Recently I've been having some anxiety about my new job, and it was bad enough that I talked to a doctor & was prescribed Prozac. I feel like it has been helping a bit, but I feel like I've been struggling with some depression now too. It mostly has to do with my job, which may seem strange because I am thankful to have a job in this market.. The job is just different from what I'm used to, and is uncomfortable.. I suppose that makes for growth, though I feel like it has been difficult. I've been feeling down about my job.. Lately, sometimes I wish I could win the lottery and retire early so I wouldn't have to worry about work stuff. It would be such a relief to have that burden relieved, though I wonder about being lonely in retirement.

Also, my wife & I moved to another apartment today. The reason was to be more in between where we both work. I'll have a longer commute, but she'll have a shorter commute, which is something she has wanted. Moving is often difficult, too.. I feel like the moving just adds to my anxiety and a bit to my depression right now (though I feel like it shouldn't be much to worry about).

I wish I just knew things would work out okay.

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Re: Depression and anxiety
By: Nightfox to All on Sat Oct 31 2026 02:08 pm

Recently I've been having some anxiety about my new job, and it was bad enough that I talked to a doctor & was prescribed Prozac. I feel like it has been helping a bit, but I feel like I've been struggling with some depression now too. It mostly has to do with my job, which may seem strange because I am thankful to have a job in this market..

Also, my wife & I moved to another apartment today. The reason was to be more in between where we both work. I'll have a longer commute, but she'll have a shorter commute, which is something she has wanted. Moving is often difficult, too.. I feel like the moving just adds to my anxiety and a bit to my depression right now (though I feel like it shouldn't be much to worry about).

As a follow-up to my last post, I've been feeling a little bit better this past week. I was fairly sore from carrying heavy boxes & things up & down stairs during our move, so (at my wife's recommendataion) I took a sick day from work on Monday. My wife also took a sick day from work as she was feeling fairly sore from packing, so we spent the day hanging out on Monday. Also, on Wednesday I was supposed to have jury duty, but I was notified I was excused and didn't need to go because they canceled the trial that day, so I worked instead. My manager had canceled our daily meeting that day since I had originally told him I had to take the day off due to jury duty.

I've been working from home a lot lately, but I drove to the office Thursday, for the first time since we moved. I drove back home to work from home around lunch time and so that I'd be home for my daily meeting with my manager (he's in Taiwan, so we meet online). Traffic was good, and I found that my commute from here is about 30 minutes, which I suppose isn't too bad - It's mostly highway from here, and it's only about 10 minutes longer than driving through town on city streets where we had lived previously. I suppose if I time my commute so that I'm not in rush hour traffic, then it should hopefully work out well most of the time.

I'm glad I've been feeling a bit better and more of my normal self this past week. I'm hoping I generally stay that way.

My wife and I like our new apartment, too. We feel like the layout of the apartment is well thought-out - One thing is that it's designed such that it doesn't have a hallway, so the rooms can be a bit bigger. The apartment is basically the kitchen & living room on one side, and the bedrooms & bathrooms on the other side. Also, this apartment has ethernet ports in each room, wired to a panel in the master bedroom closet, which is where the internet connection is. This is the first time I've seen an apartment wired with ethernet ports, and I think that's pretty cool.. I have our router hanging on the wall in the closet, connected to the fiber internet terminal and to the ethernet ports there. I think it's nice since the router is neatly hidden in the closet (and behind the door when it's open) and I don't have to use a long ethernet cable strewn across the apartment to connect rooms like I did in our last apartment.

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Re: Depression and anxiety
By: Nightfox to All on Sat Oct 31 2026 02:08 pm

Recently I've been having some anxiety about my new job, and it was bad enough that I talked to a doctor & was prescribed Prozac. I feel like it has been helping a bit, but I feel like I've been struggling with some depression now too. It mostly has to do with my job, which may seem strange because I am thankful to have a job in this market..

Also, my wife & I moved to another apartment today. The reason was to be more in between where we both work. I'll have a longer commute, but she'll
have a shorter commute, which is something she has wanted. Moving is often
difficult, too.. I feel like the moving just adds to my anxiety and a bit
to my depression right now (though I feel like it shouldn't be much to worry about).

I'm glad the Job and Apt are working out! That's really nice to hear. I had to miss a haldol shot and am taking my med by mouth nightly, which is a bit tricky as I'm not very compliant :(. I've got an alarm set at 7PM and that reminds me.

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Re: Re: Depression and anxiety
By: Martin Kazmaier to Nightfox on Sat Nov 07 2026 08:01 pm

I'm glad the Job and Apt are working out! That's really nice to hear. I had to miss a haldol shot and am taking my med by mouth nightly, which is a bit tricky as I'm not very compliant :(. I've got an alarm set at 7PM and that reminds me.

Yeah, sometimes it feels inconvenient to have to take a medication at a certain time every day.

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