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Hey @Anarchy, thanks for replying. I was aware that fluoxetine could really wipe out my libido, but I didn't think it would matter much since my depression was doing that in the first place. To make it more complicated, I was really "triggered" about a week ago from a poem I stumbled across...

This is going to be a long one....sorry. Things aren't so good right now, and it's interesting how it's flipped around. I just need to tell someone because I feel so isolated. My psychiatrist believes I became immune to my last medication Prozac, so I was switched to Wellbutrin. I've not been on...

I've been wanting to move out for well over a year now, and I finally made it happen. Through quite the crash course, I acquired a new job which gave me enough money to afford rent. About three weeks ago, my fiance and I moved into our first apartment and so much of that constant stress has...

I have woken up in the middle of the night thinking my heart's stopped before. That, as well as heart palpitations and feeling like I'm suffocating in my nightmares. It only happens when my anxiety is really bad, and the doctors never found anything.

No thanks.

:( I guess just be clear that you mean what you say. You really do think (kind things) and whatnot. That helps me at least. Does he open up about what he finds offensive? Try talking him through it

I struggle with the same thing... I've been growing slightly distant lately because of misconceptions. It's like the old muck is clouding the present. I guess the biggest thing that helps, is simply communicating. I can't get through it any other way.

Thank you all. It's good to read that others go through it too. It's most definitely a process.. Luckily we can all help each other out. I needed to see that. It's easy to get lost in black/white thinking, and that's a good reminder. People are complex, that's just life. @Saint Nik It's...

You can do it!! You have the perseverance. It's hard but we're some of the strongest kinds of people out there. It will work out. Try to breathe, I forget to. Sometimes literally.

Last time I was in therapy, my therapist talked me through how it's normal and acceptable to feel multiple things toward a person. I struggle greatly with deciding my attitudes toward and perceptions of others. I want to decide if I like or dislike someone, to have it be solid, known, but with...

@PTSD NON VETERAN mom I'm sorry about the 4th. It's okay to freak out about the fireworks - they are explosives. And people like us are a bit more sensitive to those things. You are not crazy at all. Like @desiderata310 said, watch what you say! It means so much. These fireworks are stressing...

Thank you all. I didn't think I need a service dog, but I figured I'd ask anyway. I want a companion animal - it's easier, less rigorous, and the professional certification is unnecessary in my situation. I can function fairly well on my own. In regards to the black fur - I'm not the...

@itsKismet good to know I'm not alone. and to @amhandley , I will. Thank you

I'm learning a bit more about myself and my condition. More so that this thing I have doesn't ever go away, I just learn how to deal with it. I went to visit my psychiatrist to get a new prescription, and we started talking about support animals. When my fiance left on his short deployment, it...

I've set up a white noise speaker to help me sleep at night. So far it's working. It's interesting how most of the sounds that I can choose from give me anxiety, such as thunderstorms, rain on a car roof, birds chirping in the forest. But the airplane engine sound is calming, even though I'm...

@Gadgie...ugh me too. :(

I'll talk about it next time I'm in... which is fairly soon. I feel like because I've started a new job, all that stress is affecting other areas of my life too. If it doesn't improve within a week I'll start being a bit more suspicious methinks.

I'm not sure, @sun seeker. I've been on it for over a couple months now but this is very recent, like within the past couple of weeks. It couldn't be from the Prozac, could it??

I went through a long period of not really dreaming or anything. Even having positive dreams sometimes. However now, it seems that my nightmares have returned..and some are slightly different than others. I of course have the typical ones I've always experienced, strange life or death situations...

I learned I dissociate fairly recently. Like Chava, it's absent of thoughts and feelings. I just....blank out, and I don't hear anything anyone is saying to me. I genuinely cannot remember what people have said, and they are confused and sometimes even mad. When I look back, I'd say I even...

Thank you all, I'm really happy about it <3

I was fairly stressed at the beginning. So bad so, that it seemed as if my progress had vanished. Digestive irregularities returned, nausea, teeth grinding, headaches - the works. Though after being thrown into a crash course and developing better relationships with my coworkers, my stress level...

I did a couple essays on the death penalty in high school. While researching I was discovering how a black man was significantly more likely to receive capital punishment, than a white man for the same crime. In my American Government class, I was learning about redistricting, but I was thinking...

Well, PTSD stems from seriously terrifying events that usually leave you fearing for your safety, life, etc. That can't come from social media. PTSD is, in my book, all too primal of a thing, very physical, to stem from such a place as Facebook or otherwise. To add, it drives me nuts when...

@Fadeaway I haven't put much stock in dream interpretations done by other people. I mean, other than my therapist. Me being shot, or having my teeth fall out are my most common nightmares. They're all very lucid, and I feel the pain. It's horrible. I suppose I could look it up..just to see.