Updates to my mental health

[MrMonteB]

So, it has been a little while since I've been on here. Thought I'd give a little update.

I am currently in my third semester of school, working towards a transfer degree for a local university in Psychology. This is partly for my own knowledge and awareness of what I go through with my own disorder, but mainly a way for me to do something that helps others too.

I am also in the process of being tapered off of Paxil and switched to Cymbalta, so if anyone has anything to add about their experiences with Cymbalta, please share them.

I've made some progress in therapy but things have gotten a little bit difficult. While I'm talking more and opening up more (and that is a good thing!) I have accessed a memory I was avoiding that I forced myself to talk about and now it is kind of making more sense for a previous issue. So my question is this: has anyone ever talked about something shameful in therapy and didn't know where to go for the next session? Because now that I brought it up and we are planning on going into it further (based on my comfort with the issue) I have no idea what to expect.

Aside from that hiccup, the only other thing I could report is learning of my ex-wife's pregnancy, which kind of hurt but not as much as her asking me to get checked since we could never get pregnant. I honestly thank GOD that never happened but it's still kind of shitty to put all that blame on me.

-not sure if I mentioned this already but my official diagnosis is generalized anxiety disorder, not social. I was misdiagnosed in the past.

[lillyofthevalley37]

It's not fair that you lost all your friends because you got divorced

[MrMonteB in reply to lillyofthevalley37]

neither do i but i've learned that it's not a real friend if they can't be impartial