Seroquel and anxiety for Ann, with a touch of depression

Hi Screeb-

Nice to meet you. I too have taken seroquel to lessen anxiety and help with sleep. It eventually lost it’s effects and now I am on abilify, which also is less weight gain oriented.

Sorry you have such awful panic attacks. I used to have them as a child but fortunately have not had them as an adult. I’ve had friends who had them and I know how life threatening they feel.

I’ve been a hermit since mid winter. The long winters up here in Duluth leave me in a slump this time of year. I sleep much more, have a hard time getting motivated to pick up and keep things in order, and just feel far more depressed.

My version of bipolar does not have highs, it has agitation and deep depressions. Other than these end of winter slumps I’ve been pretty stable for a long period of time.

Thanks for opening up your experiences online. It’s difficult to always function in our culture with a secret and fear of judgment. People talk about mentally ill people around me, not knowing that I am, as if we were “those kinds of people”. What does that mean? I finally had to blurt out that I was one of “those” too and a low income mother to boot. “Shocked silence” Fortunately they did not come back to the quilters group I was visiting.

be easy on yourself, I’ll try to as well,

Ann

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