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@Rainman8772 That is one involved cocktail. I haven't tried remeron or prazosin. I'll have to look into them. Thanks.

I am looking to lift my mood and stop the lows altogether, if that's even possible. Yes, there are depressive thoughts, which lead mainly to apathy and inability to manage my way in the world. I don't know if I totally agree with you there. I think the meds should be able to at least somewhat...

@joeylittle That's definitely sound advice, and I can't argue with it...but I probably won't do it. P-doc 1 says "take the Lamictal and Risperdal at the same time", so there's no contraindication there. He also did in fact start Risperdal titration, going up to 3mg. But I've just stopped taking...

Therapy again? Please...no....?

I have symptoms of so many conditions that I have no idea where to start. My p-docs will give me anything. I basically tell them what I want, which is good and bad. Right now I'm trying ADHD drugs, but I may try to focus on my depression. For members here, which anti-depressants worked and...

@Tinyflame Rushing feels more comfortable than trying to force myself to take it slow, but it brings just miniscule relief.

No, you didn't sound that way. You gave some tough love, but not in a spiteful way. I was pre-emptively responding to anyone saying "Jesus, if you're not going to do anything we say, why the hell are you here asking for advice?" - a valid point btw.

Thank you. I am going to read about the parasympathetic nervous system and DBT. I know I read about mindfulness and discounted it. That's because I think "Why would you waste time practicing these techniques? I need to be ready." My thinking definitely crosses into hypervigilance territory. If...

I never seemed to get anywhere in therapy. Strangely I didn't spend much time talking about anxiety. I was hung up on trying to be happy: fix the delusional/negative thinking and my depression. I don't know if I want to go down the therapy road again. None that I found were particularly...

My mildest delusion is that me falling behind will cause some kind chain reaction that will lead to my family being hurt. It's like if I don't do A as fast as I can, it will delay B, and push back C, and maybe by Z, a tragedy will happen - a tragedy that would've been avoided if I had done A...

Ok, thanks. I just can't slow down physically, no matter how I try. When I try to slow down, it feels like I'm being buried (figuratively speaking) or that I'm falling behind the rest of the world (not figuratively speaking). Now that I'm typing and getting this out, it seems more and more...

Come on Ronin ? It says you're a "MyPTSD Pro", and you really are because I've read a lot of your posts and clicked like on quite a few. But you're just basically advising me to think logically. If I could slow down enough to think that way, I wouldn't have this problem.

I had one. He tried to explain everything away with "You're Bipolar". Whether I have any true bipolar symptoms is up for debate, and if I do, they are the least troublesome of my DD, PTSD, GAD/SAD, OCD and even BPD. When I tried to tell him about my trauma, he answered "You can't process it...

I have delusional-disorder, but even when it's in remission, I still have to rush everywhere and am filled with nervous energy. And if I have something to do the next day, I keep thinking about it and can't sleep. I'll admit that sometimes my anxiety is delusion-based, like having the idea...

I have it sometimes when I'm on a highway, especially if it's got the 65 mph limit. I feel like I'm going to purposely cut the wheel and tip my vehicle over. It actually has nothing to do with suicide; it's just the crazy thought that I'm going to do it. I'm not impulsive, but I fear my fear of...

This is a great quesion. I have wrestled with this subject as well. I have no answer. I used to think trauma-therapy was the answer. It would be like a magic pill that would cure all my symptoms. But how much re-living can I do? I relive trauma, cry and feel better, but it wears off so quickly...

TL/DR way down at bottom... So I have symptoms of delusional disorder, PTSD, OCD, GAD, depression, and BPD. Nothing seems to work, but I admit I get impatient staying with meds longer than a month, and I quit them a lot sooner than that if they have bad side-effects. One thing I never gave...

@grit Your post definitely does make sense to me. In fact I just started journal writing the day I posted this thread. Maybe it's the Risperdal I started at the start of the month, but for whatever reason, I now feel like I can (at least sometimes) see the patterns and the thought-process...

Absolutely, VB. But when the dark feelings come, I can't convince myself of that. I get lost in the delusion.

If people were even half as careful about insulting someone for being "too skinny" as they are about insulting someone for being overweight, the world would be a much nicer place.

I think it's finally getting through to me that the point is to set about changing it instead of just cycling validation and despair.

When I am at my worst, the following is me: God and I have a connection. He knows my thoughts. He knows I know he knows my thoughts, and so on and so forth. He isn't an "outside entity"; he is not me, yet he is inside me. He torments me and gives me no peace. With every somewhat happy thought I...

I go through a cycle. 1) I become more and more distressed. 2) I get to a point where things seem like they can't get any darker. 3) I'll have some moment of clarity or a kind of "epiphany" that makes sense of everything. 4) I'll feel a sort of relief, or even a sense of accomplishment, just...

Though heterosexual, I have never been attracted to naked women. I remember times kids would sneak their fathers' Playboy magazines and go crazy over the centerfolds. I was unmoved. I could never understand that. I knew there was sexual abuse. I have certain feelings and dreams that lead me to...

I live with that symptom. It hardly ever goes away. Although I am basically anxious all the time, it never gets out of control. I never have what you can consider an anxiety attack.