@A MyDepressionTeam Member. There you go, you have an excellent attitude! We can all learn from you.

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I struggle with anxiety and over thinking a lot. What I find helpful is I try to distract myself with other things. For me it is creating art. It takes a lot of concentration and their is no room for the c**p that tends to take up my head. I also found it helpful to talk to someone about what is bothering me . I have to be careful about who I talk to. There are toxic people out there, and even though they are trying to help, they do more harm than good. I see a counselor and that helps, too. Another thing that I do is I get out of the house. Even going for a walk seems to help take my mind off of the things that I shouldn't be thinking of. It takes time. I have to look back at where I was six months ago to see that I progress. Their are times I don't do that well and I go back to old behaviors, but if I hang in there, and keep working on it, I know things will get better.

When my medicine stopped working, and I was in a really bad state, I decided to go to a PEER LED respite with my service dog. They offered me 5 days. As I was given a tour of the house, I thought, no sense keep taking my sleeping meds that didn't work. The house and the people in it provided a welcoming, mellow atmosphere. I thought "within 5 days I will be sleeping again, 8 hours per night". And so it happened.

Holy cow, I've been through more combos than I can count. I started keeping track after I had a spinal injury from a car accident. SSRIs either gave me a bad reaction, didn't work, or pooped out. Then my psychiatrist did a genetic test - sure enough, I don't process SSRIs and some SNRIs well. I've been on a combo now that's ok: Fetzima (primary), Wellbutrin, Lamictal for depression; Ambien for sleep (chronic insomnia, I take it every night) & Klonopin in the evening when my brain starts to go haywire.

I had to change .you Ned's regularly but have been on this cocktail several years. 50 MG seroquel and 125 MG Lamictal. The heavy doses of antidepressant make me emotional and manic. I'm steady now.