s located basically takes away a huge portion of cabinet space. On top of that I’m loosing a bunch of storage space already and I hardly had any to begin with. I don’t feel like it’s much bigger except for the patio. So idk what I’m gonna do.