Who's all on anxiety meds? Got prescribed Effexor. How is this shit gonna actually make me feel?

Who's all on anxiety meds? Got prescribed Effexor. How is this shit gonna actually make me feel?

I dont take anything anymore for anxiety. I used to take zoloft and klonopin they werre good. I found out later the real reason for my anxiety was mania so i went on tegretol and have been great ever since.

Effexor is an SNRI ive heard they have numerous side effects and SSRIs are just as effective.

Don't do it. Drugs will fuck you up worse.

I need it

I dunno about effexor but im on gabapentin and the withdrawals put me in the hospital once. I had no idea i was actually dependant on it until i ran out for 2 days. Fortunately this drug produces no high so there isn't going to be any cravings for it beyond that of remedying physical pains.
Be careful and watch for nutritional deficiencies.

What you need is to get a fucking manual labor job and experience real stress.

All in all, how does an anxiety medication feel? Just mellow me out?

I install and refinish hardwood floors

I don't think you know how mental illness works

How the fuck will a manual labor job fix a mental disorder?? Get the fuck outta here faggot.

I take Citalopram (Celexa) daily
Lorazaparm (Atavin) as needed.

The first thing is, if it's a decent dose, like anything that fucks with serotonin, you can expect headaches and a loss in sex drive for the first little bit.

They work differently.. like xanax does give a high of sorts (didnt really work on me) whereas the gabapentin is non-intoxicating and does mellow you out in general. I've been feeling restlessness lately though but its probably due to not eating well (well enough for the medications im on) and thus probably related to nutritional deficiencies.

I am currently on Zoloft for OCD and depression. OCD is just about the worst thing ever.... The looping intrusive thoughts are hell.

How do you know what he needs retard?

Yeah I took Xanax and got arrested on it but I blacked out and wasn't in the right state of mind to realize how I felt.

Physical labor jobs are the least stressful you fucking pleb. Try doing data analysis for an international company or being a private lawyer going against the NSA

I take zoloft combined with dogmatil for bipolar. Zoloft is cheap and good. Lorezepam i take as needed

efexor is in my mind better than normal ssri's, i have benefited from efexor alot for my chronic anxiety and panic attacks, just be ready to nod be able to cum for about a month when starting

>gabapentin guy here

I'm working 3 manual labor jobs. I have issues with arousal (general arousal i mean, but sexual too) so i often need a stimulant (Arizona. Really gotta watch the dehydration/hypertension) to help with strength and vigor. However, once i have focus for the task at hand it really does help with anxiety. Exercise man. Exercise.

Im a big fan of xanax. It really just takes the edge off & relaxes me through some stressful situations. Dont know about effexor. Hopefully it works for you

dont miss a dose or your brain will feel like its being electricuted

>Try doing data analysis for an international company
really not that stressful bro

Quit before it's too late. I've been on a bunch of types and it never did shit for me other than get bad withdrawl when getting off it. Some of them had weird side effects too. I have severe general anxiety with panic attacks and weed is the only drug that has ever been able to calm me down.

Weed amplifies my anxiety x10

Basic work stress is completely different from an anxiety disorder dumbass. So I'm assuming people in the insane asylums should just be "put on manual labor" and they'll be cured?

I'm on 300mgs of Effexor and it doesn't kill sex drive it just makes it hard to reach climax. My doc gave me Viagra and Cialis which helped a bit. I also take Valium as the need arises. Depression/anxiety sufferer.

By the way, i should mention that my anxiety was physical. Chemical imbalance rather than a psychological reaction. So manual labor is 98% effective for something like akathesia.

Anxiety "disorders" aren't "disorders". They're excuses. Boo hoo. I'm so stressed out. I just can't function.

Then either evolve and learn to function or die. You're an insult to survival.

See I'm the other way around, despite being on Ativan that's really addictive, and the like it's hard for me to take my meds daily.

One of my fears is developing a depenced or tolerance and it not working anymore so that's fun. I go on and off my meds like twice a month. Shit sucks.

Taking pills to sort out bodies responce to stimulus.....fool. You will never be cured this way.

There is a difference between anxiety and stress. And what are you boohooing about? I wasn't making excuses. How the fuck is getting anxiety an excuse? Are you this retarded?

What did you just spew out of your mouth? Chemical imbalance? Jog on, your anxiety is same as all anxiety, an improper responce to a stimulus.

You are the reason people don't seek help when faced with a disorder. Its nothing to be ashamed off.

I'm stepping down off the pills now as I have begun exercising more and don't feel the need to be on such a high dose anymore. Unfortunately Effexor has terrible withdrawal symptoms so its a slow process.

Regular exercise and ensuring I have personal quiet time to relax are the best treatments for anxiety and depression.

You're the fool. Meds are taken to "balance" the chemicals in order to be more susecpitble for therapy. Therapy is the cure. Meds are the help

Effexor can give you a high if you slam them.
Negative side effects include:
Low sex drive/difficulty climaxing
Low blood pressure
Extreme withdrawal symptoms (12 hours without dosage)
Obliviousness to negative stimuli (bad shit happens and you dont know its bad)

Source - I was on it for a year before I went back to prozac.

Got remeron for my depresion and anxiety
This isht just makes me tired and sleepy, and my anxiety is even worse

I'm always fucking exhausted and my doctor told me that it could be from my anxiety

I just mentioned that a stimulus eases the akathesia, you fucking dipshit. I'm not afraid of crowds or having to do work.

I'm on antipsychotics and mood stabilizers. Personally don't think I need them, since quitting drugs and alcohol, especially since they cause me side effects, but my fucking doctor and family get on my case about taking them, so I do anyways. Due to side effects, I wouldn't recommend psych meds unless you absolutely need to take them.

My doc told me Effexor has nootropic qualities too. Really helped me with my university studies.

Me too. Always exhausted. On different pills tho. I take 2000mg of vit c in the morning and 1000mg in afternoon. It helps

Also taking benadryl or prozac greatlt decreases withdrawal symptoms to anyone who needs the info. Took a bit of research before I found that one out

I'm with you bro.

Everyone suffers from anxiety and depression. Some people just handle it better.

I try taking vitamins as well as zink, iron an calcium supplements but nothing.
Have been away from work for 2 days now and I think my boss is getting tired off my shit because he thinks I'm just lazy even though I've given him papers from my doctor.
Going back to my doctor nezt week to get some other meds, don't have the energy to do anything and I sleep most of the day

>insult to survival

I'm on effexor. Second time I needed it. 10 year gap in between. Weening off it now. Was on effexor xl 75mg once a day. Dropped to effexor xl 37.5 then to the normal effexor 37.5 tabs. Next step is to start chopping the 37.5 tabs in half and only take a half a pill a day for a month then I'm off them. Only withdrawal I get when doing it this way is feeling a bit dizzy for a moment from time to time. Shit makes me a champion in the sack though, I can last for hours and it still feels great! Go into this with ano open mind OP and I think you will be surprised with the outcome.

The withdrawals are horrific. It took me 5months before I sstarted to feel normal again. Dont fuck with effexor, shit nearly ruined my life. Stick with regular ssri's

op here just took some celexa before work my friend had cuz I asked him to let me try his, I feel like a god right now.

I feel your pain. Im lucky cuz i work for family so i didnt get fired yet. Any other job i would have. I have gotten better recently. Therapy helps. Youre not lazy.

You're a massive cunt, manual labor for all who are depressed and have anxiety. I wonder why it wasn't implemented earlier?

Prolly a bad idea to post this on an anxiety thread but modafinil made it go away for the first few days. Then a full blown 1 hour panick attack after dosing more often and higher amounts plus 4x my daily caffeine for 5 straight days. Passed the class I ain't even mad.

You very clearly don't know what generalised anxiety disorder, or a severe panic attack feels like. Don't presume you know what a disorder is like if you've never experienced it.
If you're out in the wild and a bear came out from behind a tree and charged you, your body immediately goes into fight or flight mode. The adrenaline and fear try to keep you alive. It's actually amazing when you think about it. But when you have a panic attack, you could be in bed reading a book when your brain just goes mental for no reason and dumps this colossal amount of adrenaline into your brain, making you believe that you're in danger and about to die. It's horrible.

>tl;dr you're an ignorant faggot

You are edgy as fuck. If you ever get a panick attack for any reason, come back here and post the exact same thing, I dare you.

Getting an anxiety isn't the excuse. Pathologizing it and thinking yours is any different than anybody elses is the excuse. ((shrinks)) and ((pharma sales)) love it.

you don't need ((help)). ((Help)) is meant to keep you leashed.

It's like little kids who fall down and scrape their knees. If you say "alright, lets get up and go walk that off" they'll be fine. If you go "ohhhhh! Did the little baby get hurt? Poor baby!!!"

they'll burst into tears.

That's funny. Because I have been diagnosed with exactly that. Uh oh. Now what?

Had a panic attack just last week. Instead of being a pussy, I muscled through it.

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See

You're the guy that would say to a clinically depressed person "Just get over it". Fuck that guy, I hope you wake up tommorow and get diagnosed with end stage cancer in every single vital organ and when you ask for opiates to aleviate the excruciating pain that's about to come the doctors answer "Nah, just get over it".

>muscled through it
Or you could get help with it like a logical human being would do instead of suffering with it just to show how "manly" you are

Did you concentrate hard enough to beat the flu too?

36, took it when I was around 16. Don't recommend. Made me feel like a walking corpse. Wasn't on it long. 20 years later without the same problems, it wasn't worth it at all.

So going to the doctor when you're sick must be an "insult to survival" dude with this kind of logic we wouldn't have medicine or doctors to help with illnesses and everyone would just be dying.

This

>Uh oh. Now what?
Are you 14? There's nothing more annoying than an egotistical internet tough guy acting like he's the shit.

You can't discount a diagnosable mental illness because you think that people should just get over it. There are different levels of it. I just had to cut caffeine and the problem more or less resolve itself. I get the odd panic attack, but just sit down, breathe deeply for five minutes and stay in the moment realising that there's nothing wrong and it sorts itself out. But for some people, it's really debilitating. It doesn't exclusively happen to neckbeards and lazy fucks sitting on moms couch eating Cheetos, it has happened to countless healthy sports players, intellectuals, parents, young children etc. I'm glad you can muscle on through it, that's great. But you can't discount the mental illnesses of other people who have a far worse time than you because you think you can just get over it with willpower. Stop being such a stupid cunt

Anyone here know if it's a good idea to quit my job and focus on getting better instead of the dread of pulling myself out of bed everymoring and doing something I don't enjoy for 10 hours only to go back to sleep again?
I kinda want to but I'm too scared if something happens and I suddenly need money

I've tried a variety of antidepressants but none of them worked particularly well. Paxil worked the best but I couldn't bust a nut no matter how hard I tried on that shit so fuck that. Effexor was by far the worst of them though. Missing one pill meant feeling like total dogshit for and entire day. When I wanted to quit taking them because I was tired of being totally fucked for forgetting a pill I was given a prescription to back off of them slowly. It took 3 weeks and I STILL was so fucked up I was bed ridden for a week after I stopped taking then. Seriously fuck anti depressants I'm just going to drink myself to death next time my depression gets really bad.

What kinda job do you have?

I am a clinically depressed person, you weak faggot. Step out of your echo chamber and stop convincing yourself that everyone who disagrees with your weak willed solopsism has no experience with the subject matter.

Your depression is the result of your lonliness.

It's funny that you say that. I just had the flu. The flu is a virus. You cannot treat it with any medicine after you've already had it. The way to defeat the flu actually IS to muscle through it. Which I did.

Being ill with an infection is not the same as being a weak willed faggot who thinks they're special.

This nigga knows what's up. Nice dubba dubs

I quit college to get help with my OCD and it was well worth it. Your body and happiness should come first above all else, and any additional stress you put on yourself (work) will only make things worse. Just make sure you have some cash saved up before you take the plunge.

I'm not american....

See

>clearly has no idea what a mental illness is, regardless of whether he has one or not

I work offshore farming fish.
Kind of boring job to be honest, drive a shitty boat around all day and fix shit.

I think I have like $3500 saved up, I can live on less than $200 each month

muh mental illness

it's like the only argument you weak faggots have.

Go for it man. Come up with a healthy schedule, and make sure you have a routine of some kind. You'll kick it before you're out of money :)

Did you just confirm that you concentrated hard enough to beat the flu? Oh god.

Sounds like it would get old. But yeah if it's making you miserable I would start saving some money for a while and then quit. Maybe even look for a different job if fishing isn't your favorite

Yeah I'm on Effexor. You still feel pretty shit but at least you have the potential to be happy. Seemed to mellow me out a lot

You literally have no logical or factual argument all you do is say "weak faggots"

>all these people feeding the troll

Funny how all of you call anxiety a mental illness lol.

Anxiety is a condition, a situation. We're all anxious, but most people don't pay that much attention to it yet they get distracted with something else, when you focus on it it becomes an obsession and occupies you. Anti depressants help, but you can't just count on them they'll just push you a bit, else you gotta do it yourself.

>only argument you weak faggots have

I've written two lengthy paragraphs based on fact, to which you replied "muh mental illness"

You're bringing nothing to this argument but insults and egotism masquerading as knowledge

checked

self checked

I'm kinda nervous about quitting though, how do I tell my boss?
He already thinks I'm just an ungratefull, lazy idiot

Nobody checking these?

Tell him the truth. Tell him that you have an anxiety disorder and your doctor thinks its best for you to take some time off work.

You are stupid as fuck dude
Boohooo.... Muh mental illness... You need to grow up and get a life neckbeard "depressed" faggot I bet you cut

Anyone else on Lexapro?

I'm on Propranolol - all good, I don't feel 'doped-up', and I am less of a cunt to people most of the time as I don't have a surplus of adrenalin flowing through my veins 24/7. That being said, the lack of adrenalin receptors being put to use has made me fearless.

>youre such a nerd user. Can I suck yo penis

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Okay, do I have to do it face to face or is it acceptable to do it over e-mail or phone

>samefagging this hard

Your knowledge on medicine is really close to 0. Yet you puke out advices like a madman. Antivirals do exist, viral infections are hard to treat, not impossible, mental illnesses cannot be muscled through. Also, you are neither depressed nor have any anxiety disorder, I doubt you are even one of the self diagnosing crackpots out there, you just claim to have them for the sake of the thread and spread out lies on how strong you are on battling them without relying on medicine. Solopsism isn't a word, solipsism is and definitely does not mean what you think it does. Depression is caused by numerous factors combined, not a single one. Weak will has nothing to do with mental illnesses.

In case you try to refute me with your experience acquired knowledge and twisted logic, I'm a board certified psychiatrist(yes that means I did finish medicine, psychiatry is a specialty).

Back on topic, listen to your doctor OP. I'm making the ansatz that your physician prescribed you this drug and asked you to report back your experience with it, so please do that. If it doesn't fit you, rest assured that he/she will change it. If you decide to not take it for whatever stupid reasons(fella on Sup Forums told me to and stuff like that), inform your physician.

I'll rephrase it, does anyone have experience with Lexapro? I'm just starting it, what should I expect?

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