Stress Center Peer Support

This Memorial Day Weekend will be a year since I got off my medication! I was in the middle of doing the program and the week prior I spoke to many pharmacists (my doctor told me to just stop taking my antidepressant! when I did that the last time my anxiety got soooo much worse!!) I safely tapered. ( I was on Paxil 10mg). I'll never forget, we were at an amusement park and I went on this ride-I got soo sick to my stomach and my head felt weird. I didn't know if it was the ride or going off my antidepressant and it was also like 90 degrees outside!! When I got home I slept for like 2 hours-so not like me. I remember really wondering if I could do it but I kept giving myself positive statements about how great I was going to feel if I accomplished that goal. And it does feel great. I've recently started the program again to really concentrate on the sections I have problems with. I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day Weekend and take care of yourselves-we are all worth it!!!

Thanks for the encouragement. I'm on session 3. I have been noticing the negative self-talk I have. I'm trying but it feels too hard at times. Other times I feel the positive talk helping,changing me. It's kinda weird. Did you ever feel that way?

Congratulations Karmerri, I hope to get off of risperdal soon as I have been on it since about 1995. Great that you did it!

Congrats Karmerri. I'm going on the fifth month now. Good for us!

You have every right to be PROUD!

YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

thank you everybody-thank you for congratulating me AND helping me! merryheart-that is very normal to feel that way when first learing to change the negatives to positives-in fact, depending on the severity of the situation that's bothering me, I can still feel that way at times! This sounds funny, but when I first started the program, I beat myself up constantly that I wasn't doing it right! That really made changing the neg to pos so hard but as I eased up on myself, it got easier. Good Luck!