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shutterbug · 08-05-2007, 10:03 AM

i hate going to wal-mart when crowded too. In college, my best friend and i would go at around 2 or 3 in the morning. (i, of course, was in my super-woman, never need sleep, hypomanic stage....don't know about her tho).

anyway...crowded stores always give me lots of anxiety. when i'm around tons of people i don't know...i just want to shrink or disappear completely. i hate the feeling.

I can't remember if lexapro is an anti-d or a mood stabalizer??? i never was able to keep myself medicated until i got on effexor for my depressions. some people don't like it because of a side affect that appears if you've gone too long without taking your next dose, but for me....it's the only reason i've been able to stay on it for about 4 years now. There's no way i could go months without it....i'd find a way to get it! Once when the idiot free clinic pdoc switched my meds around....she didn't taper me off of the effexor and i wasn't thinking clearly when i packed to stay the weekend at sis's...so i just took my new meds with me. Big mistake!!!!! At the end of 3 days without it....between the severe nausae of the lithium she had me on and dizzy, electric feeling of no effexor....it was either get myself home to my meds...or take me to the hospital! I felt so sick.

Anyway...it starts out very mild feeling and it's the perfect amount to remind me that i've missed a dose. Just thought i'd share.

Oh...also.....don't forget to monitor your sleeping when your feeling "up". If you are not sleeping much or at all then you can be sure that a crash will lay ahead at some point and the longer amount of time you were up enough to need little sleep....the the deeper and longer the crash when it arrives.

hugs,
Jenna

08-05-2007, 10:03 AM	#5 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,947 Blog Entries: 5	i hate going to wal-mart when crowded too. In college, my best friend and i would go at around 2 or 3 in the morning. (i, of course, was in my super-woman, never need sleep, hypomanic stage....don't know about her tho). anyway...crowded stores always give me lots of anxiety. when i'm around tons of people i don't know...i just want to shrink or disappear completely. i hate the feeling. I can't remember if lexapro is an anti-d or a mood stabalizer??? i never was able to keep myself medicated until i got on effexor for my depressions. some people don't like it because of a side affect that appears if you've gone too long without taking your next dose, but for me....it's the only reason i've been able to stay on it for about 4 years now. There's no way i could go months without it....i'd find a way to get it! Once when the idiot free clinic pdoc switched my meds around....she didn't taper me off of the effexor and i wasn't thinking clearly when i packed to stay the weekend at sis's...so i just took my new meds with me. Big mistake!!!!! At the end of 3 days without it....between the severe nausae of the lithium she had me on and dizzy, electric feeling of no effexor....it was either get myself home to my meds...or take me to the hospital! I felt so sick. Anyway...it starts out very mild feeling and it's the perfect amount to remind me that i've missed a dose. Just thought i'd share. Oh...also.....don't forget to monitor your sleeping when your feeling "up". If you are not sleeping much or at all then you can be sure that a crash will lay ahead at some point and the longer amount of time you were up enough to need little sleep....the the deeper and longer the crash when it arrives. hugs, Jenna __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).