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I just started Buspar at 5mg twice a day once after breakfast and once after lunch 8 hours later. For you who take/have taken Buspar, what was your dose? Did you titrate at the start? If so, how?

I just started Buspar at 5mg twice a day once after breakfast and once after lunch 8 hours later. For you who take/have taken Buspar, what was your dose? Did you titrate at the start? If so, how?

I just started Buspar at 5mg twice a day once after breakfast and once after lunch 8 hours later. For you who take/have taken Buspar, what was your dose? Did you titrate at the start? If so, how?

انا طالب كومبيوتر ساينس عندى ٢٠ سنة فاضلى سنة واتخرج و ممكن البس سنة جيش او حاجات طبية عندى تطلعنى. و معتقدش هلحق اعمل فلوس كفاية انى اقدم على ماستر برا بفلوسى مباشرة بعد الكلية عشان اهرب من الجيش مثلا (هحاول اجيب منحة ماسترز فى اى دولة اوروبية لو عرفت، فى الاغلب هحاول مع المانيا عشان عندهم بروجرامز كتير بالانجلش و مش محتاجة المانى). فا ايا كان اخدت جيش او لا كده كده بعد الدراسة الخطوة الجاية هى الشغل فى مصر هنا او ريموتلى اونلاين (او الاتنين مع بعض ايا كان يعنى) و السعى فى انى امشى من هنا. فا الاختيارات هتكون بنسبة كبيرة يا امريكا يا اوروبا. فا سؤالى بقى عن اوروبا، ايه احسن دولة اروحها على ماسترز او شغل. معنديش مشكلة اتعلم لغة و لكن يفضل لو مضطرش اتعلم لغة يعنى. انا معايا انجلش C2.

A couple days ago I made this post. Yesterday I gathered up enough courage to start it. I take 5mg twice a day. One dose right after breakfast (around 1 hour after waking up) and another dose right after lunch (around 8 hours after the first dose). I don't feel any bad side effects AT ALL. Maybe a little tired, but I can't say for sure because I didn't have my usual coffee today and yesterday I was pretty sleep deprived from the night before, so it might just be those not the med. But I also don't feel any anxiety relief. My questions are: 1- How long do you think I should stay on this dose before telling my doctor that it doesn't work and to up my dose? I know it shouldn't be working on day 2 but I'm just asking in advance to know what I'm gonna do. 2- Does anyone take only 10mg daily longterm or did you get your dose upped eventually? If so after how long of trying 10mg? 3- Is my schedule of taking the doses 8 hours apart good or should I take them closer/farther from each other?

Any other tips? Thank you!

A couple days ago I made this post. Yesterday I gathered up enough courage to start taking my Buspar prescription. I take 5mg twice a day. One dose right after breakfast (around 1 hour after waking up) and another dose right after lunch (around 8 hours after the first dose). I don't feel any bad side effects AT ALL. Maybe a little tired, but I can't say for sure because I didn't have my usual coffee today and yesterday I was pretty sleep deprived from the night before, so it might just be those not the med. But I also don't feel any anxiety relief. My questions are: 1- How long do you think I should stay on this dose before telling my doctor that it doesn't work and to up my dose? I know it shouldn't be working on day 2 but I'm just asking in advance to know what I'm gonna do. 2- Does anyone take only 10mg daily longterm or did you get your dose upped eventually? If so after how long of trying 10mg? 3- Is my schedule of taking the doses 8 hours apart good or should I take them closer/farther from each other?

Any other tips? Thank you!

A couple days ago I made this post. Yesterday I gathered up enough courage to start taking my Buspar prescription. I take 5mg twice a day. One dose right after breakfast (around 1 hour after waking up) and another dose right after lunch (around 8 hours after the first dose). I don't feel any bad side effects AT ALL. Maybe a little tired, but I can't say for sure because I didn't have my usual coffee today and yesterday I was pretty sleep deprived from the night before, so it might just be those not the med. But I also don't feel any anxiety relief. My questions are: 1- How long do you think I should stay on this dose before telling my doctor that it doesn't work and to up my dose? I know it shouldn't be working on day 2 but I'm just asking in advance to know what I'm gonna do. 2- Does anyone take only 10mg daily longterm or did you get your dose upped eventually? If so after how long of trying 10mg? 3- Is my schedule of taking the doses 8 hours apart good or should I take them closer/farther from each other?

Any other tips? Thank you!

Sorry for this mess of a HUGE post. You can scroll for the TL;DR at the bottom, but I would appreciate it if you read the post.

I (20M) have a brother (18M) and a sister (8F). My father is physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive. He used to abuse my mother and also me and my brother as kids. He beat us, heavily scolded us, and manipulated us since my first memories of him ever, and even before that. During an argument with him before, my mom mentioned how he beat me as a 2 year old for literally existing and him being stressed out from work. So yeah, he's a pretty shitty father that thinks his only role in life is to be financially supportive of us. My mother and aunt would stand up to him, but my mom never got divorced. She is way too deep into Stockholm Syndrome and too manipulated to see him for what he truly is and hate him enough to divorce, and maybe since she also is financially dependent on him and wouldn't have been able to raise us on her own and the financial situation in my country is shit, so she just stayed for us.

3 years ago though, when I was 17, he was fighting with my mother and almost beat her, but I stood up to him and pushed him off her before he could lay his hands on her. We got into a really big fight. But ig I gave him a wake up call. Also, he once told my sister hurtful things and once almost physically hurt her, and I also stood up for him and he never abused her again (and actually he never did before, those were the first and only two incidents he had with her). So yeah, the physical abuse is almost non existent now. I say almost cuz I don't know what my mom might be putting up with when they're alone, but as I said, she's too brainwashed that I kinda just gave up on her. I'm just trying to protect my siblings and myself now. So the physical abuse is gone towards me and my siblings. But he still occasionally fights with me and my brother like 2-3 times a year, and when we do, he verbally and emotionally abuses us, but I stand up for myself.

Enough of my father, this was just relevant context. Now even though my brother and I had a pretty abusive traumatic childhood, we were never emotionally neglected from my mother and my aunt (she used to live with us before she got married 5 years ago and moved out). They would give us all the love in the world, we would go out on little trips a lot, and we had a lot of fun during those. Also, my brother and I being close in age meant we played a lot together too. So even though we are traumatized, we never felt lonely as kids.

My sister though, has literally quite the opposite life we had. She is never abused by them (and when someone shows the slightest signs of mistreating her I stand up for the), but she is also quite neglected and my brother and I being that much older means we have our own lives so we are mostly unavailable too. Sometimes I wake up to find all the house alseep, even my mom, and she has made her own breakfast and watching YouTube on her tablet or playing alone. She has become too independent. I'm not saying that's a bad thing. But as good as it is, it is kinda like a feedback loop. She gets neglected, she depends on herself, she becomes more independent, so she gets more neglected.

I'm not saying she is fully neglected too. My brother and I occasionally play with her for a little when we can. But it's infrequent. Like maybe once every other day for like 30 mins or smth. I sometimes help her with her homework, she has friends from school and her swimming training that she video calls too, and she takes violin lessons. So she isn't severely neglected. But most of the time my brother and I are busy so she might want to play or show us something and we just tell her not now, or like I said when she wakes up and stays alone, or sometimes my brother and I are joking about something that she doesn't get it so she feels like she's out of the loop.

Also when I'm home, I spend literally all my time in my room because I don't like seeing my father and because I just feel like I don't belong here. And me having OCD and anxieyt also makes me pretty irritable at times. I do NOT hurt her, but she might wanna share something and I just tell her smth like "Not now, please go out" in an annoyed tone. I feel like shit for doing this, but my mental health issues really make me very irritable and even suicidal at times.

Also I will probably move out in 2-3 years at most and I will go NC with my father. I don't know how that might affect my relationship with the rest of them especially my sister since she is too young to have her own autonomy and to maintain contact with me. And I hate that. I hate all of it. I don't want her to feel alone or neglected. I don't want her to grow up with her own set of problems. I want to protect her. I want her to be happy and not be always troubled by her childhood like I certainly do.

And I also want her to remember me as a good brother even when I move out and we don't see each other as frequently. I love her, and I know she loves me. Like the other day, she told me that she loves me the most in our whole family and that she likes my hug and feels safe. I really wanna be there for her more than that and I don't want to lose her when I move out too.

If you have any advice on how to protect her from the neglect or loneliness she might be experiencing, please tell me. Thank you.

TL;DR: I grew up abused, but my little sister is mostly emotionally neglected instead. I love her and try to protect her, but my own mental health and toxic home life make it hard to always be there for her. I’m scared moving out and going NC with my father will make her feel even more alone.

Yesterday I filled my first prescription of buspar (and any mental health med in general) and I'm afraid to take it. I actually chose buspar with my doctor specifically because it's a lot milder and has less side effects than SSRIs even though I have OCD and not GAD. Idk. I'm just afraid of side effects so much.

Yesterday I filled my first prescription of buspar (and any mental health med in general) and I'm afraid to take it. I actually chose buspar with my doctor specifically because it's a lot milder and has less side effects than SSRIs even though I have OCD and not GAD. Idk. I'm just afraid of side effects so much.

Yesterday I filled my first prescription of buspar (and any mental health med in general) and I'm afraid to take it. I actually chose buspar with my doctor specifically because it's a lot milder and has less side effects than SSRIs even though I have OCD and not GAD. Idk. I'm just afraid of side effects so much.

2.5-3 years ago, I (20M) used to take modafinil at doses of 50-100mg/day for 4-5 days/week. I used to pair it with some caffeine too and it worked wonderfully to make me study so good. It started giving me bad heat/cholinergic urticaria though. Like it was so annoying and would set off when I'm stressed, doing physical activity, in a hot climate, etc and would be itching so bad and I would get redness and small white bumps all over my forearms and hands specifically. So I stopped it and the heat urticaria progressively became a lot weaker and easier to manage, but strangely it never fully went away even after almost 2.5-3 years of no modafinil use. Now I'm thinking of getting back on it because nothing worked for focus, wakefulness and studying like it did. So my question is can I get back on it and take a 2nd generation antihistamine at night on days when I take it to counteract the histaminergic reactions? Or will it build up nonetheless and I would still get the urticaria thing again?

2.5-3 years ago, I (20M) used to take modafinil at doses of 50-100mg/day for 4-5 days/week. I used to pair it with some caffeine too and it worked wonderfully to make me study so good. It started giving me bad heat/cholinergic urticaria though. Like it was so annoying and would set off when I'm stressed, doing physical activity, in a hot climate, etc and would be itching so bad and I would get redness and small white bumps all over my forearms and hands specifically. So I stopped it and the heat urticaria progressively became a lot weaker and easier to manage, but strangely it never fully went away even after almost 2.5-3 years of no modafinil use. Now I'm thinking of getting back on it because nothing worked for focus, wakefulness and studying like it did. So my question is can I get back on it and take a 2nd generation antihistamine at night on days when I take it to counteract the histaminergic reactions? Or will it build up nonetheless and I would still get the urticaria thing again?

I have OCD and anxiety and wanna try lithium to maybe help me with them. What dose should i start with and is it generally safe to try it?

What's the safest anxiolytic drug/nootropic/herb that can be used longterm preferably daily without losing effect or getting addictive. If such thing even exists

I'm 20. Since I was a kid I always saw people be in the moment. present, enjoying what they're doing, hell even not enjoying but being sad in the moment. I can't even be sad in the moment. I'm always in my head. Getting scared from shit, fixing shit, thinking about shit. I'm 20 and my actual normal living time might be like 10% of that the rest is just me being the obedient slave of my mind. I hate this. I wanna be okay. I had a fucking cup of coffee this morning and now my mind feels like it's the end for me. people enjoy coffee, I love coffee and the caffeine buzz but even smth as small as that I can't enjoy without it giving me hell. Im tired and i dont know how long I can stay strong for. fuck this.