No energy equals no remedy~
March 5, 2009 10:24pm
Davyman 
11:39pm, April 29, 2009
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About Me
Davyman
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About Me
Working with people in public relations, I have been able to help others with their problems but no one ever knew that underneath my smile that I have silently had my own battles attempting to outrun the hounds of panic attacks, free floating anxiety and depression that have been nipping at my heels at various seasons in my life. The combination of genetic propensities, increasing life stresses and sharing my emotional and spiritual resources with others without taking care of my needs seemed to have brought the perfect storm my way for the past five years resulting in a severe loss of energy. For example, even though I am aware intrinsically and intellectually of things that I need to do to regain my self confidence which will spark my creativity and so forth, I simply am too weak and fatigued to see it through. Chronic fatigue has simply taken over my life and even though I may get a couple of days of relief now and then bringing me hope that this mysterious syndrome is lifting....it comes flooding back, dashing my hopes of recovery. I am by nature a gentle wildheart and endlessly fascinated by so many things in life, but when my energy leaves, I am left struggling and asking God to give me strength and complete restoration~
Working with people in public relations, I have been able to help others with their problems but no one ever knew that underneath my smile that I have silently had my own battles attempting to outrun the hounds of panic attacks, free floating anxiety and depression that have been nipping at my heels at various seasons in my life. The combination of genetic propensities, increasing life stresses and sharing my emotional and spiritual resources with others without taking care of my needs seemed to
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I enjoy great conversation, humor, music, photography, motorcycling and adventurous activities, books, writing, humor, racquetball, learning new things, and trying to make a difference while having a blast doing so...
I enjoy great conversation, humor, music, photography, motorcycling and adventurous activities, books,
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I miss the friend I never had
February 5, 2009 3:48pm
Part of being depressed is dealing with regrets and lonliness Do you ever feel like you lost a friend you never had? If I am being transparent, …
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Ibelieve in friends
July 13, 2008 12:07am
Dear Friends: I found this reading (and added a few quotes) and hope you find it insightful, but if you don’t, pummel, stab or punch …
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Sending you hugs i hope ur doin ok and if your not please take comfort it the fact that people care xoxoxo
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Hey glad to hear ur doin a bit better, thats good, im ok just tired,,, sending you love and higs also we need all we can get lol xoxoxo keep ur chin up xoxoxo Brooke
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Hey im sorry youve been so bad mate, i hadnt seen you around so i was worried.Thinking of you.would love to chat, take care fo yourself xoxox Brooke
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Hey how u doin? how u feeling? i hope ur ok, Take Care mate.Brooke xoxo
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Close Depression
Type: Clinical (Major) DepressionAlthough fairly successful in my career and raising a family, I have battled some level of anxiety-depression since adolescence culminating with a major depression at age 57 that has lasted four years. Depression at this level is indescribable; the freefall into the dark hole, the pain, the sadness, the loss and the loneliness as you attempt again and again to cling to any remaining emotional fragments to get through another day and another night, praying and waiting for the sun to shine again~
Treatments
- Cymbalta Working / Worked
- Working but not curing...side effects troublesome~
- Positive Thinking Working / Worked
- Is helpful
Close Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
After working for 40 years, at age 57 my energy left me and I became a prisoner to chronic fatigue and depression. Chronic Fatigue is like moving through the day in water up to your shoulders. Exhaustion clings to you stealing your strength and with it, your life. You live in a fog with emotional paralysis and a spinoff of guilt and loneliness. Only people who have experienced CFS can understand this invisible sickness that makes your bed your best friend~
Treatments
- Cymbalta Working / Worked
- I have used various AD's with Cymbalta working the best when augmented w/ .30 t0 .40 mg of adderal. The side effects include IBS aggravation among others~
Open Insomnia
If I could change only one thing in my life other than my bald head (lol), it would be to be insomnia free! For me, I have always suspected that it was the root cause of most physical and emotional ills. To be able to close my eyes and quickly fall into a deep restful sleep for seven or eight hours and then awake, refreshed and renewed, and restored...That would be heaven for me. My insomnia template started in early adolescence and has been with me to some degree ever since~
Treatments
- Ambien Working / Worked
- Works maybe every other leap year it seems. All it does is kick in my appetite and am going off of it~
- Lunesta Working / Worked
- About like Tylenol PM~
- Reading Working / Worked
- I have seriously tried all of the relaxation methods including a few old wives tales thrown in to boot. And I've tried, Valerian, melatonin, warm milk yadi yadi yah but until the switch in brain or wherever that regulates sleeps turns on....could be 12, 1, 3, 5am ....give it up, baby~ So I usually just read until then~
Open Anxiety
Since I was eighteen, I have silently been attempting to outrun the hounds of panic attacks, free floating anxiety and eventually depression that have been nipping at my heels at various seasons in my life.
Treatments
- Breathing Exercises Working / Worked
- If anxiety is too great this won't be enough alone but a working knowledge of breathing exercises, prayer or meditation is one of the best things to have in your arsenal as it will definitely slow down the "hot wired" run away brain...
- Paxil Working / Worked
- Positive Thinking Working / Worked
- ....don't worry, be happy....of course it works....but it will not prevent genetic type anxiety ~
- Xanax Working / Worked
- Helps somewhat for free floating anxiety but for panic attacks dosage has to be so high that I found it contributing to depression.
