I seem to have stabilized in a decent place. Sadly it’s not quite where it was when my Don’t Worry Be Happy pills first started to take effect. I have hopes of getting back there, but I have to say I am in a pretty good place. I am absolutely better than I was before I started the Meds. We haven’t been working in my ADD yet, but I do seem to be more focused. I have been able to find time to work on my children’s series of poems/stories not to mention my regular blog posts. I don’t think I have ever written this much and often in my life. I have been able to keep up with some pretty big projects at work. I had a couple of really bad days including one I couldn’t even go in, but overall I am have been doing very well. I have a painful commute, and when I say painful I mean it literally. Its 45 minutes to an hour in and an hour to hour 15 minutes home, on average. A lot of that is stop and go claustrophobia enduing frustration where I litarly experience physical pain. Either a stress headache or pain in my chest or arm. I realize I have’t felt that since the meds. I think I mentioned this before but I also haven’t had a migraine. This is the longest period of time I have gone without a migraine in 9 years.
My psychiatrist and I have done some therapy but its mostly medication management. Tomorrow I am stating to see a social worker. Hopefully we will click since she is super close by and takes my insurance. She said on the phone she does Behavioral Cognitive Therapy, I hope so. Call me crazy but I like my medical treatment to be evidence based. I have a background in psychology and spent the last 8 1/2 years working for a healthcare consulting company, so I don’t feel like an uninformed consumers. If she doesn’t work out, I do have a couple other names.
I think over the last day or 2 the medicines have plateaued. Again I am better than I was before therapy, but not to the place I had gotten, so I’m not sure if my doctor will want to tinker a bit more, or see how the therapy goes. I am hoping for tinkering. I never really used to believe in better living though chemistry, but as I have watch these meds and the Lunesta chance my life for the better, I have come around.
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My chronic but relatively mild depression is very well controlled with meds – I’m a huge fan of better living through chemistry!
What, if anything, are you doing for your ADD? My husband has it, but turned out to be allergic to the meds that were actually helping.
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Nothing for the ADHD right now. The problem is depression and anxiety can mimic or enhance ADHD symptoms, so she needs to get me to a good place before we can tackle that, or see if it is even something that needs to be tackled. Basically we need to establish a baseline first.
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-Corey,
I’m glad to hear you life is taking a turn for the better.
Keep Rockin, baby.’
Xx
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Thanks!
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