Cotcha Yankinov
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About your musculoskeletal issues - excess muscle tension can really cause a lot of problems, and so can altered posture and bodily mechanics.
As an example, when people have anxiety they tend to breathe through their chest/rib cage - this can cause all sorts of popping in the ribcage joints and higher up in the sternum. Whereas breathing correctly through the diaphragm/stomach wont cause popping.
If muscles like the hip adductors get too tight, they can cause all sorts of popping and pain.
Try to do some stretching and yoga, and be mindful of your posture/breathing. Lots of people seem to have neck/head problems with these sorts of syndromes - I think it's important to treat the musculoskeletal aspect.
Mindfulness practice can be critical. People tend to ruminate all day long and that is no good. Start learning some mindfulness through YouTube and apps like Headspace and give it some time.
I'm not a medical professional but I'm not entirely sure about the Wellbutrin, but it's entirely dependent on how you feel with it. If it's stimulating you, making you anxious or keeping you from sleeping as well, then I would talk to a doctor about that. Usually stimulating drugs are not the direction to go in with these syndromes. Abilify is also hit or miss with some people for other conditions.
Try to get lots of sleep, exercise and give yourself to mindfulness. Thinking 24/7 is not so good for us. So do watch out for having a conversation with yourself in your head (inner monologue) or replaying past events/regretting and all that jazz. Try to just stay in the present moment.
Sounds like you've got some serious depersonalization/derealization - the drugs that have been investigated for treating depersonalization are really mood stabilizers (like lamotrigine, which people have had success treating this type of thing with) and SSRIs, so I'm not sure what's up with the abilify and Wellbutrin.
Shitty doctors are everywhere. It can take some time to get a good one.
Drink water and eat a well rounded diet - protein, low glycemic index carbs and good fats with a multivitamin. And oh yes cartilage regenerates all the time. It could be a synovial fluid/muscle tension thing, also the twitching ("fasiculations") are really common with this sort of thing and are nothing to be worried about. They are called "benign fasiculations" for a reason
Give it time. Unfortunately recovery is not very measurable in weeks for most people, it's usually measured in months.
As an example, when people have anxiety they tend to breathe through their chest/rib cage - this can cause all sorts of popping in the ribcage joints and higher up in the sternum. Whereas breathing correctly through the diaphragm/stomach wont cause popping.
If muscles like the hip adductors get too tight, they can cause all sorts of popping and pain.
Try to do some stretching and yoga, and be mindful of your posture/breathing. Lots of people seem to have neck/head problems with these sorts of syndromes - I think it's important to treat the musculoskeletal aspect.
Mindfulness practice can be critical. People tend to ruminate all day long and that is no good. Start learning some mindfulness through YouTube and apps like Headspace and give it some time.
I'm not a medical professional but I'm not entirely sure about the Wellbutrin, but it's entirely dependent on how you feel with it. If it's stimulating you, making you anxious or keeping you from sleeping as well, then I would talk to a doctor about that. Usually stimulating drugs are not the direction to go in with these syndromes. Abilify is also hit or miss with some people for other conditions.
Try to get lots of sleep, exercise and give yourself to mindfulness. Thinking 24/7 is not so good for us. So do watch out for having a conversation with yourself in your head (inner monologue) or replaying past events/regretting and all that jazz. Try to just stay in the present moment.
Sounds like you've got some serious depersonalization/derealization - the drugs that have been investigated for treating depersonalization are really mood stabilizers (like lamotrigine, which people have had success treating this type of thing with) and SSRIs, so I'm not sure what's up with the abilify and Wellbutrin.
Shitty doctors are everywhere. It can take some time to get a good one.
Drink water and eat a well rounded diet - protein, low glycemic index carbs and good fats with a multivitamin. And oh yes cartilage regenerates all the time. It could be a synovial fluid/muscle tension thing, also the twitching ("fasiculations") are really common with this sort of thing and are nothing to be worried about. They are called "benign fasiculations" for a reason
Give it time. Unfortunately recovery is not very measurable in weeks for most people, it's usually measured in months.
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