re: Going off anti-depressants

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I'm guessing you have always had some trouble with sleep

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To a degree. A real job and two small kids remedied that though.

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mild stress management,

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I am usually as laid back as it gets, to a fault at times.

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but you were experiencing a lot of life stressors around the time that you had that more severe episode.

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The episode stemmed from a irrational incident where I convinced myself I had a brain eating amoeba and was going to die imminently that for some reason I couldn't shake long after I knew that wasn't true. Otherwise it was during the summer, I am a teacher, and had zero stress.