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What doesn’t have side effects in life. Start with talk therapy if your insurance provides that option. Else, ask your family doc to prescribe some low dose quick fixes like lexapro... don’t need to suffer... mental health is after all health too
It may take a few tries to get the medicine right for you. Totally worth it! Be the best that you can be.
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My doctor prescribed Zoloft, but I read the list of side effects and decided to try to try exercising more first. Also, I didn’t want to give up my nightly two glasses of wine, and you can’t drink with Zoloft.
Thanks for your reply. Have you notice any side effects?
Good luck! You will get better
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Talk to a qualified psychiatrist. The number of different opinions on this website will confuse you and make you more anxious.
It is easier said than done but if your consulting job is causing issues, consider moving out of consulting. Seek internal roles at your current firm vs leave them.
Yes. I re-started lexapro a few weeks into this. But I had taken it before. Don’t read the side effects info online.
It’s been a life-saver for me through the loss of routine and gym.
Agree with P1 - a lot of mental health medication therapy is somewhat trial and error and figuring out the right meds that work for you. You’ll want to speak to a professional psychiatrist who can give you much better info and advice than we we can. Best of luck OP. Hang in there and I congratulate you on talking about this and seeking help.
Low dosage of lexapro, and adderall really balanced me out honestly. I was a bit of a basket case before my doc helped
Sort of, yes... i had been thinking about meeting with someone eventually but covid helped propel that process. I️ had two panic attacks in March, which I️ felt was so out of character. But after talking to an online psychiatrist, he recommended a low dose SSRI. I️ don’t feel “cured” necessarily like you would with an antibiotic, but it really helped to just talk through it with a professional
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Meditation is better
Start with a psychiatrist (I use a psychiatrist through teladoc right now). There’s a large range of anti-anxiety/anti-depressants that can be a really great tool in your mental health tool belt. But you got to get to the right one by figuring out what’s going on— like is it anxiety or panic attacks. What are the underlying triggers? Is it a feeling of hopelessness? What are the triggers? Are these short term or long term feelings? You need to know that before figuring out what medications/side effects combo you’re willing to tolerate. You might find that therapy and identifying feelings/triggers is enough to help work through them or that you need some medication to help. ❤️
I just wanna add that the impulse to want to see a psychiatrist is a good one but don’t let it add more stress and anxiety.
Your primary care would be more than willing and able to prescribe you an SSRI tomorrow (because half of American adults take these medicines and it’s impossible for psychiatrists to manage that many cases). In the off chance they won’t, they’ll refer you.
I would have preferred to see a psychiatrist to get a lexapro scrip, and to be supervised while taking it, ideally, but finding a psychiatrist with availability in DC right now (even one that didn’t take my insurance) was extremely difficult, time consuming and ultimately proved impossible.
This is definitely something you can trial and error with a primary care and you don’t have to over think it.