I've been out of my antidepressants now for almost a week, and boy can I tell. I have trouble wanting to get out of bed in the mornings, doing anything during the day, and the worst is my difficulties focusing and concentrating. This is definitely not a good state of mind for someone trying to do homework and get ready for finals.
My new script is ready to pick up, I just need to wait for the kids to get home to run in and pick it up. I plan to spend an hour or two at the library also, and do some grocery shopping during the same trip. I'll probably bring #2 with me as he has some books to return to the library. With some heavy bribery for #1 & #3, I should be good for a few hours to get these things done.
Hubby is gone again for the next several days on a Meetings From Hell trip, but then he should be home for a good month before he is off again. The next time he leaves it will be to a school for a month or two. Boy do I hope he gets a new job sometime soon where he won't have to travel as much! It probably won't happen, but I can sure hope for it.
I think when I go out, I will definitely go in search of caffeine in addition to the other things I want to go do. With luck it will help clear out many of the cobwebs from my mind. Or at least I can hope that it will.
I also need to start looking for something to put in my garden to convince Shelby to leave it alone. While I appreciate her keeping the soil in my garden turned and lose, I would really prefer that she didn't enjoy digging so much. I wonder if there are any plants out there that dogs can't stand the smell of?
Ok, the day is just about over. I'm looking forward to hopefully being asleep in the next hour or so.
Someone had asked if it was dangerous for me to go off my meds, and the answere would be, yes and no.
My depression is not such that I'm suicidal or a danger to myself or others. Mostly when I'm not medicated I tend towards binge eating of all known comfort foods, not wanting (and sometimes unable) to get out of bed, extreme lethargy and no willpower whatsoever. I tend to keep myself isolated, and not do anything. During these times I tend to fall WAAAAAAAAAAAY behind on homework and chores. Right now there is a mountain of laundry and LOTS of homework to do.
Now though, I have my meds (picked up this afternoon), I did a bunch of homework (but still have a lot more to finish) and made a small dent in the mountain of laundry. Hopefully tomorrow I will get more than just a dent done and be able to finish most if not all of my homework.
On other fronts, one of the markets near me has pears and asparagus on sale, and I am SO tempted to get some to can. If I did not have finals looming in the very near future I would be all over it. My shelves would be filled with pickled asparagus and canned pears within the next couple days. Oh well, I will see how much homework and studying I have after Saturday morning, and if it isn’t too prohibitive I’ll run by the market and pick up a bunch of produce Saturday afternoon.
I sure hope I have time, I’m really hungry for pickled asparagus!