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why do doctors seem so quick to give anti depressants?
hi everyone hope you are all well. i went to the doctors today after months of feeling poorly cant put my finger on what just ache everywhere feel mentally and pyshically exhusted. for the last 6 months i was looking after my terminally ill nan who unfortunatly passed over on the 10th march so i am obviously upset. anyway to cut a real long story short doc didnt examine me just said all my aches and pains and feeling ill are part of the grieving process so has given me anti depressants it would seem everytime i see him weather its for a headache or sickness etc he gives me antidepressants, do all docs use anti depressants as a mircule cure?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm so sorry to hear about your Nan loopy & of the problems you've been having too. I hope you will soon be feeling brighter. Take care. -x-
P.S. There are a few comments on anti-depressants on this thread, which may be of interest to you too.
So sorry to hear of your sad loss. You are being brave when your children are around, but it is only natural that you break down for a cry when alone. You can't bottle grief up, it has to have a release.
I also was prescribed anti-depressants when grieving, but did not take them as I knew grief was something one just has to go through, however hard, until one can comes to terms with the loss.
It does seem anti-dep. often are given as a cure-all.
A friend of ours has been taking Prozac for 10 years and although she has tried to come off them gradually several times, she can't go through with it. Sounds like addiction to me, and her doctor shouldn't have allowed this to go on for so many years. Apart from the health question, it is very wasteful for the NHS to prescribe tablets unless they are really needed and will do some real good.
I couldn't go back two weeks later because it was christmas, so I went back 4 weeks later. My bloods came back normal except for an IgE level which was elevated. I have also suffered from depression before and was sure that that was not what it was this time, it didn't feel the same. With the combination of my diet and my elevated IgE, it was discovered that I actually have a wheat and gluten intolerence that was leaving me short of necessary nutrients and just meant I wasn't absorbing food well.
You could try taking a vitamin tonic as after a long spell nursing your nan, maybe you are run down and have a little bit of nervous exhaustion. Try taking regular exercise, a tonic such as metatone, or floradix, make sure you get plent of sleep and also take an omega 3 an 6 supplement. See if that helps.
wishing you well,
XX
FINA - I lost both my parents within 20 months of each other. Nothing prepares you for the grief in store & it's taken me a very long time to recover from the shock of it all.
I wish everyone who has posted on here & who has suffered from depsression, all the very best. It's so nice to be able to share your feelings. -xx-
Hi FINA - my Dad died in Sep '94 aged 85 & Mum followed him in June '96 aged 86.
Myself & all my siblings think of them every day & still miss them so much. When Mum died we all said "That's it then, we're all orphans now". It was awful.
I'm 59 in Aug, but it doesn't matter how old they were, or how you are, it's very hard all round.
Take care FINA. -xx-
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