This is day 5 on my new medication regimen (Effexor and Seroquel), a complete switch from the Strattera/Lexapro combo I was on. I still feel low energy and today I was anxious while running the errands I'd taken the day off work from to do. I just felt grey and blah, kind of like the weather. It is humid, like it wants to rain, and it is almost stifling.

I am working hard on being patient. I get very impatient and down on myself when I'm down and waiting to feel better. I start to worry that I'm always going to feel like this, which I know from past experience is a lie. I am trying to focus on the basics like getting my kids fed and to school, and my job. There isn't much left over at the end of all of that, and the best part of my day lately has been when it is finally dark out, the kids are down for the night, and I can get cozily into my safe spot, my bed, and just read, or just lie there with my eyes closed.