I am feeling a lot better and have a new taste for life

[stolenvalor666]

I've gotten help and started seeing a psychiatrist. I was put on Lexapro 20mg and Lamictal 100mg. Ever since then I've been feeling great! I can actually envision a future for myself. I actually have goals and dreams that I want to accomplish. I haven't thought about suicide in months now. I'm eating better, talking better, walking better, etc. I actually look forward to the next day. I look forward to learning and growing as a person. I'm very excited to know what the next chapters of my life look like. If someone told me that i would have gotten to this point I would've told them to fuck off. But I really appreciate myself for sticking it out and finally getting the help that I needed.

 

[timf]

Getting through rough patches is an important skill. If you need to use it in the future, you have this success to look back on to sustain you.

 

[Eupeptic]

I've gotten help and started seeing a psychiatrist. I was put on Lexapro 20mg and Lamictal 100mg. Ever since then I've been feeling great! I can actually envision a future for myself. I actually have goals and dreams that I want to accomplish. I haven't thought about suicide in months now. I'm eating better, talking better, walking better, etc. I actually look forward to the next day. I look forward to learning and growing as a person. I'm very excited to know what the next chapters of my life look like. If someone told me that i would have gotten to this point I would've told them to fuck off. But I really appreciate myself for sticking it out and finally getting the help that I needed.

This is so nice to read, and I'm happy for you. I'm in a similar position, although the happiness hasn't lasted as long as yours. I have been on Prozac for OCD for a few months but felt that it wasn't doing anything, and was self-harming and having violent intrusive thoughts for the first time since I was a child. My psychiatrist put me on Abilify (an anti-psychotic), and I've been on it for about a week and genuinely feel like I can look forward to life again. I'm worried that this won't last, but I truly hope that we can both thrive with medication. I always have to remind myself that mental illness is an illness just the same as a physical one. Some of us need medication too, just like how some physical ailments require medication.