Recent content by JL Sequel

The same kind of thing essentially happened to me. I am 50 now and was 14 when I was sent to two different psychiatric hospitals and finally military school. I am smoking cannabis again, too, because it does relieve a lot of symptoms. And, yes, many of my symptoms are related to having gone...

Yeah, as noted it is an anti-convulsant. I was on it for 3 or 4 months, also prescribed for anxiety because the hydroxazine makes me too tired to use during the day. I was taking between 100 and 300 daily. It not only made me very spacey, but I was also forgetting names of people I knew quite...

Oh jeez. Me too. I hope it doesn't last too long for you.

I do think it is depression, at least partly. I know I am deeply depressed. So I wish I hadn't replied in that way. I just understand how it is to be tired of fighting. It does seem as if we have to fight for every little thing in life, including the stuff we have already won. "Yay! I've got a...

I think I feel the same. I wish I had good words for you. I wish it were enough to "not feel alone" (virtually). It's incredibly hard (for me) to find a way to feel less alienated. I have ONE person in my life who I rarely see that understands completely. Normally, people make me feel worse by...

(Most of the time I'm inclined to agree with Spekx' pessimistic assessment, but only because I have had little progress in five years of therapy and medication, and I tend to unconsciously and automatically suspend my deep misanthropy to increasing disappointment.) The psychiatrist I'm seeing...