Always thinking the worst! Please help

[Stan88]

Hi Everyone!

I keep thinking that something bad is going to happen to the point of not being able to sleep at night and making me sleep a lot during the day. Experiencing very high levels of paranoia and unmotivated self and in turn makes me not want to leave the house. I have recently stopped taking my anti depressants but feel as though I should go back on them as I don't want to feel like this. Has anyone else felt something similar? Please help 

[CrashCoyote]

Hi Stan88,

Thank you for your post and I must tell you I do not have the symptoms you describe, although I have P.T.S.D. and it makes me suspicious, a loner and reluctant to leave home a lot.

Have you been to see your G.P. or therapist lately. I do not think anyone on here can give you the level of support you need at the moment.

Please let me know if you decide to do this.

Kind regards, John.

[Neil_1]

Hi Stan

Welcome to Beyond Blue and thank you for sharing your post.

Along with John, I’d like to ask when was the last time you saw your doctor?

I also would like to ask the reason you decided to go off your anti-depressants?   Was this something you did or were you advised by your prescribing professional?  It just sounds like things are all a bit related;  that since you’ve gone off you’re a-d’s, these feelings that you’re now experiencing have come to the fore.

Would be great to hear back from you.

Neil

[geoff]

dear Stan, I have to agree with John and Neil, because you have stopped taking your AD's it has now created this problem.

As I have said AD's aren't just lollies, because they are a powerful medication to help all of us who suffer from depression, they correct the imbalance that we have in our mind or brain so to speak of, and really shouldn't be taken on how the patient thinks themselves.

Please google this 'don't want to leave the house depression'.

I have been on them for about 20 years or more and my doctor has advised me not go off them, and that I will probably be taking them for the rest of life, which I accept as I know that if I miss a day or so then down I fall back into the hands of the black dog.

Hope that you get back to us, and don't feel guilty at all, because we all think that we are doing the right thing, and what's the saying 'practise makes perfect'. lol Geoff.