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Originally Posted by Rose76
I feel sick physically now. But I think mental stress is behind it. My eyes are very sore. Two optometrists saw me and said it will go away. Now I have intestinal cramping. I was real sick this past summer with diverticulitis. I was septic. It was awful. The GI specialist told me to avoid stress.
I feek like I need something to calm me down. I'm going back to bed. I'm trying to care for myself.
I'm getting sick. Nausea. Simething's wring with me.
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Originally Posted by East17
@ Rose76 please stop beating yourself up. It sounds as though you are physically unwell and also suffering depression wise. They will each have an effect on the other. It is not wrong to ask for a bit of emotional support when feeling as low as you are right now. If people don't feel able to respond they won't, and if they do respond it's because they want to and because they care.
I hope you can give yourself some grace. We all support others here when we can, and we all need that support ourselves at times too.
I hope you feel better soon.
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Getting physically sick has made me feel I need to not expect much of myself tonight. I do think my GI issues and psych issues are aggravating each other. I feel like asking for help at my clinic. But I know the drill. They'll say, "What is it you think we can do for you?"
My clinic is affiliated with a big psych facility that does both inpatient and outpatient. The whole system is state university operated. The psych part is pretty awful.
I have no direct access to an MD. My primary is a physician's assistant. She's nice, but she told me once that she's not really there to handle psych issues.
I think I need to talk to a doctor about how I'm getting overwhelmed by my combination of physical and psych problems. No such doctor is available to me.
Last month, a medical assistant did a depression screening eval on me. I don't know why they bother. I was saying I had wordening depression. She just kept typing my answers. Then it just gets put in a file.
I went to see a surgeon because the gastroenterology clinic thought I needed major surgery. At the surgery clinic the M.A. did an alcohol abuse screening eval with me. They do that on everyone over and over. I have no history of alcohol or drug abuse. Next time I'm going to say I drink a quart of vodka and a fifth of bourbon every day . . . just to see what happens. I feel like I can't really talk to anyone because no one will listen.