Nearly a decade of therapy and medication has done nothing to help and idk what else to do

  • hogslayer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    All the things that make me miserable are pretty much out of my control

    Yeah, same here. The only thing I’m certain of is that mind-numbing psychiatric “medications” and learning to hypnotize myself into denying my own thoughts (aka “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy”) are not the answer, and that it’s mostly about the material causes.

    • PeeNutButtHer [she/her]@hexbear.netOP
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      10 days ago

      I’ve been on antidepressants, including SSRIs, before and they just never really seemed to do anything for me, the only thing they did do was give me horrible withdraw symptoms after I stopped taking them

      You know that pins-and-needles feeling when a limb is asleep? When I got off lexapro I would get that feeling all over my body for about 2-3 seconds every like 15 seconds, it was awful