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Hi, RadleySnow. I enjoy reading your posts, and I hope that you feel better. I know that talking over the internet can seem kind of impersonal and that it can be more difficult to feel that others fully understand what you’re going through, but I think that there are a lot of people here who are ver...

First, my history with meds. (I can provide more details if necessary.) My psychiatrist first prescribed fluoxetine. After a few months, I didn't notice any improvement in my mood and tended to feel drowsy all the time--even if I took it before going to bed--so I switched to a combination of wellbut...

Thanks for the reassurance. Like some other people on this forum, I think I'm going to try to update this thread every once in a while just with thoughts, so what follows is partially a response but also kind of open-ended. I tend to infer too much from what other people say. Maybe this is because o...

Thanks for the response, Destination. I like the Shaw quote that you have. I'm sorry if my problems seem immature and ridiculous. I should also clarify that I don't think that suicide is the only option--I just have a sort of unconscious belief, which sometimes turns into an urge to destroy myself. ...

I'm a 19-year-old male. For me, sadness is a relief from the pain I experience when I think about myself. I feel slightly better when I cry, but this never makes the underlying pain go away—in fact, it usually makes things worse in the long run. I think that most of my problems stem rather from sham...