Stress Center Peer Support

I have been on Pristiq (anti depressant) for 16 days now and I have had a lot of side effects at first including locked jaw, sweating of the hands and feet, increased heart rate, decreased appetite, insomnia, dry mouth, increased anxiety, tiredness, and headache the first day only, but now I have be...

I've had this symptom for a year now and it is the worst feeling in the enitre world. It feels like a dizzy feeling. It feels like I can't concentrate. It makes me feel tired, and almost out of it, like a ten mile gaze. I usually get this feeling when I am in public, or at work, and sometimes it hap...

Administration,

I am a current sufferer of depression, GAD, and Pure ocd. I would like the support of my peers, infact I can't imagine where I would be today without their advice and encourgement. Please re-open the chat room soon.

Thanks,

Amber

Hi my name is amber and I have pure ocd. I want to get rid of it. It has ruined my life! I am tired of meds because they dont solve the problem only mask it. I am tired of therapists that give shooty advice because they only know what they learned from a text book. Every therapist I have been to has...

Pinkterror84, I know exactly how you feel. I haven't been able to watch anything with violence in years. I can't watch the news, violent video games or even listen to violent music because it is a trigger to my scary thoughts. I am sorry that you are going throught this, but in a way for me its a re...

For the past few days I have felt like a zombie. I will get a headache that lingers for hours and I feel like I have no emotions or personality. I started taking paxil a week ago and now I feel like all I do is stare out into space. My thoughts were really bad a few days ago and are a little bit bet...

Hi all my name is Amber and I have OCD. In August of 09 I had a really bad panic attack one morning after my boyfriend had left to work. I hated the thought of being alone and I started to text him constantly to come home because he was my "safe" person. He couldn't come home and I had to rough it o...

Hi my name is Amber and I just started taking 10mg paxil for my OCD disorder. Does anybody else take paxil for OCD and did it help them with their OCD thoughts?

Kami, I think that you and I are going through the same thing right now. Its seems as though I am scared of everything too! I don't come out of my house, but it is mostly because I don't really have a life right now. I cant't work and I dropped out of school because I can't concentrate on anything b...

Hi all, I am having terriable nightmares. I had a nightmare this morning where I went to the bathroom to pop a pimple in the mirror and all of a sudden I grabbed my hair with both of my hands and started screaming like a crazy person. My nightmares have been really bad when I dont take my sleep medi...