u/Fridaydetective

My psychologist wants me to start this next week. I have OCD and major depressive disorder. I work Monday Thursday and Friday, I was going to start taking them Monday morning but it looks like side effects the first day can be really bad.

I live alone so I don't have anyone to pick things up for me if I need anything, should I have anything on hand? I've seen nausea and hunger commonly listed so I was thinking to stock up on some nausea medicine and snacks.

I also work in addiction treatment so I'm worried about how I see they occasionally can effect pupil sizes at first listed in some reddit comments and I don't want to seem like I'm on drugs at work lol.

also, I've only ever been on Prozac before. I know thats an SSRI vs this which is an SSRI and pretty quick to take effect so it just sounds pretty different.

Overall, what can I do to prepare for starting?

I'm one of four people who get to take turns running our LGBTQ support group for patients. I'm still learning how to facilate groups as a new trainee but queer so they thought this would be a good small group for me to help out with. I've been a patient who's had therapist in trans therapy groups use the Queer and Trans Resilence workbook activities but I've found I struggle with purely doing discussions depending on group size and the fact I'm still learning how to navigate deeper discussions with patients, especially when it's still open to allies and many are not in a great or orderly state of mind.

It's just a group that exist to be a safe space for LGBTQ+ patients. Other facilators do LGBT trivia, recovery videos on youtube, and music video discussion. Last time I just did a YouTube video speech and opened it for discussion. I could find one again but figured it'd be good to ask folk for ideas.

Patients do not have phones or technology, we just have acess to a projector and paper. Our patients that attend are most often older gay men. A lot of online resources are for youth groups figuring out their identity but given our space it's moreso people who've had a long-term journey with queerness already.

But yeah. General ideas or experiences you've had in LGBTQ support groups you like?