I can't take any antidepressants whatsoever. They make what I have much worse and can make me have an adverse reaction that is similar to that of taking LSD. I had to fight several doctors on that issue. They insisted I use antidepressants and said Xanax was bad. LOL My wife has taken it 28 years and I have for over 18 and it still works. Her ex and her dad were abusers. Zoloft and Trazodone put her into Serotonin Syndrome. She was hallucinating for a week and doctors weren't figuring it out. I found the answer on line after some prayer.
The Xanax works as long as I can limit the sensory triggers enough to where my sensory system doesn't crash and start the seizures. That is what can bring on the where the heck am I what am I doing here attacks also. That much I've learned how to head off.
The brain much like a computer has a certain amount or capacity for processing at one time. That portion of my Central Nervous System is damaged and was from birth. I had some Occupational Therapy at about 12 years old that taught me how to adapt to it. By age 35 it reached a point of disability.
Wow, that’s some stuff ya got going on, snipe.
I wonder how much modern society has to do with these issues since there is an incredible amount of stress associated with living today. I had a nervous breakdown and reading up on it I found an article that said essentially a breakdown is fried adrenals. Living with violence my whole life and having a big-time stressful job with an airline, I had burned out my adrenals and was very low on cortisol. That is why I finally collapsed, or crashed and burned would be more appropriate to call it.
So now I am taking a low dose of cortisol but it will take years, if ever, to get my adrenals back to normal. And since they really have never been normal not sure it is possible at all.
I have very low energy....enough to sit and type so could do something like that for work. But anything more than that wears me out. I sleep a lot.
I have read recently that they are starting to use cortisol for Chronic Fatigue syndrome and other conditions like that. Makes sense since cortisol is the stress hormone and is what gives you physical energy and allows you to cope with life. It also handles metabolism and burning fat, carbs, and protein.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol
I must have been low my whole life because even before I went on disability, I had just enough energy to work and come home. I’d have to have a major caffeine or sugar fix to even start or get thru a day then I would crash and burn again at home. I survived but I never thrived. It was an awful way to live, and combined with mental illness it is no wonder I eventually collapsed. Was not a pleasant time to say the least.