Support for people with Depression

joblessummer12

congrats Shaz thats great news to hear you've come so far!!

Plushroom its good that your trying to get on with stuff with how your feeling, as it gives the mind something else to focus on. just take each day one step at a time and dont forget your never alone.

hope everyone has a good evening x

Amber_Sunshine

~*Plushroom*~ wrote: »

Boyfriend 5.0 doesn't even work for me, so there's no way I'm going to worry about installing husband 1.0 :rolleyes:

My psychiatrist recommended upgrading to Boyfriend 6.1 but I´d rather reinstall Boyfriend 6.0 if I can get my hands on the floppy disk :rotfl:

Space_donkey

Amber_Sunshine wrote: »

My psychiatrist recommended upgrading to Boyfriend 6.1 but I´d rather reinstall Boyfriend 6.0 if I can get my hands on the floppy disk :rotfl:

This could be your problem. I would rather install a big hard drive.

Space_donkey

~*Plushroom*~ wrote: »

Thank you everyone, you have no idea how much relief I just got from seeing the words "I know how you feel".

Any other time I've tried to explain myself and how I feel people are either sympathetic or just think I'm a robot! It's nice not to feel so alone.

As for going to the doctors, I'm working my way up to that - I belong to a really small practice with only 2 permanant doctors - neither of which I would go to with this - quite frankly though they are competant for run of the mill stuff, they don't have the bedside manner I'm looking for. I'm due to go in soon for a medicine review so I'm going to bring it up with the locum woman they have in, she seems more approachable. But an appointment with her will take a little time.

In the meantime I'm trying to keep busy, eat well even though I don't want to eat most of the time and have gotten a bottle of vitamin B12 or whatever it is that is meant to be good for this.

I've forced myself to go out every day, even though I haven't wanted to. And it helps a little. I don't really have family to lean on for support because quite frankly they are part of the issue - I'm dealing with a whole heap of !!!! right now and instead of consoling and trying to make their daughter feel better, I'm having to do that for them. Which is infuriating as it just reminds me that I don't have a normal family relationship.

Planning on spending 2 days clearing out my wardrobe and under my bed - perhaps a clean break and a feeling of being less cluttered will help. At the very least it will appease my OCD which has gotten worse and I now can't drink a glass of water out of the tap unless I've filled and emptied the glass 4 times...:o Should be grateful, there are people with much worse problems.

Right now it's just nice to be able to not pretend that I'm okay somewhere - everywhere else I'm pasting a smile on my face and forcing myself to be happy - it's a little much.

It's really nice to read posts such as shazrobo, clearly this thread is a good place to start to get to such a good place.

Plushroom. I spent many years under the doctor. years on Ads, years with my head in a fuzz. years drinking and one day i just decided I had lost enough of my life. I sat down and had a long look at things and I argued with almost every belief I had. I stopped the ADs. I stopped worrying about life and other people. I tried to surround myself with positive outgoing people which was hard because up until very recently I found it hard to start a conversation with strangers. I now have a job and am off benefits and TBH I am feeling 110%. life isnt easy but its good and I know it will get evn better because I have tasted it and want more. Get out and meet people who can build you up not the ones who put you down.

LadyMorticia

Welcome to the thread, Plushroom. Love your username btw.

LadyMorticia

Haii guys.

Saw the nutritionist today.
Was kinda of surprised that she was nice. :rotfl:
I've met a lot of less than nice professionals in the years that I have been seeing them.

My iron levels are extremely low (which I've known since June) so have to take iron supplements, which make me ill.

I also have to eat something in the evening (I usually only eat a little bit for breakfast and lunch with nothing for an evening meal).
She said that I will never eat like most other people, which I already knew.
The prospect of eating a normal diet scares me as I have never eaten the same amounts as most other people.
She said that we will work on creating a better diet for me rather than a normal one.

In other news, Sam's going to take me to the Taunton in Primark as a treat for doing well. Bless him.

x

newlywed

LadyMorticia - if iron tablets make you ill, you can get it in liquid form a bit like a sachet of water (not ironing water ). My sister gets bad migraines if she takes the iron tablets and when pregnant was prescribed the sachets of liquid iron and found that much better.

I think you can get them in larger chemists too.

smileyt_2

newlywed wrote: »

LadyMorticia - if iron tablets make you ill, you can get it in liquid form a bit like a sachet of water (not ironing water ). My sister gets bad migraines if she takes the iron tablets and when pregnant was prescribed the sachets of liquid iron and found that much better.

I think you can get them in larger chemists too.

I think it's called Spatone? A friend of mine swears by it. Boots sell it so you could also collect points on your boots card if you're into that.

smileyt_2

Plushroom

Whereabouts do you live? If you want to pm me, or say on the forum, I don't mind doing a websearch for you to see if there are any depression support groups in your area if you don't feel up to doing that yourself. I'm just thinking that if you found such relief from finding cyberfriends on here then being with real people might help too. Maybe there's a MIND group or a Depression Alliance group nearby. They might be able to recommend a sympathetic doctor, too.

Not that we're not real of course .... :rotfl: just that you can't actually see us in the flesh, so to speak!

~*Plushroom*~

LadyMorticia wrote: »

Welcome to the thread, Plushroom. Love your username btw.

Thanks hun