Anyone suffer from insomnia, depression, or anxiety?

[snowborder714]

Ok, I cleaned the thread up and am reopening it. It was going well for a while, so I think it'll be ok as long as people stay on topic.

If anyone else wanders off topic, warnings/suspensions will be handed out. The site rules are easy to read and follow, so please do so and don't make me ask you twice.

 

[XiKeiyaZI]

Ok, I cleaned the thread up and am reopening it. It was going well for a while, so I think it'll be ok as long as people stay on topic.

If anyone else wanders off topic, warnings/suspensions will be handed out. The site rules are easy to read and follow, so please do so and don't make me ask you twice.

^_^ Appreciate it. It seems like a good thread with good intentions. Some of us are just a little outspoken.

 

[Zex4g63]

I'm 37 and have been dealing with all this for years and years. I take nothing anymore. Many years ago they gave me some different prescriptions but I could not stand the side effects. So I quit taking anything and just live my life. My daughter has helped me more than anything. I think it helps to have something postive to focus on and live your life for. That's what she does for me.

 

[XiKeiyaZI]

I'm 37 and have been dealing with all this for years and years. I take nothing anymore. Many years ago they gave me some different prescriptions but I could not stand the side effects. So I quit taking anything and just live my life. My daughter has helped me more than anything. I think it helps to have something postive to focus on and live your life for. That's what she does for me.

This is what I believe.

We all have our demons... and though it may be an inbalance of chemicals that causes mental depression and anxiety disorders... you don't have to buckled into the beliefe that the only help you're going to get is medication. I've seen countless people destroyed because they are thought to believe that without that medication, they will never be 'normal' or worse.. can't live. I've a strong dislike towards regular medication for the fear of addiction and the hatred of it. The reason I was an orphan? Well.. I'm sure you can figure that out...otherwise I wouldn't be so agaisnt the above stated.

There are many things that you can heal just through determination, and I think that depression is one of them. The quoted post is a great example. ^^ Focus on something that matters to you.. and do the best you can for it. When you realize how happy it makes whatever you're working for (be it family, a child, or even your car expressing that it's happy by running great) then you lose that sense of depression because you made someone/something else happy.

 

[dsmdeliveryboy]

I tried coming off all medicine and dealing with it on my own, the main problems I was having was insomnia and anxiety at night time and waking up in the middle of the night in really bad sweats which would make it even more discouraged.. I need to find a psychiatrist to go to.

 

[laserspeeddemon]

BTW, I take Zolpedium (same as Ambien/Lunesta/etc.) and I was put on Citalopram for depression a few weeks ago, I don't really take the Citalopram, but when I did, it gave me more energy.

 

[98GSXin]

I think that the only way to get over depression is to change your outlook on life. Before the depression, you were probably perfectly normal and had no complaints. Since then, something has changed you and is starting to eat away at your very being. You have to find a way to be stronger than that. You have to overcome whatever it is that is holding you back from living your normal life. I'm not saying it will be easy, but once you identify what caused the depression, you have to find something good in life to counteract the negative feelings that have arisen lately. Like if life was on a balance, and you are holding on to negative things and a haunted past on your left side and your happy memories and positive things on the right side, which are you leaning towards. All the emphasis on the negative things in life that are typically out of your control anyways will only drag you down. Nothing should be able to stop you from living life the way you want to, so you should get out there and do your best to be better and stronger than anything negative that gets in your way.

 

[dsmdeliveryboy]

BTW, I take Zolpedium (same as Ambien/Lunesta/etc.) and I was put on Citalopram for depression a few weeks ago, I don't really take the Citalopram, but when I did, it gave me more energy.

I took the Zolpidem last night, made me crash out but I still woke up around 3 and had trouble falling back asleep. Once I fell back asleep and woke up this morning I had felt like I drank 5 cups of coffee, I was shaking and everything felt unrealistic.

 

[Clinical]

seriously try tylenol pm

 

[dsmdeliveryboy]

seriously try tylenol pm

It isn't as simple as taking Tylenol PM

 

[ramsack]

Drugs don't work on me. The illegal herb never made me tired, just kept me focused on one thing and kept me up, like Adderal, but not for days. Alcohol just makes me even more sad and worthless, doesn't put me to sleep. Can't pass out, either. Pills of any form are just retarded and more addictive than all street drugs less than heroin.

 

[gixrman]

I crashed my motorcycle alittle over a yr. ago and was paralized on my left side for about 3mnths and had a naste TBI(tramatic brain injury) after I was run over by a Range Rover. They put me on Lexapro and started me in threapy. I'm off the meds and the biggest help for me was things that take your mind off of thinking about daily activities. Exersize for rehab worked for me and lets me sleep because I'm exhuasted, so now I spend hours in the gym. I had crazy nightmares for awhile and constant thoughts of death and dying and yes how shrt life is. Which makes me crazy about completing goals now in record time. I created my own bucket list and shoot for that.

For me it's focusing on the positives and goals, when I start to go down I just start a new project. And yes talking to someone is one of the best advise I can give, have a mentor. Its hard but if you don't try something you can't say you failed at it ether.

 

[XiKeiyaZI]

I crashed my motorcycle alittle over a yr. ago and was paralized on my left side for about 3mnths and had a naste TBI(tramatic brain injury) after I was run over by a Range Rover. They put me on Lexapro and started me in threapy. I'm off the meds and the biggest help for me was things that take your mind off of thinking about daily activities. Exersize for rehab worked for me and lets me sleep because I'm exhuasted, so now I spend hours in the gym. I had crazy nightmares for awhile and constant thoughts of death and dying and yes how shrt life is. Which makes me crazy about completing goals now in record time. I created my own bucket list and shoot for that.

For me it's focusing on the positives and goals, when I start to go down I just start a new project. And yes talking to someone is one of the best advise I can give, have a mentor. Its hard but if you don't try something you can't say you failed at it ether.

That's a good idea! Goals are the best thing you can focus on. ^^

But I have to say.. I dislike the whole "life is short" statement everyone uses. Life isn't short.. It's the LONGEST thing you do. Lol. ^^; Childhood statement.

 

[dsmdeliveryboy]

I workout a lot, and have since high school and it doesn't seem to help like it used to.

 

[ramsack]

Ya can't just change like flipping a switch. When life gives you shit all the time and you are a piece of shit it's impossible to just change. Goals are another thing. I have no goals. I don't like doing anything anymore because nothing yields anything beneficial to me, in form of monetary profit or getting laid. Any time I ever had goals and actually tried, I failed, because life wouldn't let me. I believe AND see that you are born with a certain status in life, of what you are, if you have people, if you will have money, and just the ability to amount to anything. Looks also play probably a 90% role in amounting to anything. Everyone tells me life is what you make it. I call bullshit. I tried being positive, failed, and would rather life would just kill me and put me out of my misery.

 

[gixrman]

Then find something else. Work on your car, start a new hobby, go back to school. Think about what your good at or an intrest you have. Anything but just sitting there and doing nothing, just make it positive. Change up your workout. I used to just to weight training and then started doing METCON (crossfit)exersices, take up CQC(close quarters combat). That will show you how weak you really are, make you a pyle of poo.

Ya can't just change like flipping a switch. When life gives you shit all the time and you are a piece of shit it's impossible to just change. Goals are another thing. I have no goals. I don't like doing anything anymore because nothing yields anything beneficial to me, in form of monetary profit or getting laid. Any time I ever had goals and actually tried, I failed, because life wouldn't let me. I believe AND see that you are born with a certain status in life, of what you are, if you have people, if you will have money, and just the ability to amount to anything. Looks also play probably a 90% role in amounting to anything. Everyone tells me life is what you make it. I call bullshit. I tried being positive, failed, and would rather life would just kill me and put me out of my misery.

Thats BS!
Then go talk to some war veterns, voilent crime victims, people with missing body parts, yes there will be some that give up but there will be others that prosper. life isn't fair or easy you make the choice to do everything, if your hungry you eat. Go to a third world country and see what choices they have.

 

[ramsack]

Thats BS!
Then go talk to some war veterns, voilent crime victims, people with missing body parts, yes there will be some that give up but there will be others that prosper. life isn't fair or easy you make the choice to do everything, if your hungry you eat. Go to a third world country and see what choices they have.

Going nuts is easy. That IS like flipping a switch. Getting back is not. You are making my point that your life is going to be what is predetermined. People in third world countries are born into it, and die in it, and young. I could give 2 shits about anyone else in the world anymore. Life isn't cruel, people are cruel, and make life hell.

 

[SpawnedX]

So, I thought with Bank of America out of my career life things would get better for me. I guess BOA had other plans, they reduced my final paycheck down to a useless 238.41. Claiming they are recouping for sick time and vacation time.

This is what makes it hard for some of us to get over it. Now I have to see what they can and can't legally do. Then fight it in court. Then wait for the money. Hoping to have the bills covered before I find more work. Hoping I can get unemployment. A lot of violent things have gone through my mind about this, without saying anything that could get me arrested. This is what depression does to you.

 

[dsm-onster]

Your conscience is working in your favor buddy. The alternatives you've thought of never ultimately work out for you the end. But, even crashing financially can help one be a better person. Not that there is anything wrong with you at all. I don't know you. But regardless of how hard it is or will be, you can learn from it and come out better.

Going nuts is easy. That IS like flipping a switch. Getting back is not. You are making my point that your life is going to be what is predetermined. People in third world countries are born into it, and die in it, and young. I could give 2 shits about anyone else in the world anymore. Life isn't cruel, people are cruel, and make life hell.

I came from poverty as a child and now own both the houses in my name free and clear, and did this before 30 (if you don't believe me I'll post a picture of the official copies of deeds filed ). No, I'm not wealthy by any stretch. But you can control your life. It is NOT predetermined, unless you are willing to float at it's whim. That's what you seam to be saying you're doing. So of course things arn't going to work out with you. No one is wanting to go down stream in life, unless they saw the rapids and gave up. or lost their boat. But even then you can learn how to keep your boat by losing it and start over.

Yes it's hard as he!! But you have to want more than tail and money to be happy. Plain and simple. You can find SOMETHING of value to you other than that. I know you're mature enough to do so

 

[dsmdeliveryboy]

Then find something else. Work on your car, start a new hobby, go back to school. Think about what your good at or an intrest you have. Anything but just sitting there and doing nothing, just make it positive. Change up your workout. I used to just to weight training and then started doing METCON (crossfit)exersices, take up CQC(close quarters combat). That will show you how weak you really are, make you a pyle of poo.

I'm going to school full-time right now for ASE certification, i have hobbies, and I work on my car almost everyday. I even started playing frisbee golf in hopes that it would help by going and walking around etc but people that have never truly suffered from depression/anxiety will never understand how it is. Even if you push yourself towards something, your body and mind want to hold you back.

 

[ramsack]

But you have to want more than tail and money to be happy.

That's all I need to be happy. I am shedding friends and "loved ones"/family on purpose. It is crap and those people make me miserable. I am more or so depressed because I am broke, have been since I was 18, which matters 100% for getting laid.

 

[gixrman]

I'm going to school full-time right now for ASE certification, i have hobbies, and I work on my car almost everyday. I even started playing frisbee golf in hopes that it would help by going and walking around etc but people that have never truly suffered from depression/anxiety will never understand how it is. Even if you push yourself towards something, your body and mind want to hold you back.

Your right, alot of people don't understand. It is tough and even tougher trying to get them to understand, I would cry myself to sleep in the hospital night after night with that "worst case scerio" BS that doctors came in and told me. I was like WTF am I going to do now. But honestly anger helped me, when I felt hopeless and lost I got mad. And I would look around at the people that were in the brain injury ward with me and how F'd up they were and go your lucky you could be like that. I know that sounds cruel but thats how I survived.

 

[XiKeiyaZI]

That's all I need to be happy. I am shedding friends and "loved ones"/family on purpose. It is crap and those people make me miserable. I am more or so depressed because I am broke, have been since I was 18, which matters 100% for getting laid.

And here's where I get looked at funny. All forum-related history aside.

You sound a lot like a pathetic kid I knew at 15. He acted like shit, his life was shit, didn't fit in with anyone, and most likely looked like shit. He had no self confidence and the only thing that kept him going was the possibility of growing more hatred for everyone around him with each passing day. He blew off steam by getting suspended constantly through fighting, being a complete smartass, and showing off because he could correct his teacher on a '1 correct per 2 minutes' basis. He had no friends, no family, no money, no girlfriend, nothing. Why? Because that kid was me.

Your life is not 'predetermined' by the way you were brought into this world. That is the biggest and most pathetic cop-out I've ever heard in my life, and frankly, I'd like to backhand the shit out of you for that. Not because I don't like you, because all you've done during my time here is help me, but because if you'd had such a shit life then you SHOULD have learned by now that being pathetic is not the answer. I PROMISE I could compair facts with you all day long and come out with the shittier life. I came into this world with a drug-addicted mother who died of cancer, a no-show father, and an abusive replacement. My biological 'family' disowned me on the basis that they didn't like my mother.

You know what I did about it? I manned the fvck up. I learned in my teen years that if you want to be something, then be something. You DO have a choice to live as you want. Looks have shit to do with it. I'm not the greatest looking guy in the world and I have a wonderful woman. I've got friends who look like cow-shit who are dating model-quality. Women aren't a damned thing, infact, I could live the rest of my life alone because those goals that I set for myself are what brough me to the point in life where I am, and the last thing I'll do is dishonor something like that.

Severing emotional ties is all good and dandy, I know. It's the best feeling in the world to be able to look at someone who loves you in the face while they're bawling and just smirk at them because you hate everything about them, but if you don't use it the right way then it's your problem.

So. My advice to you? You're depressed over petty shit. This is life. Life is a challenge. Bloat up your pride and the next time life tosses you on your face, get up, smirk at the situation, and ask " Oh, I'm sorry.. is that all you've got? " Following my own advice, and coming from a shit lifestyle.. I also own a home, choice animals, a RUNNING DSM, 2 other cars, and pull in a nice sum of cash every week because I enjoy showing other people up when I can... thus making me better at my job and, well, anything that I choose to be good at.

Take it from someone who had the same thought process as you years ago. If not, well... let your heart sink into your stomache as you realize that you're just a human pile of worthless flesh and there's nothing you can do about it. On the other hand.. I'll continue proving that idea wrong.

 

[ramsack]

Comparing situations is kinda dumb. Everyone has their own, and each is different, not worse or better. I really would rather just die. I really have no goals. I don't want to do anything. I am losing interest in anything because it requires money or effort. If you are ugly like me you are seen as creepy. At least where I'm from, which is messed up because it's kind of a crap area. I'd think I would get treated like that more in a big city. Especially with no social skills to interact in person with people, which you can't just learn this late in life. I own nothing, a computer, a phone, and a car. I will never be a man or know about being a man because I was raised by a female. At this point in life you can't ask people about things like that, you just get laughed at and deserted.

 

[Locke]

As a teenager I was diagnosed with depression. They put me on Prozac which did seem to bring normalcy back to my life, but I had the worst time sleeping... for years. Sometime around age 17 I asked the psychiatrist about taking me off of the stuff, and he instead doubled my dosage. I never filled the updated prescription, took myself off, and have felt great ever since. I don't know if I "grew out" of the depression, or if perhaps it was something during my life at the time and was not chronic as they were suggesting. At that time I just felt that they were stealing my money.

Not only have I felt fine since then, but I've been able to sleep well and life is great.

My non-Dr. suggestions for dealing with depression would be to start doing something you enjoy, then excel at it. Also, it probably is not wise to take yourself off the meds, as I did. This would probably be detrimental to those with serious or chronic depression.

I even started playing frisbee golf [...]

Disc golf is awesome.