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    • Is this depression?
    • My ex-boyfriend (we recently broke up) sleeps all the time if he is not working. One day he went to bed at 10pm and woke up the next morning at 9am. He didn't have to work that day. He ate something and went back to bed at 9:15am and slept until 7pm that night. That's 21 out of 24 hour
    • Xanax Tapering
    • does anyone have a good success story to share? I feel like garbage..i feel like i need Xanax to function and w/out it i have all the withdrawal symptoms you can imagine..need some help..been on this stuff for over a year. I want to get off..
    • Ativan...effects?
    • I am flying out to Maui on Monday for my honeymoon and I get nervous on planes so my doctor gave me Ativan to take if I need it. I am supposed to take one either tonight or tomorrow to see how I react to it and was just wondering what it does? I know some people get really tired and others just
    • Alternatives to Meds or Suicide?
    • I'm going through a rough time right now. I've never been depressed, and I don't know how to handle it. My life has gone pretty smoothly up until now, but everything is going wrong, and I feel like no one understands. I just graduated college, and I can't find any work, not e
    • Exhausted on Wellbutrin?
    • I am currently on 50mg of Zolft for anxiety and started taking Wellbutrin as well due to lack of libido and fatigue. I have been on Wellbutin for 6 days now. I started at 75mg immediate release for the first 3 days, but was getting severe headaches in the PM. My doc switched me to 150mg SR, a
    • why am I acting like this?
    • I have an interesting problem that I hope someone can help with... I have been in several relationships in my life and I have finally found the one that makes me so happy. He is everything I wanted and live for and oddly enough he loves me back. My problem though is I am so happy it is scaring m
    • Strange Stomach Feelings
    • Hi everyone, i'm 22 year old male and abit confused as to whats going on with me.. i have had stomach problems overall for maybe 4 months, i was told i had Gastritis, and IBS.. cause before my issues with my stomach it was my bowels.. i get a wierd pressure full feeling in my abdoman, its w
    • My Life with Anxiety & How I overcame It.
    • I had anxiety from early on in age, I know I had it longer then when I was diagnosed with it at the age of 16.. I remember being anxious when I was really young and my parents would go out for dinner, if they were 1 minute late I'd start crying and panicking thinking something happened to t
    • stress & boils
    • Thank you for the advice
    • is this anxiety?
    • i have been having some health problems for about 4 years now and it has really interfered with my life. well 4 years ago i had smoked some speed and had a bad experience. i was up all night with friends and then my heart starting beating really fast compared to other times i had done the drugs.
    • Bad stomache pain from Lexapro?
    • On 10mg Lexapro, 13 days on it now. Yesterday morning woke up and about an hour later had shooting pain in my lower chest, upper stomache area. Right in the center of my rib area, and under right rib area. It would come and go. I do have acid reflux, and wonder if the Lexapro has started som
    • How to overcome Social Anxiety/phobia WITHOUT professional help?
    • Like Drugs and counselling and stuff...I know that part of the "therapy" Is exposure thereapy. Not a big deal, I'm willing to do that. But how do I deal with the general anxiety panic attack that will go along with said exposure therapy. I dont WANT to be on drugs...I dont WANT to take d
    • Glad to have found this!
    • I am so glad I found this message board. I thought I was the only one who behaved this way.I get so angry over the littlest things and for some reason I feel it is MY responsibility to make sure everyone on this planet conforms to every teeny tiny rule. And if they don't, well its my job
    • Is this anxiety?
    • For the past several months, I have been very forgetful, unable to concentrate and complete tasks, uninterested in projects at work, and worried about anything and everything. I can't seem to relax because my thoughts are constantly racing. My job is stressful but I have been doing it for
    • anxiety & its joys
    • i notice when im feeling my weirdest that my left foot seems to tingle and and left hand too...and i start seeing this little floater in my left left.....just a tiny black dot. then i get the lighthead and whoosy feeling and the breathing problems kick in. ive had this now for 6 months almost
    • heart palpatations
    • Hi, has anyone else experienced heart palpatations due to CFS?
    • Language delay picked up by school psyche, now what?
    • I visited these boards a while ago (maybe 6 months?) and have had concerns for my 5 yr old son being on the autism spectrum.This year he is in pre primary and his teacher said the same thing his kindy teacher said, that they were having trouble with him following instructions and his comprehensi
    • Do normal people tear up & cry whenever they think about their past & life?
    • Do normal people tear up and cry whenever they think about their past and life?
    • Help me please...
    • I really scared, I suffer from Social Anxiety. Today, I notice i'm really having problems breathing. Never ever had like a heart problem or breathing problem. Whats wrong with me please? Like when i breath in air im having a hard time breathing it out. Feels like im barely getting any air.
    • Just put me in a mental ward & forget me
    • Unemployed 3 years. Back surgery one year ago and now have arm and leg nerve problems. I am not suffering like more people are, I'm just lucky. I am even buying a small house in Phoenix AZ. I have a dog and a wife who is joining me. You think life couldn't be better. Then why am I want
    • i think its been 6 months since i been here
    • anyone out there?i think alcohol can become depressingi may be better not to drink------.o4 breathalyzer is safer and lower in rhode island-
    • Would Lexapro cause a late period?
    • I'm on BC and my period comes like clockwork two days early every month. Now I'm two days late. I just started 10mg of Lexapro one week ago. Would that really have an effect or should I go get a pregnancy test? Anybody experience this?
    • Effexor XR & Wellbutrin XL together...
    • I have been on Effexor for a few years now. I increased my dosage to 300 mg. My doc added Wellbutrin to help with the libido 300 mg. It didn't really work that well, so she just increased it to 450 mg.Am I on too much of both? Any words of advice?
    • Anyone feel pain in lungs or back when breathing?
    • Hi. I have been experiencing pain in what feels like my lungs, but could also be back pain. I have GAD and Panic Attacks, and suffer from anxiety daily. I was diagnosed with the anxiety disorders back in 2001. Besides the panic attacks and being afraid I was going to die and that something was s
    • I think I need prayers now
    • I don't know where to begin. I will have to make this very short or it would drag on forever. I have just found this site and have posted on the addiction board and the fibromyalgia board as I have fibro and have just started taking methadone last week which is making me feel somewhat bet
    • Opinions of diagnosis on syptoms
    • My husband tried to commit suicide when he was 16. He went into a program at a hospital and went on Zoloft and through therapy for years. When he met me almost 10 years later he decided he no longer needed therapy or medicine because things were going so well. About two years ago he lost his
    • Zoloft & Wellbutrin dosages
    • I am curious because I keep reading 75mg Zoloft or 100mg Zoloft...does anyone else take at least 300mg of either Zoloft or Wellbutrin, or is it just me? If it's just me, then why is it at such a high dose?
    • Always fighting stereotypes of Autsim
    • I have a 3 and a half year old son named John who has a mild, high functioning Autism DX. The blessing is the mild symptoms and sometimes it is a curse as well. My son has had intensive intervention since 24 months. He has come a long way from where he began. I feel, as well as his therapist
    • will I ever wake up
    • Hello Everyone!I was wondering if anyone has ever felt like me. I am 43 years old. For as long as I can remember I have never felt truely awake. I remember being a kid and standing on my head in the morning just to get the blood to my head thinking I would feel awake. The "brain fog" usually wou
    • can you relate
    • hello everyone, i hope someone can relate to what im going through.im quite sure its anxiety,im seeing a thearipist for this and am on a anti-anxiety med.i biggest problem is sleep, i have constant crazy thoughts on some nights that dont make sense, i wish i could explain it, i get hot, agrivate
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