Depression Support Thread

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Happy Non-Birthday Dawnylou:D

Tulip - I misread your post and thought you had written about some lilac scented fizzy mothballs:eek: I really must clean my glasses more often.

I am off to see my parents this afternoon, so I have tried to dress kinda smart but my hair needs a wash but I wont do it until just before I go into hospital tomorrow for my re-scheduled Op.

Had a chat with an old friend last night and she has suggested that I set up in business with her, our chat has prompted me to look at some re-training - to train as a notetaker for deaf and deafblind people (it seems there is a shortage and as I can type quickly and have experience of medical and scientific terms then there is money to be made). I am feeling a bit more positive as a result, the last few days have been hell.

I am pleased that the sun is shining although the wind is still pretty awful but the change has also had a positive impact - I think I must suffer from SAD during the winter months:rolleyes:

Hope all is well with everyone - good luck with the prospective new man Coco - ignore the age gap (not that it is so huge). A bit of flirting goes a long way:cool:

Have a fab day and once again Dawnylou - Happy Non-Birthday:beer:

queensway_boy

dawnylou wrote: »

Also.....thanks everyone for the birthday wishes....
I feel such a fraud.....
It wasn't my birthday.... :o

I don't know why that date was set up in my profile as my birthday but didn't know until QWB PMd me!! I have changed it now and I am sorry for that. Don't know how I have never noticed that before!!

AND I will only be 27 when my real birthday comes round!! 30 indeeed!! :eek::eek:

Never mind dawny,you can have two birthdays this year:T

ilovegreatdanes

hi,
happy mothers day to you, if you are one or know one.....or just happy day to everyone.xx
dawny.....you can be like the queen now and have a real birthday and an official one.....and you dont look a day over 21 so dont worry.xx
bmf ....glad to see you back.xx
tiff.....glad to see you and your pics too.xx
btw, dawny....im shortsighted too, which is an asset apparantly ,says the op, cos after 40 your vision splits into more exaggerated near and far...so when normal ppl have to wear reading glasses,mine sight is perfect near to and i even have to remove mine for close up work, wheras dh needs readers for close work.....so swings and roundabouts.
have been costcos today and then dh has taken ds on motorbike ride so thats why im here to cheer....
im just wondering who cocopops was when she wasnt ,iykwim.we will just have to guess...hi there,and welcome once more.xx
tale care all.
love ilgd xx

Tulip

:hello: Everyone,

Had a nice time at mums had a nice meal and took her the gifts which she liked I am relaxing tonight and not doing much


Have a nice evening


*hugs* to everyone

love and light,

Katie xxx

juno

Last night was not good.

I had lots of problems with the guy who sent me my valentine. He won't leave me alone. And then there was guy 2. He knew I was trying to avoid the first guy. Then, quite late, I was sitting on the sofa, and first guy sat next to me. So guy 2 asked if i wanted to sit on his knee on the other sofa, and I did. And then guy 2 started stroking my back, and then he put his hand down my trousers but it was still kinda stroking my back (bearing in mind i was sitting down). So yeah, I dunno.

dawnylou

Ilgd - you are very sweet for saying that, but I am most certainly showing my age these days!! (If any of you saw how I looked you would probably recoil in horor!! lol)

weegie.geek

juno wrote: »

Last night was not good.

I had lots of problems with the guy who sent me my valentine. He won't leave me alone. And then there was guy 2. He knew I was trying to avoid the first guy. Then, quite late, I was sitting on the sofa, and first guy sat next to me. So guy 2 asked if i wanted to sit on his knee on the other sofa, and I did. And then guy 2 started stroking my back, and then he put his hand down my trousers but it was still kinda stroking my back (bearing in mind i was sitting down). So yeah, I dunno.

That's punch in the balls material, that.

miky36

Hi everyone.

About 4 months ago the doc put me on 20mg of fluxetine as i was severly depressed.
The depression was caused by almost weekly poo that was thrown at me from every angle. I have one of those lives that comes straight out of a soap opera. Worse thing is, i do nothing to get these problems, i just seem to attract them:rolleyes:

For a while i felt good, even though the problems kept coming. Then last week i had a really bad day with everything coming at me and i broke down:eek: i've been the same ever since and am back to crying several times a day, not sleeping well and feeling awful all the time-though not as bad as i was originally.

I'm going to go back to the doctor this week, but what i wanted to know is; is this normal? i thought Anti-ds were supposed to stop all this regardless of how bad things get.

I really don't want to go back to that dark place again and just the thought of it fills me with horror.

Any help/advice really gratefully received.
Thanks

meyore

Well, what a weekend-again! Drove to Newbury and home again on Friday to pick up OH. He passed the assessment and that means hes been accepted onto a new course as a surveyor type, he'll get a degree and its one of the "safer" jobs in the army! I'm so proud of him and very pleased! All he needs to do is pass his driving test and then he can go and live on the new base, and hopefully soon enough I can go with him too! Also he suggested that when we do get to be together, maybe I can give up work and get my degree sorted too, because he can support me. He can be lovely sometimes.

We celebrated on Friday night with 2 bottles of champagne that have been sitting there forever and watched Doc Martin. Was nice, like old times when we used to live together. Its hard being apart, because before he joined the army we spent every second we could together and now its just me most of the time.

Saturday was really busy, it was my grans birthday so we had to go and see her, followed by a trip to do a bit of mystery shopping. We went and watched Truro City play football in the afternoon. I'd never been to a real football match before and it was a lot less boring than I thought it would be. Although, I spent a lot of time scared the ball was going to hit me! In the evening, we took OHs mum and family out for a mothers day meal at the indian.

Today has been another driving day-to Surrey and back this time to drop OH back to his base. So tired now, going to have a bath and some food and an early night I think. Gave my mum her mothers day present and I think she liked it. Its one of those solar powered "sun in a jar" things.

One disappointment though-me and OH still didn't get properly engaged We spent the whole weekend busy and he says he has something planned to make it more special than just giving me the ring. I guess hes right, but I'm such an impatient person! I'll keep you all informed though!

Tomorrow is my weighing day again, I hope I've lost some more weight, but I'm not very confident I have-I've been rather lazy and been eating a bit too much this month. Oh well, as from tomorrow I'm starting on a new plan of action I've decided. I'm going to start taking my main meal to work and have it a lunch time, as I think I'm eating too much late at night. Also, going to go and look at a different gym on my day off-its a bit bigger and has a better variety of equipment, so I should be able to push myself in different areas.

Anyway, enough of my waffling on, I'm going to get my bath and some food, then I'll catch up with whats been going on in my absense...

Xx

Marru

miky36 wrote: »

I'm going to go back to the doctor this week, but what i wanted to know is; is this normal? i thought Anti-ds were supposed to stop all this regardless of how bad things get.

I really don't want to go back to that dark place again and just the thought of it fills me with horror.

Any help/advice really gratefully received.
Thanks

Hi,

I was diagnosed a year ago when I was in a very difficult and stressful situation where I was burning myself out. I have probably always had tendency being depressed but my guess is that things started to go down hill after the birth of my daughter but that is another story.

I was initially put on 20mg of Citalopram and it was helping but then I visited my Mother who I hadn't seen for a long time and despite it being a very good trip it was really exhausting so I had a break down in the Supermarket car park about 4 days after coming back from my trip (this was last Easter Saturday). I was put on 30mg and that was helping to the point that I had the energy to make big changes in my life so that I can reduce the triggers that cause me to have those bad days.

I am not saying that everything is now brilliant as I do still get bad days (funnily coinciding with my periods, need to talk to my GP about this) and it is difficult when having a small child and I have to work to earn money for our living I can't really take time off to recover and also I don't have any support network to help. I have managed to cut my medication down to 20mg but after 5 good weeks I have hit now a bad one but will just try to get through it as I don’t want to go back to 30mg at least not until I can see if I can cope.

Do go back to your GP and perhaps you need to change the dose or change the medication. It is not just plain sailing and down hill, there will be bad days but they will get better. Just be gentle to yourself and if you are in a position to have time off from work and/or make time to yourself to do things that you enjoy doing (going for a walk, reading a book, soaking in the bath, doing yoga...) then do it.

I hope this helps.

Marru