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Blueberrybook · May 27, 2025, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Crazy Hitch

I can try but I don't believe he can change my meds. Mood wise I'm a 4/10 (with 0 being the worst and 10 being the best). If my mood drops to a 3 I'll definitely go, but I think the meds are stopping me from dropping lower.

Are you on a mood stabilizer? If not, maybe that would help. I don't know if you have a SAD lamp but it did wonders for my depression.

Possible trigger:

Last November I was to the poing of regretting we are probably within 1% of Texas households that do not own a gun. I really was depressed, wished I was dead, thought about OD and death constantly, I mean it was BAD.

But I finally added the SAD lamp my pdoc told me to use, and it was pretty much a miracle for me. I have never been so happy/stable since I can't remember. The downside is I have to use it at least 1 hr. and daily to get the benefits. If I skimp on the time or skip a day, I really feel it.

On the other hand, if I were teaching classes as horrible as yours, I'd find myself depressed, panicked and anxious too. So it may be situational and it might just be you need out of the situation to help.