You must have been the most tedious conservative indo reader in the entire rehab centre. Did they let you out to attend confession, mass and the devotions?
hahaha I never went to rehab. They’re more often than not an expensive waste of time. I have a mate who’s been in 23 of them, all over the world and he’s still getting drunk and high every day
I’m very sensitive to noise. Like incredibly so.
They made a point of telling ya these yokes aren’t addictive when they start you on them
Are you switching meds or stopping them altogether?
Switching
The joys of it. 
It’s a right joyful experience alright
I think it goes to show how clueless psychiatrists in general are when dealing with mental health issues.
Trial and error with pills to see which ones work. That’s 200 euro please.
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Imagine being in savage pain anywhere else and being told “the medication might work, try it for 6 weeks and see”
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Good luck pal. Don’t know how you manage the droll humour with which you post about this stuff.
In my experience psychiatrists have nothing else to offer. They don’t go into the talk therapy side of things and more or less tell you to get a counsellor.
They are medically focussed which is ridiculous when it comes to mental health.
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I suppose it’s good from a point of view of eliminating some of the more catastrophic conditions, the likes of schizophrenia and that, but yeah, when it comes to treatment it’s very much “get a counselor and take a tablet until it works” from them.
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How do the meds generally help people feel - is there a marked improvement in mood, less anxiety etc
I believe a recent study has found SSRIs to be addictive. A lot of people who planned to come off them don’t due to the discomfort of the withdrawal symptoms. I’ve been on a lot of different brands, and dosages and I’ve gotten quite used to the withdrawal, but the first time is the toughest as the sensations are often new.
I have what might be a similar sensitivity to noise. It’s not a fun attribute. When someone opening the cutlery drawer makes it sound like the collapse of a building, or someone with their mouth open whilst eating, nearly sounding like a lawnmower 
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There I was child bouncing a basketball outside recently and she may as well have been drilling into the side of my head
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Misophonia. Loud eating and the sound of somebody chewing gum are killers.
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Investing in a very good pair of noise cancelling over ear headphones is the trick. I had a mate in Sweden who had something similar, and for him it led to an autism diagnosis, but he doesn’t go anywhere without the headphones now.
I’d feel like that after a big night’s drinking.
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This guy over in London has offered me an operation but it’s a very invasive one and there are no guarantees with it. I’m torn about 50-50 whether to do it or not.
Basically what would happen is the retina would be re-detached by surgical means and then re-placed, hopefully landing in a better position. The retina being in a different position to what it was originally seems to be the major thing that makes everything look wonky and slanty from that eye and creates double vision. The epiretinal membrane (a mild form of scar tissue on the retina) probably isn’t causing significant visual distortion, but that would also be removed during the operation. I could go on but I’d be getting into really technical stuff. Nobody in Ireland has even mentioned that such an operation exists, I only realised it did when I got in contact with the people in London.
It’s some avenue of hope but it’s also very daunting and the logistics of getting the operation done in another country are tricky to say the least. I think I’d have to go through a period of properly trying some other much less invasive options (ie. getting updated lenses and trying them out without tape over the eye for an extended period of time) before getting this done, but any time I’ve gone without tape before it has set me off into absolute panic, hospital or Garda station level stuff, so I don’t know could I do it really.
Another problem now is that floaters in my good eye started getting more annoying about two weeks ago. I’ve had the good eye checked twice since then and apparently there’s no serious problem but I rely on that eye now and the vision out of it isn’t all that it might be and there’s basically nothing you can do about floaters bar some very risky stuff which likely wouldn’t be offered to me given I already have one gammy eye.
A guy at Specsavers last week said something to me like “the vision from your (left) eye will always be distorted” and that set me off and when I left Specsavers I went to Sallins on a train and got off there and loitered around the platforms watching trains go by and then when I eventually got on a train I got off again at Parkwest and loitered around the platform there.
Unless there’s a serious improvement in the next few months I’ll probably end up having the operation done because what is there to lose in the real sense. Well, you could lose more - money and more sight, but the sight I have in that eye is more of a nuisance rather than anything.
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Mate what is stopping you, 50/50 is better than your current situation of not living life. If it’s a financial thing I’m sure plenty here would help.
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