{"id":201947,"date":"2014-07-12T01:59:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T01:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/12\/so-just-something-personal-you-can-skip-if-you\/"},"modified":"2014-07-12T01:59:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T01:59:19","slug":"so-just-something-personal-you-can-skip-if-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/12\/so-just-something-personal-you-can-skip-if-you\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So just something personal, you can skip if \u00a0you want.<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been struggling with depression and anxiety for a long time. And it&rsquo;s only got worse over the last year or two. So I finally got myself a therapist and she recommended I try medication in addition to the therapy<\/p>\n<p>So about two weeks ago I started Wellbutrin. And it&rsquo;s helping a LOT. I didn&rsquo;t realized how stressed and anxious I was all the time until I wasn&rsquo;t. I still have worries \u00a0and things, but I don&rsquo;t feel so overwhelmed. I feel like I can handle things instead of hiding. I&rsquo;ve had some stuff come up this week in addition to PMS and while I&rsquo;m still working with it, I&rsquo;m not freaking out like I might have a month ago. I&rsquo;m not snapping at my spouse for no good reason. I&rsquo;m actually smiling and laughing more.<\/p>\n<p>I know medication isn&rsquo;t for everyone, but, at least so far, this is making a helluva difference for me (and my family, by extension). If could handle a 14 hour drive (each way) and family issues and not argue once the entire time, then I know something good is going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So just something personal, you can skip if \u00a0you want. I&rsquo;ve been struggling with depression and anxiety for a long time. And it&rsquo;s only got worse over the last year or two. So I finally got myself a therapist and she recommended I try medication in addition to the therapy So about two weeks ago &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/12\/so-just-something-personal-you-can-skip-if-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1068,5447,690],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}