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infiniteglitterfall · 6 years ago

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oh my god yes.

I need to apply this to mental health/emotional pain especially. Because not only does shit like depression tell you "this doesn't really matter and there's no way to fix it anyway and it's not bad enough to do anything," but then also, it doesn't take long for me to get so fucking used to it that I don't notice it.

So I might not specifically tell my doctor, "my antidepressant/antianxiety meds are doing nothing and I'm at an 8 on the mental health pain scale that you probably don't know exists but my distress is at a 1 because.... I don't have the emotional spoons to worry about it... because I'm at a fuckinf 8 on the mental health scale... except when I'm actively freaking out, at which point my distress about it is at like a 10 but I'm not capable of taking any action around it... So anyway what the fuck else can I take that doesn't prevent my ADHD meds from working?"

But if I remember that my distress level doesn't have any relevance to how bad it is, I might be a lot more motivated to email him SOMETHING. because then I'm not using my very inaccurate sense of how bad it is to decide what to do about it.

also HOLY SHIT I'M AT AN 8 I HAD NO IDEA UNTIL I LOOKED IT UP FOR THIS POST THIS IS REALLY BAD I GUESS?!?! (someone who isn't me would definitely think this was really bad and I've been researching what else I could take that would work better, but gee maybe I should just infodump at my doctor and see if that gets me anywhere any faster)

(I've definitely reblogged the mental health pain scale somewhere in here, but here's a link)that

Add “distress” to your pain scale

Pain scale? More like pain in the booty. No two people seem to read it the same way, and chronic folks tend to downplay their pain.

So here’s an idea: when asked to rate your pain, provide a number to rate your distress levels in addition to your pain levels.

Some examples:

“I’m at a 5 on the pain scale, but my distress is basically a 1 because this is my usual.”

“I’m at a 3 on the pain scale, but my distress is a 7 because this is new pain and affects a part of my body that’s very important to my work.”

It’s a great way to consider how your pain is impacting you��and to get a doctor’s attention where it’s actually needed.

#sure you can keep taking SSRIs with it that works great #you should never combine them because the ssri will make you absorb more of the strattera #try the lowest dose and be aware that you're taking a higher dose than you think because of the ssri #I've been taking wellbutrin to no discernable effect #for over a year at the maximum dose #450mg #i take vyvanse for the adhd and that lets me focus and track things #i tried prozac first and that seemed to be helpful #as in it made me notice positive nice things about the world around me and it seemed to make it take a lot more to get me depressed/anxious #but it definitely prevented the adderall i was taking from working #and it seemed like the vyvanse didn't work with it either although i don't think that's what's supposed to happen?#i don't have any relatives on meds that i know of so i can't ask them what might help #the prozac was also at the maximum dose lol and so is the vyvanse fwiw #i thought about switching to strattera because it also helps with anxiety but it doesn't do much for depression #interestingly all the studies I've seen about strattera + other meds are like #and all the articles i read are like #why they don't just say is beyond me #okay maybe it's because if you need the lowest dose you can't get it #or maybe they aren't sure how much more of it you'll absorb #also I'm worried that if i switch to another adhd med that takes longer to work I won't be able to function #but strattera doesn't take that long to work i don't think #i was going to see if there are more studies now on which antidepressants help with executive function/cognition #because i saw some older things about it #i also found one study that looked like it was going to assess which antidepressants are most effective #older stuff says that they pretty much all have a 40-50% success rate and around a 31% rate of eventually not working? ha ha what?#why is the mental health industry literally incompetent though #almost everything i know including that prozac renders adderall ineffective is stuff i researched myself #seems like it would be good for a psychiatrist to check that before they prescribe you both but hey I'm not an expert #jk compared to my old psych i am totally an expert #apparently the study is under a creative Commons license omg that is so great

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