Hi Everyone
I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety for a few years. It was so bad i honestly couldn’t see a future for myself. I also used to have anxiety attacks everyday. It was like hell. Thankfully I saw a psychiatrist and got put on antidepressants.
They changed my life. I feel so much better. No more anxiety attacks. The problem is I’ve noticed a pattern whenever something bad happens ot a problem arises I slip into a very negative thought pattern. It’s like a spiral. What stands out most is I keep thinking i should kill myself. I had a bad experience on facebook marketplace recently and got scammed. It wasn’t too much money but i have extreme guilt about spending any money so it hit me hard. I kept thinking that I’m stupid and worthless. That I should just end it. Sometimes in my worst moments the only thing that stops me is how my family would feel if I did go through it.
I’ve also noticed passive sucidal thoughts. Where everything is fine and I’m happy but I’ll just think I should kill myself randomly. I can’t afford a therapist right now. I am wondering if anyone else has dealt with this and what helped.
Any advice or support is deeply appreciated. It has been a very rough two weeks.
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Hi Again
I’m sorry for spaming but I finally have the energy to write all this down. This started aroud 2017, after i finished highschool. I noticed that I would have randomly periods of extreme fatigue. It’s almost like an attack. I get so tired I can’t keep my eyes open. It lasts for around 40 min usually. It doesn’t happen everyday but I’ve noticed when I’m getting sick it happens multiple times a day and I’m tired the whole day. It doesn’t matter how much sleep I got the previous night. I’ve checked my blood pressure when this happens and it’s around 116/60 which is low for me. Has this happened to anyone else? What helped you?
It’s so inconvenient because when it happens at work i have to wait it out in the restroom. I work an office job and don’t want to fall asleep my desk.
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Hey, I just wanted to reach out and say I’m sorry for what you’re going through. It must be so hard to feel like you’ve beaten the problem (congrats on that, btw), only to have other similar problems pop up. It must feel like walking through quicksand. Every time you feel like you’ve made progress, you look down and see that you’re still sunk and maybe sinking further. I’m no doctor but the blood pressure issue does seem like something that could use the advice of a doctor. I’ve been in situations where things don’t feel right and it’s always embarrassing to go see the Dr. only to have them tell you there’s nothing wrong, but if there’s something that can be done to help your sleepiness episodes, that would probably make you feel better, and if they tell you nothings wrong, at least you know. Sometimes just having a medical professional tell me I’m not actually sick can make the symptoms lessen. Similarly with the thoughts of suicide, I wonder if you’ve had a chance to discuss those with a professional, like to how you handled the anxiety attacks? Either way, thank you for reaching out. It takes a lot of guts to do that. We’re glad to have you here.