Question:
Here is some symptoms I experience several times in a week, sometimes more sometimes less:
feeling tired and exhusted and low energy most of time
fast pulse in my head when I try to sleep
feel like I'm going to faint or die
dry mouth
Shaking teeth when I sleep
When I wakeup in morning feel tired and have erection
Hyper-Sensitive in conversation with people
I still manage my daily life but hardly... and I scared a bit that what's going on?
Please help/advice me:
1- Is this more Stress OR more Depression?
2- 4- How do you rate my problem based on my symptoms? What do you advice me in general?
3-What's my best solution to prevent/reduce this? Do I need medical quickly?
4- My family doctor told me that's Dysthymia ( Mild depression ) and prescribe Wellbutrin 100 mg for a month. What do you think? He generalaized my symptoms.
FYI: 34 Yrs old, Lots' of things going in my life now, Death of close family member, Marriage, Sexual problems, Change in financial state.
Answer:
My guess is social anxiety. Introspective and retrospective analysis of your behaviors and motivations (goals), set optimal goals, choose optimal behaviors to accomplish them seek a friend or family to help if you need
if no help of love, seek institutional help from a psychotherapist, and request the analysis of motive, if they recommend a psychiatrist, decide whether a lifetime label and different rule set of life, is worth your
current suffering.
I disagree social anxiety, just what I said, there are medicines for this, but with such a diagnosis, comes a lifetime label, that is not a stigma, but a label with implications legislatively. Talk to these people http://www.mindfreedom.org You don't say whether your doctor did, but another avenue to explore is a sleep disorder. Stress and depression can contribute to sleep problems (in that case, you treat the source of the problem) but they
can also aggravate an underlying sleep disorder (in that case, you have two distinct problems that may require different treatments). If you haven't explored with your doc your sleep habits, I'd encourage you to
do so.
Oh, having an erection in the morning isn't all that unusual--even at the age of 34. Erections follow sleep cycles tho and if you are noticing a change in the fact that now you are having them, that may be additional evidence that your sleep cycle has been disrupted.
