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12 Sep 2014, 4:36 pm

I had a bad psychotic episode when I was 14 that landed me in the hospital for 6 months.

This year, however, I've been having increasing problems. I have developed insomnia, having lost the ability to sleep without both benzodiazepines and sedating antipsychotics; my ability to tolerate stress has taken a hit over the past few months; I am much more sensitive to the noise at my job; my thinking has become very anxious and obsessive; once, this week, I was chatting with mum and it felt like the responses weren't really coming from me but somebody who was communicating by telepathy, accompanied by a strong sense of unreality and even excitement; and I've been out of work on disability for the second time this year.

Luckily, my doctor is going to keep me on the high dose of Seroquel, even as he is planning to move to an SSRI to help stem the obsessiveness. I was concerned he'd take me off the Seroquel, but he's not.

Maybe the combo of the benzo, the antipsychotic, and the SSRI'll finally get me back to work and functioning! Talk about a big cocktail, though! :wink:

Now, for some reason, I have a random desire to play Kirby's Super Star. That desire has been popping in and out of my consciousness for the past week. Maybe I need to get off my tush, download it, and play it!


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12 Sep 2014, 8:43 pm

Last Monday, when I visited my psychologist, he noted how that time I wasn't jumping from topic to topic. I was like, Oh, OK. (I had no clue I was jumping from topic to topic before.) He said that overall my mental state seemed to be improved.

But apparently, at some session or other, I jumped from topic to topic.

Had no idea till he told me.


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13 Sep 2014, 12:15 am

hope the meds continue to help.