Support for people with Depression

LadyMorticia

Tiff wrote: »

Hi lm!
'Hey' right back at you, hun!
How are you, angel? I hope the glandular fever is now just a distant memory and that things are still going well with you and sammich.
Talking of which, I saw your tag-line...


Ummm, lm - is there anything you want to tell the Tiffster by any chance?!
Con-cat-ulations on setting the date for your wedding hunnie - I'm really happy for you both!
Wait a minute...Oh Lord - not another new hat to buy!
Have a good weekend angel.
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

Hello Tiff.:wave:

Sorry about the late reply. I've been meaning to reply for a while but I have a brain like a sieve at the moment.
I still get extremely exhausted but I'm not as ill as I was.

Thank you hun. He proposed on 19th August 2008 over a picnic in Wells. It was very romantic.

I'm struggling at the moment but am fighting for survival.

elfen

alison, you need to give the anti-psychotics a chance...they take a little time to have an effect and they can make you feel like a zombie, but that's your body adjusting

Raksha

Keep you chin up everyone, I'm getting fed up of the 10 days feeling !!!!!! and then a glimmer of hope, only to have it dashed. Still, start taking another drug tomorrow - watch this space.

flis21

Hi All,

Hugs to everyone. I'm feeling a little bit better today. My DH and I had a big bust up on Friday night, but that has kind of cleared the air a bit. We've both agreed we need to communicate more and try to see things from the others point of view. I've ordered a relate book about how your relationship changes when you have children, so hopefully that will help us at least understand what's happening.

Have actually remembered to take my meds everyday as well, so that's probably helped as well! My parents have taken my 2 year old for the weekend, so we've only got the baby. We managed to get to the cinema yesterday afternoon and out for dinner last night. Felt much more like normal and how we used to be together. Has made me realise that I need to let people babysit the boys sometimes so our relationship doesn't go completely down the pan.

Alison - I just wanted to say at one point I was on an anti-psychotic when I had my big breakdown. They really did help, I was having a lot of visual and auditory hallucinations. It took a while for them to kick in but when they did it really lifted me up. Just keep with it and hopefully you will get the benefits of it soon. Love n Hugs.

Take care everyone,
Flis xx

Tiff_2

Hi guys!

Hoping everyone here is as well as they can be.
Sending a warm Tiffy to cattkitt (kitt) and liloandstitsch (lilo) and also a sincere to our flis, looby and wmxlad! I'm sure you're all settling in nicely - always a good bunch of peeps here.

Apologies for being so late. It was horribly hot and sticky last week which I hate, because being blonde and fair-skinned, I tend to do the lobster thing. So while everyone else is worshipping the sun, I end up looking like the range of reds you get on those wall paint colour strips! Ooh, while I remember guys, some meds can reduce your built in defences against the sun's harmful rays and you'll need to wear total sun block all year round - not just in the summer! - if this affects you. Your dr should have told you if this applies to you but if you're not sure, ask your dr about it and also remember to ask them to put it on a free repeat prescription if you qualify, or it can get very expensive. I've also been having some pc problems and then when I had those sorted out, all of my virgin services kept going down for most of last week. All I had left was a telephone line to 150 - and believe me, I used it! They may as well have cut off my right arm - I had to read books and everything! So the Tiffster's mood overall was not in a good place last week.

Yet it did give me paws for thought though, regarding the wonderful techie world we live in today. Most of it is to our benefit and it's a part of our every day lives. Yet consider this: what would happen if - oh, I dunno, say something like a meteorite landed on the world's techie hq and it was impossible to restore it all? We really would feel like we'd returned to the stone age. You'd have no money because all bank records would be gone; you couldn't get to work very easily and if you did, you couldn't get paid; all our personal records would be gone and it would be very difficult to prove your ID; your medical records would also evaporate meaning that the drs would never know that you were allergic to marmite; all your precious photos and contact addresses - gone; you'd have to write letters by hand and even talk to each other and of course, there'd be no more MSE site to live on!
I'm all for progress but I wonder whether we should really be a little bit more careful about putting all of our eggs in one basket. Now, God forbid, if a meteorite should just happen along and the above scenario occurs...

And talking of impending doom, , may I stick my muzzle in with a gentle reminder that we can't discuss specific meds on the thread? We have to keep things in very general terms here and not name specific meds, or else auntie glad will come along with uncle martin's thread-cutting scissors and then we'll all be for the snip!Run miro - run!






I know it's none of my beeswax and I'm honestly not having a go at anyone but we've been here before. I think it's okay to say that you are doing well, the dr has changed your meds or that you're struggling with your meds generally, with an example response to the latter possibly being, ''Please go and see your dr as soon as possible so they can help get it sorted for you.'' But we shouldn't mention meds by name. For example, I wouldn't like to be responsible for anyone who was feeling very, very poorly and who read my well-intentioned posts and then ended up possibly being very slightly dead due to them misinterpreting it and making changes to their meds. Yes I know, that's a very extreme example but the risk of it happening even once isn't worth it. Even seemingly basic meds or 'natural remedies' for example, could be very dangerous to someone who doesn't know exactly how a herbal remedy might react with their other medications.
It isn't about not being allowed to be supportive to each other, it's about being protective of each other. I think that's what our glad was saying, imho.
Please guys - always see a professional before you make any changes to you meds, never drink the dizzy water while on meds,, and never just stop taking a med without your dr's supervision.

It's sad that so many of us are struggling right now but we've got to remember that this is just a temporary phase, that things will somehow even out.
Son of Tiff is coming back from Uni tomorrow night until Friday morning for half term, so I've got to go and do some work now. I may have to take a little [STRIKE]catnap[/STRIKE] - umm, break so I can plan everything out properly.
There's some individual posts I really want to reply to, (yes - you too, miro!), so hang in there folks, I'll be in and out as much as I can be. I've also got to do some sazzy, beth, shaz, ethel and cb2 tracking!:D Enjoy your Sunday afternoon everyone.
Be kind to yourself, guys.
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

Tiff_2

Hi guys!





Much Love,
Tiff xxx

Tiff_2

Hi guys!
Ooh, go on - just one more...




Safe journeys everyone.
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

Miroslav

:eek: Tiff's been on the catnip :eek:

the_devil_made_me_do_it

Arghhhhh...been feeling up & down the last few weeks. Also, been feeling easily angered & irrititated which isn't good, especially for my OH, since he tends to bare the brunt of it.

My mind just seems to be in a constant tizz & I just can't get it together. Feel so unmotivated, which isn't helping, especially since I need to start considering whether to return to uni.

Started halving the doseage of my ADs over the past week, gonna try and half them again. They ain't been helping & to top it off, one of the main side effects is weight gain, which I can do without. Haven't been able to bring myself to make an appointment with the GP to discuss my meds, I know I need to see her soon to sort it out. I'm just fed up off seeing "professionals" and not getting anywhere, that I'm now put off.

Missed my appointment at MIND on Friday, not getting in to see therapist now till 25th June :eek: which is crap. Having to wait that long between appointments isn't really a good thing, & the guy I see, although being a nice bloke, we just ain't getting anywhere. I've been seeing him since about September last year. I'm going to try and write a letter to him explaining things as I see it & suggest that I see someone else. I'm actually sick of opening up to people & telling them how things are for me & it proving to be a waste of time. Services where I live are very poor in my experience. Quite a few years ago, the mental health services were pretty good, but over the years they have seriously gone down hill.

I hope people are feeling abit better today & if not here's a big hug

Horasio

Feeling OK except my insomnia. These light nights make my natural day longer, so not unwinding till 10pm, then not sleeping till 5am. Usually up at 11am/12pm. A bit like being a night shift worker.

The opposite of SAD where I get very tired at 9pm but would be awake too early if I went to sleep then.

Preferred sleep pattern 12-2am till 7-8am.