u/Jolly-Lingonberry104

Hi everyone,

I recently had increased hunger from my Seroquel which was insanely triggering for me because I have a history of disordered eating.
I was scared to tell my psych about it but the other day I finally gathered up the courage to message her about how the Seroquel has been affecting me and how my eating patterns have changed.
Her response? Dismissive
I was honestly shocked. She implied in her message that it might not be the Seroquel that’s the issue even though I clearly told her the Seroquel has caused increased hunger which caused me to have issues again. I’m very aware of what I do and how I feel so I don’t like that she doubted me.
She also told me that I should wait until our next appointment unless things get worse.
I hate that ideology that things have to be “worse” for someone to do something. Like why not stop it early? Why not do something about it before it gets out of hand.
I honestly was gonna take it but then I realized I have to advocate for myself.
So I reached back out to her, I told her my honest feelings and I told her that I’m really disappointed in the way she replied and implied that what I’m going through is not “bad enough” for her to do something about it.
She replied and corrected herself and suggested an earlier appointment.
So guys please, do not take the disrespect, do not just lie down and take it. You have to advocate for yourself and fight for your own quality of care and it’s sad we have to do this but please never give up.
Make your voice heard. You deserve to be listened to.

Hey everyone, I’m feeding 3 outside cats, 1 being a kitten so I’m feeding everyone kitten food. I’m looking for recs for kitten food that won’t break the budget. I used to feed cats purina kitten chow cause the first ingredient is chicken and I didn’t want to feed them something bad but I have found bugs in the bags twice now. I switched to the kitten chow naturals cause it’s in a plastic bag and it also has bugs in it.
Im over it honestly I don’t wanna feed them this food cause im tired of heading back to PetSmart for refunds.
Anyone have any good alternatives that aren’t completely unhealthy for them?

Hey everyone,

Like 7 years ago for a couple months I used to struggle with binging and purging and honestly I didn’t really count it as an eating disorder and I never told anyone. I didn’t loose any weight, no one noticed, and once I realized how seriously I can mess up my body I stopped altogether.

Up until now I’ve been cruising by but I got put on a new medication by my doctor. I just met with her today and I told her I was doing good but I’m not doing good at all and I don’t know how to tell her. Even thinking about it brings tears to my eyes cause I’m so ashamed.

My new medication made me increasingly hungry and it really triggered me even though it’s been 7 years. I figured that the only way I can stop weight gain from being overly hungry is to control and crack down on what I eat completely. It wasn’t meant to be like this but I started tracking my calories again. I was gonna eat like a healthy amount of calories a day and I was like yeah that’s fine there’s no issue but now I’m thinking and I’m like maybe I should do less cause I’m not physically active most days. I started having bad thoughts and now I’m scared of so many foods. I stopped eating some of my favorite foods and now I track every minuscule thing I consume.
I didn’t mean to but my grandma bought cake over and I ended up purging cause I went over my calorie limit.
I’m afraid things are getting out of hand so fast and I meet with my doctor again in a month and I just don’t know how to tell her about this.
Honestly I still don’t accept this is real because I’m eating 3 meals a day and some fruit so it’s fine. so it doesn’t feel valid it doesn’t feel like I have a problem but I know I do because I’m scared and I don’t want to be like this and I’m scared it’s gonna go farther.

I don’t know how to tell this to my doctor because honestly this was kind of one of our last resort medication options and I really don’t want to change medications again but I’m losing my mind.
I’m scared.

Hey everyone,

I’m so deeply confused. I ordered something for next day delivery, set to come today. About 3.5 hours ago I checked the Amazon app and it said the driver was two stops away and was in my neighborhood.
I checked the app about 5 min later and it said they lost connection with my driver.
It’s late at night now and it still hasn’t delivered.
I’m so confused, if it said it was 2 stops away in my neighborhood what could’ve stopped them from coming to my house?
How do they just loose connection with the driver when he was right there.
What do I even do? Do I contact support or will they deliver tomorrow like I really just don’t know.

TW: ED

I am on my like 8th medication by now and I know I reached the point where I can’t afford to be picky with my medications. At some point I have to power through the side effects and accept that there will be draw backs to every medication and I need to just get through it day by day.
For the record I’ve tried Trileptal, Lamictal, Abilify, Latuda, Caplyta, Vraylar, Risperidone.

I’m currently on 300mg of Seroquel. It works decent, I think my depression is a bit better and I’ve been feeling a little bit better about things. But my god the food hunger is insane. I’m constantly thinking about eating and food and it’s been so insanely triggering for me. I’m so worried and paranoid I’ll over eat I started tracking calories again. I feel insane guilt over eating desserts. I don’t even eat mayonnaise anymore and I love mayonnaise.
I am so scared because I used to have an Ed and I feel like I’m on a slippery slope headed down.
But the medication helps and I feel like it would be stupid to give up on it just because I can’t handle being a bit hungry. For the record, cause my therapist suggested adhd medication or something similar to curb appetite, my insurance doesn’t cover any of that.
But yeah I don’t know what to do. I take the medication that helps a bit and I sacrifice my relationship with food or I stop taking it and take I don’t even know what else I have left to take that would help me. I’ve tried so many things.

I really don’t want to make this sacrifice I’m so scared but I don’t know what else to do. I really just want to feel normal again and eat without thinking about it.

You know I never really gave this much thought but I’m usually in a depressive mood even medicated and have been since I was in my early teens. I feel like that’s the kind of person most of the people are got to know me as. But I don’t think that’s really me and I don’t know what is me really. I was in a hypomanic state recently and my sister looked at me and said “who are you and what have you done with my sister” and that hit me really hard because it’s still me at the end of the day just a different version. I wonder if people will be even able to recognize me if I wasn’t depressed.
Recently i haven’t been hypomanic but I’ve been in a chipper mood, I’ve been talking a lot and I have been making plans and having a good time hanging out with people. I don’t know if that’s me either you know. Maybe it’s just another version of me.
I don’t know just giving it a lot of thought because this happy version of me also doesn’t feel right. I’m not usually the kind to listen to upbeat music and wake up early in the mornings and make plans. It doesn’t feel right but I don’t think the depressed version of me is me either. Nothing feels right at all and it’s really bothering me.

Hey everyone,

So I wanted to buy a cheaper older camera just to mess around with so I bought a canon rebel t2i off eBay in supposedly excellent condition, I booted it up put my sd card in and went to format the sd card and I just said “busy please wait” so I messed around with the camera a bit more and tried to reset the settings and when I did it said “busy please wait”
I figured the camera had a technical issue so I returned it and bought another t2i from a different website that was in also excellent condition. Same thing happened, “busy please wait”
I went and bought a different 50 dollar sd card on the off chance that that was the problem and it is saying the same “busy please wait” when I try formatting the sd card and when trying to reset the settings.
Am I just super duper unlucky with buying my cameras or is there something I’m doing seriously wrong??

Hey everyone, I was hypomanic for a week-ish straight and then I got on 350 milligrams of Seroquel and mellowed out. I was fine for about 5 days and now I think I’m back to being hypomanic.
My provider wants me hospitalized but I’m only hypomanic, I’m not doing anything crazy or reckless I’m just spinning.
I don’t know what to do cause she’s insisting I go but I think we just need to try to stabilize me with a higher dose of meds or something. I think there’s nothing the hospital can do that the she can’t also do.
Idk

Hey everyone,

So I have no clue what’s going on at all. I was depressed like a bit ago and then I launched into a hypomanic episode for like 2 weeks and now I’m on Seroquel 350mg. I don’t feel that hypomanic anymore, and my provider thinks that I’ve definitely calmed down since my last episode because I was way more coherent during our session but I’m not sure if I feel like at baseline??? To be fair I don’t know what my baseline is because I don’t remember the last time I was fully stable, I used to be on risperidone which kind of just made me flat and I was on Vraylar which kinda just chilled me out but made me more motivated to do things but neither of those feel like what I’m feeling like right now??

For the most part I think I feel calmer, I’m able to brush my teeth and I’m able to like focus on one media at a time so I think there’s progress ??? But also I think I’m still talking pretty fast and like jumping from topic to topic. I also get like random songs stuck in my head which usually doesn’t happen to me. I’ve also still been a bit reckless with my money in the sense that I don’t think twice about spending money like I usually do I just offer to buy people things and buy myself things without really thinking about it. But I’m also not going on crazy shopping sprees.
But I do feel a lot calmer than usual so I have no clue where I’m at.
I also still struggle with typing, like my brain moves too fast for me to type properly sometimes but like not always so.
im also still irritable and get snappy very frequently which usually doesn’t happen

Anyone have any insight on what might be going on??

Hey everyone,

I’m gonna speak with my doctor if this doesn’t go away obviously but it’s the weekend and I wanted to see if anyone had the same thing occur.
I’m currently on 300mg of Seroquel at night and an addition 50mg in the morning for max effect.
However, I started recently sort of blacking out a bit on it? If that makes sense. Like I’ll be sitting, standing, walking and for a second everything will go black and I’ll get this weird feeling wash over my body for a second and then I’ll go back to normal. So I’m not passing out, my vision just goes black. Has anyone else experienced this or am I going crazy

Hi everyone,

I’m quite hypomanic day 9 now. My psychiatrist has been aggressively medicating me with Seroquel we’re currently on 350 a day and like I definitely maybe notice a change but also not really. Like during some periods I feel a bit more subdued and like calm and the something happens and I’m like immediately fired up again and going a million miles an hour. Like I was making plans w it n someone and I’m immediately so hype and moving at a million hours an hour and like. I just speak so fast and I get so excited and rn I can’t even type properly cause I’m thinking so fast and stuff. Or like I see someone dancing on my fyp and I’m researching and I’m planning and I mlike ooh I could do that but then like not always you know sometimes especially in the morning I kinda feel a little bit calmer but not always you know if that makes sense so like is this ok like does hypomania just kinda have spikes and lows.
Also if anyone who was hypomanic can tell me how long it took them after getting medicated to get back into a normal headspace? My psych wants to hospitalize me because she can’t monitor me 24-7 but I told her I was totally fine because like at work I just feel really bored and kinda calm and fine yk so like I can function but then like not always.

I’m on day 7 of my hypomania and it’s quickly turning angry and I thought I’d be fine but I’m not. The intrusive thoughts are so bad and I’m lashing out at everyone. I got so mad while cooking that I bit myself super hard and when I spilled boiling hot sauce I stuck my hand into it because of my intrusive thoughts. I need to finish cooking dinner because my parents don’t know I have bipolar 2 but I’m so scared to touch a knife.

I’m so scared of myself and I think I might need a hospital but I can’t go because I can’t afford it and I’d have to tell my parents about my bipolar.

I’m so so scared but my sisters on a plane, my 2 friends are at work and that’s everyone that I have.

I don’t know what to do I don’t want to hurt myself more and I’m so so scared to cook dinner but I have to and I’m having a panic attack in the bathroom

Day 7 of hypomania at this point and I’ve gone from happy and chill hypomania to everyone and everything is pissing me off so bad hypomania and I don’t know how to deal with it.

I have been slamming and hitting cabinets, whisper screaming at my cat because she won’t shut the fuck up and it is pissing me off so fucking bad that I want to lock her in a fucking closet and leave her there.

I’m scared to go to work tomorrow because I’ll have a box cutter and I don’t wanna start stabbing shit out of pure rage.

This is actually torture

So me and my psych have been kind of in a stand off because I don’t wanna try some of the meds she’s been offering cause I’ve heard so many bad things and it really scares me. But we’re also running out of meds to try so it gives me no other choice.

So she pitched Seroquel to me and I immediately shut her down cause I heard it can cause really bad drowsiness and weight gain and I’ve heard so many horror stories.

She reassured me that those side effects only happen on doses 100mg and up but I really feel like she’s lying to me so I take the medication and then I’ll get screwed over in the process.

But I also know that not taking meds is gonna end up killing me because of how severe my depression is so I really have no choice but to trust her.

But like I really feel like she’s lying