How too be on the ball

I am hearing you @eudemonism. I am also on a depot injection (given fortnightly) and the mood fluctuations are terrible. I am due on Friday for my next injection and now I am feeling like my mood is sinking through the floor. Then the day after my injection is terrible as all I want to do is sleep all day.

Having said that I know I need the depot, but in a few years when I am finished studying, it is going to make working very tricky indeed. When that time comes, I honestly don't know what I'll do.

I hear you when you say it's not right. I don't think being at the mercy of medication-induced mood fluctuations is right at all.

This was my life several years ago. The people who give you the medication are all compartmentalised into just going to work, doing their job, then going home again. The people around me ("family") didn't want to face anything or be responsible for anything, just do what they're told and drive you somewhere to put you on meds so they don't have to do anything or accept/understand anything (to then take proper action).

What I did was just to get everyone out of my life, go full nutrition and exercise, and sit down and think about the things I really want to do in life, then go there myself and lift my own spirits up when I'm down. Now I'm looking for a partner and hopefully join their family if things turn out well.

You can only do so much if the people around you just don't accept the things you complain about on a daily basis. Without acknowledgement and genuine action and respect and listening, it goes nowhere and everyday is like groundhog day.

@eudemonism Last fortnight actually saw a drop in the dose of my depot, so I wasn't unconscious for the whole next day-- yippie!! Generally, I get mood fluctuations right before it is due in that my mood sinks through the floor. Last fortnight though I've kind of evened out which is a good thing. Early days yet though on this new dose. I'll let you know how I go considering I am due again this week.

A tip I find, the depot is better in the rump than in the muscle in the arm. It hurts less and I find the medication lasts longer. I'm resigned to the fact that I'll be on this medication probably for the rest of my life (I am completely bonkers without it), so I guess it is a necessary evil.

thank you for sharing your experience and for updating it. would appreciate if you would continue updating it further. I'm having pretty much the same situation as yours and i'm dealing with a number of medications right now too. but i just feel so much more better by reading other people stories. would continue lurking on the forum and would apprecaite if you could help by, as i said, keeping updating. thanks!