Welcome

Hello - and welcome to the Frog Blog of the Legion. Now the Frog Legion is a little group/idea/company that I came up with when I was in High School, and I think that it just sounds cool.

So I've spent the last 7 years trying to overcome depression and anxiety. It was really bad back in 2001. At one time I wouldn't go out much and only at night. I slept all day. I stopped going to classes and at it's worst I wouldn't answer the phone becasue I thought it would be someone calling to yell at me.

I've tried several different medications and I still am not feeling like I was before it all came to a head that summer/fall. I've tried Celexa, Effexor XR, Lexapro, and the latest has been Zoloft & Wellbutrin together. The first was prescribed by a psychiatrist at BYU and everything since then was prescribed by my primary physician back in Boise, ID.

Yesterday, for the first time in a long time, I went to a psychiatrist again. During the intake interview I answered a lot of questions about how I was feeling now. It wasn't really about my past depression and anxiety. A surprise to me was the diagnosis of not just a general depression but also a touch of the attention problems of ADD and ADHD. The Dr. said that the attention problem deals with two brain chemicals: neoprenephrine and dopamine. Zoloft actually works against them and ups the seratonin (which helps the depression). However the Wellbutrin is what I needed to continue taking - just alone and a little more.

Working with the neoprenephrine and dopamine should relieve the anxiety, help me lose weight (I am currently the heaviest I've been in my life), and give me that little kick to make me feel like I did before my crash. If it quite doesn't work, then I'll need to also take a stimulant for the attention problem. So in three weeks we will see if it really works or not.

That's it for the first post. walt