Let's pray for one another

[LizzieTish]

@jeffelmexicano, I'm praying for you. I need a miracle, too, and miracles do happen.

Agree with gigi63 that you should stop tapering and HOLD until you stabilize. 💗🙏🤗

[Chlo]

1 hour ago, jeffelmexicano said:

I need a miracle

 

 @jeffelmexicano Your going to get it! God is working on it! We are all waiting for a miracle, my friend. It's just his timing and none of us know when, but take heart because he has overcome the world. Keep the faith and stay strong, Jeff. Be looking for a window just around the corner. I am praying for you right now ✝️ BIG hugs!

[jeffelmexicano]

13 hours ago, gigi63 said:

Jeff, you need to stop tapering.  Very very important to HOLD.  You are going to destabilize your CNS if you continue to taper.  HOLD until you stabilize out.  That can take quite a bit of time.  Stay put!  That is my best advice but prayer will follow!   

im not tapering thanks for the advice . why you think. im tapering

[gigi63]

I thought you still were. If not good. My misunderstanding.  
 

if you read Alto and Brassmonkey and others, you will hear very clearly that increasing WD symptoms is destabilization. Need to HOLD to steady out. 
 

please do not make my mistake which was a too rapid taper, pushing through WD symptoms and then a crash/ destabilizing of my CNS after 10 months still tapering. As you would find , this is like a cold turkey and takes years to stabilize.  You are best to go very very slowly, listening to your body and stabilize before the next Small dose change.  Trust me, it will take as long as it will take for your body to adjust. Wether you destabilize or slowly taper but a very slow taper will be a much better ride.  There is no race to get off.  
 

prayers for you🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[jeffelmexicano]

2 hours ago, gigi63 said:

I thought you still were. If not good. My misunderstanding.  
 

if you read Alto and Brassmonkey and others, you will hear very clearly that increasing WD symptoms is destabilization. Need to HOLD to steady out. 
 

please do not make my mistake which was a too rapid taper, pushing through WD symptoms and then a crash/ destabilizing of my CNS after 10 months still tapering. As you would find , this is like a cold turkey and takes years to stabilize.  You are best to go very very slowly, listening to your body and stabilize before the next Small dose change.  Trust me, it will take as long as it will take for your body to adjust. Wether you destabilize or slowly taper but a very slow taper will be a much better ride.  There is no race to get off.  
 

prayers for you🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

thanks for your advices Gigi I apriciete

[SkyBlue]

I'm being called to have extraordinary faith, 7+ year from a cold turkey and not remotely functional. Fear that I've lost too much to come back from, honestly. How do you all keep faith? I suppose God is keeping me going, bc even when I doubt that anything could be worth this much endless suffering, I keep going somehow. My family keeps me here as well. 

[gigi63]

Hello sky blue.  I am so sorry for your protracted WD. Being almost seven years myself in one month, I know the fears of never stabilizing, of never healing. However, each day I open my eyes, like right now, I plead for another day of sustaining grace. We are called to trust. Trust that He is Lord in us, over us, and in our circumstance.  We know that if He willed, he could think the thought and heal us instantly. Yet, he has not. Therefore, he is using this. He is using our very protracted WD for his purposes.  We may not understand this. I don’t. He has the plan Skyblue. We must continue to rely on him, encourage one another, and press on. We must continue to hope for our healing, ask for it daily, then surrender to what is. There are more than a few who I have listened to, read about, who have had very protracted WD syndrome.  Many on this site. Alto took 11 years, Giak took over ten years, Marsha to years, aurorax, 10 years, Nicole Lampert PA, was at 11 years and still healing two years ago when the movie medicating normal came out. Claudius from this site, 8 1/2 years So, my friend, we are in good company.  Stay in today, stay close to Jesus. Trust and wait on Him alone. I know your weariness but even more importantly, our Lord does. His all sufficient grace is our supply. As our days, so shall be our strength. These are His promises.  He is not a man that he should lie.  

[Mark840]

Hello. I need prayer for this challenginig time at my work. It's been intense for a few weeks and I couldn't sleep, couldn't focus. May God have mercy upon me and deliver me from my work troubles. I'm not sure how long I can tolerate this.

[StillChill]

I’ll pray with you all too! I am very early in my overall journey into tapering. It’s a terrible thought that I’m only 7 weeks into being medicated on AD and short use of an AAP, and I am likely having a rough few years ahead of me. I trust in god and hope he will ease my suffering along the way, and I know his power and purpose will heal me in time. 

[Mogiebear]

Hi all thought I'd drop in, new to this thread

 

Reading your comments lifted me that bit.. "knowing your brothers  and sisters throughout the world are going through similar sufferings" .. 

 

I want to join this prayer circle ❤️

[gigi63]

Please do. 

[eje91]

Please pray that I can make decisions easier. I keep double guessing myself. I am praying about which church meeting to go to. I need wisdom. Thank you! 

 

I have been meditating on theses verses....  that Christ is girded with righteousness and truth (Isaiah 11) and that Christ, the Word of God,  will ride a white horse and is called Faithful and True. (Revelation 19) 

Also, remember all who are part of Christ's church are "accepted in the Beloved" (Ephesians 1:6)

YOU and I are accepted in Christ!  It's amazing!  🙂 Keep looking up, brothers and sisters in Christ! He is coming back soon to take us HOME... maybe even before we finish our tapers and withdrawal. I can't wait to see Him face to face! 

 

[LizzieTish]

Isn't it great to be children of God!  Maybe we'll be raptured soon!

 

Hugs and prayers to all 🙏💗🤗

[Chlo]

2 hours ago, LizzieTish said:

Isn't it great to be children of God!  Maybe we'll be raptured soon!

 

Hugs and prayers to all 🙏💗🤗

Yes!! Oh how I wish this were true, but I have many friends, family, and others to help turn to God before that day. Lord, we are praying for the salvation of those that yet believe in you. Holy Spirit guide us to those, speak through us ♥️

[gigi63]

It is a true blessing and gift to be children of the Living God.  We are so blessed we are.  Yes, loved ones. We must continue to pray and lift them up.  The time is near. The times are right for the imminent rapture of the children of God.  I pray everyday, Lord, come for us. Please come.  Yes, our unsaved loved ones need prayer and the word of truth.  They need the Holy Spirit to open the eyes of their heart and ears to understanding.  Soon Lord, soon.  

[leahbean]

Hi everyone.  I would like to ask for prayer over my situation.  I’m having to decide whether to switch drugs or try and stabilize at 2 mg of Lexapro and continue tapering.  I have a young family to consider and I don’t want to emotionally wreck my children or marriage by making the wrong decision.  My husband is trying to be understanding but I know he misses his functional wife.  I’ve been praying for the peace that passes all understanding, but don’t have it yet.  I keep obsessing over all the things that could go wrong.  This can’t be what God’s plan is for my life!  
 

Any advice or prayers welcome.  🙏

[LizzieTish]

I wish I could give you tapering advice. Have you reached out to the moderators? A week ago I increased my dosage of Zoloft/sertraline from 5 mg to 6 mg (original dose was 50 mg) and I'm feeling much better with minimal anxiety. I had been unable to stabilize after several months. Perhaps you might need to increase your dose slightly and hold for a while?

 

May the Lord give you strength and clarity of mind to find your purpose and walk the path He's laid out for you.

May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father and the Lord Jesus. 🙏💗🤗

 

[gigi63]

Leahbean, I just read your tapering schedule and the addition of a few more drugs and tapering.  My best advice, STOP the taper.  Your CNS is destabilized.  You are experiencing WD symptoms. One does not continue the taper with these described symptoms.  Unfortunately, no new medication will resolve the withdrawal symptoms of another drug.  So adding drugs is not the answer.  Several moderator people on this site have written extensively about destabilizing from a too rapid WD.  You can consider updose a little bit and then, you must wait it out.  You cannot rush your system into stability. You must be kind and gentle to yourself.  I am speaking from experience, my own on this.  STOP the taper and just allow stability to come.  It won’t be in your time frame. It will be in your body’s time frame.  Again, adding medications is not likely to correct the WD from your lexapro taper. Your dose cuts appear to have been way too large.  25- 50 percent, then a cold turkey.  You must seriously read the information on this site regarding tapering, WD symptoms, stabilization after too quick a taper and cold turkey.  Another great resource is Inner Compass WD site where all of this addressed as well.  No, I think our Lord God is very sorrowful for our suffering as a result of these pharmaceutical drugs. Yes, He has a plan for your life and it is good because He is good.  Often however, we must bear the consequences of decisions we make. Even asking our bodies to ingest these drugs.  However, he will never leave you nor forsake you. He will give you the strength for each day and every moment. Prayers for your healing by His grace. Time, it takes a great deal of time. Acceptance, patience and perseverance all by His grace. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[Mark840]

Hi all, I ask for prayer again. I thank you for those who have the strength to pray despite our conditions. Pray I'll be able to sleep well as usual and my work problems would disappear (although unrealistic request). I fortunately got a job which I expect it's less demanding and can wait for my 2.5-months notice period. However, my company is not doing well and colleagues are generally unhappy (more work, less staff due to downsizing...). I'm in no condition to work in such environment but somehow I survived with the little sleep I have and my anxiety. I don't know how much longer I can do this.

[gigi63]

Hi Mark. I will pray for you.  I know very well this is a very very difficult process and time. You are right to say that you cannot do this in your own strength.  We are minute by minute dependent upon our Lord Jesus Christ.  It is by His Spirit and power that you will walk upon this, your very high place of affliction.  Know this, He will beat you up. He knows your every detail and need. He will strengthen you as you rely upon Him.  So, go down low, very very low, and just ask him to help you, moment by moment for as long as we must walk this. He is faithful and true. He cannot fail you. He is our Great Lord Shepherd.  True!!!  I am praying for you🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[gigi63]

Bear you up!

[Chlo]

You've got my prayers as well, Mark ✝️ God will sustain you in everything you do. He has brought us this far and will continue to. I find myself on my knees daily crying out to him and we must continue to talk, cry, praise, and think of him minute by minute. I have always said that the stronger the pain, the more the healing. He is working things out for our good and his glory. He is with us 💜 Hold on and Be still, our window is just around the corner. 

[Chlo]

 

Call on Him without Ceasing
 

Christ Jesus, may my life, hidden in yours, be a continual prayer before you. I breathe you in, calling on you without ceasing, and I awaken to life in the exchange of the breath of your presence meeting me with your response. May our fellowship remain uninterrupted, like a continual conversation that ebbs and flows but never reaches an end.

I will not stop calling on you. Continually, I turn my attention toward you. May I be quick to offer the gratitude of my heart, seeing where you are already working in my life. There is no trial or circumstance that I am alone in. You are with me. You are my holy hope, my unshakeable foundation, and you are my close confidant. You respond to my cries with your very presence. You are my constant comfort and my courage. As I pour out my heart to you, I leave space to receive from the overflow of your abundant love that meets me in every moment. Thank you for always being so near, Lord. You are the strength of my life!

[LizzieTish]

@Chlo, that is lovely. Thanks for sharing. 

 

Happy Easter, everyone! ✝️

[Chlo]

32 minutes ago, LizzieTish said:

@Chlo, that is lovely. Thanks for sharing. 

 

Happy Easter, everyone! ✝️

Happy Easter to you all, as well 💜✝️🤍 

[LizzieTish]

Mark, I'm praying for you. I hope your condition and work situation improve soon. 🤗✝️💗

 

[tiredtess]

My prayers for Mark x

[Mark840]

Thank you, God, for the brothers and sisters in Christ all over the world who have the gift to support one another in prayer, even to physically distant brothers and sisters. I pray You can teach me to be like them.

 

Teach me to enjoy my weekend and appreciate Easter rather than worrying too much about work. I trust work issues happen regularly according to Your plan that is good although I do not understand.

[eje91]

Praying for your work issues to resolve, @Mark840.  

[LizzieTish]

I found this beautiful, morning prayer video that I'd like to share with fellow Christians✝️. It includes prayers for peace and freedom from anxiety and depression. I struggle with prayer, so I pray along as I listen to it. 

 

Begin Your Day With This Prayer! ᴴᴰ - YouTube

 

Blesssings to all,

Elizabeth

[catmama]

Hello fellow SA friends. I’m in need of prayer. After nearly three years of gentle tapering, my CNS feels likes it’s suddenly crashed. Over the last several months I overdid it, neglected self care, got into a toxic relationship, then ended the toxic relationship, and now two weeks later I’m suffering. It’s mainly physical symptoms that are plaguing me right now. I’m supposed to return to full-time, in-person work tomorrow (after two weeks off and after years of hybrid work) and I’m terrified. I need God to give me healing and wisdom and peace. Thank you all. 

[LizzieTish]

Dearest Catmama,

 

I said a prayer of healing for you, that God would bring you wisdom and restore you. I prayed you’d be surrounded by His awesome love and healing, and that He would dispel any anxiety, grief, and physical symptoms you're experiencing. May you be uplifted by His grace and feel yourself enfolded in the peace of His loving embrace💗🤗.

 

Jeremiah 17:14: Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for You are the one I praise. 

[mstimc]

12 hours ago, catmama said:

Hello fellow SA friends. I’m in need of prayer. After nearly three years of gentle tapering, my CNS feels likes it’s suddenly crashed. Over the last several months I overdid it, neglected self care, got into a toxic relationship, then ended the toxic relationship, and now two weeks later I’m suffering. It’s mainly physical symptoms that are plaguing me right now. I’m supposed to return to full-time, in-person work tomorrow (after two weeks off and after years of hybrid work) and I’m terrified. I need God to give me healing and wisdom and peace. Thank you all. 

Hi Catmama

One thing I've always believed is that God gives us what we need right at the moment we need it--not a second before and not a second late.  He will give you what you need to get through your work day and flourish.  He is stronger than your anxious mind.  Prayers to you!

[Mark840]

Please pray God would give me strength to manage my anxiety and depression. They're disturbing lately. I've little control.

[gigi63]

Mark, we are praying for you.  Know this, the neuro anxiety and neuro depression are all to be expected.  Acceptance is what has worked best for me.  Our Lord God is faithful.  He will make you to stand. He will sustain you.  We do not walk this difficult journey in our own strength.  It is His grace, acknowledged or not, His grace that gets us through moment by moment.  So, call upon Him, and press into Him close.  Pray for acceptance and patience.  

[Mark840]

Thanks for your encouragement. I shall reach Him. Sometimes I wish I'm a child and don't have responsibilities in this condition. I'm in no condition to live independently and give to society (work to earn a living, church activities, etc). Everyday I got to put a mask (confidence at work, smile with friends) when I'm feeling depressed and anxious.