Depression

[angel21]

My doctor has prescribed me anti depressants. I think I'm going to take them.

Sometimes I feel really down and desperate and other days I feel I can manage and wonder if I am just imagining that I am unhappy - I think there must be something to look forward to that will make me happy and I will just snap out of it but I haven't found anything yet. So I suppose unfortunately it is medicine time.

[sqad617]

angel....you remind me of the saying "I used to be undecided but now I'm not so sure."

Just re-read this thread....St Johns's Wort. it's your thyroid, could it be the pill, what about CBT, mixing the pill with antidepressants.....etc etc.

Why do we have doctors when we have the answerbank.

Stop wingeing and get on with the treatment that youn have been prescribed.

[Bbbananas]

I agree - just take the damn pills, and stick with them, or another 'variety' if the first one doesn't suit you, for enough time to see if they work for you. I bet they do.

[Bbbananas]

I didn't mean that to sound blunt or unsympathetic - I was on Fluoxetine (Prozac) for a couple of years when I was going through a very bad time. When I realised I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't cried, and crying had become a daily occurrence rather than a rare event, that's when I knew that 'trying to pull myself together' and being 'strong' was not enough.
There is no shame in needing or taking antidepressants angel. Please, give them a try.

[angel21]

OK thanks everyone. I know I go on a bit sometimes but it is a big decision for me. :-)

[tamborine]

Are your aspirations above your reach? Is that what gets you down? Can you accept what you have health/faculties and be optimisitic each day rather than go down the 'drug dependant' route.

AD are addictive and need monitoring by doc/psychi's.

[sqad617]

tamborine....by goodness, you got that off your chest.....if only the treatment of mental disorders was that easy.

[Bbbananas]

If only...!
Sometimes I think you have to experience these things personally, or very close at hand, to really be able to empathise with what depression is really like.

And, today's AD's are not as addictive as the old-style ones. But they can be a very good short-term solution.

[tamborine]

sqad...sorry, am one of those who avoids pills, docs until am dragged for treatment.

[sqad617]

tamborine...no need to apologise, I try to steer clear of Drs as well............unless they are female Drs. LOL

[Bbbananas]

I'm not saying either tamourine that antidepressant medication should be first line treatment - but angel has already tried other remedies / treatments, and is obviously not improving.

When someone describes themselves as "desperate", that makes me think that maybe the time has come to at least give medication a go.

[tamborine]

sqad....my GP complains he hasn't seen me in 40y! Not into mammos/internals on regular basis. Have had depression tried the pills - can't deal with kids with imbalance & shaky legs - so stopped pills!

Do have a worrying eye just now.....but trusting in fate for the time-being.

[LoftyLottie2]

As one who has taken anti-anxiety medication long term for a properly diagnosed problem, I would say that doctors these days do not dish out anti- depressants lightly these days.

You have seen your GP who is much better informed and qualified to advise you than anybody on here who doesn't know your history. Please take his advice.

People who have not suffered with clinical depression or chronic anxiety cannot begin to understand what it is like or what causes it.

Quite honestly Angel you have been to your GP for his advice and are now wondering whether to take it. Would you be doing this if you were suffering from a physical condition that needed drug treatment. I doubt it.

Take your medication confidentally and don't be swayed by people who quite readily will dish out advice without knowing the full facts.

[sqad617]

tamborine

"Do have a worrying eye just now."

Do you mean wandering? LOL LOL

[Bbbananas]

I have one of those too - but it's nothing to do with medication.... ;-)))))

[LoftyLottie2]

I take citalopram and it has never made me put on weight.

[sqad617]

lottie.........yeah! right but before you took it you were only 5ft 1inch, now you are "LoftyLottie"

[LoftyLottie2]

Ha, ha. Due to age and a fractured vertebrae I have shrunk from 5'10" to 5'8" Squaddy, and 'widened' (not due to citolapram - more to do with cake!)

[tamborine]

sqad....am past 'wandering eye'. Dont be cheeky - just 'cause I dont give medics my work that I eventually surpass.

My attitude is inherited from long-lived mother.

Am not diagnosing Angels problems - just questioning her attitude.

[angel21]

Well I can't seem to make a decision. Keep swaying from yay take it to nay not take it. I'll keep thinking lol!! I'm good at it!!!

[sleepy1j]

i can never make my mind up about anything .:(