Posts by velvetsailor26

Do antidepressants actually do anything? I’ve been on Paxil for about six weeks now and honestly, I’m feeling absolutely nothing—not even a tiny bit of progress. For the first month, I was sticking to 50 mg, but I’ve bumped it up to 100 mg recently. For those of you who are currently on these meds, how long did it actually take before you started feeling some kind of shift?

Sandra Parker3 said:Oh, please, you’re reading all this junk too? People around here are actually pretty sharp.
Honestly, your takes on his original post are way more interesting than the actual post itself. 😉

From him? No, I was responding to Maria Callas, not him.

By the way, you should really take a look at his thread from last year. He’s only 26, and he’s out there working some farm somewhere in the Midwest.👎

Rebecca Scott3 said:......................................
...I'm 69 years old.....and I haven't accomplished very much in my lifetime either....
....life hasn't been easy.....plenty of frustrations.....so many traumas have piled up....it's left its mark on me mentally....and often, you can see it physically too.....I live in a community I'm still getting to know........and there are very few people I actually want to spend real time with.....not that I can't stand them.....it's just that I'm perfectly happy being by myself....
I've completed several degrees.....I don't have a steady career.....I don't have money beyond just making ends meet day to day....

And yet........my life is beautiful......I love heading out into nature.....I love listening to music out in the wild.....especially classical music in the middle of a forest.....
...life is beautiful.....because I am a traveler who manages to clear every obstacle in the path... or bypass it... or jump over it... or just move it out of the way....
...and I find joy specifically because I know I can walk through this world on my own two feet.....

As for the people in my neck of the woods, they show up for a while.....and then they're gone......
...they are transient.....and we are transient too.....
...I won't let them dictate how I live my life if they aren't willing to walk beside me on the journey......
....if a place doesn't offer anything good for me....I just pack up and move on...
.....because the world exists for me....and I exist to enjoy and explore it....

Go out into the fields....go up into the mountains....
...go somewhere where you can be out in the open and alone......and look around you.....look closely and write down everything you see......keep a journal of your days......
...one day you'll realize who you truly are in this vast world...
....learn from nature while you are still young.....
...and once you've grown stronger, go out among the people and just observe them....
.... just sit back, watch how they handle things, and take notes...... eventually, you'll figure out exactly what's right for you....

...to really live is to never stop learning....

A beautiful sentiment.

If you’re sitting there convinced that your job is the sole reason your life feels like a wreck, then just quit. Go find something else. If you truly believe a different desk and a different boss will somehow fix your internal state, then go ahead and make the move.

fadedbear92 said:If your genetics align with it—and honestly, it’s all about that biological luck—you should start feeling the difference in as little as two weeks. Have you managed to get your hands on any of that Alzheimer's medication yet?
I’ve actually been sipping on this for about six months now—it's become quite the little ritual!

I was on Zoloft for four months and things were finally looking up, but then I made the brilliant decision to just stop taking it on my own... real genius move there. Naturally, I ended up right back in the gutter where I started, so I went back on the Zoloft, but it didn't hit me nearly as hard as it did the first time. Now my doctor has switched me over to Paxil, and honestly, I’m just a walking mess—one minute I’m sobbing, the next I’m laughing for no reason. I am just counting down the days until this phase passes. It feels like it's taking forever.

I started on 50 mg of Effexor yesterday, and honestly, I’m just counting down the minutes until it actually kicks in because this anxiety is absolutely draining the life out of me.😢

Does anyone actually know if Fevarin and Prozac are the exact same thing, or am I just tripping?