Reta and mood improve

[BlueDog55]

I’m stopping all GLPs due to the anhedonia sadly.

I stopped for the same reason, I have been off 4 weeks and have started feeling like myself again. I am going to give it another run in a few weeks, I am hoping to avoid the anhedonia. I took Reta for about 6 weeks before the anhedonia started.

 

[BlueDog55]

I'm sorry to hear

Mine is nowhere near as crucial, but at least now I understand why I lost the interest and joy from my morning coffee. I stopped drinking coffee for 2 months. I only just started again 2 weeks ago.

And a real silly thing.....I cried at the end of a movie, "The Accountant"

- my 5th time watching it.

"I cried at the end of a movie" Bro thats your E2 getting high.

 

[BlueDog55]

What mg did you start to notice it?

I was only using .5mg when It started for me. I ran it for 6 weeks and took a week vacation then started back. Starting week 8 I noticed I felt different and it got worse from there. I quit and it been 4 weeks now and I am feeling like my normal self again.

 

[FlowerFairy]

OMG! You have experienced way more than just "some hard things"!

What you have been through is enough to get any healthy person depressed or ill! You seem to have amazing resilience to be coping as well as you seem to be.

And yeah, GLP anhedonia doesn't help!

I didn''t recall the name of it, but there is a stress scale, (I looked it up) --The Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory, which is a tool designed to measure the amount of stress a person is experiencing based on recent life events.

It lists various life events -- such as the death of a loved one, divorce, job loss, or personal injury -- the score can suggest a greater risk of health problems, including illness or emotional disturbances, due to accumulated stress. You can tinker with it here --

Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory - The American Institute of Stress

The place to start is to find out how stressed you are and more importantly, how you are effected by stress. This tool assigns point values to various life events quantifying stress levels. Individuals can calculate their overall stress score, offering insights into their potential risk for...

www.stress.org

And, yeah, if you have access to a psychiatrist or therapist, by all means this is a good time to check in.

I was seeing a therapist BEFORE my nephew died. In fact, he was seeing me, my sister, my nephew and my youngest niece. It only took him 2 months to realize I was related to the other folks in my family, even though I had talked about my sister, my nephew and nieces and my sister talked about me and her kids. With the new job I had to change psychiatrists.

It is getting better, but for 3 years I did nothing but what I absolutely had to do. Now I’m trying to dig out from just dropping everything and not dealing with it. It’s a bit overwhelming.