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Blueberrybook · Oct 04, 2018, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Wild Coyote

It can be very challenging to not have an immediate reaction, especially when prone to anxiety/panic, as you know. I think your insights about this are right on.

It has taken me a long time, and a lot of practice, to learn to suspend immediate reactions. My meds help me with this. My pdoc says she often finds citalopram helps with managing reactivity. I have found this to be true for me.

I had to give up Adderall, which I use during deep, deep depressions. I had become mixed and the Adderall was making me even more anxious. Almost every day when I read your posts about panic/anxiety, I wonder if/how Adderall may be contributing to your anxiety? Just a thought, as we are all different.

I am hopeful your insights, combined with therapy, will be very helpful to you and to your family as well.

I know you have been looking for things to do with your daughter. How about a family game night with cards and/or board games? In my family, we had bonded a lot with one another quite a bit via playing board games. We still do play board games, cards and yard games.

We had also bonded through doing chores together, cooking together, playing sports together, etc.

Just throwing out a few ideas. I hope you and your daughter will feel increasingly bonded as time goes on.

WC

I wonder about the Adderall too though it finally does let me read again, which I've missed a lot and has given me better concentration.

I am mixed I think but feeling more depressed lately, too. Pdoc had to lower the Wellbutrin; it made me too forgetful. He mentioned possibly going back to Cymbalta, which did help me in the past. The other AD that helped was Effexor, and even though I did not have any side effects from it, I did go through the horror story of getting off Effexor many people know all too well. I don't know that I want to go through that again.

And the situation I'm in is panic inducing. There are days when even H has told me he's been feeling panicked and anxious all day. H does not have MI though I think he may have situational clinical depression and anxiety.

I'll see the pdoc next week Tuesday, see what he says then.

I'm going to ask my therapist about suggestions on approaching my daughter with activities. I am not a game person at all. Family game night would not be at all enjoyable for me. Even with board games, H and my daughter prefer games involving a lot of strategy, too much for me to follow with complicated rules. That would start me off stressed from the beginning.