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I put my dose up to 150mg two days ago and I feel great. Motivated. Taking full dose in AM is working for me well.

I guess for me, I dont think God makes these things happen and I dont think he can stop them happening, no matter how much he loves us and understands us. I had a son with cystic fibrosis. He was the light of my life. I worked for 20 years and believed I would save him. He died at the age of 20...

I bought good food and put it away in a clean tidy fridge. I washed my hair while lying in the bathtub. I watched a recorded show of Real Housewives of Orange County before i put the groceries away.

We're not dumbasses, you're not a dumbass. You have a broken brain. Part of your brain has been traumatised. We don't push forward, we try to move forward a bit every day and train our brain to recognise the smallest movement foward and see it as valuable. Yes, we ask for help. From anyone...

I hate them. Hate even looking at them.

@ joeylittle It is brand Zyban, thank you. I hang onto you like a bit of a lifeline in my mind at the moment. I just went searching for my old Edronax (fluoxetine) as I am struggling. Wouldn't you know, I had a cleanup and must have turfed it. God, I piss me off. Can anyone tell me why Big...

That's exactly how I feel. I am so sorry for you. Why do you feel a failure as a mum? I don't ask God for anything, so I can't help you with that. You write beautifully, if that is any miniscule comfort in your suffering. I think you know when you have a good heart, and you do know that...

@theotherside and @joeylittle We talked about buproprion on this thread. https://www.myptsd.com/threads/two-weeks-on-bupropion-zyban-u-s-wellbutrin-plus-pristiq.53336/page-2#post-865006 There might be something of interest there. I am still unsure if I am on the right dose. I backed down to...

I make a list every day, cross things off as I do them and add things I do, even the smallest. I asked my husband how he gets through it when he does not know what to do. He said he starts from where he is sitting and looks around him and gets up and deals with it on a radiating basis. In...

I asked my ex-life coach if she wanted to consider coaching me again. Then I pondered whether I needed it. She didn't want to, she said she wants to be my friend, not my coach. I did not wallow in self-pity. I wanted to.

I was an Administrator in a Mental Health Unit and met a lot of people who had ECT. I will not hesitate to have ECT after the benefits I observed in them. It would usually take 4 or 5 ECT treatments to click in, but it was as though a switch had been turned on, when the patient had earlier...

I still cannot see most of my milestones until they are pointed out to me. But recognising that will surely allow it to happen more often now.

Using dollars on myself for something I knew nothing about , life coaching. It did more for me in 18 months than a lifetime of therapy and self-help. When anxious, my husband and I doing EMDR together. He just moves his finger back and forth and gets me to repeat positive words about what is...

@WillyKat Yep and we weren't forced to grieve when there was a tsunami or an earthquake on the other side of the world. We didnt get sucked into debates about what other people believed in. It was okay not to give a sh#t. We kept all of our life experiences within our community. We yelled 'fk...

I am on Pristiq 100mg AM with a low dose of buproprion. I am now, active and organised and can stick to a routine, but I still feel quite depressed. Pristiq has a similar action to Effexor, but is slow release.

That's why I quite my first two marriages. :) Sorry, had to go there. I think life is about balance. A good life has balance with the types of people, the exposure to tragedy or pain, activities, etc. etc. When it gets out of balance it messes up our head because we are not designed to be...

I agree with WillyKat. Sometimes, we can know too much. I worked for years in Psych wards and I cannot help but check people for possible personality disorders when I meet them. To protect myself. Perhaps there is a division in the area you work in where you can put into use the skills and...

@Wacko Ward Just wanted to tell you also that the anger is a phase in the process I believe. I went through a few years of it. I don't have it any more. Still got depression and PTSD and sadness but the anger has gone. Something to look foreward to, but maybe tell yourself you deserve the anger...

@Wacko Ward My suggestion may be unnecessary, but it's worth telling. I have a punching bag and when my mother was alive I would go and punch it after talking to her on the phone. I encouraged myself to swear at her while doing it. Sometimes I would end up crying. Sometimes just the rythmn of...

@Ms Spock Which book is this?

I bought a new bra. It's strapless and so well made it really keeps the girls perky.

Talking to babies in supermarkets. Vanilla Chocolate chip ice cream. A coffee at a cafe every day. Good quality magazines from the library. Washing my hair outside under the hose. Watching dogs when they dont know you're watching. Getting through a bad day having accomplished something...

I dont laugh out loud much. I have sometimes in response to things written on here. I love real ife stuff, the honest awful stuff. I love watching cat clips when they do things like jump out at babies or fall off counters, Dogs too. I love the Larry David in "Kurb Your Enthusiasm". Not smart...

I want to be a grownup when I grow up. I am 61. I love it when I think in a 'sensible' way. I think being sensible is part of growing up. Not boring or predictable, but using commonsense rather than emotions.

I have an aquaintace who is on it and her doctor put her on a no-carb diet, for life. She also has a fatty liver. She doesn't seem to want to go off the Remeron. I don't know if it's any help to you @Andie7 but I lost 8kgs on the 5:2 intermittent fasting way of eating last year. I found it...