Do the meds help the rumination?

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In the day I am relatively fine. But in the evenings, I still ruminate a lot. I have those obsessive intrusive thoughts of how I am gonna to survive with this illness. Is this a psychotic symptom or its some other stuff? Do the meds help the over-rumination, please?
anybody else like me now or in the past? I know isolation doesn’t help but for the moment I cant break it. I am now in this situation not by my fault either…

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Meds have never helped me with that. That has all come from therapy and CBT.

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ok, I see. But a mom’s friend was afraid that she will never make it on her work and she was prescribed Zyprexa and an antidepressant against this. she is ruminating too. idk…

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At one time Prozac helped me with compulsive rumination. I suspect because it is also good for OCD. I can’t tolerate it anymore though. But at one time it was a good med for me.

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Its a bad sign to have it so bad, isn’t it @shutterbug? I struggle not to jump from my apartment to be honest. and no, I dont want therapy anymore. I gave 8 years of my life to the psychiatry and the psychology lol… I dont believe that psychology will do the stuff with my sensations and feelings no

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ok, thank you twinklestars. are you better now? I would like to see some light from those terrible evenings.

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Some hours are bad and some are OK, and a few are good.

I had a good laugh yesterday. It is important to remember those good things. At night before I sleep I think of any good thing that happened that day, and if I can’t think of one, I think of a good experience from the past.

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yeah, tough illness… I regret that I have it so bad. I probably made mistakes in the past,idk. Now, my situation is very bad, really. and I cant listen anymore that I dont struggle.

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sorry if I complain too much. Maybe I am still rebellious in a bad way. It would be better than the illness though… I am trying to accept all this now. idk what ill achieve with this.
now the loneliness is my only partner for the most of the time. whatever.

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Is it obsessive thoughts? Because if rumination is the same than obsessive thoughts, I think memantine is helping me.

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@brugluiz, before the diagnosis I wasn’t giving a ■■■■ about my future and life. I was living passively and with apathia I guess. Now that I want to see my life changing after the diagnosis, I cant stop thinking in the evenings how I am gonna to survive and recover. I just look at the people on the tv and I ask myself ‘‘how,how’’ for hours… Maybe I have a slight progress on this cause I try to accept my current situation but I ruminate like this till a headaches and a big pressure in my head if you see, that’s all :confused: .

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in the day I find that I dont have ruminations like this. I wonder if more activity in the future for me in the day will help me with the evenings too?

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Hmmmm, I think it’s not the same than me. I had obsessive thoughts that would drive me psychotic. I’m not sure if memantine would help you.

You seem to want change your life and know what you want, but you don’t know how to do it. Maybe a coach can help you.

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yeah, mine seems more like a ‘‘real’’ worries. I have a bunch of things on which worrying in fact cause I have nothing in life anymore… its a matter of regaining my feelings too I find, to become a human again cause in my illness I lost my positive feelings too. maybe my worries are not so real like I suppose but its painful lol.

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maybe its more a depressive thing that I have…

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Maybe you can organize yourself in order to change your life the way you want. There are different areas in your life that you want to change like:

  • Family;
  • Friends;
  • Amusement/fun;
  • Work;
  • Selfdevelopment;
  • Finances;
  • Home;
  • Spirituality;
  • Health;
  • Love.
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I should be low now and in those moments… Gosh, why I am so low since forever? I guess my ill friend is just spoiled, I never had this :cry:. They made me a zombie, not a human who is loved… and I want to kill myself almost every evening cause I am weak and always so low…

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I work on this every day, brugluiz but I come from far, I am still ill.

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hey guys, thank you very much for the attention. I really need to change my look on the life and my life too lol :slight_smile: Idk if I have schizophrenia or borderline but how I got here I cant even remember anymore… Bad character, do I have it? yeah…

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Far, one pdoc really said that i suffer from my bad character :disappointed_relieved:. Maybe you are right that therapy would help me best but i dont have the strenght for it anymore… otherwise, i have those idiotic films in my head… bad, its just bad. Since kid i had the tendency to go bad, its not nice yes…