I know the feeling well. Mine is I try and concentrate and all I want to do is listen, but the attention span is lacking and I end up having to ask the person to repeat what they said.
I have had the blues on and off the past few weeks.
There are days where I feel perfectly fine and I can concentrate and be in a room full of people and not have a problem.
Then, just the other night, I was at my gym and following my shoulder workout, we were discussing movies and someone mentioned a movie from the mid'1980s and I had a swift moment of depersonalization. Talk about spacey. This one was really uncomfortable and I am still a little rattled from it.
I know I will recover, but since that moment I have been up and down like a ladder.
This is a tough time of year for most, no?
I have many things that upset me in the fall/winter. My mother died in Nov. of 1976, the whole lack of sunlight thing, the shorter days.
Holidays also depress me for some reason.
My anxiety level is also high which might account for the depersonalization.
OK, enough of my whining. We are all in this together and I love having a place to come to vent.
I have been off prozac for 1 1/2 years and off triavil since September. Seems the triavil may have been the one that I needed for that long.
I feel now that the prozac only made me gain weight.
Has anyone else taken triavil? I was on such a small dosage.
Now I take valium when needed. But sometimes I wait too long.
Anyway, I'm interested to learn more from anyone wo has any advice. It has been a while since I posted.
Since being off meds my workouts have been amazing and I feel more awake and more invlved in life. But as you know the panic and anxiety can be rough.
Good thoughts to you all,
David
