Posted by Vincent_QC on September 15, 2010, at 17:30:51
In reply to sad and frustrated, posted by Maxime on September 10, 2010, at 12:33:00
> I am always looking for the right med. Maybe I will go 6 months without changing one. That doesn't mean that I am not depressed for those six months, but it means that I can live it even though I am in pain.
>Hi Maxime,
Can I know what is your diagnostic exactly?I think we all looking for the right meds but it's hard to find the good one... So I really understand your frustrations and sadness, I feel the same as you... same situation as you, and often hopeless, but i'm working on those bad emotions... i'm not depress but very anxious (panic, social phobia, agoraphobia as well as many chronic anxiety symptoms who just make my life miserable)...
> Later, I do need changes to my cocktail. Try this, or try that. I do what I am told, except with the lithium. And then a whole bunch of side effects have to be taken care.
>I also understand that... side-effects suck... and try too many meds can be also destabilising and worse the initial problem, that's what happen to me...
> I pain and side effects that doctors say are the result of meds, depression, or hormones. They never test to see which hormone ...
>
> Maybe I don't need to be on all my meds. Maybe I need hormone replacement. Or maybe I have adrenal fatigue.
>Oh boy, My Doc think the same, adrenal fatigue... too much cortisol, too much adrenaline... but can't RX test to see what happen to my adrenal glands, I think X-Ray can be done to see those glands no??? I only had blood tests for testosterone hormone level and it was higher than for a man of my age!!! lol I never understand that since I have no sexual life and no libido since more than 4 years... lol
> I just want to feel well. I am 41 years old and I feel like sh*t more of the time. Despite feeling this way, I have accomplised a lot ... I wonder what I would be able to do if I was well and not on pills ...Ask you that question... What is for you "feel well???"... We all have a different definition of "feeling well" or "well being"...
41 yo or 20 yo, what is the real difference...?
I'm 34yo, i'm on the wellfare since 3 years, didn't finish school, have no money, return live with my parents... and I can told you that I feel the same than you, I feel dependant from the others, I don't feel like i'm 34yo, I feel like i'm a child or a teenage, who is not normal for someone of 34 yo... I also feel sick every day...
Being anxiety free for me is something that I never live... And I often think about how it will be great to be able to go where I want to go, when I want to go, ALONE, and have fun and enjoy the other peoples, make friends without any anxiety symptoms. I dream of a normal life since a while...being free, travel, have a good work, have my house, having a normal life... the truth is that everyone is different and I think that a part of the psychological disorders are genetic (who can be treat with meds) and the other part come from the life experiences (good or bad), from the childhood to the adult life...and not well understood emotions, frustrations and other bad thoughts...
Anyway, good luck Max! ;-)
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