Hope this is not taken the wrong way. I have had a host of things that have happened within a short period of time. As most all know, that are on my page as a friend I am rather authentic on here. I write on here in a way that is either to friends or friends of friends. As I feel very comfortable with you all.
This last year, especially these last few months I have had many things that have taken place. I am never one to complain. I just feel that it's worth it to say it. With all the things that have happened over especially the last four month, I of recent have been seeing a therapist. I am on what is called an anti depressant that is for stress. Just two days ago I met with this specialist and I have been placed on this. I am sure that over the last year that most all can see that I have really had some situations that have taken place. Right now I am adjusting to this medication which is called Zoloft and I am not driving all that much, I am rather home bound for a while till the side effects leave. I asked the "shrink" what I would be categorized as - as my one major was psychology and he indicated that I have had all too much take place within a short period of time. As well, that I will be back not not being stressed out as I did come to be after the last accident and as well with the amount of family matter.
Now I am not any different that what I was before, this is a time for me that I do enjoy writing, I like to balance everything out and I am not some fracture insane case as all too often people will jump the gun on areas that are with regards to mental health. I remember one friend by the name of Lucija mentioning here sorry when there was an other situation that came about with my mother. So with all this said, I just wished to say, I am one that truly am working on getting my health together. At the same time, I have been over stressed in so many areas that I knew that it was the time to take action. So I hope you all do stay on as friends. I know that the only person that can get through this is myself. That is along with this therapist whom has indicated that for two weeks that I do need to take it easy as well as let this medication take effect. So I thought I would mention as I am not a proud person, I know that there are several friends on here that would understand. So all that being said, I am working on this as well I am not insane, yet I did become very stressed out mostly phobic with driving a car. So I feel that it's high time to say this. I am not down and out rather I have been very stressed - and with this medication - it's not the entire cure, but after this month I hope that all things have balanced out. Usually an SSRI Anti depressant will bring back the synaptic features of the brain into a manner in which they originally worked. So I am not all crazed out but within the friends that I have hear literally I wish to mention that I am doing this and I will get on with things as I have never had this happen like this before within my life - the stress that is. So I am no different that before and I have another four weeks to just do the best with this. As I shall. But right now aside of a little dizziness I just wish to indicate that I am not going to live on here but I thought that it was high time that I come out with my own situation which will resolve itself. I have never been one for medications but so far I find that slowly it's working and I will get out of this stage of these phobias that came about and deal with life more within a whole manner. I thank you to those that understand, some will and some wont. But I am looking forward to Spring and I shall come to be whole again. So my knees are to be done next month and my brain is getting the right things to bring back the proper synaptic processes. There I said it and I am glad that I have...
Zoloft is a mild antidepressant and it will not cause you to become addicted to it nor should it harm you in any way. It will not alter your personality it will just take the edge off of things..when the time comes you feel you are doing fine and check with your physician it is also not difficult to get off of nor should there really be any noticeable side effects. Good for you in seeking the help you need to get through this time..It takes about 3 weeks to notice a big difference with it and then it can also be adjusted if needs be,,,best wishes to you
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ReplyDeleteWith all the things that have been going on for you, I think this is normal. :-)
ReplyDeleteAll the best to you.
I knew after all of this that I had to take some action and I am glad that I have and I feel good in doing so.
ReplyDeletekeep positive jack
ReplyDeleteThank you DJ, I just stepped out and one has to keep things going but I figured that as they were it was the right things as after the accident and several thing I thought I could get beyond it but it's a time to just tend to this and yet one does not stop, but there is a time to just keep occupied. I thank you and it was my setting that were the reason that you have not been able to see my writes DJ.
ReplyDeleteI am just looking at some of these pictures within Picture perfect. Thank you dear.
Oh I am but there have been times where it's been hard, and that is not myself so I knew it was time to take some action. So I am happy that I have.
ReplyDeleteI count on the blessings rather than what is negative so it just takes a little time but seemingly it's working and slowly I am sure that it will all come to a good
situations as I am not down I just came to be phobic and overly tired...so I will bounce back. It's not all within a pill however it's within several things that one
puts into place but for now I am just tending to things and thereafter will come the next.
You have done the best thing , seeing a specialist and taking the drug after all that load you have.
ReplyDeleteAnother good thing you are doing is writing. That will also help you to get over the stress.
Thanks for your comment on my blog. Enjoy your afrernoon Jack.
Jack, thank you for your trust and courage in sharing this with your friends.. Yes, there are some (ignorant, at best), who attach a stigma to psychotherapy and/or antidepressants. There's a saying "those that mind, don't matter.....those that matter, don't mind." You have taken a very positive step towards your overall well-being, and should be applauded for having the conviction to do so. It sounds like you have been through quite an ordeal in the last four months, and it's understandable that it would have taken a toll on you, both physically, and mentally. Good for you for taking this very important step in your life! Congratulations, friend!
ReplyDeleteFatos thanks I think for this week that writing is the best thing but I am not going to just sit on here but to
ReplyDeletedo things in a way that keep things going are good. It's warmer and I walked a little this morning but
I wished to say this at this time as I enjoy this but there is the other part of life I have to get on with and
family and this accident produced something or was what really onset it all but I feel good and to not
tend to it would be something that would be wrong. It would be denial. So I feel fine, and I am not ashamed
as it's just something that I probably should have done much earlier, as slowly this was starting to come on.
But it all will and shall work out. My good camera went out the window during this crash so I thought I would
visit a few pages within Picture Perfect. Fresh was a great theme especially as spring is around the corner now.
Maryanne, I do really have a trust within the friends I do have, from my earlier write I knew that at some point I had to say it as I cant just sit and watch television but I am doing things right now in a simpler manner and lets put it this way. If I had not done this, I would be continually being stressed and have these onsets of phobias that came on. So either I kept flowing down or I decided to work upwards. So the neurotic areas of the brain now will start to work and come back to how they should function. And I have never been down, probably played out. But now, my hopes are that all shall balance out. I feel much better than I did a little while ago, so I look at the upside part of this.
ReplyDeleteThanks...all good things don't come over night but they do come if one does not live within a denial. So this was cathartic me. Thanks there good friend.
Good to hear that you are feeling fine. Take care
ReplyDeletePositive energy an thoughts for you. Xx
ReplyDeleteIt's all good and I have to get something prepared here for supper hmmm.....maybe fast food! :)
ReplyDeleteYou as well, I look forward to reading tonight as well as writing. Time to eat though :)
ReplyDeleteBonne appetite.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Jack! We all laugh, we all hurt, we all dream. Life is a journey full of twists and turns, ups and downs, pitfalls, and potholes, but, eventually, we all get there.....stronger and wiser! :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your dinner! :)
I don't think we've ever commented on each other's pages but we have some friends in common. I have used Zoloft and now use Wellbutrin for depression, and yes, I have seen a counselor. CONGRATULATIONS to you for taking control. you're right, it takes a while for the SSRI to work, those who are glib about depression just don't really know what they are talking about--it is serious and it is real. so, best of luck to you! drop over to my page when the mood strikes.
ReplyDeletePS: sometimes a person has to move from one SSRI to another, a common thing. I left Zoloft and found Wellbutrin but millions of others get the help they need from Zoloft.
All the best over there Jack. Take it easy. Be well and happy. Life is to be enjoyed and not the other way around, and don't let those some depressing things depressed you. We still all have a long way to go here. Take good care always. Have a wonderful night over there. Tight hugs :)
ReplyDeleteJack, before I read any of the comments, I want to say that I'm so very glad you've taken this step. I have a friend who has had one crisis after another for the last year, & I've been trying to convince him to at least ask his doctor about taking Valium, in my opinion, one of the most benign anti-depressants...& muscle relaxants. I take 10mg when I go to bed.
ReplyDeleteOf course you're who you are, have been & will always be. You haven't got any kind of mental disorder, you've been & are still stressed. You did the right thing. Stress can also break down your immune system, as I suspect you know. I hope you have absolute confidence in your therapist as to dosage of Zoloft, possible contraindications, side effects to expect, & not to stop taking it suddenly, without his/her advice.
I was a practicing psychologist for a few years & "reTIRD" myself after an incident with a client. I don't give advice.
Good luck with your knees. Spring will come as it always does!
Good for you Jack!! In August, 2007 I was literally brought to my knees by a betrayal of trust from the only person I ever trusted. I began seeing a therapist, and it has helped me greatly! I no longer am in therapy but it did wonders for me. Sending you Big Hugs!!
ReplyDeleteWe all have are highs and lows Jack....and have are fear of things.....and who defines what is normal anyway (smile)....thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteI have and thanks one can only do there own very best. I am smiling here as don't tell anyone ok :) I took a short nap shhhhh. :)
ReplyDeleteHello Jack, it is a positive step that you have taken by seeing your doctor and accepting the help and medication that was offered to you. As you are saying, we do not heal overnight, but each day brings you closer to being well again. Meanwhile, enjoy the sun and warmer days doing simple things that are satisfying to you, les petits plaisirs simples (the simple small pleasures) are good for you. Have a good night.
ReplyDeleteNo we haven't yet so often people do change there image. Ok I shall do, to be honest I don't have mood swing, I had an accident that combined with some family circumstances just got the best of myself, but it's all fine < there I go again. I am doing well is better lets say. Terry I usually ad people that are within a good nature.
ReplyDeleteI may send you an add if that is ok, I have never wrote out to everyone on the blogs. As when I began this some two years ago, I really blogged by reading people's pages
and then inviting them. But I never wished to have too large a blog. Zoloft seems to be one good SSRI, Wellbutrin was the second SSRI after Prozac. Neat all to neat
and thank you. I have seen you image somewhere before. I know I have. Regardless thanks very much. ( I do get to others pages), yet I love just getting into something to write. Thanks again there Terry.
It's a good thing to get help from another when needed. There is nothing wrong with or anything to be ashamed of in seeking the help that you have. You have been through a lot this past year. I know when I had my accident, it was a little while before I returned to the confident driver I had been.
ReplyDeleteYour secret is safe with me..... :)
ReplyDeleteHere you are Lucija!
ReplyDeleteI am when you were writing that one day I knew that you were write, as I was hearing something that I understood all to well. I look at this as a good thing and I am not going to be writing on it much. Not because of shame, only that there are many other things to writes about but you really were writing when I knew that I was going and going. I have confidence in myself as well as confidence within this medication, I look at it really much like taking a vitamin each day. And right now I have been on this for two days, I attempted to do it before but the dosage gave me too much of a migraine this week I was lowered to the minimal dose and it's good. We are alike in many ways as I never practiced as a psychologist (not psychiatrist) but I have always been a people person. The knees shall return that comes and all things do come in good time. As they have been now. So nothing in life is perfect but right now the best that I can do is do my own self cognitive and move along. Spring is well on it's way. That within itself is an anti depressant as well. Hugs there and thanks!!!!!
Jules I always write amongst friends and you know I don't chat much but if I had repercussions about this, I would have never wrote it. There are so many people nowadays that do suffer from some form of stress just look at the family medical centers and I can assure you that there is over 30% in there for some type of medication for stress. I am not down at all and very confortable within indicating this. Guess why I wrote on the differentiation of arrogance and confidence :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Maritess, now please do understand that all these people here I literally have added due to a reason I feel that they all have something - a thread of something that is interesting as friends.
ReplyDeleteYes Jack i know not trying to make light of this.....The preasures of everyday life bring it on and taking one day at a time is all you can do ...Very glad you wrote about this...
ReplyDeleteKudos to you Kat, I have done the same here and I will not mention much of this again, life is life and I feel it's all good. Cat if you ask me, I think we all have had some situations within life and I am not too proud yet I found that it would be very genuine as well as worth it to indicate this. Everyone get stressed or depressed but when something overtakes a situation then it's good to act on it. I could literally joke on this but there have been some rough periods, the car accidents were what really took things over. So for this week I will head out a bit but I am supposed to not drive for five days. However this morning I did go out and take a walk and as well went and got some milk and things but it's all fine. So there :)
ReplyDeleteWe all do, I didn't have a nervous breakdown or fall into being in bed all day long I just know that right now in getting on this, there are side effects of headaches, but I found that even yesterday, something was changing. So it's something I feel that is worth the try. If I didn't, I would be going through the same thing periodically.
ReplyDeleteSo it I wrote this and in a few weeks things shall come to be more......much more of my own self, I am not about to call the scientology community :) Gotcha.
Allow Danielle,I know this is rather liberal but I don't mind, when I think about it. Not one minute actually last night I was enjoying this and there is another write I would do on the Olympics but no. So there. Bon soir Danielle.
ReplyDeleteGG exactly....anyone can see if if they followed this blog the last year that with all the concerns when I moved here to then family and then the accident - it all hit, so I took action on it and it's as easy as that. So I thought I could just go without anything yet to eat right, for the remainder of this week to just do the enjoyable is one step then it's back to driving and I don't see this as one step back, I see it as one necessary step taken.
ReplyDeleteIt is great that you have written this down and have expressed yourself and how you are feeling. Depression isn't an easy thing to deal with and I am sure you have many friends here who can help you. Medications can only help part of the way, the rest is up to you ... I know because I have been there and still is and I am not ashamed to say I suffer from Depression and that I see a psychologist. You are moving in the right direction. Take care
ReplyDeleteThanks Michelle, I feel good with regards to it and nothing has changed but I knew that one does act and I am just about to head off to bed here as it is late but this is more of an post trauma type of thing but one would not know it, but I did. So I acted upon it. There is no shame within anything. Part of it is a medication, and so be it. Thank you there and yes the rest is up to me. And so I am doing as such. Good day over there and thanks again. Literally I have had a few pms from some and needless to say I don't believe in this word called shame. Yet I do believe in there being a time to look outside of oneself and take somethings into account. So I have. So it's on with life, and right now, I feel good not way up there nor down and it's going to take a while before a medication as such really takes effect but sometimes an SSRI can show benefits within a week. So it's not feeling down but it's more of doing all too much within the past while. So now I am tending to it and it's progressive not regressive. Thanks and I am heading off to bed here, but it's all to interesting how many have come forth and literally I will step away and come back and it's been a computer day to say the least. But thanks much.
ReplyDeleteThis is a time that you need for yourself. I'm glad you are taking it. You will grow stronger because of it. We all have these stressful times, I believe. We all have it in common. Enjoy some relaxation and do enjoyable things. Best to you!
ReplyDeleteThanks Susan....it's a rather coolish foggy day here but I am doing just fine...
ReplyDelete.take care of yourself .enjoy some fresh coutry air ,too xo
ReplyDeleteI have this morning Caroline....
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