Is there any type of medication that could help me?

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Has anyone ever had so much happen to them (breaks ups, work stress, drug reliances, etc) that they feel in a state of constant thoughts, procrastination and just, not plain knowing what to do, or think anymore? I'm at a loss. I've done so much thinking with regards to figuring out what was wrong with me, this being before my aspergers diagnosis, that I feel like my brain is damaged. I know that I'm very much depressed now. Things have no value or interest, I force the interest. I wake to smoke marijuana, play video games, maybe, watch a movie, maybe, or eat and sleep again. I've avoided my close friends from school for about 2 weeks straight now. This has never been this bad. This depression has been going on for months and it's reaching some sort of peak now, for I'm questioning everything now and I feel absolutely helpless to what's around me.

How do I calm my mind? How do I slow it to the point where I can actually start making small steps to being more happy? I lost my job just yesterday. It's a huge blow. I have many worries over finances, but I'm staying at my Father's currently and I do have a bit of money saved, but still, it's creeping into my brain. I cannot relax. I cannot feel at ease. I want to look forward to things and feel refreshed, but I have absolutely no idea how to achieve this. Without marijuana, I simply do not feel happy and I probably wouldn't want to wake. I'd probably get real agitated with anyone around me and just plain seem like a nut case, but I rely on it. It slows my brain to the point where I can enjoy things, even briefly, and I've become addicted to short-term happiness, as I have none at all.

It's amazing how a life full of loving people, a loving girlfriend, a steady job and at a glimpse at school, an idea for the future, can just go to waste and leave a person with absolutely nothing more than fear for the world, thoughts of never getting anywhere, ever, and a pain staking ache of disinterest and depression.

Antidepressants zombified me, but gave me happy fits when they did work. I also experienced full-time restless leg syndrome and full body tremors on Zoloft. Ativan for anxiety attacks, hardly needed it, it would knock me out and I would sleep for like a day. Ritalin was what I took as a child. It supposedly worked wonders for my ever so rampant ADHD/ADD, but, I have no recollection of how it affected me as I was a child, and I have not taken it in any form since I was a child, so I do not know how a stimulant would work. I want to heal my brain. I have no idea how...

for Rx treatment-resistant mood disorders, there is (click me)Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, which is offered in Canada.
good luck.

I personally find that a combination of prozac and marijuana is what works for me. Prozac is the only anti-depressant that works for me, and I find the side effects to be generally mild and short lived. I use the marijuana to help with my food issues, and to help me with my attention span. It slows my brain down so I can function. You have to be careful with pot though...a little is better than a lot when you are using it for medication. In small doses, it helps with depression, in larger doses it can actually attribute to it.

medication is a bad idea. most of the time with my depression climaxes and goes away. exercise might help.

I know exactilly how you feel, and medication alone won't help trust me, you need an outlet, like being able to do what interests you, Like my medication helps in social situations and other situations that Might stress me, I still have General Anxiety, however when I can I do what interests me which is Video Game, other people like other things, but my point is when you can do what you like to do and you should be fine, Lexipro helps me a ton, however it may not be right for you Definatly talk to your doctor.

Some say meds alone won't help you, but I beg to differ. The medications I'm on completely turned my life around. I was also on Zoloft for a time, but it only made me worse. I suggest finding a reputable psychiatrist and discussing your issues with him/her. I have Asperger's, but I also show bipolar and ADD traits. I take Lamotrigine, Lithium, Haloperidol (very low dose for obsessions), and Vyvanse (which really helps with motivation and focus). With this combination I'm functioning better than I ever have before.

Just as a indication of how much of a difference the drugs make...A few months ago, I tried to go off the Lithium...Whoa, bad idea. Once it was out of my system, disaster struck. Nothing in my life had changed, yet I barely made it through my school semester and I could hardly get out of bed due to severe depression. My suicidal ideation came back and I felt like I was losing my mind. Now being back on it, I feel like a normal person again. Well, as normal as I can be...

The stimulants Concerta and Adderall help to calm and slow my brain down so that I am able to function day-to-day. However, talk to a doctor about medication first.

In addition to the standard antidepressant, there are also adjuncts that psychiatrists can add to improve the effectiveness of SSRIs. Ask your doctor about Abilify, thyroid hormone (T3), or geodon. T3 worked well with me.

You sound like me in a few ways. I have minor obsessions that sort of come in and wreak random havoc on my day, like a real big annoyance over how my monitor is angled or a picture frame, or something like that. It bleeds into my brain until it drives me crazy though. It's not a 24/7 thing though, nor an everyday thing. I probably have bi-polar, I do not know. I've been depressed my whole life, but it has always come in periods of a few months in which I'd have so many realizations and do so much thinking that I'd fuel the thoughts.

I need motivation and focus. I clearly need to be medicated. My sober mind is really damaging, and it always takes me back to this place. I swear, in ways I feel the same now as I did when I was like 8 years old. This hopeless, I don't even know what to do anymore feeling and feeling so entirely fatigued and unmotivated as a result, in spurts.

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I have read about Concerta and Adderal in conjunction with each other before. I don't know. My brain clearly needs a certain type of med. Clearly something did work when I took Zoloft before. Aside from the tremors, hallucinations and feeling crazy, I did really feel like I could turn my mind off and do anything that I wanted to at times. Where as now, sober, the world seems more real, more scary, and each step I take feels more real in the sense that my mind keeps going, instead of being able to say, screw it! And just go along my way on the Zoloft.

Even so though, there were miserable days on it, very miserable, despite the scatter awesome happy day.

This seems pretty effective, and sounds like something I will definitely inquire about when I see my Doctor.
Thank you.

Have you tried any form of yoga or meditation? They can't replace drug therapy, but they might help a little. I find that my mind is too unrestrained for meditation, but simple stretching exercises help with stabilizing my body. I like these since they focus on the upper body where most of the tension tends to build up.