Anxiety depression isolation

[Rosalia1]

I hope someone can help I’m wondering why I do not want to leave my house ever not to walk not to go to the grocery store I do struggle with anxiety and depression but I’ve never felt like this before I’m overweight I’ve never worked out in my life I have back problems and neck problems but I feel like I don’t know how to help myself

[Hidden]

Hi there, I just want to say that it must be difficult to feel different and worsening of your depression or anxiety. I’m sorry you are going through this. I just want to let you know your symptoms are common in depression. Maybe you can make short term goals to help with this, start with following through with your errands then go up from there.

Depression can be eased by expressing yourself and engaging in pleasurable activities.

Just remember another symptom of depression is having a distorted self image or perception of yourself. This is depression, not who you really are.

What meds do you take for your pain? Or nonpharmacological pain management for the pain?

[Rosalia1 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you so much!

I take Effexor for depression can I take Norco and gabapentin for pain I’m trying really hard not to take the Norco and if I take it out take one or two a day my husband passed away four years ago and he had quite a few surgeries and I was helping take care of him trying to get him up off the toilet Things like that and I injured my neck and my back I take Ativan for anxiety and Ambien for sleep for about 10 years or so now I would love to get off of everything

[Hidden in reply to Rosalia1]

You can always go to your pharmacy and bring in a bag with your meds and they will tell you what is necessary or not and even call your provider to discuss it. I’m so sorry about your husband. Losing a loved one is such a terrible and hard thing to adjust to. It sounds like you did everything you could to help him and I think that’s great although it now cost you a lot of aches and pains. I would ask your provider to decrease your dosages of your depression and anxiety meds if you would like to stop using them. In my opinion norco doesn’t seem needed so that’s great that you’re only using it when the pain in severe. Gabapentin and Effexor taken together has similar effects so that combination is great for pain relief ( from what I’ve heard ).

[Rosalia1 in reply to Hidden]

Norco for pain gabapentin

Effexer for depression Ativan for anxiety and abian for sleep it’s all to much !

[SlothTamer]

Thanks for sharing your story. I was “trapped” in my home after my son was born. I couldn’t leave the house without major anxiety. I made small, attainable goals for myself such as “today I will walk to my mailbox (which is about 30 ft from my house)”. “Today I will walk to the corner and back”.

I had major anxiety about taking my infant into the store so I made a goal for myself to go to the store with my son, walk in and walk out. No shopping, just go into the store to prove I could do it.. I was able to accomplish this and I recall thinking how proud I was to achieve that goal. It sounds simple, but it was profoundly difficult for me, but achieving those small goals helped.

Exercise is so important and I personally feel such relief by taking a small walk each day, and over time I’ve increased the length of my walk. Start small with seated exercise. Search for seated exercises or seated senior exercise on YouTube. Even if you aren’t a senior, the low impact movement is beneficial for your blood circulation, mood. A small goal could be “today I will do 5 min of seated exercises” . you are worthy. The fact that you came here to share your story shows you are capable of achieving small goals:).

Take it one small step, one moment, one hour, one day at a time.

Hugs

[Rosalia1 in reply to SlothTamer]

Thank you from the Bottom of my heart

[kvolm2016]

being able to explain why you are feeling this way is probably better left to a therapist/ counselor. Because for most of us there is a whole mix of factors which contribute to it. Do you have a therapist/counselor that you see for your anxiety/depression? If not, is that something you would consider doing?