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Old Nov 06, 2017, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Rose76 View Post
I am sliding and sliding down. I want to ask for help, but I don't expect there to be any. In the past, when I've gone to the local psych facility, they'll say, "So what is it you think we can do for you?" It sounds more like, "Whada u want from us?" So I haven't gone there in a few years. Probably not in four years.

I take Elavil 50 mg every evening. It's a tricyclic and about the only thing that ever helped. I tried a dozen different drugs back around 2010 - 2012. Went in-patient, etc. I gave up on all that and just went back on taking only the Elavil. I take some Vicodin for moderate soreness of various bodily aches and pains. That seems to actually help my mental state as well.

My sleeping is screwed up. My eating is screwed up. I'm awful tired. Every morning I wake up deep in the quagmire. It can take the whole day to get out of it. Today I never got out of it.

I'm desperate to shake this off. I think maybe if I was ordered a stimulant in the morning. I don't have any real faith that anything is going to help. But it couldn't hurt to try something.

I have frequent bouts of feeling well. When I feel well, I feel quite well. I go into that state on a regular basis. Yesterday I was trimming the rose bushes outside. So I was doing pretty good just last night. But I keep sliding down. I'm neglecting things . . . like I haven't looked at my mail in weeks.

I'm being irresponsible. There's stuff in that mail that's important.

Even just to talk to someone who'ld understand. Not that I want therapy. I did that to death for many years.

I feel like, "What's the use? No one is going to understand or want to try anything with me."

I'm tired of the TV on from dawn to midnight daily. But my bf watched it all the time. If I tell him I am not doing well, he'll just say, "You'll be fine." Living feels miserable like this.
As I said, I had not been on in a long while except off n on - until yesterday. So I had not read this.

I am comparing this to the one I read earlier today and wondering - could it possibly be the verbal insults n etc that has been making you so tired n just wearing you down? I know it does that to me, and the longer it goes on throughout the day or week or month - the worse the exhaustion n lack of "giving two flips" about anything you are supposed to be doing gets.

I also know what it is to have a doctor look at you and say "what do you want me to do about it?" Last time one told me that I told him the truth - "I don't know, you're the one with the medical degree, not me!" Didn't phase him one bit though, he just told me to go home n take some over the counter meds. So yea - the way I figure it now - unless I can tell em what is wrong with me and how to fix it - it isn't worth the gas.

You n I appear to have a lot in common - but I truly do not think it is your meds that are making your problems better or worse. In my view - the situation you are in makes them worse, your strength and determination makes it better at times. You are stronger than you know.
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