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New Beginning Registering For Va Mental Health Ptsd Mdd Psychotic Features

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Well today I called the Va to start mental health treatment. I was informed that I needed to register with patient services. So either today or tomorrow I will go to the mental health clinic to begin treatment. So after I go down there and see if I can be seen and helped I will update the results. Prozac seems to only help me be more social. It does nothing for my violent side. So I plan to stay in treatment until I get this mental situation under control.

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Well I'm starting to leave the house. But only to see my buddy when he needs help. Low key I feel like a madman. My hands shake violently my head always hurt everyday. When the room is quiet my dam ears are ringing it's enough to drive anybody insane. I'm trying my best to be KOOL and filter myself back in society. But it seems like evil is all around me. Everybody seems like a threat. My breathing s funny. Nobody really knows this but I'm a fuse waiting to blow. Soooo I think it will be a while before I go back out again if I do I will only visit family. I hope I'm not being to explicit the last thing I wanna do is trigger somebody. If I do I apologize. I gotta let this out some type of way. This is the only place I can vent my inner desires this is a place where they understand my madness. My head feels like its ready to explode!!!!!

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WELL I believe seraquel is rubbing me the wrong way. My tongue hurt and my throat is extra scratchy. Also I have bad foot and leg pain. It all seem like it started when I started taking the seraquel. Sooooo bye bye seraquel. I been taking Prozac and prazosin seems like with no problems. The prozasin have erased my dreams as far as I can remember last night I don't take the seraquel my tongue seems like its not hurting as much. Hopefully this stops my hurting mouth and throat and stop all me muscle cramps. July 10. Vocational rehabilitation appointment. Hmmmmm. Oh well I will tell my doctor what's GOIN on with my medicine.

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WELL I believe seraquel is rubbing me the wrong way. My tongue hurt and my throat is extra scratchy. Also I have bad foot and leg pain. It all seem like it started when I started taking the seraquel. Sooooo bye bye seraquel. I been taking Prozac and prazosin seems like with no problems. The prozasin have erased my dreams as far as I can remember last night I don't take the seraquel my tongue seems like its not hurting as much. Hopefully this stops my hurting mouth and throat and stop all me muscle cramps. July 10. Vocational rehabilitation appointment. Hmmmmm. Oh well I will tell my doctor what's GOIN on with my medicine.

Seroquel is great at causing dry mouth and throat - bone dry like a desert.

Carlie passed away in November 2015 she is missed.

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Well I went in to mental health today and told them about my seraquel problem. They switched my medicine to divalproex. Mood stabilizer. She said she was mainly concerned about my violent tendecies. Soooo now it's Prozac prazosin and divalproex. Hopefully I get the right combination so I can start leaving the house and quit being violent. Yes I'm still locked in me bloody room for now. Low key my head is always hurting mainly by my eyes and I'm still having pain in my leg from hip to groin all the way to my middle toes. Yeah to tell y'all the truth I feel like a madman. This mourning when I woke up it look like I ways laying in small black bugs. As I full woke up yes hallucination. Somewhat creepy but I guess I'm going to have to get use to all this. I believe I go to PTSD clinic next month. Well that's it for now.

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Well I had to stop divalproex it was giving me stomach pains. SEREQUEL side affects is starting to leave my body. With serequel my entire tongue became raw like in pain. Also my hip to my middle toes started hurting. My body is going back to normal now that I have let them go. I'm up to 4 Prazosin and I'm taking my Prozac at night. So I won't be sleepy through the day. My doctor at kaiser told me to do this. He told me I should pick who I want to be my psychiatrist either the va or kaiser. Well to tell yall the truth I don't completely trust the va yet. So I'm staying with kaiser and since the va gave me the same PILLZ kaiser gave me I think I'm just going to get my medicine from kaiser yes I'm paraniod they might try to poison me. I don't know really I'm just rolling with the flow of things. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a bad miserable dream that I can't escape from. Ok without my mood stabilizers I feel a little bit more on the violent side. Yes I'm still locked in my house. I only really go to my doctor appointments. So yes I'm still in my home made prison. I'm just glad I made the first step in getting help. The way I was living with my anger I was headed to the grave or to jail. So at least I'm headed in the right direction no matter what they diagnose me with I couldnt keep going in the direction I was going in. THANX for providing me a p,ace to vent.

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