u/Tunasandwich3s

I’ve honestly been wanting to take a smoke break at work lately, but I don’t want my coworkers—or especially the clients—to see me. I’m a social worker, and I feel like people wouldn’t expect me to smoke, especially because I look young and people often see me as kind and approachable. They would be shocked honestly lol, they’ll probably gossip about it.
I feel embarrassed. I honestly just started smoking, and l feel ashamed. But just that itch past 3am

I feel so depressed and irritated all the time, at first it was good, and then it would stop working and I would get my dose up more and it’ll work then it would happen again when I completely loose it and act out on people and my surroundings which is completely my fault. I feel like I ruined a big part of my life being on this, I feel like 3 years of lamotrigine had really affected my life in a unstable way, I don’t know why I kept going thinking if I go higher it’ll get better. I’m hating everything right now, I hate how I act to others, sure some days I’m really in a good mood but most of the days I’m completely emotionless, irritated, isolated and insecure. I have lost so many friendships because of just knowing how I can act any moment I don’t want to be around anyone.I’m mentally exhausted I can’t control my emotions anymore. I’m on 250mg for bipolar 2. Just wondering how life got for some of you guys when you stopped taking lamotrigine? I don’t know why I didn’t stop sooner. I feel completely lost now. I just want it to get better for me.

I used to be extremely hypersexual, but after being on lamotrigine for the past 2 years I barely crave sex anymore. In some ways it’s been positive because my hypersexuality was causing problems in my life and often left me feeling empty after hookups. However, it now takes me much longer to get aroused and I sometimes feel bad for my partner. I often rely on weed to help me get in the mood. Has anyone else experienced this on lamotrigine?

I’ve been working 8pm–8am graveyard shifts for a little over 2 years. I enjoy my coworkers, my community, and the benefits, but lately I’ve been feeling burned out.
I have an opportunity to interview for a fundraising job that pays more. It would be a morning schedule (5x8s) and involve being outside in public areas, talking to people and getting them to sign up for donations. I’ve never done anything like that before.
Part of me wants the extra money because I’m struggling financially and living paycheck to paycheck. Another part of me is nervous about leaving a job I’m familiar with.
I’ve also been having a lot of weird dreams and nightmares the past few months, and I’m wondering if years of graveyard shifts and burnout are catching up with me. I work with victims in crisis situations, so while my job isn’t physically hard, it can be emotionally draining.
Sorry, needed to vent to my night shift teams

How many of you don’t feel appreciated for the work you do?
I feel like night shift doesn’t get appreciated enough. At least in my case, I’m usually the only one working my shift. I know morning shift gets feedback and recognition for their performance, but when it comes to me, I mostly get questioned about things when I leave.
It makes me anxious because I worry people think I wasn’t doing anything or that I did something wrong. I try not to leave work for the next shift, but sometimes things happen right before I leave, or a client doesn’t want to finish something until the morning. In those situations, it has to be handled by morning shift.
Lately I’ve been trying my best, but I still feel like I have imposter syndrome. Does anyone else on night shift feel this way?

Another thing that makes it hard is that morning shift has five people in my role, plus all the office staff around during the day.

I went on a couple of dates with this guy and they were good but I couldn’t stop getting the ick that he would use so many hashtags on his posts, like random hashtags, like 10 of them. I told him I’m not interested in talking anymore but I didn’t say because of that reason. Was that something silly to be icked by ?

I have to sleep on the corner of the bed with the wall behind me and sleep under the covers because I’m scared of the dark sometimes, I get scared if I’ll open my eyes in the middle of the night and something/someones staring at me I’m 25(f)
But I like my room to be pitch black when I sleep

I work in a crisis support role service for a little over 2 years. For the first year and a half, I felt calm and confident coming to work, but over the last several months I’ve felt increasingly burned out and overwhelmed and anxious coming in.What has been especially difficult is that I recently received feedback from my supervisor that I wasn’t performing at the level expected of me. The feedback itself wasn’t the problem—I just wish I had received it sooner so I could have worked on those areas instead of feeling blindsided. Now I’m having to be monitored every shift, worsening my anxiety.
I care about the work and the people I help, but lately I’ve been questioning whether this field is the right fit for me long-term. The work can be personally difficult because of some of my own life experiences.
At the same time, this job has good benefits, I can’t afford to quit without another plan because I’m living paycheck to paycheck.

I stopped taking Lurasidone 5 weeks into starting it because of the irritability and food noise I was getting and wasn’t liking the side affects but honestly the sleep was so good, I work graves 8pm-8am and when I got off of my grave I’ll take it and sleep so good, I haven’t had that much sleep in a while, that was the plus for me. The sleep honestly helped my mood be more positive, I feel like getting back on it and giving it a better chance, I was still smoking weed, drinking, vaping and sometimes cigarettes when I was on it, so that could be a reason for the side affects, now I’m back to only getting 4-5hrs of sleep and I was getting 7-8hrs on Lura

I’ve been on Lura for 5 weeks now and I honestly starting to hate it. Makes me constantly have food noises, sleepy stomach aches, irritated and Flat. I thought I could need it, but I actually would prefer to stop taking it and just stick to lamotrigine which I’ve been on for about 2 years now. I’ve also been on GLP-1 and that hasn’t been working since starting Lura. Going to ask my physiatrist to take me off these meds. I want to quit cold turkey until I meet my psychiatrist in 2 weeks.
Wondering how long it takes to get these feelings away once I stop