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Depression
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
There is no shame in needing or taking antidepressants angel. Please, give them a try.
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.
When someone describes themselves as "desperate", that makes me think that maybe the time has come to at least give medication a go.
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.
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.
