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Iguru
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Re: Mental Health

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Lexapro has helped me immensely for social anxiety disorder.
Recommended for long term use.
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Re: Mental Health

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lexapro is also a reasonable choice--a relatively clean drug with a fairly good side-effect profile and relatively mild withdrawal symptoms, but it lacks the pain-management qualities of cymbalta, rather a handy thing for our segment of the population!
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Re: Mental Health

Post by nunns »

Thank you for bumping this thread. It is a great one.
As a non-Coloradian (?), I am only able to climb a few weeks a year, in the summers. Missouri weather isn't great in winter, but a little warmer perhaps than most of CO. The downside (and it's a big one) is: no mountains in Missouri. I do a fair amount of indoor training (treadmill, elliptical, StairClimber, weights, etc. None of those are nearly as fun as climbing a mountain on a bluebird day in CO. However, I have learned that the exercise itself will help my mood some, albeit not as much as a day of exercise in the mountains. Part of what gets me through some of those difficult, sometimes boring exercise days in winter is the motivation to stay in shape so that when summer arrives, I am ready to climb. Boredom in the "off-season" is just one of the challenges of being a hiker/climber. That is also what gets me through tough days at work; earn money in the fall/winter/spring so that I can come to CO and climb in the summer.

Without being too forward, my spiritual beliefs help me a lot during difficult times, in fact more so than exercise or anything else does.

Sean Nunn
Raytown MO
"Thy righteousness is like the great mountains." --Psalms 36:6
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