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I have my third dr appointment tomorrow for depression. First one he prescribed my Lexapro, second one two weeks later he renewed the script. It's been six weeks since that visit and I don't even know how to answer the simple question he'll ask me tomorrow:
"How are you doing?"

I am not doing well. I may be better than when I called to make my first appointment eight weeks ago, I felt backed into a corner and I had no other choice than to admit it and try to get any help. I guess I am a tiny bit better than I was then, maybe. Or maybe not, perhaps I am just more used to this place now.

He'll ask if I am feeling suicidal, I'll reflexively say "no". I am certainly not actively entertaining the idea of offing myself, but I am perpetually plagued by the nagging thought of "Who needs this crap" in reference to where I am in life right now.

I am afraid of that maybe I am "better" and if I make the doc think otherwise he'll switch meds or something and I'll get worse.

All I do know is that I sure have a lot of undeserved anxiety about this for somebody that is taking an anti-anxiety medication everyday.



Has anybody ever had their medication go bad? The recommended temperature for storage is what 77*F, it gets into the mid 90's in my home everyday. It just seems like all three times I have gotten a new bottle of Lexapro, it works better for the first couple days then it loses it's freshness/effectiveness. Maybe this is in all my head too.