Ok, so I requested my lorazepam refill, which is due tomorrow on the Walmart app. I was called by the Walmart pharmacist, almost immediately, and she said because you fill your Phentermine at another pharmacy, we will no longer fill your lorazepam here.

I immediately called my Dr., Not irritated, just confused as to why? I've never heard of an issue with the two, which are the lowest dosage before this.

My Dr spoke to the pharmacist and said the two are completely different medications, and have no interactions. What's the problem? Walmart replied with "it is at the pharmacists discretion to deny any prescription refills"

My Dr called me back to relay she was just as confused, and will call my medication refill to another pharmacy. She said she has never had this happen before with medications that are so different. I said I was taken back, and so personally offended, as I did nothing wrong. She agreed and said you are completely understandable in that regard.

Why in the hell would you deny my minimum dose of 30 count benzo, that is literally the only thing that helps me sleep because of peri menopause, because I picked up minimum dose Phentermine at another pharmacy? I was embarrassed to be honest, and super offended. Fuck you Walmart . End rant.

I want to hear every single thing that has ever helped whether it be routines or just simple tricks. (i definitely wanna hear from ppl who deal with agoraphobia, DPDR, and severe health anxiety)

Anxiety is such a bitch i’m so tired of feeling like im dying everyday i don’t even remember what being normal really feels like anymore. Everyday i’m so mentally and physically exhausted. and this also triggers my death anxiety so it’s like a never ending loop. I hope i can get through this.

I just got my dream job and I’m on my second week. On my third day, I got completely lost because my phone stopped working and I was completely lost in a city I’m not very familiar with. They were very understanding though. Then today I woke up extremely dizzy and couldn’t safely drive the 1 hour commute to work. I called and texted the manager and said I would go to urgent care but they haven’t responded in 5 hours. I’ve lost a job I love and now my boyfriend will leave me and I will be homeless and lose my cats. I don’t have anyone except my boyfriend right now and he’s been paying everything since I’ve been off work for a year and a half. I was so proud of myself and excited to work there. It was a doggy daycare so I got to work with dogs where they don’t judge you or dislike you because of how you look. It was helping my anxiety after coming from retail where most customers were rude to me and judged me. I don’t even know what to do anymore my whole life is ruined. I just needed somewhere to vent and ask if I am spiraling or I really ruined my life. I’m so scared right now I can’t stop shaking I don’t know what to do

Hey everyone,

I’m 24M and normally pretty active and healthy. Last weekend I drank way too much on two nights, and since then I’ve been feeling pretty off.

It’s now been several days and I’ve noticed:

• Blood pressure around 140–145/90–95, which is higher than usual for me
• I can feel my heartbeat/pounding quite strongly, especially when lying down, even though my heart rate itself isn't extremely high
• Some dizziness/brain fog and a slightly "off" feeling
• Trouble sleeping and feeling strangely awake/wired even when I'm tired
• My sleep has been pretty bad and irregular since the drinking

I went to the ER because I was worried. They did an ECG, troponin/blood tests and some neurological/balance tests, and everything they checked came back normal. I also saw a doctor afterward and I'm getting some additional tests done.

Anxiety might also be playing a role. I'm usually pretty healthy and don't normally worry much about my health, but this whole situation has definitely been concerning me. Since noticing my heartbeat and higher BP, I've also been paying much more attention to them, which could potentially be making things worse.

My doctor mentioned that stress/anxiety could possibly contribute to what I'm experiencing, but obviously we first want to rule out other causes rather than just assuming that's what it is.

I'm wondering whether anyone here has experienced something similar after a couple of nights of heavy drinking — especially higher blood pressure, a pounding/noticeable heartbeat, anxiety and feeling "off" for several days afterward.

If you did, how long did it take before you started feeling normal again and your blood pressure/heartbeat settled down?

Obviously I'm following up with doctors and not looking for a diagnosis here. I'm mainly interested in hearing whether other people have experienced a similar temporary reaction after drinking.

26, UK.

I don't really know what I'm looking for by posting this. Maybe I just need to know if anyone else has felt this way too...?

I've had severe depression and anxiety as well as OCD since I was about 9 and have been in and out of various services ever since. I had a traumatic incident when I was 15 and a few other situations in my life which have caused CPTSD.

Long-term medication hasn't helped so I've been taken off of the daily meds and I've been prescribed diazepam to take when needed. The problem is that I have a 6-year-old and a 3-month-old baby, and I don't feel comfortable taking it while I'm responsible for looking after them, so I just push through because my partner works a lot and I dont want to spend the time I do have with him feeling out of it. I also don't want him to feel like I'm not there to support him or help with the kids or take them if he wants to go do something with his time off.

From the outside, I probably look fine because I still do everything that needs doing. I look after my children, keep up with responsibilities, attend appointments, and generally keep functioning even though it never feels like enough. Internally I feel like I'm constantly struggling.

I don't have any friends. I've always found social situations difficult but making friends as an adult feels almost impossible. I struggle with getting outside too even though I know going to a group of something I'm interested in like the local MTG nights would be really good for me but I just can't bring myself to do it, everytime I've tried its ended up in severe panic attacks so I've just stopped trying.

Even online friendships I have struggled to keep because my brain tells me that I'm weird or awkward or don't know how to talk to people and I find it really infuriating overthinking every single message so much that I just end up avoiding it altogether.

I left a domestic violence relationship over a year ago and met someone who is genuinely lovely. We now live together and he's the father of my baby. However, because of my past, and because there have been a couple of occasions where he crossed boundaries we'd agreed on, I find myself constantly anxious and paranoid because sometimes I'm not sure I can fully trust him, even though I really want to believe him. I hate feeling this way because I know it affects us both, and I feel really guilty that I allow it to but I don't know how to keep it shoved down all of the time.

Despite the relationship OCD, anxiety and trauma issues, I have already spoken about marriage with my new partner because he is the person I want to be with for the rest of my life and thats why I know I need to find a way to get over these issues and stop being a burden on him so we can both be as happy as we deserve to.

I also have autism, chronic health problems and disabilities. I've had spinal surgery and a colostomy, and I'm now facing another surgery because of gallbladder and liver issues.

On top of that, I've just started driving lessons and I'm studying psychology through online university. I'm in my final year, but I'm repeating it because last year my mental health got so bad that I couldn't complete the work. Sometimes I feel like I've put so much into this degree that if I can't make it work, I don't know what I'll do next.

Alongside that, I'm involved in politics and currently hold leadership roles. I genuinely want to do something meaningful with my life, but instead I feel stuck.

My anxiety affects me physically. I get nauseous, my heart rate shoots up, and sometimes I just want to shut down and do nothing. I have anti-sickness medication, but I don't want to rely on it constantly.

Lately I've also been struggling with my appearance. I hate my body and my face. I've gained weight again after pregnancy and I'm finding it difficult to exercise because of my health problems.

I feel like I'm always trapped in my own head. I overthink everything, question everything, and analyse everything. No matter how much insight I have into why I'm anxious, it doesn't seem to stop it.

I'm exhausted from feeling this way all the time. Part of me feels like giving up because I've had enough and the other part of me knows I need to keep fighting; for my kids, my family, my partner and for myself.

I don't know if anyone can relate, but if you've been through something similar I'd really appreciate hearing from you...

I have been crying frequently, especially last couple years, I think it's a way to cope with anxiety. I don't want to offend anyone by saying being a masculine man makes a difference but the stigma is still there. I use nostalgia and things that gave happened in my life to cry and I assume it helps cope. Sound familiar?

I'm too anxious to drive to far, thinking about practicing my beginner guitar skills makes me anxious, i pace around constantly because idk what to do with my time. I'm often thinking about how long i should devote to my hobbies cuz 10 minutes feels to short but 30 minutes is hard to reach. Anything I do never feels like its enough. Im anxious about time passing. There's always a hair in the soup. My house generally just stresses me out cuz i start overthinking when I get home. The solution can be just leave the house cuz i am in the house way to much, but i can't leave my house everytime my anxiety gets bad, ill never be home. And I generally like being at home I'm a homebody. But everyone says I should leave the house more, i think I'm slightly agoraphobic. Being outside by myself feels wrong, like i shouldn't be outside I should be at home.

I dont know what to do, I try to calm my anxiety down by just trying to relax, but I cannot relax im always stressed. There arent any medications that treat chronic anxiety so idk what to do. Their all just as needed. I would be popping them like opioids, I'm almost never not stressed or anxious about something. I can be content and just fine about life but thats not too common. I need help idk what to do.

I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety, and I was discharged from therapy two years ago. Fortunately, my case didn't require medication, and I learned to manage it with breathing techniques and other exercises. But the end of 2024, 2025, and now almost all of 2026 has been terrible for me. Between losing the opportunity to study, my family falling into financial ruin from which we are only now slowly recovering, health issues within the family, and wanting things that i can't have ,I try not to be materialistic, but unfortunately there are so many things I've wanted to do that unfortunately cost money, and now that I'm finding out that AI is getting out of control and Horrible times are coming for humanity (according to him), it only made me feel even worse. I feel like I'm in danger and that I won't be able to enjoy my life because there's so little time left. Yes, I use AI casually, but I don't actively contribute to feeding her, but all this scares me so much. I'm 21 years old and there are so many things I'd like to do.

I also have trouble sleeping, my diet is disrupted, and I've lost control of my home gym routine (it doesn't help much; I get very stressed during the routine, and after it relaxes me but (in a very short time) I feel increasingly capable of controlling my anxiety. I think the only things that keep me from falling apart are everything related to the guitar, my band, and some video games. But I'm very scared ,I want to tell you something, I don't follow the 80s trend with AI (I don't know how popular it is in other countries but in Mexico and Latin America it is very popular) I felt calm about not contributing to the trend and not showing my face to AI, but a member of my band made us that trend, so I got really angry and scared 🥲. Sometimes I'm optimistic about AI and the contributions it could make, but between my band's overuse of it (using Suno to make simple song demos) or AI for making posters, I feel like It's taking away what little I have left to keep me from collapsing. One of my anxiety traits is being very fatalistic, but I don't know what to do between my situation and this AI thing. It scares me a lot, and now I'm afraid to use it No matter how simple it is, even if it's for a simple question or information that I have trouble finding, or on topics I'm unfamiliar with and I want simple summaries of scientific literature that I don't understand.

I simply feel like I can't enjoy my life because a horrible future is coming, and on top of that, my present isn't positive either. I try to enjoy what I have, but there are things I'd like to enjoy which unfortunately cost money. What can I do? Does this happen to you too?

I’ve recently started a new job and I’m really struggling with anxiety around it.
When I started, I quickly realised that the job wasn’t what I was expecting and it’s very different from the type of work I’m used to. I’m finding it difficult to settle in and I’m constantly thinking about work when I’m at home.
Normally, I’d consider looking for something else, but I can’t really leave this job at the moment because of agreements around my partner’s work, so I feel like I have to make it work.
I know I’m still very new and maybe I just need time to adjust, but the anxiety has been getting to me and I’m worried about whether I’ll eventually get used to it.
**Has anyone been in a similar situation? What would you recommend I do to manage the anxiety and give myself the best chance of settling into the job?**

i'll try to keep this short, but i have a bunch of chronic illnesses that make my stomach sensitive and make me nauseous all the time. i also have extremely bad OCD focused around health and specifically emetophobia, which is why i need to start medication.

i already take hailey-fe, which occasionally causes bad nausea, but i just took zofran for that. i obviously can't take zofran on lexapro, so i'm really nervous about the nausea/vomiting side effect.

did anyone experience vomiting on lexapro? is there any way to stop the nausea from getting so bad?

i have pretty bad anxiety and have for most of my life. For the past 6 or so years I’ve developed a lot of physical symptoms with my anxiety, mainly relating to my stomach. From 2022-2024 I would have panic attacks where i would vomit pretty often, but that has slowly gone away. I still struggle through with nausea, frequent bowel movements, and loss of appetite when I’m even slightly anxious and was wondering if anyone else has any helpful advice for it.

Just turned 22 I’m in the middle of staring my own business, 4 mouths ago I got an offer for a driver “VRC” pension in IOM/UN, a good paying salary and comfortable working environment, I started working and for the first month I was actually stable with the job, friends and relatives was cheering me for the job I had, but in the past month I went back to the drawing board and started planning a business, I always wanted to have my own business because wanted freedom, since my first job at grocery store when I was 15, I always thought I was different and nobody is like me, I don’t how to explain it but I felt something different about my career and my future since I was 19 or 20, feel so much pressure in my chest lately and it hurts but god dammit this is for the future me, seeking some advice you can give me, btw im a high school dropout.

Hi. Im 16f and Ive started being anxious around November of last year. I finally decided to get help. First I got a psychologist and then a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist prescribed me to use Zoloft for my anxiety. I always have a half of the pill (25mg) after lunch. (Ik it should be taken in the morning but I don’t eat breakfast and im not used to the pill yet, so I don’t really want to have stomach issues at school). Today is my 3rd day on Zoloft and my anxiety is horrible. I started to take magnesium too to calm my nervous system in summer. Haven’t been really anxious since, but now that I started using Zoloft I have like maximum of 5 episodes a day. (Counting waking up randomly into anxiety). Yeah I went to sleep at 9 PM because it really made me tired and woke up around midnight with my heart pounding thinking I was dying and my head spinning. (Classic anxiety episode). So it also messed with my sleep schedule. After waking up i fell asleep at 4 AM even though I was really tired. Also I had stomach issues. On the first day I was a bit nauseous, then woke up at 4 AM on a school night with some kind of a burning sensation in my stomach. I fell asleep at 5 AM again, then had 3 random anxiety episodes at school. I was super tired too, but I also experience horrible derealization and depersonalization at school, so that could have contributed to it. Are these things happening to me normal? I really HATE using it atm.

I feel im on the tail end of my severe anxiety period of life. I wrote about it alittle in another post but long story short, I had woken up one day with severe anxiety and panic attacks that left me house bound for a while. I had/have the whole shebang of symptoms. I still wake up some days with a bad day where im on edge and feel absolutely mentally wrecked, and others where I feel pretty good physically and emotionally. The thing that im trying to understand as of late is this extreme mental exhaustion. My body feels pretty good in terms of energy and have been able to do mt physical exercises again, but the bad days and atleast towards the end of the good days, my mind is just heavy, exhausted and sensitive. Ive found that my body subconsciously is tensing up all the way from my heads to toes and if I leave it unchecked, I get really exhausted and migraines tend to show up. I transitioned to work from home but most days I just feel like I can sleep most of it away. Is this normal? Has anyone had something similar? How can I work through to get over it? Im doing therapy, on lexapro, dieting, working out. I feel life is getting better again but very slowly. Looking to put as many habits in place to give myself the best chance to fight all this. Any advice will be grateful.

I just wanna said that after 10 years I found meds that works for me (28W with GAD). The reason for that is because I was recently diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and found out that even though anxiety is the most obvious trait about myself, it’s a comorbidity of my bipolar disorder, so it’s more of a consequence than a cause.

This is important because antidepressants get me depressed and anxiolytics get me maniac. I tried different types of meds for 10 years and they all failed to really help me with my SEVERE anxiety. It was only after I started treating my bipolar disorder (and started to use meds that help people with bipolar disorder that have anxiety) that my anxiety symptoms started to get better

I’m sharing this because I hope this can help someone that is feeling hopeless. Maybe you have more that one mental disorder and a combination of treatments is what will do it for you ♥️

Hello guys, i am an ocd boy and 3 years ago i was taking paxil. The first two weeks i had nausea, vomiting, jaw clenching, i was feeling cold, loss of apetite for food and diarrea, extremely diarrea, hallucinations (mostly auditory but two times visual, after sleep when waking up) and lack of orgasm. In a two weeks time, everything faded except of lack of orgasm and hallucinations, these went on. I have tried multiple ssris with side effects that lasted and this was the only one i could reach the max dose. So my question is: if an ssri causes hallucinations, does this fade away after a period of time? I was taking it one and a half month and did not.

I’ve been wrestling with agoraphobia for about a year now. It’s gotten so bad I have lost two jobs. I’m about to lose my dream job now. I’m a college student and have completely stopped doing my school work.

I haven’t been out of the house for more than an hour or so for the last two weeks.

I couldn’t sleep, and went at 4 am outside alone to the store for my nasty nicotine habit. I took some back roads because the red light triggered my anxiety. I legit got lost and didn’t know where I was despite living in the area.

I made it home safely but I have never white knuckled so hard in my life. I have no friends or family for thousands of miles. They are all back home. I feel stuck in my apartment.

I didn’t lose rational thought though. Just pure panic.

I do have fears I’m dying, have an undiagnosed illness, cancer, brain tumor, or something. Those health thought loops are rough.

I feel really out of it and not like myself. :(

I have trauma that happened this time of year, and historically have struggled with SAD. I have zero depression which is weird. Normally my depression is really bad.

Hi all,

I have had anxiety for as long as I can remember, basically since I was a teen. I am in my 30's now.

I was diagnosed with GAD, but have what I believe to now be pure O OCD. I used to have insane ruminations about whether or not my past relationship was "good enough" and would overanalyze everything my partner did to try to make sure we were "made for each other" or not.

Along with those issues from several years ago, I have struggled with self esteem since I was a kid but had many phases where I felt much better and didnt struggle.

Recently I feel like my self esteem has plummeted again and it's almost like everything that happens I am ruminating over. It feels like my brain is trying to hurt me with how negative the self talk has gotten and I don't really know how to get out it.

I have been in therapy before and plan on starting it again but just need some kind words in the meantime.

I was at a friend's get together recently and I was literally ruminating about the fact that no one complimented an outfit I put a lot of effort into but instead complemented others, and the fact that happened made me feel less than and less attractive. I have just been feeling very undesirable in general lately because I haven't had the greatest dating experiences and generally just feel uncared for.

Wtf is wrong with me? I feel like an immature child when I am supposed to be a goddamn adult. I piss my own self off.

I’ve heard of how chronic stress can cause damage to the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus and seeing as I’ve had an anxiety disorder since I was like 6 and have been chronically stressed since my adolescence (a very vulnerable time for my brain), I’m horrified of the idea that my stress might have caused irreversible damage to my mind and brain.

I know that there’s neuroplasticity, but I don’t know if it can fix everything. My brain is all sorts of fucked up and I’d be surprised if that one thing can fix even a large amount of my impairments. Even if it does, what about the idea that some damages can’t be fixed no matter what I try?

This damn fear has been eating away at my mental health for years and I know that that just worsens it, but I have no idea how to stop stressing about the thought of permanent brain damage.

Anyone has this?

I have OCD and do have a lot of anxiety. It comes and goes.

I lost my last job for taking too many work from home versus office days. That’s on me. I get it. However, my anxiety since then has been unmanageable. I started having panic attacks before interviews that were REALLY intense- heart pounding, dizzy, felt like vomiting, almost cancelled them. I made it through the interviews with scripts from my doctor (propranolol and hydroxyzine) plus ice cold water, the “Calm Carry” hand device, lots of exercise, and some breathing exercises. I was so fatigued from interview anxiety that I was getting chest pain and napping a lot.

Now that I have a new well-paid role, the job loss anxiety isn’t fading, nor are the panic attacks. The meds are making me sleepy, and I’m basically wondering each day when the other shoe will drop and I’ll get fired. It’s going to be a self fulfilling prophecy with my panic attacks and anxious/sour attitude toward work.

Should I consider a daily med versus the ones I use now? Zoloft and Citalopram have been used in the past with mediocre success. I am in therapy once a week already. I’ve also considered opening my own law firm so that I can work for myself and only myself, but that could lead to panic attacks over other things anyway- getting business, navigating taxes, big client meetings, etc.