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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – hi i am new, i know none of you are doctors..well maybe some of you are..but i do know you all seem to have lots of expernice ..i was diganosed with depression a few years back, i have taken zoloft off and on for years but then i became a mommy and got real busy, and poor, couldnt remember to take pills even if if i could afford them, ect..but over the years i have done alot of self awareness things, i come from a abusive family, very abusive, i would imagen ptsd is a thing with me, but my main issues come from this one part of me that i never dealt with..when i orginally went into a doctors for depression years ago, they would ask me about anxiety and i would say no to all the questions even though they were all yes answers..becuz i was afraid they would think i was manic depressive and have me take lithum and really i just wanted prozac, i didnt know alot back then..i didnt have the net, since then i have read like every anxiety and depression site i could find and i realize i really screwed up there by lying to the doc and all that, now for my present situation, i have no medical insurance, i live in a small town with no free clinics..i am also pretty dam poor still, I have seen sites about kava kava and some other herbs, I want to go and fight public aid but my real issues, which i just realized i never did mention up there, let me back up..my real problems through out my life have been extreme shyness, i mean i am shy..ppl terrify me, and also i just worry about everything..its like the only thing i know how to do it is worry..and my head wont stop…lol what i mean is..i think too much..i just think and think and think..and i am so tired.i just want to make it go away , honestly till i was about 20 i drank and smoked pot heavly..i mean daily to make my head stop but as a adult and a mommy ..i havnt been able to do that..now since i cant win this fight with public aid over a medical card yet and i dont have insurance i am begging you guys to tell me your experince with herbs and alternative hopefully cheap ways of making your head stop, i will get me some dam insurance someday but i just cant right now..probabbly not till next year, and i cant take this anymore,, its affecting me as a mom and how i raise my little one and that terrifies me, please help..if anyone has any thing good to say about herbs please email me too, cuz i go to the sites..but they are trying to sell me the herbs so of course they say good things..but i wanna know do they really work..can i use some till i can get into a real doctor????? please help me… love, jess *goddess of the black circle cult* http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thebcc </PRE</HTML
Jess with the money you may spend on various herbal remedies you may be better spent on some books and tapes on anxiety and depression start with Burns feeling good the new mood therapy as a start. Herbals work as an alternative for many kava valerian st johns wort s a m e all have pros and cons-but you have many issues that are amenable and treatable by some good cognitive therapy. There are clinics and hospitals that treat indigent folks for free check em out. You can even get meds for free at these hospitals until state or federal aid is forthcoming. best of luck LM
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hi Jess, I dont know anything about herbs but what slowed down my racing thoughts and thinking all the time was deep relaxation…meditation some. If you can go to the library or call them see if they have anything on meditating. A good one for me was. Minding the body Mending the mind. In almost all the self help books have a chapter devoted to relaxation. You migt be able to find a web sight on it… good luck Charla — On you will go/Onward up many/ a frightening creek./ though your arms may get sore/ and your sneakers may leak. —Dr. Seuss
hi i am new, i know none of you are doctors..well maybe some of you are..but i do know you all seem to have lots of expernice ..i was diganosed with depression a few years back, i have taken zoloft off and on for years but then i became a mommy and got real busy, and poor, couldnt remember to take pills even if if i could afford them, ect..but over the years i have done alot of self awareness things, i come from a abusive family, very abusive, i would imagen ptsd is a thing with me, but my main issues come from this one part of me that i never dealt with..when i orginally went into a doctors for depression years ago, they would ask me about anxiety and i would say no to all the questions even though they were all yes answers..becuz i was afraid they would think i was manic depressive and have me take lithum and really i just wanted prozac, i didnt know alot back then..i didnt have the net, since then i have read like every anxiety and depression site i could find and i realize i really screwed up there by lying to the doc and all that, now for my present situation, i have no medical insurance, i live in a small town with no free clinics..i am also pretty dam poor still, I have seen sites about kava kava and some other herbs, I want to go and fight public aid but my real issues, which i just realized i never did mention up there, let me back up..my real problems through out my life have been extreme shyness, i mean i am shy..ppl terrify me, and also i just worry about everything..its like the only thing i know how to do it is worry..and my head wont stop…lol what i mean is..i think too much..i just think and think and think..and i am so tired.i just want to make it go away , honestly till i was about 20 i drank and smoked pot heavly..i mean daily to make my head stop but as a adult and a mommy ..i havnt been able to do that..now since i cant win this fight with public aid over a medical card yet and i dont have insurance i am begging you guys to tell me your experince with herbs and alternative hopefully cheap ways of making your head stop, i will get me some dam insurance someday but i just cant right now..probabbly not till next year, and i cant take this anymore,, its affecting me as a mom and how i raise my little one and that terrifies me, please help..if anyone has any thing good to say about herbs please email me too, cuz i go to the sites..but they are trying to sell me the herbs so of course they say good things..but i wanna know do they really work..can i use some till i can get into a real doctor????? please help me… love, jess *goddess of the black circle cult* http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thebcc
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I guess i cant say waht will work for you, but im 23 and still live at home and i really dont want to have to start going back to a shrink and paying him $50 a half hour just to hear him tell me what he thinks i want to hear to make me come back. I get very depressed sometimes and i have just recently started taking St. Johns wort, 3 a day. They say it takes several weeks to start working but i’m feeling better already. Now granted, i’ve not done any "controlled" studies on myself. For all i know, i might have started feelign better withouth it as i’ve been working out latley which i believe is more of a cause of my feeling better than the St. Johns. I also have taken kava kava many times and it does relax you but i just dont know if it will affect your psychology very much as i think its mainly a physical relaxationt thing(just my opinion). I dont think there would be much harm in going out and getting a bottle of St. Johns. You seem to be in a desperate situation and i just dont think st johns would make you any worse for the time being(also just my opinion.) you say youve got a little kid, so you probably dont have much free time, but i was going to say, if you could find just a little time to do some kind of excercise each or every other day for a little while, i think youd really feel better. I was going thru some "hypochondriac" like feelings for months thinking i was dying of cancer before i started excercising and now i’ve almost made a complete turnaround, no overstatement either. Hope this helps a little. john
hi i am new, i know none of you are doctors..well maybe some of you are..but i do know you all seem to have lots of expernice ..i was diganosed with depression a few years back, i have taken zoloft off and on for years but then i became a mommy and got real busy, and poor, couldnt remember to take pills even if if i could afford them, ect..but over the years i have done alot of self awareness things, i come from a abusive family, very abusive, i would imagen ptsd is a thing with me, but my main issues come from this one part of me that i never dealt with..when i orginally went into a doctors for depression years ago, they would ask me about anxiety and i would say no to all the questions even though they were all yes answers..becuz i was afraid they would think i was manic depressive and have me take lithum and really i just wanted prozac, i didnt know alot back then..i didnt have the net, since then i have read like every anxiety and depression site i could find and i realize i really screwed up there by lying to the doc and all that, now for my present situation, i have no medical insurance, i live in a small town with no free clinics..i am also pretty dam poor still, I have seen sites about kava kava and some other herbs, I want to go and fight public aid but my real issues, which i just realized i never did mention up there, let me back up..my real problems through out my life have been extreme shyness, i mean i am shy..ppl terrify me, and also i just worry about everything..its like the only thing i know how to do it is worry..and my head wont stop…lol what i mean is..i think too much..i just think and think and think..and i am so tired.i just want to make it go away , honestly till i was about 20 i drank and smoked pot heavly..i mean daily to make my head stop but as a adult and a mommy ..i havnt been able to do that..now since i cant win this fight with public aid over a medical card yet and i dont have insurance i am begging you guys to tell me your experince with herbs and alternative hopefully cheap ways of making your head stop, i will get me some dam insurance someday but i just cant right now..probabbly not till next year, and i cant take this anymore,, its affecting me as a mom and how i raise my little one and that terrifies me, please help..if anyone has any thing good to say about herbs please email me too, cuz i go to the sites..but they are trying to sell me the herbs so of course they say good things..but i wanna know do they really work..can i use some till i can get into a real doctor????? please help me… love, jess *goddess of the black circle cult* http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thebcc
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hi i am new, i know none of you are doctors..well maybe some of you are..but i do know you all seem to have lots of expernice ..i was diganosed with depression a few years back, i have taken zoloft off and on for years but then i became a mommy and got real busy, and poor, couldnt remember to take pills even if if i could afford them, ect..but over the years i have done alot of self awareness things, i come from a abusive family, very abusive, i would imagen ptsd is a thing with me, but my main issues come from this one part of me that i never dealt with..when i orginally went into a doctors for depression years ago, they would ask me about anxiety and i would say no to all the questions even though they were all yes answers..becuz i was afraid they would think i was manic depressive and have me take lithum and really i just wanted prozac, i didnt know alot back then..i didnt have the net, since then i have read like every anxiety and depression site i could find and i realize i really screwed up there by lying to the doc and all that, now for my present situation, i have no medical insurance, i live in a small town with no free clinics..i am also pretty dam poor still, I have seen sites about kava kava and some other herbs, I want to go and fight public aid but my real issues, which i just realized i never did mention up there, let me back up..my real problems through out my life have been extreme shyness, i mean i am shy..ppl terrify me, and also i just worry about everything..its like the only thing i know how to do it is worry..and my head wont stop…lol what i mean is..i think too much..i just think and think and think..and i am so tired.i just want to make it go away , honestly till i was about 20 i drank and smoked pot heavly..i mean daily to make my head stop but as a adult and a mommy ..i havnt been able to do that..now since i cant win this fight with public aid over a medical card yet and i dont have insurance i am begging you guys to tell me your experince with herbs and alternative hopefully cheap ways of making your head stop, i will get me some dam insurance someday but i just cant right now..probabbly not till next year, and i cant take this anymore,, its affecting me as a mom and how i raise my little one and that terrifies me, please help..if anyone has any thing good to say about herbs please email me too, cuz i go to the sites..but they are trying to sell me the herbs so of course they say good things..but i wanna know do they really work..can i use some till i can get into a real doctor????? please help me… love, jess *goddess of the black circle cult* http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/thebcc
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