Posted by Dinah on April 7, 2008, at 9:07:48
In reply to Re: feeling fragile *triggers » llurpsienoodle, posted by llurpsienoodle on April 7, 2008, at 6:38:17
Are you being totally honest with your therapist about how bad you're feeling? Or are you putting up a brave show?
A bit of tweaking is an odd thing for a therapist to say. Or does he prescribe your meds as well? Meds tweaking sounds like something they'd say, and it doesn't mean they think you're necessarily doing ok. It might mean more that he thinks they should give this lot of medications a try for a while longer.
Hearing more bad news when you're already feeling bad is always difficult.
But maybe it's wise to stay away from things that might be triggering, at least for a while?
With headaches, I try to lie flat in a darkened room and consciously relax all the muscles of my face and neck and shoulders. To check for my characteristic head tilt. When I'm feeling upset, my head tilt exaggerates to where it seems my ear is on my shoulder, and my muscles get very tense. To make sure I'm not tightening my eyes or grinding my teeth. And to practice pain blocking. This is easier to do with areas further away from my head than my head, but it works sometimes.
I picture the pain impulses running to my brain, and place a wall between the impulses and my brain, so that the pain isn't able to get to the place where the impulses will be transmitted to my awareness. My son prefers using a band of rubber to a wall, so that the pain impulses are sent back. When it's my head that's hurting, I also visualize calming those neurons to keep them from firing.
And then of course there's medication. I take Frova.
Llurpsie, this is absolutely none of my business, and I know nothing whatsoever about drugs other than my own experiences, so take it with a grain of salt. But Wellbutrin, while it made me feel better in some ways, also set up a low level agitation that made my suicidal and self injury thoughts a lot worse. That's just me. I tend more to anxiety than depression and I'm supersensitive to meds. But I was just wondering if there was any correlation between beginning to take Wellbutrin and feeling really bad.
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