Posted by bamboomz on December 26, 2004, at 8:38:48
In reply to Lithium making me worse, posted by Slinky on December 26, 2004, at 7:53:16
Hi, I know exactly how you feel. I have been on Celexa for 2 weeks now and I am very scared about what is happening to my brain. I have experienced so many different feelings and emotions over the past two weeks. I feel like I am operating in an alternative reality. They started me out on 10mg of the stuff and for three days I felt like I was on acid. Every time I rode the subway I felt that anybody who looked at me could read my thoughts. Oh great -paranoia! I never had a problem with that before!!! Every evening I was so irritated by everything, all I wanted to do is yell at my boyfriend, cry, and go to bed. Now for the past 3 days, I have been on 20mg. The first day I took it I layed on the floor for the ENTIRE day crying and contemplating suicide then the next day I was so darn happy that I was watching Thomas the tank engine and smiling away at all the smiley faced trains. Today and yesterday I have flipping back and forth between feeling like a zombie, or noticing all of the eyes that are looking at me everywhere. Not to mention all the physical side effects (barf barf spin spin)
So, yes meds are strange and I agree when will we start to feel better? I guess the only advice I can give you is to hang in there, know that you are not alone and that there is a ton of support here in babble land. Whenever I feel really crappy, I post something here and lots of wonderful interesting people reply. It really helps you to get through the hard days and nights. I always feel like my boyfriend , friends and family have no idea what I am going through therefore they can really only be so supportive. This place offers alot of good advice and I really feel like people care about each other's suffering. So keep posting stuff, give us updates on whats going on and I really hope that you start to feel better soon.
Erin
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