Monday, July 12, 2004

Crazy Girl!

This morning has been a complete disaster.

I wake up with enough time to get ready, but I'm feeling slow and tired. I guess I took too long but manage to get out the door on time only to get half way down the street and realize I forgot my keys and bus pass. I was already pissed off that I didn't have a jacket that matched what I was wearing and further pissed off that I had/have to have a jacket in the middle of summer in the first place. Then pissed off that I was going to be late for work because I was dumb!

It started to creep up on me. I was getting too angry at nothing. I missed the bus I needed to catch to be on time for work. I was tempted to jump in line at the methadone clinic but kept on walking to the bus stop. No busses were in sight so I lit a cigarette. I usually don't smoke in the morning. I've never really got into smoking in the morning but I fucking needed one. At that moment of course the bus comes. Before I lit it I looked all down the street and didn't see a bus in site. Lit it, and it's one block away. At this point I realize I'm having an anxiety attack. The bus pulls up and is packed. I'm not sure I can do it, but I know if I don't I'll hate myself even more. I climb on and work my way towards the back and I can feel with each step it's getting worse. I feel sick, dizzy, short of breath. I thought I was going to pass out. I wanted to sit down, but there were no seats. I realized I had started to hold my breath so I tried to relax some. This went on until I got to work. I'm still feeling crazy.

I never should have stopped taking my Lexapro. It made most of the anxiety I feel go away. It has side effects though like a super increased libido, we're talking out of control sex fiend. And it made my stomache feel upset. But maybe I should start taking them again. I just don't want to be dependant on some stupid happy pill to make me feel normal.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lexapro is a libido killer for 99% of the people who take it. Consider yourself lucky to have a pill that makes you sane and doesn't kill your sex drive. I'm jealous.

1:44 AM  
Blogger DreShmae said...

funny that you mention lexapro. it's a client for the company i work for. i'm not so hip to the pharm world, but the big wigs at my company always insist that our clients are big names. good to know that someone is actually using these drugs. on the other hand, as a moody twenty-something myself, i would think that a little bus anxiety is worth it to experience the true 'highs' in life (kinda like you have to experience the lows to know the highs), and doesn't a drug like lexapro try to keep you in more of a prozac middle ground? but, then again, i'm not the one having bus anxiety either. so i don't mean to belittle or misunderstand your sentiment. not sure what the point of this comment was.

7:55 AM  
Blogger Amber said...

I guess a little anxiety wouldn't be a problem, but I have sometimes debilitating attacks of anxiety. I had one that lasted for three days and put me in the hospital. My esophagus was spasming or something making it hard to breathe and impossible to swallow. It sucks.. and it gets worse.

9:05 AM  
Blogger DreShmae said...

ok then. i obviously don't know much about the topic, and i apologize for making suggestions on something that i'm very ignorant about. hospital visits are no joke. do what makes you feel healthy and happy- whatever that may be : )

6:55 AM  
Blogger Amber said...

no need to apologize. I hate taking them. That's why I start and stop and you aren't supposed to stop but oh well...

7:43 AM  

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