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    Medication For Functioning?

    Thanks all. I do struggle with functioning without something to help me anxiety joey, but thts mainly because I obsess tht i will become crazy or suicidal without it. But man I've been even iller then normal today, i guess that is to be expected with changing meds. Surely I won't have to feel so...
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    Medication For Functioning?

    Thankyou joeylittle :-) I am cross tapering to amitriptyline at the mo and its horrible. I think i have perhaps been looking for to much from medication I'm also taking mirtazapine which has done absolutely nothing to help. I guess right now I'd rather be a bit flat then full of anxiety. Its so...
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    Medication For Functioning?

    Hi everyone I have a question and i hope someone may be able to give me some advice. I have delayed onset ptsd and its reared its ugly head over the past 18 months with horrible anxiety, panic and obsessive thoughys. I am on the medication merry go round as well as having therapy. I have...
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    Long Acting Anxiety Meds - Can You Function In The Day?

    Have you tryed remeron? It works really well for me at 15 to 30mg for sleep and the daytime sleepy ness wore off for me within 2 weeks and was never enough to stop me driving, working etc and I didn't have any unpleasant side effects. But we are all different of course. I hope you find something...
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    Other Weekend Drinking

    Thanyou all for your replies. When I drank heavily for all those years I didn't always know when to stop and if I had a couple of nights of I would crave it a bit, so I guess I was slightly dependent. it was more of a habitual thing I think/hope. now I can drink a few on the weekend and leave it...
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    Other Weekend Drinking

    Ok so here's my conundrum. I've drank heavily since i reached 18 (I'm now 33) and never thought much about it. Usually between 2 to 4 pints a night, 5 to 7 nights a week. Due to the delayed onset of my ptsd i didn't even think that I might be self medicating. Anyway when i finally broke in 2013...
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    Can't Do This Life Anymore!

    It's so hard everyday to dig myself out of bed and get to work. I'm lucky i have a very chilled understanding boss but my heart go's out to you it must be really tough. The zopiclone is good in the short term but definitely loses its effectiveness quite quickly. I'm allergic to the ssri's but i...
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    Can't Do This Life Anymore!

    So true anthony. I have an unstable partner which can inflame my symptoms but my home life if fairly settled at the moment and with that so my symptoms have calmed down. Are you taking any medication notsowild? I hate tablets but my Anxiety had become unbearable and they are helping with that...
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    Sufferer Hey Everyone

    Hi Colin and welcome :)
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    Sufferer Hi To Everyone

    Thanks so much for all your replies, it feels good just to let things out and be heard. You know wen I was a kid I always saw the world with rose tinted goggles, Sometimes these days the world seems like such cruel place and I look and my kids and it makes me want to cry, they are so innocent...
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    Sufferer Hi To Everyone

    Hi all. My names Dan and this is my first post on the forum . I've visited often though. I hope I can start by telling you my story it is so hard but here go's.... I'm from the uk In 2004 I was involved in a night time hunting accident that cost a teenage boy his life. I didn't fire the gun or...
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