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I’m hoping to get a switch 2 soon, I want it mostly to play pokopia and the new yoshi game that’s coming. On my switch 1, I mostly play Minecraft, pokemon arceus and tomodachi life. Would it be a waste to upgrade to a switch 2? What are some other games I can play there?

I’ve been on zoloft since 2019. Last time my dosage was upped was a little over a year ago so I don’t remember how I felt then. I’ve been dealing with a lot of anxiety and derealization lately so my psychiatrist said to up to 150mg. I started the new dosage yesterday and I’m really scared of what it might do to me and of possible side effects. This is the highest my dosage has been.

I’ve had a headache all day today and now I feel a little off, idk how to explain. It’s like not full anxiety or derealization but i just feel off, like my brain is too calm in a bad way.

Is this normal? What else can I expect? I’m really scared rn.

I’ve been on zoloft since 2019. Last time my dosage was upped was a little over a year ago so I don’t remember how I felt then. I’ve been dealing with a lot of anxiety and derealization lately so my psychiatrist said to up to 150mg. I started the new dosage yesterday and I’m really scared of what it might do to me and of possible side effects. This is the highest my dosage has been.

I’ve had a headache all day today and now I feel a little off, idk how to explain. It’s like not full anxiety or derealization but i just feel off, like my brain is too calm in a bad way. It kinda feels like im looking at things but not really looking at them.

Is this normal? What else can I expect? I’m really scared rn.

I’ve been making my own user presets and using them for a while, but for some reason on this project they seem not to be working. I’ll add them to the comp and all the effects are messed up and so are the keyframes. I’ve tried different presets and also adding them to different clips and it’s the same issue. I use ae 2025 on a macbook if that helps.

Appreciate any advice on this!

Just went from 100mg (had been taking it for about a year) to 150mg. What can I expect? This is the highest my dosage has ever been (been taking zoloft since 2019). I’m scared I’ll get really bad side effects or even serotonin syndrome which can be deadly. Is the dosage too high? Should I stick to 100?

Been struggling for the past month with anxiety and derealization and unfortunately couldn’t contact my therapist of a couple years since she was on vacation.

Tomorrow we have our first appointment since everything got bad again. I’ve been doing better the past couple days because I haven’t been thinking about it, so now I’m scared that talking about it tomorrow will only make things worse again.

Also, I scheduled a first meeting with another therapist tomorrow (one specialized in CBT, which I want to try). That’s also making me anxious.

I’ve been in therapy on and off since I was 7 and it’s never made me anxious like this, sometimes i dreaded going to sessions because I didn’t want to talk about it, but I don’t think it’s made me anxious.

Help?

F21 here. Have always struggled with anxiety and then had a depressive phase, which led me to start zoloft (still taking it now) but man i used to love life. Passionate was the first thing people said about me, quickly followed by funny and creative. I was always out and about, creating things, laughing and hanging out with people. I’ve graduated already and those college years were the best years of my life (think your typical movie experience, I lived it and then some). I was exploding with life!

Now here I am.

For some context, I’ve had a pretty bad anxiety episode last year that coupled up with huge life changes and resulted in months of constant anxiety attacks and derealization.

Got better, and how here we are again. Only this time, nothing as big happened to cause it. To summarize, I finished a month long job and went back to my usual routine of playing videogames all day and night, my mom (support system) was going out of country for work which made me anxious and then she didn’t end up going because she needed emergency surgery. Just the cherry on top, I caught the world’s worst cold from staying at the hospital.

During all that, I realized that nothing was making me feel things anymore. All my usual activities, gaming, reading, writing, talking to family and bf, nothing was hitting like It used to. Naturally, that transformed into me trying to figure my entire life out (moving countries, career, etc) in hopes of finding that excitement again. When I realized I in fact couldn’t do that at 3am on a Tuesday, my body just completely freaked out.

I was having panic attacks all day again and derealization. Now, I’m still struggling slightly with derealization and the usual anxiety, but I’m able to get through the day.

Except I don’t really feel anything at all, and even when I do, my brain goes “are you really feeling that or are you just supposed to?”

It has sucked the enjoyment out of everything. I leave the house now only once a week (or not at all). I interact with family during the day because I live with them, but Ive noticed that im pushing away from talking to my boyfriend (ldr and we used to call for like 8 hours of the day just talking and playing games together) and I also haven’t been talking to my friends or seeing them at all.

I just don’t feel anything. Games I used to love now I can’t even bring myself to turn the ps5 on. Editing videos, which is not only my career but also a hobby ive had since 2015, now bring me little to no joy. Writing and posting my work, which gives me positive feedback, now can only pull a slight smile from my face at best. I’ve tried new hobbies such as embroidery and pottery but i might as well not be doing anything at all, gives me absolutely no benefit.

I’m so scared it’ll be this way forever. I want to be myself again, the version of myself that used to literally jump in joy at the smallest things.

How can I do it? Can I be myself again?

TLDR : How can I feel passionate about life again and be my happy and passionate self?

Hi all! I (21F) struggle pretty badly with anxiety and have been since I was a little kid. In april of last year, I had a pretty bad phase where a lot was changing all at once and I simply broke, I was deep with derealization and anxiety for about a month or more. It got really bad and eventually it got better. Cut to now, where the same thing happened this past month.

One of my main sources for anxiety currently is the state my life is in. I have graduated already and my field (film) is pretty inconsistent, that’s to say that sometimes I’ll have work for two weeks and then nothing for two months. I also moved back to my home country and am now doing LDR with my partner of two years (surprisingly going great!).

My routine consists of staying home most days, playing lots of videogames and engaging in hobbies (writing, editing, filmmaking, embroidery, painting, reading). And it’s good, it’s nice, it just feels empty.

They are all enjoyable things that I enjoy doing but they’re not meaningful. They’re not useful. I’m not actually doing anything valuable with my life.

This has started to take the enjoyment out of things for me, I haven’t even touched my PlayStation in weeks because all the games I used to love feel bleak.

I have this huge weight on my shoulders to figure my life out. Do I want to move to my partner’s country? Do I want to switch careers? What are my goals? What do I want my future to look like?

Just thinking about that was what started giving me anxiety attacks and derealization episodes.

I know I can’t figure everything out all at once, but with every day that passes where I don’t do anything meaningful, the weight increases.

TL ; DR : So, how can I attach meaning to the things I do daily? How can I turn the things I do into valuable things? I want to feel like myself again.

Hi! I currently have a cooking video that I need to edit. Raw footage is good, about 10 mins long. I’m having some trouble with pacing and cuts so I was wondering if anyone who has more experience in this genre has some tips!

I have absolutely nothing going on. No goals, no responsibilities, no job, nothing. All I do is play games all day and engage in my hobbies, which have all started to feel very dull. I need something else. Any suggestions?

Hi all! I am diagnosed with GAD and struggle badly with anxiety, for which I take zoloft and have been for the past 7 years. When I was about 14 I was diagnosed with GAD and also depression, as I was being bullied at school and having a hard time overall. Depression got better and i learned how to live with anxiety.

I’m 21 now, graduated from University and work as a freelancer in the film industry in a country that is not very good for that. I’m in a healthy long term, long distance relationship and am overall healthy.

Recently, I’ve been struggling a lot. A lot of things are going on in my life but my main issue is this lack of motivation I have. Things I used to enjoy (gaming, writing, editing, making things) just don’t feel meaningful and enjoyable anymore. I’m anxious all the time, I have really bad dissociation and derealization for hours on end. I just simply don’t want to do anything. Nothing feels rewarding enough or meaningful enough. I need to figure out what I want to do with my life but no path seems like the right one.

I’ve always been such a passionate person with feelings for days, I could go on and on and on about my interests and I used to literally physically jump in joy multiple times a day.

Now, a good day for me is when I manage to get out of bed and eat one meal.

I’m desperately trying to find my old self again, but with each day that I don’t, it feels more hopeless. I still take my meds daily and talk to my psychiatrist once every two months.

I was wondering, could this be more than just my anxiety? Could this be my depression coming back? And if so, where do I go from this? I’m so tired of over analyzing everything I do to make sure I’m okay and then freaking myself out.

Been taking zoloft for about 7 years, latest dose of 100mg since last years. Talked to my psychiatrist and decided to give 150mg a try. I did that for three days, panicked, and went back to 100. It’s been 10 days since that. In those 10 days I have gotten physical ill, had about 30 existential crisis and my mom (who is my best friend) had to get emergency surgery (shes fine thank god). I’ve been having a really hard time mentally recently, especially in these 10 days, to the point where ive lost my appetite completely and had a panic attack when i tried to eat a chip after not eating for a whole day. Could this spike in anxiety situation be related the zoloft change? Even if it was only for a couple days?

For the past month, I have had no desire to eat anything at all. I know this has something to do with my anxiety because Ive been having a pretty rough time. I force myself to eat lunch most days but dinner time has been nonexistent. I know my body needs food, and it only makes my anxiety worse if i dont eat, but nothing sounds appealing at all. I love food man, i miss getting cravings for specific stuff. Has anyone dealt with this?

My brain is really annoying. Instead of letting me exist, it insists on over analyzing everything. When i look at something and my brain goes “this is a thing. You are looking at a thing.” Or if im like typing on my phone my brain goes “you’re typing on your phone. Your fingers are touching keyboards”. It’s really annoying and it feels like my vision is shifting every time this happens. Even when I manage to distract myself I keep checking in to see if the feeling went away and it just comes right back. Does anyone else feel this way? How can I manage it? I want it to stop.

Hi all! I am in a long term, long distance relationship. My partner has his own issues but not anxiety and he rarely needs to talk about his feelings or anything like it (trust me, I’ve tried). He is and has always been very supportive to my needs and takes the best care of me. Anyways, I’ve always had anxiety since a little kid, I have been medicated for about 7 years now and when I met him I was doing great! Fast forward to a year later, right before we became long distance, and I had a really bad episode (dissociating, anxiety attacks daily, couldn’t leave the house, de realization, anything you can think of). I eventually got better after that and we both went back to our respective countries and started a ldr. The relationship itself has honestly been great despite the distance, we talk every day, call, play games for hours, and have both visited each other’s countries.

Cut to now, a year later. I’ve been struggling again for the past month, not nearly as bad as last time, but struggling nonetheless. My routine is pretty bad, don’t do anything all day, unemployed (freelance career), mom had emergency surgery, have been physically ill twice this month and the biggest things of all: I don’t know what I want from my life and nothing feels exciting/meaningful/ fulfilling anymore. Today has been the best day I’ve had so far, despite being sick and still not great, the fog cleared long enough for me to convince myself that I don’t need to figure everything out all at once, I hope this feeling lasts but the day’s not over yet so we’ll see.

My issue here is, I’m having trouble communicating with him about this. I had a really bad attack a couple days ago in which i reached out to one of my closest friends to talk about it out of the blue and only then did I realize I hadn’t told anyone about how I was feeling, not even my partner. After I calmed down a little, I opened up to him about how I’m struggling and everything I’m feeling and he supported me as best as he could. Since then, I’ve been texting him a lot about my struggles, not asking for anything but mostly just venting and I’m scared he’s going ti get bored/annoyed or realize that I am simply too much to handle.

TL;DR: I am struggling mentally and am now left to wonder, is there a middle ground between not telling my partner anything, which distances me, and overwhelming him with how I feel?