u/New-Potential2757

I've been taking effexor since April this year and it helped with stuff such as rumination, dissociation, lessened the mental social anxiety a bit. But I still have this serious problem... I don't get out to do anything.. I just stay at home and rot my youth away to watch anime. I can't do work or go outside to do stuff without listening to music to motivate myself. I don't know if it's depression because idk why I'm depressed for, well I do have thoughts of suicidal ideation such as "I don't wanna be here anymore" but no plans to end myself and I haven't harm myself ever. I have feelings of life being meaningless and always looking for a way to escape it, even though I have some days of myself wanting to do music when my mood is high, when my mood is high I have motivation to do stuff but that mood boost is temporary so I don't feel that way all the time. I'm just really desperate I've been taking atomoxine, 40mg for 3 weeks and I moved up to 60mg 18 days ago and I still feel the same way. I don't have motivation to talk to people either unless my mood is high, I don't really know what's going on.

21M never went to college, after finishing secondary school (kishoge) I went to a plc cause I failed the lc, during the study days I was just playing Roblox. Now everyone seems to be enjoying the uni life while I'm stuck at home rotting my youth away, no friends, no relationship. I was learning UX UI design and other things before that (which I failed horribly to learn) cause I thought I could get out of this situation but there's hardly anyone applying so I just feel lost tbh. I finished my 3rd iteration of my portfolio started applying for jobs few days ago. I hope I land something. Anyways I don't really know why I'm posting here I just saw this subreddit on my recommended and I wish I was in this school but I'll never experience college in this lifetime.

Been taking effexor since April and it has helped with rumination, dissociation and quieted my mind during social situations (I have social anxiety). But till this day I still stay in my bed 24/7 and just watch anime. I don't have motivation to do tasks, go outside, etc. I'm on day 17 on atomoxine 60mg and it has helped quiet my mind more and I think helped with focus more but nothing really for motivation. I'm diagnosed with depression, ADHD, gad, PTSD and suspected autism. Don't really know what to do anymore

Life honestly sucks man I'm 21 and never went trick or treating but I really want to experience it this year, but I don't have anyone to go with, now that I'm thinking more about it if I really want to go I might just go myself. I'm pretty anxious though if like my neighbour hood aren't gonna answer doorbell and give candy

Hello I wanna start going to the gym to build a muscular body. Im wondering if anyone has built one. I want to get a workout routine tailored to someone with sickle cell like me. I rarely get crisis cause of blood transfusions but i talked to ai and it still says that i shouldnt be training like an average person

Don't know what this is but I don't have motivation to talk to people outside I just be quiet, when they say hi I say hi back but that's it. It's only when my mood is high that I have some motivation to talk to people outside, with people I wish to talk to like whether it's online I have more motivation to talk to them than random people I don't know (I mean guess that's obvious). And it's not like I can like speak to people outside if I like wished to, I deal with social anxiety but that's not really all like I feel like there's this idk some kind of mute? Like I am currently taking effexor 150mg for 3 months now and Ive been on 225mg for almost 4 weeks, it has helped with some mental anxiety symptoms and rumination but doesn't really help with physical anxiety but I feel like I could still get myself to talk if it wasn't for this like mute feeling, idk how to describe it feels like as if I don't wanna talk to them, maybe it's that, I'm not sure. Not sure what's wrong with me. And I'm diagnosed with ADHD currently taking atomoxine 2 week in 40mg

Don't know if what I'm saying makes sense sorry I can't really describe it well

After going through 3 months of 150mg effexor I moved up to 225mg because my physical anxiety was still pretty bad and now 3 weeks and 5 days it's literally still the same I don't really feel any benefits. 150mg helped with rumination, dissociation and spiraling (social anxiety related) so I'm not sure if I should get off or not

Are any of you on hydroxurea? how is the medication? Im planning on taking it along with my blood transfusion

I'm just wondering how are people who work in this industry treated? Are they valued? or are they treated badly?

Hey just wanted to let you people know that 150mg effexor for 3 months literally cured my dissociation I felt it kicked in outside and I was so happy, I feel like I'm playing life in first person now. I hope you guys give it a try, it's not actually for dissociation so I don't know why it helped to be honest. I wonder if it was also a solution to you guys too

I have no motivation to do anything, I find to so hard to get out of bed. I have alot of things to do but won't do them.. I tried so many methods out there but nothings working. I can't take stimulants cause of health issues. I'm currently on atomoxine though and just moved up to 40mg, I'm also on effexor just moved up to 225mg a week ago and it's not really helping me with this. I don't even have motivation to use my brain I get so burnt out when I try to think through stuff

How long does hydroxyurea take to work and like make eyes sorta appear white?

Is there a way to heat myself outside? Like maybe a hoodie that heats me up? Or a clothing bottom that can heat me up?

How do I relieve sickle cell pain? I take blood transfusions and I took paracetamol and I still have the pain, I also drank some water

I've been texting this girl on hinge 19F (I'm 21M) and we've been talking about our own situations like dealing with problems like she just moved into the country and is waiting on her visa to seek work but she is also a bit anxious about her career. I later tried to comfort her and ask if I could take her to a cafe and try to take her mind of this she agreed but she also said "maybe we could be good friends, who knows? ☺️🩷" I'm not really sure what to think about this, like is she not interested in dating cause of the current problems she's dealing with? Or is she not into me romantically? What should I do?

Mb if my post is kinda hard to read

Im interested in learning 3d modelling, specifically the anime non chibi style. But Im wondering if its better to use a mentor or learn through youtube and online resources?

I have terrible social anxiety and find it impossible to talk or be myself outside. I get kind of intense when people are walking towards me.

Hey I'm 3 months in taking 150 effexor and here are some changes

• I don't really dissociate anymore
• Social anxiety (anxious thoughts) reduced quite a bit
• Don't really get rumination anymore

I still experience

• Unable to get out of bed
• Pretty bad physical anxiety (had it before taking effexor)
• No motivation to do anything productive
• No motivation to talk to people (I can talk to people but only when my mood is high, or if people make my mood good)
• I don't know if it's depression but I lowkey feel dead inside lol, just tired of everything
• Don't really care about asking most women about themselves on dating apps (not sure what thats supposed to mean or how it's supposed to fix this or should but It just feels mundane to do that I only wanna talk about stuff that Interests me)
• Brainfog still there

Ive talked to psychiatrist about like the not really being able to have a care about people, low mood, brainfog, and they prescribed atomoxine. (I'm currently diagnosed with ADHD, and this psychiatrist didn't prescribe the effexor my GP did, but the psychiatrist knows that I'm taking it)

Not sure if I should hope atomoxine fixes this or would upping my effexor dose help? I mean I did tell my GP that I was still experiencing anxiety, low mood, brainfog and he upped my dose to 225mg

What do you guys think about this?