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I’ve taken a lot of meds over the years. One of the ones I was on for a long time was quetiapine xr (seroquel - the slow release version). The ordinary release just hit me like a tonne of bricks, turned me into a zombie and made me gain weight. But the slow release version gave me some of the...

Personally? I don’t remember 2004 being like that at all. There’s been phases where being very thin has been more in, but it ebbs and flows. And for all the media hype (like the media panic over ‘heroin chic’ in Kate Moss’ heyday), super thin has always been peripheral. It’s never been the...

Fwiw - I can’t think of anyone in my life that’s followed that path (not even close!). I think there’s a lot of depictions of normal that we get influenced by that don’t have a lot of bearing on reality. If you’re grieving the loss of what you wished you had in your life? That makes sense -...

Welcome to the forum☺️

@ms spock - would it be helpful to have feedback? Or is this more of a vent?

There’s a tonne of overlap between dissociation and depression - emotional numbing/flatness and zoning out, poor concentration, poor memory are features of both. Given you have a history of depression, then I’d apply Occam’s razor - even if these aren’t depressive symptoms you’ve experienced...

This is a ptsd peer support forum. Do you have PTSD?

Totally get this. And if you’ve managed to overcome a truckload of symptoms, this doesn’t diminish the significance of that achievement at all. But not wanting to hear the truth, or initially reacting badly to it, is not a good reason to BS. Even when the truth is shit to hear (maybe...

Concentration is definitely something that I find pretty challenging. During semester, when I’m trying to digest a lot of material (a lot of which isn’t exactly written plainly!), I get pretty obsessive about looking after my cognition. I exercise a lot, I’m really careful about what I’m eating...

Welcome to the forum - glad you found us:) Not stupid - it actually sounds like you’ve had a lot of experiences where being vulnerable wasn’t always met with kindness. So, it would make sense that’s something that now seems confronting. Take it at the speed you’re comfortable with ☺️