Posted by zeugma on May 8, 2004, at 7:09:47
In reply to Effexor is turning me into a Psycho no pun intend, posted by Stryker88 on May 8, 2004, at 3:55:12
well, I have a similar routine:
1. Listen to coffee drip from my preset coffeemaker as two alarms go off.
2. turn off the buzzing one, turn down the radio, eagerly suck down a pot (three cups) of coffee. With coffee and breakfast (if not depressed) or without breakfast (if depressed, when i get depressed i lose interest in everything but coffee) i pop 80 mg strattera, .5 mg klonopin, 15 mg buspirone.
3. go to work, grab a coffee, dark, no sugar, at the diner by the bus stop, unless i am having a relapse of depression, (as i have the past 2 weeks) in which case i take it regular, milk and sugar.
4. finish coffee on bus. grab another coffee and buttered roll at coffee shop near workplace so i have a nearly full cup as i walk in the door. the few times i've skipped this step colleagues look at me strangely, say "where's your coffee?" the fact that i've downed potsful already is of course not apparent to them.
5. at any possible break i announce "i'm getting coffee. anyone else want something?" my colleagues take advantage of my coffee habit, and i return with multiple items: food, soda for others, food for myself (if not depressed) and coffee, or just coffee, if as i am now, depressed.
6. lunch break. currently, due to bad depression, i get coffee and eat a ptotein bar.
7. get coffee on way home so i have energy to eat dinner (if not depressed) or just set my alarms, coffeemaker, take my evening meds (now 50 mg nortriptyline, 15 mg buspirone, .25 mg klonopin) go to this site, and go to sleep.
i am on my third cup of coffeee as i write this, of course.
poster:zeugma
thread:344686
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