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Originally Posted by TerriLynn
I am going to say your errors and forgetfulness is caused probably by two things, depression can make it almost impossible to concentrate and remember things. And also the pot. You should see if being on an anti depressant makes it easier for you to not self medicate, cause that is what you are doing. I was doing the same with alcohol and have not had the desire to drink nearly so much since I got on the meds.
When I was battling depression the first time, many years ago, I messed up my finances completely! I was a single mom so there was no one there to help me out. I paid my rent twice, but got so behind on my car payment it was repossessed. On my birthday. But hey, I recovered and got my stuff together and it worked out fine. As will yours.
Here is a banking strategy that my husband and I use so that we don't ever have problems with bills bouncing or over spending. We have one checking account that our spending money goes into, and one checking account that our bills come out of, we transfer whatever money we need into the bill pay account and whats left is our spending money. Maybe something like that could help.
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I am on Welbutrin. Been almost three months now, about time to re-evaluate I guess.
And yeah that's pretty much what we do with our bank accounts too. For bills anyway, it almost always comes out of my account, but in the past year we've had enough left over that I could still use my card. We don't really split it by budget though. My boyfriend budgets in his head, and he's pretty good at it. He just has to make sure I stick to it.
I know I'm self-medicating, and today was my first day not smoking in the morning. It sucks. I was grumpy all morning, and usually I feel better after I eat lunch, but today I actually felt worse. I feel a headache coming on, and my mind is still a bit foggy.
Of course I'm grateful that this time I'm not just quitting cold-turkey though.. I've done that too, and it's horrible. Withdrawals, feeling like you're stoned when you're not, and not in a good way... Hopefully that won't happen this time.
The thing that makes it difficult to admit is that I'm not always self-medicating. I just like it. If I started drinking alcohol in the morning, I'd really know I had a problem, because I don't really like alcohol. So I could keep telling myself I could stop, I just didn't want to. But it's time... it will just be SO much easier when we have a car again, I never felt the need to smoke before work when I didn't have to get up 2 and a half hours before my shift.