depression

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Flopsie
Flopsie
Jan 2017
4:08pm, 31 Jan 2017
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Flopsie
Thanks so much xx :)
jangles
jangles
Jan 2017
5:14pm, 31 Jan 2017
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jangles
I hope it passes soon Flopsie
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
Jan 2017
6:02pm, 31 Jan 2017
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HappyG(rrr)
I'm not a sufferer, so won't pretend I understand how it feels personally, but even as an outsider, I sympathise with how you feel and wish you all the very best with ways of dealing with it. It sounds like you are already robustly addressing the feelings, which sounds really encouraging?

Is seeing a close friend an option? Is there someone nice to talk to? Can you give yourself a treat or something to look forward to? (I don't know if this is how it works at all, so I may be being very unhelpful here. If so, apologies). But very best wishes (and brackety hugs (( )) ! ) :-) G
Flopsie
Flopsie
Feb 2017
9:11am, 1 Feb 2017
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Flopsie
Thanks both.

G not unhelpful at all. It's difficult to know what to say or do to help someone. Sometimes just getting it all out is enough, knowing people are listening.

Not sure what I feel like today, went to the gym last night, had a few tears in my eyes driving there but was ok and got a run in. Weirdly I've not been able to cry since I came off AD's....I cry when I'm sad or watching a film but I've not had a good sob which used to happen all the time. Part of me really needs to I think but it won't come. What a silly thing to be concerned about!!!
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
Feb 2017
10:24am, 1 Feb 2017
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HappyG(rrr)
My boy was feeling a bit low again yesterday.

Had a bad day, but we think it's just the meds settling in (he's in week 3 of Citalopram)? Is that possible?

If he's very up and down or has other symptoms, I'm hoping he'll go back to doc. But maybe give it a few more days or a week? They say 2-4 weeks to settle down, on some of the med websites that I've read?

Well done for going to the gym Flopsie. You're doing great. :-) G
Steady Edina
Steady Edina
Feb 2017
11:36am, 1 Feb 2017
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Steady Edina
I was told 4 weeks to really kick in
jangles
jangles
Feb 2017
10:03am, 6 Feb 2017
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jangles
When I went to my counselling session on Friday morning there was a woman in the waiting room with her daughter. The girl was filling in the form and her mother was getting vociferous about the charge for the sessions and that her daughter wasn’t being helped or taken seriously. The girl was obviously anxious and her mother picked me to voice her opinion at while her daughter looked on, silently and apologetically. I tried to be understanding but I just ended up bursting into tears.

I couldn’t speak for a while when I got into the therapy room and then I had to spend a further 10 minutes trying to explain why I was upset because my therapist hadn’t witnessed the incident. That was MY time! These are things I should be shielded from and shouldn’t be dealing with in that kind of situation and I feel a bit cheated.

At the end of it, again, I just stepped out of myself and into the other person. I'm no longer sure which one is the real me anymore.
early bird
early bird
Feb 2017
9:51am, 14 Feb 2017
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early bird
OH wants to sit and talk about our relationship tonight as gets the impression I'm not 'happy' I've said it's more life I'm not happy with rather than the relationship persay but I have no answers. All I know is I'm not where I want to be and I don't know where that place is anyway. Sometimes I just think wtf is the point.....
Hills of Death (HOD)
Hills of Death (HOD)
Feb 2017
2:56pm, 14 Feb 2017
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Hills of Death (HOD)
EB is it Depression you have or something else x
early bird
early bird
Feb 2017
10:04pm, 14 Feb 2017
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early bird
I honestly don't know HOD. I have been fighting what I think is depression since I was very young. I once confided in a friend when I was about 12 how I was going to kill myself when it came 'to it' and I was genuinely shocked they never felt the same way I thought that was normal.

I know the meds I take for seizures suppress brain activity and have put my symptoms down to them and try to battle through as best I can. My dad suffered quite badly with reactive depression to the point he was almost hospitalised in the 80's.

Life just seems to be a real struggle sometimes. I have days or weeks where I cope quite well then I just get 'tired', tired of coping and I just want to be alone, to sleep, lock the door or on bad days not be here at all. Usually I take a few days off work let it ride until I can again face the world. The feeling better bit doesn't seem to return to previous levels tho so my lows seem to more constant.

There are a few things in my life I am not happy with which I guess are triggering things more but they are long after when I believe this all started.

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