Good evening comrades and welcome to your weekly mental health thread. This is the last week of the year, how is everyone doing? How was your year? How was your Christmas?
I’m hardly the first person to say it but my year has been an absolute shitshow. I don’t expect for things to go back to normal in 2021 but I’m looking forward to a new start. I’ve still managed to make some progress this year, which is good.
Right now I’m having time off from work and I’m struggling to relax. I’m always thinking about what I should do instead what I want to do. I thought that I would feel well if I did all the things I’m supposed to do but I still kinda feel like ass. So I guess I should just relax and do what I want to do sometimes. The struggle continues.
Feel like shit. Sleepy as shit for no reason. Life is meaningless.
At least I get a 3 day weekend with new years.
You ever have like… rebound depression after talking with friends/family? Like you’re feeling kinda sad, and then you go hang out/talk on the phone with/video call with some people that are important to you and it’s great, you’re just happy to see them and talk to them, and then it ends and like… as soon as it ends, as soon as you hang up or walk away or whatever, the world just falls down on top of you like a building falling down on your head?
Yeah haha me neither.
A bad depression episode threw me off track with my sleep schedule and exercise, and I haven’t had the energy to get back on it, which is a huge bummer.
I’ve managed two days in a row with zero suicidal thoughts, which is cool. Just wish my “good days” were consistent enough for me to accomplish anything, though.
All of my days where I’m not suicidal, I’m still recovering from the depressive episode I just went through. It’s extremely discouraging and this fact makes me feel like I’ll never break out of this cycle or have it at a manageable level. That might not be true, but I can’t help but feel that way.
This is exactly where I’ve been for years. As you saw, I’m just starting to experiment with antidepressant medications and have yet to find one that works for me. You’re not alone in going through this.
I find that therapy helps a lot, not to fix or eliminate those thoughts, but at least to cope with them. And getting outside.
I started Zoloft and it gave me a psychotic episode and turned my dick numb ;'0
Got a new script for Prozac but really afraid of another pill that might give me hallucinations and paranoia while destroying any chance of physical intimacy
