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Posted by rjlockhart on June 10, 2006, at 12:39:35
I wake up and i feel, man so incredinbly i could, well its like a mixture of anxiety and severe depression. It goes away as the day goes by.
I have taken antianxiety medications upon waking because i have panic attacks but thats not really what im trying to post.
Does anyone really wake up in just an almost dispair emotional state, i mean when i have had these episodes i am so incredibly in dispair i feel hopeless i cant describe how bad it is.
Why does this happen. Is there an imbalance in serotoin that causes this. I do take Prozac in the morning, but when i have to go to work like this it is bad.
Please well if you cant really relate to what i am saying, just post something anyhting similar so i will know that im not the only one out there.
Matt
Posted by nellie7 on June 10, 2006, at 14:23:19
In reply to Has anyone wake up in just dispair? depression, posted by rjlockhart on June 10, 2006, at 12:39:35
Hi Matt,
Depression and serotonin imbalances, as you mentioned, can cause what you are describing.
How long have you been taking Prozac? Maybe you should ask your pdoc if you are taking the right dosage, or if another drug might work better.I hope you feel better soon.
Nellie.
Posted by Jost on June 10, 2006, at 19:58:53
In reply to Has anyone wake up in just dispair? depression, posted by rjlockhart on June 10, 2006, at 12:39:35
> I wake up and i feel, man so incredinbly i could, well its like a mixture of anxiety and severe depression. It goes away as the day goes by.
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> I have taken antianxiety medications upon waking because i have panic attacks but thats not really what im trying to post.
>
> Does anyone really wake up in just an almost dispair emotional state, i mean when i have had these episodes i am so incredibly in dispair i feel hopeless i cant describe how bad it is.
>
> Why does this happen. Is there an imbalance in serotoin that causes this. I do take Prozac in the morning, but when i have to go to work like this it is bad.
>
> Please well if you cant really relate to what i am saying, just post something anyhting similar so i will know that im not the only one out there.
>
> MattHi, Matt. Sorry getting up and facing the day are so hard right now.
I"ve definitely had times when I would wake up and be overwhelmed with that sense of futility and anguish. I would really just wish I hadn't woken up, and didn't have to remember who I was.
No one really understands why people have these feelings-- I'm sure there are experiences and one's own complex emotional vulnerabilities--that explain it-- You'll pull through.
It sounds like you might try to enhance your AD, either with higher dose, or something else. Modafinil?
Are you getting enough sleep?
Jost
Posted by heaven help me on June 10, 2006, at 20:21:39
In reply to Has anyone wake up in just dispair? depression, posted by rjlockhart on June 10, 2006, at 12:39:35
Hey-
Just glad to see you are posting. I've been wondering how you were...stillpraying for you...
blessings
mary
Posted by Glydin on June 10, 2006, at 20:36:12
In reply to Re: Has anyone wake up in just dispair? depression, posted by Jost on June 10, 2006, at 19:58:53
for quite a while. Those sudden bolt up in bed shocked yet freezing up anxiety wakeups followed by intense depressive feelings.... but not anymore. In fact, that nastiness has been gone for me for over a year. Thank Goodness.
Lex has helped me make a different life for myself in just about every aspect.
Matt, I really think ALL aspects your treatment plan - to include meds, therapy, etc - could use a looking at to see if things could improve for you. From your posts, you seem to function pretty well but a person can be functional yet rather miserable and filled with instability. I know, I've been there and I've been that person..... Life needs to be (and CAN be) better than that, IMO.
Posted by cecilia on June 10, 2006, at 20:56:43
In reply to Has anyone wake up in just dispair? depression, posted by rjlockhart on June 10, 2006, at 12:39:35
Posted by Phillipa on June 10, 2006, at 21:49:55
In reply to I used to, posted by Glydin on June 10, 2006, at 20:36:12
Matt listen to Glydin lexapro has done wonders for her. Love Phillipa
Posted by blueberry on June 11, 2006, at 11:45:10
In reply to Has anyone wake up in just dispair? depression, posted by rjlockhart on June 10, 2006, at 12:39:35
I used to get the same despair depression wake-up call every morning when I was on prozac. It faded throughout the morning. The rest of the day was just blah and apathetic but not depressed.
I get the same stuff now that I'm not on an antidepressant.
But when I was on lexapro, that morning crap disappeared after about 1 1/2 weeks. Prozac was better for me overall for depression, but lexapro was better for feeling half decent upon waking and lexapro was tons better for anxiety.
Posted by joslynn on June 12, 2006, at 9:05:45
In reply to Has anyone wake up in just dispair? depression, posted by rjlockhart on June 10, 2006, at 12:39:35
I can completely relate. I have felt that way during severe depressions. It's always the worst upon first waking up (and when I am severely depressed, I wake up too early, like 3:30 or 4, so it gives me even more time to feel despair, yuck).
I have heard explanations about this, that it has something to do with cortisol I believe. Apparently, cortisol is what wakes us up, and when you are not depressed, it does this in a natural, gradual way. But if you are depressed, it gets out of wack and you wake up too early, with too much cortisol, which makes you feel bad. Something like that.
I don't feel that way anymore. It really can go away eventually, so, don't give up hope.
Posted by joslynn on June 12, 2006, at 9:12:22
In reply to Re: Has anyone wake up in just dispair? depression, posted by joslynn on June 12, 2006, at 9:05:45
Sometimes when I felt that way, I would force myself to get out and take a walk as soon as the sun came out. (As a woman, I didn't feel safe walking before dawn, when it was still dark.) It helped a little.
Also, I am on Lexapro and Remeron. Other times I have been just on lexapro. Both ways, I haven't gotten that morning despair.
The first time I was severely depressed, I refused to go on meds, and even then, the morning despair eventually lifted on its own, but it took many months.
The second time I was severely depressed, I was like, screw this, I'm not going throught THIS again for months, so I finally agreed to go on meds. I guess it took about a month or so not to have any mornings like that on the meds.
It's a terrible feeling. You are not the only one who has had it.
Posted by CEK on June 12, 2006, at 12:25:58
In reply to P.S., posted by joslynn on June 12, 2006, at 9:12:22
I feel this way in the morning and all through the day. My mood seems to life some by 7:00pm. I can sit down and watch a movie and somehow leave my life behind me. I dread going to sleep at night. I dread the next day. I'd stay up all night and sleep all day if I could.
Posted by rjlockhart on June 12, 2006, at 16:13:05
In reply to Re: Has anyone wake up in just dispair? depression, posted by joslynn on June 12, 2006, at 9:05:45
hey guys,
Thank you all for posting. I have been at work, which really has been making me depressed ROFL
I have a day off, im glad i feel i can talk and not be pressured to have to think of work.
Listen i have been, i cant stand sleeping, because when i wake up, well i do take lay down after a long day after the a day at GAP. But when i do i wake up depressed, ROFL how crazy is that?
I have woke up 6:00am on my days off, and cant really go back to sleep, or i do but i stay in this "stung" stinging anxiety state. I dont know what my body is doing. Ugh, well tranquilizers dont work well, but thats not what where talking about.
Mainly depression it comes on when i wake up, i feel completely dispaired, as if a tradegdy happened. What in the heck, im almost, its really like a panic-dispaired state, it passes as the day goes on. I do not like to take Xanax upon waking.
Maybe i should go to Zoloft instead of Prozac. Or just not antidepressant at all and see how that goes, im not being saracastic either, really i want to see what would happen.
Thanks guys
Im going to be posting on more
Matt
Posted by cecilia on June 13, 2006, at 0:01:41
In reply to Re: P.S., posted by CEK on June 12, 2006, at 12:25:58
I usually do sleep all day and stay awake all night (I've worked evenings or nights most of my life-there's no way I could function in a day job), but I still feel that overwhelming despair regardless of when I wake up or how little or much sleep I've had. I have to allow at least 2 hours after I wake up to be remotely functional. Cecilia
Posted by zeugma on June 13, 2006, at 16:22:54
In reply to Re: P.S.-CEK, posted by cecilia on June 13, 2006, at 0:01:41
I have to allow at least 2 hours after I wake up to be remotely functional>>
Same here.
And I use 'functional' in the most minimal sense possible.
-z
Posted by pulse on June 14, 2006, at 13:36:22
In reply to Has anyone wake up in just dispair? depression, posted by rjlockhart on June 10, 2006, at 12:39:35
for many, many years, i didn't wake up still in bed this way, but within 5 minutes of going downstairs, i could put myself in a deep pit.
the explanation i've been told is that, for me, my depressive thoughts kicked right in, then came so fast, that i wasn't cognizant of even having them/ doing this.
most of my 20's, however - i did have exactly what you say.
pulse
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