Posted by Racer on February 3, 2008, at 13:27:15
In reply to help!?, posted by liliths on February 3, 2008, at 11:45:19
Hm... This is the medications board, so one part of me wants to answer with suggestions about medications, but the rest of me wants to suggest the Psych board, as a place to get more helpful behavioral responses...
OK, I'll compromise:
I'd say off hand it doesn't sound as though your medications are all that effective right now. Can you get a medication check? Maybe see about getting a more effective set of medications on board? Sometimes medications can address some of your symptoms effectively, but make others worse -- and often that can point the way towards a more fully effective medication cocktail. In my case, what you're describing as "laziness" is sometimes a sort of amotivation caused by certain sorts of medications. I'd bet you and your pdoc can work together to find a better solution.
That brings up the psychological side: when I read your post, it sounds to me as though you're blaming yourself for the state you're in right now. What you're describing, though, sounds like maybe this thing called "depression..." Honestly -- a lot of the residual symptoms of depression can look remarkably like the picture you're painting of yourself. In my experience, this leads to a perfect opportunity to blame myself for "wallowing in self-pity," "refusing to help myself," "deserving to feel this way," etc. It's not a nice place to be. That's something you could address in therapy, or even just by trying to figure out what you'd say to someone you cared about if she said those things about her own life and behavior.
Also, agoraphobia comes in a lot of flavors. I'm agoraphobic, my mother's agoraphobic, and not only does it show in different ways for us, neither one of us looks exactly like the DSM's description. I'm not a big fan of looking for diagnoses, because I think it can sometimes get in the way of seeing what's actually there, but maybe calling it agoraphobia as the closest thing that fits would be helpful.
Good luck.
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