[Seafarer]

If you have any experience with this SSRI, will you please discuss it with me? It's helping me with my anxiety and phobias but I'm scared that it's making me less tolerant of some issues where I live. I don't know if it's a natural reaction to management concerns, or if the SSRI is making me less patient.

Please help.

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When you say less tolerant; I assume you mean things agitate you more?

[Seafarer]

Not agitated, just fed up. Prozac has been making me less irritable with daily irritants like loud noisy neighbors.
But recently the management at my senior apartment building have decided to do some major renovations over Christmas. They could have done this work months ago but decided to do it over Christmas, when they will be taking vacation days but we tenants who live here will be at home. So we have elevators locked off for the work crews, which means very long waits and a lot of advance planning when you want to take the elevator. So that is our holiday -- Christmas and Chanukah and Kwanzaa -- disrupted.
Today they held a Christmas party for us in the social center. I waited nearly 15 minutes for the elevator to come to my floor, and when it finally came it was so full I could barely get in. At the same time, staff members were wheeling shopping carts in and out of the elevator delivering Christmas goody bags, maintenance men were trying to get from floor to floor, dogs wanted to be walked, and the one working elevator was stopping at almost every single floor.
When it FINALLY got to the lobby, our way to the party room was blocked by a Santa Claus posing for a group photo with a bunch of people.
Just little irritants, but they have been building up and building up. Yesterday I wanted to go to our social hour -- another long elevator delay -- only to get to the lobby and learn the social hour had been canceled at the last minute, with no notice.
Today I left home early to get to the party to get a seat, only to be held up so long by the elevator and the group posing for the photo that when I finally got there there were no seats left and I had lost my party mood. So it took me another 10 minutes to get back up to my floor and go home.
I just wonder if I should feel irritated by it all or if the Prozac should make me not care.

[SoliloquyStandard]

Originally Posted by Seafarer

Not agitated, just fed up. Prozac has been making me less irritable with daily irritants like loud noisy neighbors.
But recently the management at my senior apartment building have decided to do some major renovations over Christmas. They could have done this work months ago but decided to do it over Christmas, when they will be taking vacation days but we tenants who live here will be at home. So we have elevators locked off for the work crews, which means very long waits and a lot of advance planning when you want to take the elevator. So that is our holiday -- Christmas and Chanukah and Kwanzaa -- disrupted.
Today they held a Christmas party for us in the social center. I waited nearly 15 minutes for the elevator to come to my floor, and when it finally came it was so full I could barely get in. At the same time, staff members were wheeling shopping carts in and out of the elevator delivering Christmas goody bags, maintenance men were trying to get from floor to floor, dogs wanted to be walked, and the one working elevator was stopping at almost every single floor.
When it FINALLY got to the lobby, our way to the party room was blocked by a Santa Claus posing for a group photo with a bunch of people.
Just little irritants, but they have been building up and building up. Yesterday I wanted to go to our social hour -- another long elevator delay -- only to get to the lobby and learn the social hour had been canceled at the last minute, with no notice.
Today I left home early to get to the party to get a seat, only to be held up so long by the elevator and the group posing for the photo that when I finally got there there were no seats left and I had lost my party mood. So it took me another 10 minutes to get back up to my floor and go home.
I just wonder if I should feel irritated by it all or if the Prozac should make me not care.

I'm on 80mg of Prozac, so if you wanna discuss it, I'm your girl!

Honestly, I would be irritated at the situation you described as well. I personally don't think it has anything to do with the medication; it is normal to get irritated sometimes, especially in a situation like yours. What isn't normal is flying off the handle about it or treating people bad about it, but grumbling to yourself and huffing a big breath of irritation for having to spend SO LONG waiting around for this elevator seems a pretty generic and accurate reaction to me.

Are there stairs you could take instead of the elevator?

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I agree^^^ sounds legitimately irritating lol

[Seafarer]

Originally Posted by SoliloquyStandard

I'm on 80mg of Prozac, so if you wanna discuss it, I'm your girl!

Honestly, I would be irritated at the situation you described as well. I personally don't think it has anything to do with the medication; it is normal to get irritated sometimes, especially in a situation like yours. What isn't normal is flying off the handle about it or treating people bad about it, but grumbling to yourself and huffing a big breath of irritation for having to spend SO LONG waiting around for this elevator seems a pretty generic and accurate reaction to me.

Are there stairs you could take instead of the elevator?

Thank you. I think I'm on 10mg right now; I've been on it for nearly a year, with some changes to Buspar and back to Prozac, after a fail at another SSRI.

There are stairs here, but like many other tenants I can't do stairs, especially as I am 12 floors up. I'm about ready to ask my doctor for enough Klonopin to get me through next week, but I doubt she'd do it and I don't doubt I'd be scared to take it! I have found that a slug of bourbon in a Diet Coke takes the edge off and doesn't cause the headache that a slug of muscato in cranberry juice does.

I was grumbling to some neighbors in the elevator yesterday. I"m not the only tenant who grumbles occasionally about the mismanagement.

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I live in a senior building too. When one elevator breaks or someone is moving in or out it can be very difficult.

I am on a higher floor than 1w.

Awhile back we went through a year of major renovations and everyone had difficulties with it although afterward we were very glad of the results.

Renovations are hatd to live through at any time.

I was not on prozac then but on a different ssri. However the problem was getting through the renovations, not my med.

[Seafarer]

Originally Posted by neverending

I live in a senior building too. When one elevator breaks or someone is moving in or out it can be very difficult.

I am on a higher floor than 1w.

Awhile back we went through a year of major renovations and everyone had difficulties with it although afterward we were very glad of the results.

Renovations are hatd to live through at any time.

I was not on prozac then but on a different ssri. However the problem was getting through the renovations, not my med.

Thank you for posting about that. I'm sorry you had all that stress, but selfishly it's good to know it isn't just happening at my place.

Another attack this morning -- something that never before has happened -- the mail carrier brought me a package but for some reason instead of leaving it, or leaving me the usual VM message, he took it away with him and I knew nothing about it for several hours. Now a "government" office is being brought into the insane script that is being written in my world and as soon as I turn to fight back in one quarter I am attacked on another flank.