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Riba rage? Any remedies for this? Please help--I have kids.
Week 8/24. I screamed at my kids last night (they're only 8 and 10--they're good kids who just act like kids). I'm swearing at the dog. I'm even angry with the fish--they have to be FED.
I tried a couple of anti-depressants and they made me feel really depressed, mentally and physically. I don't really feel "depressed" even now. I'm just way irritable.
Any advice? Is there a magic bullet (one that doesn't involve an actual gun...)? Drugs for this? I'm doing this treatment FOR my kids, not to traumatize them for life.
I tried a couple of anti-depressants and they made me feel really depressed, mentally and physically. I don't really feel "depressed" even now. I'm just way irritable.
Any advice? Is there a magic bullet (one that doesn't involve an actual gun...)? Drugs for this? I'm doing this treatment FOR my kids, not to traumatize them for life.
Just re-read my post above and I don't mean to come off as harsh or unsympathetic. Just wanted to point out that I found my solution to this particular problem lies within. Not easy to find among all the debris and clutter, and harder to grab onto than a greased pig, but none-the-less it was in there.
Really nice thread and well thought out posts...really liked your post Goof...cause even though I'm not on tx, and yes, God knows what I'll be like then...so I try to be sympathetic and I realize I don't have that perspective now...
I still think we need to take "personal responsibilty" for our own actions and blend that with a sympathy and compassion for ourselves as well, no matter how terrible we feel....if that makes any sense to anyone...I really needed to read this because I've been pretty icky feeling lately and I'm surprising myself cause I'm turning into this other person that I don't even know...the hep c alone not to mention menopause ain't always the best thing for one's mood and attitude...
but doing nothing to help the situation and just having an attitude of "letting other people deal with me" will not help anything, myself or anybody else....
I find it weird that I want to just unleash on people I care about the most...my particular "personal peeve" is people who ask me too many questions, especially if I've just answered them and that's what a 16 year old kid will do...and yeah, it's not fair that I feel this way cause I sure don't want to...but this is the hand I was dealt and I have to play it the best I can, which means working on my own mood and attitude extra, extra hard, harder then people who don't have these afflictions...what else can I do?
If it means anti-depressants and talk therapy and/or books and passages that I read, comedy DVD's, tapes I listen to, meditation, exercise and gardening...and any and all the things I can do for myself that will make my situation better...because I can't afford to do this to people I care about all the time....although....when it's just too much for me, hopefully, they'll realize it's the disease and whatever...And they will be compassionate and understanding towards me once in awhile as well....
I still think we need to take "personal responsibilty" for our own actions and blend that with a sympathy and compassion for ourselves as well, no matter how terrible we feel....if that makes any sense to anyone...I really needed to read this because I've been pretty icky feeling lately and I'm surprising myself cause I'm turning into this other person that I don't even know...the hep c alone not to mention menopause ain't always the best thing for one's mood and attitude...
but doing nothing to help the situation and just having an attitude of "letting other people deal with me" will not help anything, myself or anybody else....
I find it weird that I want to just unleash on people I care about the most...my particular "personal peeve" is people who ask me too many questions, especially if I've just answered them and that's what a 16 year old kid will do...and yeah, it's not fair that I feel this way cause I sure don't want to...but this is the hand I was dealt and I have to play it the best I can, which means working on my own mood and attitude extra, extra hard, harder then people who don't have these afflictions...what else can I do?
If it means anti-depressants and talk therapy and/or books and passages that I read, comedy DVD's, tapes I listen to, meditation, exercise and gardening...and any and all the things I can do for myself that will make my situation better...because I can't afford to do this to people I care about all the time....although....when it's just too much for me, hopefully, they'll realize it's the disease and whatever...And they will be compassionate and understanding towards me once in awhile as well....
Just like to add that I've been suffering with depression for as long as I can remember...I remember being depressed when I was 10...my father is a depressive so it's prob genetic...but I still do these things to counter-act it and it really helps...when I say it's my "personal responsibility" I don't mean to say that I don't feel for depressives or depression, being one myself...this is a disease just like diabetes and we didn't ask for this...I just mean that's even though it's extra-hard, it behooves us to be pro-active in helping ourselves, it's just that much more important for a depressed person...and of course if that means anti-d medication, by all means do so....
I was not discussing depresion per se. Infact, in a number of posts I have stated I don't think people should avoid ADs if they will derive benefit from them.
What I was discussiing is outward rage and anger, directed to others. That, I believe, is something we can control. Would anyone here start screaming at a pastor giving sermon in open church? I imagine not. They control their reactions to anger then, and I feel that same control can and should be excercised at other times too.
What I was discussiing is outward rage and anger, directed to others. That, I believe, is something we can control. Would anyone here start screaming at a pastor giving sermon in open church? I imagine not. They control their reactions to anger then, and I feel that same control can and should be excercised at other times too.
Once again, I think there is a mis-communication here and we all basically agree, I just think that Goof just meant that you have to try and take all the "inner strength" you can muster to help yourself and your loved ones during this trial...that's not to say that it all depends on "inner strenth"...of course you need your loved ones to know that it's not really "you" it's the meds talking, this is not about blaming yourself for not doing "right"....and of course sometimes there will be a situation where NOT anything you do for yourself will help...not anything...and they need to know this will/might happen and just understand that for what it is...
But for the most part, we need to do what we can because if youre not as pro-active as you can be to help yourself, you feel even worse...believe me I know since I have suffered from depression and and I used to suffer suicidal ideation...
We still need to do everything we can on our end to help ourselves as well, (and I know we won't always be able to, but we gotta try) whether that involves taking the anti-d meds, taking a deep breath...whatever....no one can do this but ourselves and that's the point I was making about personal responsibility...sorry if I'm trying to explain what somebody else was trying to say...Goof might forgive me...
I know a guy who is dying of liver cancer and he wasn't able to qualify for a transplant, he's got maybe months or weeks to live...and he still tries to do these things cause he wants his last days to be as joyful as they can be under the circumstances...he says he's much better for it and he's very spritual, etc...now not everyone could do this under these circumstances and I sure wouldn't blame them for it, we all react differently...he just says he's way better off trying to make the best of it, whether he ultimately can or not....
But for the most part, we need to do what we can because if youre not as pro-active as you can be to help yourself, you feel even worse...believe me I know since I have suffered from depression and and I used to suffer suicidal ideation...
We still need to do everything we can on our end to help ourselves as well, (and I know we won't always be able to, but we gotta try) whether that involves taking the anti-d meds, taking a deep breath...whatever....no one can do this but ourselves and that's the point I was making about personal responsibility...sorry if I'm trying to explain what somebody else was trying to say...Goof might forgive me...
I know a guy who is dying of liver cancer and he wasn't able to qualify for a transplant, he's got maybe months or weeks to live...and he still tries to do these things cause he wants his last days to be as joyful as they can be under the circumstances...he says he's much better for it and he's very spritual, etc...now not everyone could do this under these circumstances and I sure wouldn't blame them for it, we all react differently...he just says he's way better off trying to make the best of it, whether he ultimately can or not....
I just meant that when it comes to the rage...no amount of inner strength on God's green earth can help me. It's not a strength type of thing ---- it's more a mental breakdown of frustration I think that causes us to SNAP or LASH OUT.
I find that the rage is much more THAT (snapping or lashing out) than a real "rage". A real rage hasa slow boil to it but what happens with this medication is sort of like a short circuit in the brain...something explodes little tiny neutrons or WHATEVER they are called and bam!
Sort of like getting hit with lightning in your brain - MELTDOWN!
I completely understand about having "inner strength" though - I just feel with this whacko bs...it doesn't matter. By the time I realize I SHOULD be having that strength or drinking that water....it's too late. It's over.
That's just with me though most likely - it's spontaneous not really a reaction. BAM!
Deb
I find that the rage is much more THAT (snapping or lashing out) than a real "rage". A real rage hasa slow boil to it but what happens with this medication is sort of like a short circuit in the brain...something explodes little tiny neutrons or WHATEVER they are called and bam!
Sort of like getting hit with lightning in your brain - MELTDOWN!
I completely understand about having "inner strength" though - I just feel with this whacko bs...it doesn't matter. By the time I realize I SHOULD be having that strength or drinking that water....it's too late. It's over.
That's just with me though most likely - it's spontaneous not really a reaction. BAM!
Deb
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