Posted by detroitpistons on March 21, 2006, at 8:56:19
In reply to Re: How well can you mask your anxiety/ depression?, posted by deniseuk on March 21, 2006, at 6:36:50
> Hi Denise,
>
> Having said that I still feel hurt when I feel like I'm being excluded from anything even though I really don't feel like getting involved :-)
>I know exactly what you mean.
> I think the only people who really know how bad your feeling are the people you are closest to.
>I live in a different city from everyone who I'm really close to, so really nobody that I know really understands. I speak to the people who are closest to me over the phone, but I still don't think they really understand because they don't see me or talk to me on a regular basis. Sometimes I just want to tell someone else, but I know I shouldn't because I'm scared they'll start seeing me differently.
> I feel really as though I may as well just stay in bed for all I'm getting out of today.
>Ditto for me when I'm depressed.
> This is all on 40mg of Seroxat, if I wasn't taking anything at all right now then the cracks would probably start to show. I don't go completely off my trolley but the anxiety gets much much worse and I'm constantly nipping away from my desk and going off for cigarrettes, my concentration gets worse and I feel like telling everyone and anyone how bad I'm feeling and how I just want to die :-)
>
> Zyprexa really helps me and I should take it (my mum tells me to take it) when she can see that I'm very down. But then I keep stalling from taking it feeling as though somehow I can pull myself out of the depression.
>You really should think about changing your medication regimen. It sounds to me like the Seroxat (Paxil in North America) has pooped out on you. I was where you are now while on Lexapro, and I swithched meds and broke the depression. You shouldn't be as depressed/anxious as you sound while on an antidepressant. Obviously, it's not working. Tell your doc and change it up. There's hope.
Take care of yourself,
Marc
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