u/B_Rabbit7442

I used to love the chocolate mousse dessert at a particular restaurant in my hometown. I left for college and came back a year later to find the restaurant had closed. I cried a real tear.

Tldr: venlaflaxin has made my fatigue worse, so the benefits were countered by the side effects, so I'm still depressed.

I was prescribed Venlaflaxin for MDD with general anxiety. I started to feel "less low" at 112.5mg which I stayed on for 3 months before being bumped on to 150mg. One of my symptoms of depression is fatigue and venlaflaxin has made my fatigue significantly worse. Before, I didn't even want to do anything, but now, even when I DO want to do something, I physically can't! This makes me even more depressed. I meet with my psychiatrist next week, and she's been insisting that the venlaflaxin isn't what is worsening my fatigue, and I need to focus on my CBT lessons from therapy (change your actions even if you can't change your mindset). I feel...kind of gaslit? Can anyone relate? How did you get your energy back?

OSDD system here. My parts can hear each other, and they often make comments about what another part has said, but they will be saying it to me and not to each other. My therapist has assigned me a task for parts that seem antagonistic to each other to have a conversation and each find at least 1 thing they can sympathise with in the other.

I can do this as the go between, but she specified that I must be the observer and they should be interacting. I literally don't know if this is even possible for my parts.

Has anyone with parts that don't interact with each other managed to overcome this, and how?

I stopped taking selfies a long time ago. However, I noticed that in pictures my friends and family take of me - you can literally see sadness in my eyes. Even when my lips are smiling my eyes look so sad and it just makes me feel worse.

6 months into my journey with Venlaflaxin (150mg) I started struggling to feel any sensation or it took extremely long (1 hour plus) to get any kind of good feeling. My libido is still high, like, I think about sex a lot and want to have sex but I feel so frustrated because my body just doesn't seem to be participating.

Have any other women experienced this? What did you do to help or it can't be helped?

My brother's birthday is coming up and I'd love to take it easy and have a beer or two. My Dr said not to drink at all but that seems a bit extreme? (100mg dosage). Does anyone have experience having alcohol while on this?

Rewatching this masterpiece again and I can't help but wonder if I'm greedy for wanting more ❤️‍🩹😭

I know this may seem like an odd question. However, someone told me for wearing overnight, reusable adult diapers are a lot more comfortable and absorbent than reusable period panties. Has anyone tried this or is my friend trying to trick me?