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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Realizing you need to be on medication |
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TwilightPrincess wrote: Mirtazapine is what I take for sleep. It’s helped me a lot over the past few years.
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad it's working for you ok. Hoping it will help my sleep too. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Realizing you need to be on medication |
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| I recently was in the ER due to an anxiety attack pushing me into dangerous levels of blood pressure. They had to give me Ativan to bring my heart rate down. My anxiety was extreme from October to mid January. I'm back on meds prescribed for anxiety. Mine is an antipsychotic, anxiety is an off-labe... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What’s your political compass? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:20 pm
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Mine kind of surprised me. I think I've changed a little bit. Thank you for sharing TwilightPrincess! Very neat test!
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: For anything Star Trek |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:06 pm
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I just found this and thought it was pretty great  Whoever came up with this was a genius.
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Images in Numbers |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:22 am
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Favorite movie scenes |
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Posted: Yesterday, 2:37 am
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Always loved this scene from the movie "Back to School" made in 1986 with Rodney Dangerfield.
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Realizing you need to be on medication |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025, 8:44 pm
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| I recently was in the ER due to an anxiety attack pushing me into dangerous levels of blood pressure. They had to give me Ativan to bring my heart rate down. My anxiety was extreme from October to mid January. I'm back on meds prescribed for anxiety. Mine is an antipsychotic, anxiety is an off-labe... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Realizing you need to be on medication |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025, 8:39 pm
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| My thoughts: I don’t see mental health medications any differently than I see medications for physical conditions, like high BP. Some of us need them; others don’t. Some need them temporarily, others permanently. There’s nothing wrong with that whatsoever. It’s about finding what works for you. I w... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Realizing you need to be on medication |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025, 8:32 pm
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| Good luck! I had a lot of anxiety a few months ago and couldn't sleep for about a month but fortunately it went away. I saw my PCP about it and she suggested some non-prescription pills to take. Most likely I just needed more time. I think it was helpful knowing that medications were available shou... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Realizing you need to be on medication |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025, 8:31 pm
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| I'm beginning to realize that I really do need to be on anxiety medication. My body is in constant fight or flight mode. I have panic attacks lying down in bed many nights. I notice Ativan definitely helps. I definitely need medication probably for life unfortunately. I just hope I can find the rig... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Realizing you need to be on medication |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025, 8:27 am
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babybird wrote: Yeah you've gotta do what you've gotta do man and there's no shame in that
Going through something similar myself so you're not alone
Thank you, babybird! You are absolutely right  Hope everything gets better for you as well! |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Realizing you need to be on medication |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025, 3:25 am
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| just my experience, Low dose tranqs , strong allergy med. attention to colon bacteria, acidophilus type products to balance gut flora . possibly clean diet . Helped me alot .. non drowsy allergy med during the day, might try it out? Personal experience : with Mucinex allergy tablets, Blue and white... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: Make a Movie/TV reference |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025, 3:02 am
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Aspiegaming wrote: You can't win, Rock! You're 60 years old!
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Forum: The Haven Topic: scale of -10 to +10, how do you feel right now? |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025, 2:45 am
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| 2, I'm scared of having a stroke or a heart attack. It's been causing me to have panic attacks thinking about it. |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: What’s on your mind? The Haven version. |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025, 2:37 am
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| I have some trauma surrounding death and think I need to find a good therapist to process it with. I found out my cholesterol on Friday is high at 244. It's been scaring me some. I need to make some changes but it's hard when you just aren't used to eating certain foods. I've had those issues since... |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Realizing you need to be on medication |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2025, 2:30 am
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| I'm beginning to realize that I really do need to be on anxiety medication. My body is in constant fight or flight mode. I have panic attacks lying down in bed many nights. I notice Ativan definitely helps. I definitely need medication probably for life unfortunately. I just hope I can find the righ... |
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