harasgenster
22-09-12, 20:06
Hi
I recently started to use this forum again when I started on citalopram. I've come a really long way since I used to use this site, at which point I was in a really bad place, and fortunately things have got a lot better. However, I'm still having problems with exhaustion and I'm getting frustrated (which can't help!)
The exhaustion first started about 5.5 years ago after I had a bit of a breakdown/became agoraphobic. With the help of Citalopram I bounced back very quickly and had a blissful eight months of feeling practically normal, but then this fatigue kicked in, and eventually I had to leave my MA, then I lost my job, my home and my boyfriend all at once and hit an extremely rough patch which lasted about four years.
Life has been a lot better but the exhaustion never went away. I struggle to keep down a full time job and have never managed it for more than a few months before a doctor signs me off, so I now have a part time job and freelance on my days off, which is a much better pace for me.
Now that my anxiety has been a lot better (for six months now), I'm aiming to get my life back to where it was during those nice eight months I had six years ago, but returning to my old lifestyle is proving difficult because even though I have had more energy since starting the Citalopram (only last week so probably still side effects) I still feel absolutely shattered after socialising/work for a short period of time. I have to go to bed early and have to recover so I can keep going the next day. It's really frustrating because I'm still young (26) and I feel like I've missed too much of my youth already. I really want to be able to go back to normal now.
I guess I'm just looking for anyone who's been through the prolonged exhaustion I'm feeling - which I think is just a result of the stress I went through six years ago, and then the stress that's come afterwards kind of topping it up as I go along! - and who has come out the other side. Could just use some encouragement to tell me it's all going to go away eventually and I can have my life back :)
I recently started to use this forum again when I started on citalopram. I've come a really long way since I used to use this site, at which point I was in a really bad place, and fortunately things have got a lot better. However, I'm still having problems with exhaustion and I'm getting frustrated (which can't help!)
The exhaustion first started about 5.5 years ago after I had a bit of a breakdown/became agoraphobic. With the help of Citalopram I bounced back very quickly and had a blissful eight months of feeling practically normal, but then this fatigue kicked in, and eventually I had to leave my MA, then I lost my job, my home and my boyfriend all at once and hit an extremely rough patch which lasted about four years.
Life has been a lot better but the exhaustion never went away. I struggle to keep down a full time job and have never managed it for more than a few months before a doctor signs me off, so I now have a part time job and freelance on my days off, which is a much better pace for me.
Now that my anxiety has been a lot better (for six months now), I'm aiming to get my life back to where it was during those nice eight months I had six years ago, but returning to my old lifestyle is proving difficult because even though I have had more energy since starting the Citalopram (only last week so probably still side effects) I still feel absolutely shattered after socialising/work for a short period of time. I have to go to bed early and have to recover so I can keep going the next day. It's really frustrating because I'm still young (26) and I feel like I've missed too much of my youth already. I really want to be able to go back to normal now.
I guess I'm just looking for anyone who's been through the prolonged exhaustion I'm feeling - which I think is just a result of the stress I went through six years ago, and then the stress that's come afterwards kind of topping it up as I go along! - and who has come out the other side. Could just use some encouragement to tell me it's all going to go away eventually and I can have my life back :)