Mental Health - February 2007

I have social anxiety and post traumatic stress, and although depression runs in the family... I dont feel depressed until the anxiety sends me into a panic attack (duh). I also have some anger. So I was put on 50mg "Sertraline" (Zoloft) once/day. AND 1mg Clonazepam (Klonopin) once/day. And did that regimen for 2 weeks, the Klonopin helped WONDERS, and I was able to go to Supercross with 52k people around me, no problem, but found that it wears off after about 3 hours.
So today, I go in to the dr. and she says to take half of the klonopin pill in the morning (0.5mg), and the other half at night. Then prescribes me 50mg Trazodone (take half a pill before bed).
She wont prescribe me any more klonopin, even though its obvious that it helps me... because I have had sessions when I havent taken it, and sessions w/ the dr when I have.. and there is a noticeable positive difference in my attitude and outlook.
How do I get the dr. to understand that if it is helping me, to refill it?!

2007-02-13 13:24:52 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

i want to meditate. i heard it relieves stress, and i have alot of that, but i keep on getting distracted. i dont know what to focus on.

what to focus on????????????????????????

2007-02-13 13:23:11 · 9 answers · asked by Cat 3

If so, when do they normally start showing, and are there any other symptoms?

2007-02-13 13:09:21 · 6 answers · asked by spellman_2007 1

He is constantly depressed, and sometimes anxieous. We tried counseling and medication but it didn't help him. He used to be so different,- full of energy, very creative. Now he is just passive, I feel like he has given up. He used to draw and paint very well. He stopped doing that about 2 years ago. When I ask him why, he says,- I cant concentrate. It really feels like a part of him has died.

I really love him but there is nothing I can do to help
I am terrified of how innefficient modern medicine is.
I watched ''One flew over the cuckoo's nest'' the other day and thought that nothing has changed since those times.

2007-02-13 13:05:57 · 9 answers · asked by Jessica 1

2007-02-13 12:49:04 · 6 answers · asked by Alii 1

For me, this started about a month ago. I would lay down for a short rest or nap in the afternoon and end up in deep, nearly unwakable sleep for 4-5 hours. All that has moderated now though and if I do snooze off in the afternoons it's only for an hour or so -- and it's never as often as it was a month ago.

2007-02-13 12:34:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think I'm ugly, fat, can attract boy.....I'm always depress.....

2007-02-13 12:32:18 · 7 answers · asked by Glamorous 1

i need to relax, because i have anxiety, and im always stressed out, and my mind is always running with thought, and i have a hard time relaxing. so plzz help and give me some kind of ideas or suggestion! plzz & thank u yahoo users!! ( =

2007-02-13 12:29:15 · 11 answers · asked by Baby_Firefly 1

I feel very hopless, alone and very sad. I cant stop crying. Someone I really cared about betrayed me it the worst way. And he doesn't even seem to care and won't confront me. He wants nothing to do with me, yet he betrayed me. I never did anything to him until I found out what he did. He is my now ex, I helped him thru depression, suicide feelings, helping accept he had a daughter who he denied because he wanted nothing to do with the mother or child, it was one night stand thing. Now he is best freinds with the mother( actually was getting to know her, but it didnt work out i guess) , loves his child, yet through me away like I never existed:(( I can honestly say I did nothing to him, and he was so cruel to me, becasue I found out the truth about him seeing the mother. I know I must let it go, but for crying out loud, how can someone be this hurtful to someone. Its been 7 months, and I have such a hard time dealing with it all. I am getting help and am not on

2007-02-13 12:28:44 · 3 answers · asked by maria s 2

2007-02-13 12:26:21 · 6 answers · asked by stock2004dc 1

2007-02-13 12:16:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-13 12:13:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

ok sometimes i really think about killing myself
everything is driving me so crazy!!!
my parents,my sister,and school really drive me off the edge!!!
sometimes the only thing that keeps me from doing it is my friends.
i've never thought about this before but now i'm really considering it!!
sometimes i don't know what to do!
please tell me what i can do so that i would end up dead before the end of high school!!

2007-02-13 12:11:08 · 10 answers · asked by pink_mcr_girl 2

we are both sophmores in high school and she is depressed. im pretty sure it is because of all the htigns that happened to her lately. her Godfather almost mollested her, her dad was in the hospital multiple times, shes been having neck and back problems, she did something a few months ago that she regrets. i try to help her my best but its hard. i can't help her because she starts cryign manicly somtimes and when i ask whats wrong she says "idk" and keeps crying. i dont know what to do to help her. i tell her all the time to stop worring and that i will always be here. i do everythign i can to help her all the time, and so does her family. maybe you have some tips on what to do if she starts crying again, to make her feel better.

P.S. she has recently been sent to a councling hospital thing and i hope that helps her out. im just wondering what i can do to help anyways.

2007-02-13 12:08:15 · 7 answers · asked by thecoolguy 3

2007-02-13 11:52:16 · 2 answers · asked by shirleykins 7

2007-02-13 11:44:19 · 26 answers · asked by RICK S 1

we all have something we are addicted to. and i dont necessarily mean drugs or alochol. just in general, what are you addicted to?

2007-02-13 11:42:05 · 11 answers · asked by chikka 5

i am 13 yrs old
my mom calls me bad words, slaps me across the face, throws me out of the house, and yells at me all because i haven't cleaned my room
i cry and feel depressed after this
it isn't fun:( trust me.
and could u get depression from this situation? b/c i think i am:(
plz help me

2007-02-13 11:40:53 · 36 answers · asked by sexilexi 1

well one morning i woke up because a hellicopter was coming over my house and it scared me so bad i thought it was going to crash into my house.. but then / now every night i hear alot of hellicopters and see the lights but my mom doesn't seem to notice , it will be so loud but she says she doesn't hear it. Think i'm going crazy..

2007-02-13 11:37:21 · 10 answers · asked by ambiemouse 2

ok so my Girlfriend has this mad deppression and she had to go to this theoropy place for a while, like one of those places that dont let you bring in cords or basicly anythign that u could kill yourslef with. it probably sounds bad to you people but shes not crazy or anything haha. shes just depressed. they say she'll been in there at least a week. i miss her so much and i just wanna know what they do in there. does anyone know what they do to help her out? why would she have to stay there? i would really like to know.

2007-02-13 11:28:46 · 7 answers · asked by thecoolguy 3

i am one of those people who no matter what i do i just cant sleep i am opened to sugestions,

2007-02-13 11:06:54 · 25 answers · asked by trina 1

ever since i had a very bad experince smoking a large amount of cannabis things havent been the same. FIrst of all the experince itself with canabis put my mind totally out of reality which was a terriable thing to go through because for about 5 hours I thought i had gone insane. Since this experince, evrey night when im in my bed awake with my eyes closed trying to go to sleep my mind starts to put me in the same terriable feeling that I went through while on cannabis. Evreything seems to zoom in and out and i wont no where i am or who i am and it really sucks. Although, sometimes this doest happen when my mind is completely off this memory, but i still can figure out what this is im going through.

2007-02-13 10:58:55 · 8 answers · asked by willy 1

I was just recently prescribed Lexapro and it says it has very low side effects and I didn't see weight gain as one. However, I researched it a little and saw that it has caused weight gain in a lot of people.

I was wondering, are any of you who gained weight on Lexapro already overweight, or had a lot of weight fluxuation before the drug? I am on the thin side (5'7", 120-125 lbs) and my weight doesn't fluxuate more than a few pounds, and usually thats right after I eat. I have a pretty fast metabolism so I don't really gain weight, but I eat a lot.

So, has anyone who was thin or normal weight gained a ton of weight on Lexapro?? So is it a metabolism thing??

Thanks for any answers!

2007-02-13 10:56:20 · 5 answers · asked by Tara 2

2007-02-13 10:55:02 · 14 answers · asked by mark c 1

I have problems with my outer appearance. Who doesn't? Some more than others, but I struggle daily with thoughts of food and the idea that I will never be thin. Doctors tell me I am at average weight, my friends tell me that I'm skinny--but my mind filters out compliments like bacteria. I have a self-hatred for myself that has become unhealthy on the inside and outside, but I haven't gone to any extremes. I don't starve myself for days(though 1 meal a day and a snack is normal for me), I don't binge. The only time I've scared myself is when I became fascinated with eating, and throwing up my food. It was an easy way to eat what I wanted, and still have an empty stomach afterward. Is it just a fascination with people and eating disorders themselves? Or am I really struggling with my body?

2007-02-13 10:51:55 · 7 answers · asked by lipstick.smears 2

i dont want go back to pill and all this 'get out and get a hobby' are harder than it seems!
help!!

2007-02-13 10:47:51 · 18 answers · asked by Theladyw1 2

I am in my 2nd semester in College, and the College that I attend is about 180 miles away from home. I go home sometimes, but definitely not as much as I want to. For the most part, I think I am doing good up here, and then I have some awful moments, and I just want to go home and never come back. I miss my mom, I miss my family, my home, my hometown. I miss everything about my old "life".

What can I do? I need some advice. Not only things that I can physically do, but what things can I say to myself or do mentally to keep myself going?

Homesick for months,
Todd

2007-02-13 10:43:54 · 4 answers · asked by unfguy2006 2

I am wondering how many kinds of addictions one could really have.....one of the unusual ones, that I find, is pica, which is the addiction to eating non-nutritive items such as paper, etc... some people have an addiction to certain clothing, they must wear a certain pair of socks over and over again, until they are all worn out, and then look for that exact pair again in the store...some people have an addiction of sniffing a certain scent... I am just wondering some of the addictions that you have heard of.. not the usual ones like drugs and alcohol, or ocd behavior...
thanks.....
I am into psychology, with an inquisitive mind

2007-02-13 10:41:01 · 6 answers · asked by amber 5

Lately, I've been having a lot of trouble falling asleep, sometimes tossing and turning for 2-3 hours until I finally blank out. Is there any advice or methods to help me fall asleep faster? It might be from stress, but I don't think it is. I'm also not affected by any type of caffiene so it can't be from that either. Please don't recommend any sort of pill or drug. Also, counting never seems to work for me so if there are any other ways, please help! If you could also post possible reasons why I'm having trouble, that would be helpful.

2007-02-13 10:26:01 · 15 answers · asked by summer_loving 2

My dad has bad anxiety and paranoia. He was prescribed Zyprexa and started taking 5mg tablets on Jan. 9th. He then changed the dosage to 10mgs about 15 days ago. So far he sleeps much better and doesn't shake when he gets nervous. But other than that he is pretty much the same. Oh his voice sounds much better. He doesn't sound like a whinny 5 year old child anymore. I guess I am too anxious for the medicine to work, but I am losing hope. It was hard enough to convince him to take it. (He was afraid of taking any medication). How much longer do I have to wait?

2007-02-13 10:21:05 · 5 answers · asked by babofa 2