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SophiaGrace
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I feel like talking a lot right now. So, I thought I would write it all down here. Perhaps someone will be able to relate or it might help someone in a way that I might not have thought of. Or, will just give members something to think about.
Anyways I wanted to talk with you about how I have been recently put on an anti-depressant. It's the generic of Prozac and Ive been on it for a few days. Three maybe? Or four. I had been put on zoloft a few years ago, when I was suicidal. It didn't work very well, if I remember correctly, I still felt like crap and it made me sleep all the time.
Prozac is different for me though. So far, it's made my anxiety go away. I never realized how much anxiety I had about life until I went on prozac. The psychiatrist told me that after a while I would stop worrying about my future so much, hm, so far, it seems like he is right.
Because it has taken away my anxiety, I now can talk more. I guess I feel more uninhibited? I always was so insecure about everyone knowing my faults and judging me that they consumed me, and I never realized that, well, maybe I did, but I couldn't step back and see it.
Here is a negative about the Prozac so far, it apparently impairs my reaction time and concentration. So, my driving ability has gone down hill. Now, this negative is probably one I might not be able to live with, unless, over time, it goes away. With my concentration, I can concentrate a lot better in a way.
The only way I can describe this shift of concentration is to say, if I were to step outside and look at things. I would see in detail the leaves on one tree, but then everything around it wouldn't be in focus. Whereas when the effects of prozac wear off, this tunnel vision of sorts goes away. It's really good for reading, this sort of concentration, but bad for driving because you need the general picture when you drive of everything happening around you, whereas with reading you can just concentrate on the concept or the page. Make sense?
I need to be able to drive though and not be a hazard on the roads.
I have also noticed that I need less sleep lately, that I wake up with the sunset even if I am really tired. So the prozac is cutting into my sleep patterns a bit, but I feel it could be remedied by going to bed earlier.
Okay, now that's out of my system.
Anyways I wanted to talk with you about how I have been recently put on an anti-depressant. It's the generic of Prozac and Ive been on it for a few days. Three maybe? Or four. I had been put on zoloft a few years ago, when I was suicidal. It didn't work very well, if I remember correctly, I still felt like crap and it made me sleep all the time.
Prozac is different for me though. So far, it's made my anxiety go away. I never realized how much anxiety I had about life until I went on prozac. The psychiatrist told me that after a while I would stop worrying about my future so much, hm, so far, it seems like he is right.
Because it has taken away my anxiety, I now can talk more. I guess I feel more uninhibited? I always was so insecure about everyone knowing my faults and judging me that they consumed me, and I never realized that, well, maybe I did, but I couldn't step back and see it.
Here is a negative about the Prozac so far, it apparently impairs my reaction time and concentration. So, my driving ability has gone down hill. Now, this negative is probably one I might not be able to live with, unless, over time, it goes away. With my concentration, I can concentrate a lot better in a way.
The only way I can describe this shift of concentration is to say, if I were to step outside and look at things. I would see in detail the leaves on one tree, but then everything around it wouldn't be in focus. Whereas when the effects of prozac wear off, this tunnel vision of sorts goes away. It's really good for reading, this sort of concentration, but bad for driving because you need the general picture when you drive of everything happening around you, whereas with reading you can just concentrate on the concept or the page. Make sense?
I need to be able to drive though and not be a hazard on the roads.
I have also noticed that I need less sleep lately, that I wake up with the sunset even if I am really tired. So the prozac is cutting into my sleep patterns a bit, but I feel it could be remedied by going to bed earlier.
Okay, now that's out of my system.