Black Dog of Depression - can we help each other?

jennihen

sandy71 wrote: »

CG I wish I could help you, I don't really know what to say but just want you to know you are not alone. Sending you big hugs.

Hope everyone else is ok. I'm so fed up today, had a seizure in the street yesterday which is bad enough and they always leave me feeling down but while I was out of it someone stole my purse from my bag.

It never fails to amaze me just how low some scum can slither. I hope you are ok sandy71 and I am so sorry that we have to share the planet with such vile individuals. Big hug coming your way x

crazy_girl

sandy71 wrote: »

CG I wish I could help you, I don't really know what to say but just want you to know you are not alone. Sending you big hugs.

Hope everyone else is ok. I'm so fed up today, had a seizure in the street yesterday which is bad enough and they always leave me feeling down but while I was out of it someone stole my purse from my bag.

thats terrible! im so sorry, thats real scum of the earth stuff that

crazy_girl

thanks for all the words people im feeling a little better today but still want to hurt/really hurt myself

Unity

Crazy-girl - Glad you popped in - I was wondering how you are.

Sandy71 - How despicable, I am sure they will get their just 'rewards' - hopefully soon:T.

Lady M - I hope your hip is better soon, sometimes physios do more harm than good - no matter how well-intentioned .

MessedUp - I hope things are easing for you.

dmg24 - how's your headache, are you any better?

Lamewolf - Thank you so much for being there for me yesterday :T:beer:. I was in a right old state - but as always, you said just the right things by PM. I can't believe how many NHS c0ck ups I have experienced this year - but yesterday put the tin hat on things. I couldn't have come on here - as I don't think I was making any sense at all .

I feel more calm now but still firm in my resolve that I am refusing any further medical interference - after going to see my GP yesterday and finding that the appointment I had made on-line did not exist! :mad: It existed when I booked it and copied the details to my computer diary and when I wrote it on the calendar just to be on the safe side. However when I got to the surgery I was told I should have been there the previous day! Well, there is no way I would have booked the previous day as I knew I had to stay in for someone coming to sort out a sofa. The receptionist was as helpful as only doctor's receptionists seem to be capable of being :rolleyes:, in other words 'NOT' and the next appointment is not until Thursday of next week. I'm hoping to be either better or dead by then :rotfl:, hopefully the former. My symptoms may well have deteriorated over the last fifteen years, but in all honesty the treatment remains much the same. I don't like visiting doctors and I absolutely hate hospitals so why should I put myself through all this?

Remember the week before last when I was left standing 25 minutes to see the MacMillan nurse who never showed up? :rolleyes:

Prior to this I was supposed to see a surgeon, for a follow-up appointment - but only saw his side-kick who was not authorised to decide on things and told me I would need to come back two days later to see the bloke himself :rolleyes:. When I returned it transpired I should have seen the MacMillan nurse first, and would need to or it would delay me going on the list.

Why are there so many hiccoughs? I'm sure I'm not the only person it happens to (I'm not that paranoid ) but if three out of three appointments can be c0cked up - there is a rabbit away somewhere.

I am being pro-active , I have faxed my GP and told him I don't propose re-booking my appointment and that I will manage on repeat prescriptions from now on.

I have also, I hope prevented the fourth problem - as I had previously phoned Dermatology to find out how long the waiting list is for appointments, only to find that once again - they have not received the referral letter from the surgery :rolleyes:. The secretary gave me the fax number and asked if the surgery could fax the letter over to her - so I've included the details in my fax. My GP is a decent doctor - but the surgery staff are as much use as a chocolate teapot!

A couple of years back I remember saying that NHS really should stand for 'No Hope Service' and nothing that has happened since then has made me think any different.

Cripes sorry to rant on again, if nothing else it should serve as a warning to always double check everything where the NHS is concerned as you can't live in hope that they'll be competent.

sandy71

Thank you all for being so nice. Got all upset earlier and had too ask someone else to get the kids from school, I was too scared to go out.

CG glad you are posting, hope things improve soon for you.

Lady m, I know what you mean about not posting, I do think of you all but I'm not good with words so don't always know what to say but I do care.

Hope you are all ok, sorry for not naming you all, my brain is about half an hour behind the rest of me tonight

LadyMorticia

Has anyone here ever been to their GP with a list of symptoms and they just have that look in their eye of not believing you?

I've had chronic fatigue for months now and it seems like I just get told to go back in a few months or get referred to someone else.
I'm waiting on an appointment from the hospital physician to maybe find out what's wrong with me.

I just wish that people would stop thinking I'm lazy. Heck, sometimes I'm so exhausted I can't even walk to the bathroom. I have to hold it in as much as I can (TMI sorry).

It's only since I had glandular fever early this year that I've been like this. It's supposed to have been gone by now.

crazy_girl

unity/ LM - my faith in the nhs keeps slipping every time i hear stories like these, theyve mucked me about royally on several occasions too, horrible!

crazy_girl

had a bit of an episode last night, cut my arm and went wandering round the park with pup in the pitch black 9pm

LameWolf

Unity, at least you could eat a chocolate teapot!:rotfl:

People, I'm dog-tired today, was up til silly o'clock nursing a sick computer (it recovered, or I wouldn't be typing this). At one point I thought I was going to have to reinstall the operating system from scratch!:eek:
So can I just offer you all a big (((HUG))) and hope that you all have a decent day today.:o

sandy71

I am sick of everything, seizures, no friends left, hubby only with me because he is worried I will hurt the kids. My life is pointless, I'm sat here with all my medication plus whatever else I could find and just want to take it all it would make life easier for everyone.
I hate myself so much