Stress Center Peer Support

Hi all, This is a great book: "Unstuck, Your Guide to the 7 stage journey out of depression" by James Gordon, MD. Dr. Gordon is a psychiatrist and he recommends medicine as a LAST resort for depression. It is so surprising to read a book by a psychiatrist who is not pushing pills for depression! All...

Hi all, I started the StressCenter.com in December of 2007. It has been a rough road. the program is helping me. I am off anti-depressants and I take clonazapem only at night to help me sleep. I am still anxious but doing alot better. I used to be on lexapro and it made me feel so flat and I felt li...

Hi all, I started the mid west program in December 07 (this past December). I have been having bad panic attacks in the past month, lots of stress, relationship stress and family stress. I have been missing work, which is not good, it is now effecting my job. I love my job for the most part. I am ho...

Thanks for your kind words. I feel not connected to anyone, my sister, my coworkers, just not emotionally connecting. I feel absorbed in my nervousness and not present, it is an awful feeling. I am better today, I took a mental health day and I am home, cooking and cleaning. and trying to breathe de...

Hi all,
I am awake at 4am, i had a rough afternoon yesterday. I started the program in December and feel like it's been helping and a week ago, I started with a personal coach and we are starting from the beginning. any advise for feelings of disconnection? I'm in a rough patch.
peace,
Mary

Hi all, I am working on Session 9 guilt and worry. tonight, i ate a whole ice cream sundae and I feel sick. I have this thing with food and anxiety. If I don't eat well - eat sugar or too many carbs, it brings on anxiety in the evening for me. I know I should not eat sugar or ice cream b/c even if I...

Hi Jesse, I purposely write "Thank Goddess" b/c I believe in a goddess and I am also a Buddhist. I found the god and "he" comments very distracting at first, it seemed that everyone or most everyone on these forums believe in a Christian god and that god is a "he". I believe in a much different crea...

I have car anxiety and also it is harder for me to be a passenger than a driver. it is a control thing for me. I get weird feelings like you have described. Lately (I am on session 4 and in my 5th week of the program), I have been feeling better in my car. I reinforce my good feelings when I do feel...

Hi all, I am sad tonight. I spoke with an old friend who for years, I feel has in some ways "given up" on me, sort of just put me in a boxed category of "depressed all the time type of person". she has known me for many years and knew me when I was more happy and when I loved my life and was more ex...