Mental Health and Such · 4:14pm Jul 27th, 2023
I’ve often thought, ‘you know, I wish more people would talk about mental health stuff’.
Then I remembered: I’m people. 
So I’ve been on sertraline for a while. It was working, maybe? Like at first it was helping, but then it kinda tapered off, like I kept getting a higher dose, but even so, after a while, I kept falling back into the ‘i really like this bed’, ‘i’m just not feeling it today’, multiple-energy-drinks-a-day kind of thing.
Then my pcp left the clinic and I got a new one, and they immediately referred me to a specialist. And part of me knows that she was making the right move for my health, and not everyone has the experience for this kind of thing, but another part of me is greatly amused by the thought of her taking one look at my file and just going ‘nope not touching this one’.
So now I’m on a little bupropion as well and I think it’s helping, but part of me can’t shake the feeling of ‘is it helping because I think it’s helping, or is it actually helping?’. It takes a lot longer for meds like this to kick in, I mean, typically. I just really don’t know.
Anyway, they also recommended I get an ADHD screening, which is good because I was starting to think a couple of those ADDmemes that kept popping up on my timeline were hitting a bit close to home. So I guess I’ll see if there’s something else going on up there in a couple months when they finally have time to take me.
And just to keep things pony-related: there’s a new Cozy Glow contest, so hopefully I’ll be able to finally finish a story I started... for contest 2 
Here's hoping you find something that works for you!
It's funny, sort of, I'm tapering off of Zoloft (sertraline) now after a few years.
Do you know what's causing your depression?
Mental health do indeed be tricky. Here's hoping they figure yours out soon.
(FWIW, thinking it's helping often isn't that much different from it *actually* helping, in my experience n_n)
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Me too! So far so good, though.
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Nice! She said that was a possibility, but she also said I could be on medication for the rest of my life; there was just no way of knowing.
I don’t... apparently it could be anything from family history to low vitamin D
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Thanks! I’m hoping, too.
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Get more D?