Hey everyone! I started taking Zoloft over the past few weeks (cross tapered as I was dropping Cymbalta), and over the past week or so, I've been noticing some mild swelling in the night. My watch, which I always wear when I sleep, will feel incredibly tight, my rings will feel way too tight, even loose bracelets have left red marks around my wrist.
Is this common?
I'm saying this mostly about people who post on Youtube and Tiktok, especially about topics regarding marginalized minorities. If you post a video about, say, trans rights, or autism, or mental illness, or Black Lives Matter, or whatever, you are responsible for monitoring and deleting/refuting comments that are hostile towards those groups. Not doing so implies that you support those comments, because you do nothing to actually stop them from happening. If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem, and by posting that video you gave those people another tiny platform to spew their hatred.
Even in completely unrelated topics, once that hatred starts creeping in (as it frequently does) you have a responsibility to put a stop to it, or be viewed as condinging it. For example, in Canada, for some reason every time someone mentions Tim Hortons (a coffee and donut chain), the anti-Indian racists come piling in. If you're posting about how much you like Timbits, and people start commenting racist comments about South Asians, you have a duty to put a stop to it.
Allowing casual racism to take place in your online space is what helps to perpetuate it. It normalizes it while you stand back and watch.
Hey everyone! I found these for another poster, and since they are pretty buried on the Transit page, I was thinking it might be helpful to create a new post for easier access!
I've been taking cymbalta for about 2.5 months, and I will gladly credit it with saving my life. 3 months ago, I was about to commit suicide, I was in the worst OCD spiral I had ever experienced in my entire life, my intrusive thoughts were genuinely almost causing me to hallucinate, and I frequently felt like they were transporting me to other places and times. Cymbalta stopped all that. Within 8 hours of taking my first dose, I felt my brain empty out like someone had opened all the windows and the wind blew everything clear.
Since then, though, I have been experiencing so much inconsistency that I don't think I can stay on this. I've had biweekly (every 2 weeks) swings in mood, with some pretty bad depressive episodes stopping me from getting off the couch for 2-3 days. My insomnia has ranged from giving me 3-4 hours a night of broken, awful sleep, to 9 hours a night of broken awful sleep, and I am constantly exhausted throughout the day. Not just tired, but like, walking through molasses, unable to think straight, can't do my job type of exhausted. The nightmares have ranged from confusing to downright traumatizing, with me waking up screaming and/or crying some nights.
I just share this to see if anyone else has had this sort of experience, and has transitioned to something more suitable? I know zoloft is often presribed for OCD, and I am considering that next.
