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feelings: general depression and disconnection from reality. complacency, slowness.

reasons: holidays are always hard; violation of trust from cofounder.

actions: signed up for brightside, completed the psych review, on antidepressants with weekly therapy sessions. very easy to do and covered by my insurance. hardest part was gaining the energy to sign up.

outcome: still not great but i can begin to understand what joy could be.

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Disconnection from reality is such a weird feeling.

Good job on starting psychotherapy and antidepressants! It's crazy how much our perception of things can change when imbalances in our brain are dealt with.

I had a muscle neck spasm after doing my suicide regime(hint:I failed) about 7-9 days ago. It was the worst 2 days of life. I have essentially spent 3 months of life bed ridden due to depression and axiety.(Ruined my life at 22 yay!!) The reason I am saying is that I took fluxotine(anti-depressant for 1.5 year and was doing some progress in life. But after sometime,I stopped the medicine thinking I am fine.Turned out I was not fine!!! P.sI am just venting so plz ignore if i got offtopic

i was also on fluxotine and started to experience side effects that made it difficult to focus, so i stopped taking them and slowly regressed back into depression. i'm on bupropion now and besides feeling a bit bonkers for a few weeks, joy is starting to creep in

hang in there. you can do it. there are no shortcuts. in and through is the only way. you can be better, you can do better, i believe in you. don't give up, there is so much beauty to life, if you know where/how to look at it

you get to decide how u want 2 feel about it. u are in control if you allow yourself 2 be

I hope things get better for you.

how kind of you to spend the time to write this. i wish you peace and love my friend

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