Hi all and thank you for any replies. I have seen a nurse practioner today who told me the ilnesses i have experienced this year are not connected but seperately things that people do experience. In fact it is depression that is affecting my ability to cope with these illnesses and making them worse than what they are i suppose was her point.
I have suffered from depression in my past, never a formal diagnosis, a few therapy sessions but no medication and tend to have my own coping mechanisms for it. But to be told it is why im exhausted and why when im ill it feels so bad was a strange thing to hear. I feel perhaps she thinks im just a hyperchondriac, and maybe i am...maybe ive imagined it all...i dont know,im very confused by it.I wondered if anyone else had experienced a similar situation?
Make an appointment with someone else. Do you have a friend or relative, etc., who can give you the name of another provider? You deserve to be taken seriously.
Hi there I think it's up to us to be completely honest with the medical profession and tell them how bad we feel, when i used to go to my doctors years ago I would not always feel comfortable telling them how bad I felt so it took a long time and many visits before the doctor worked it out and started to help properly there are many signs of depression Low mood anxiety loss of confidence feeling either numb or sensitive tired all the time or not sleeping at night mulling everything over time and time again to the point of complete confusion in knowing you might make the wrong decision so you try not to think and it goes round and round until you just want to shut yourself away from everyone and when you have to mix you just try your best to not let anyone know how confused and unhappy you are feeling, individually these symptoms are normal through life but when they all come together it's much more serious and sometimes you can't cope with this yourself even though you have mechanisms you use when I First went to my doctor I felt like I was wasting his time and that people out there had serious illnesses and I was just sitting there crying all the time sometimes I couldn't even speak to him but he saw the symptoms and started to help no one wants to take medication but if you were diagnosed with a serious illness you would take anything to fight it off please try to think that way
depression is a serious illness that needs treating like any other otherwise you will never start to return to the person you used to be sorry for going on but I meet many people who refuse to take medication and things don't get better alone I met a friend yesterday who has been like this for two years and after finally agreeing to start medication she took one tablet felt sick and started shaking and stopped I have been trying to tell her she was like that anyway, and even if the medication wasn't for her there are so many others she won't go back to the doctors and says she doesn't need them and can do this herself but she's been trying for two years she's lost her job and now is isolating herself more and more I have tried my best to support her but now she makes excuses weh I ask her to have coffee I can't do anymore but I'm so sad your her.
Please try to give yourself the advice you would give others get some help otherwise
things will never change
Look after yourself
Sue
It is never easy for us to define the difference between feeling depressed and clinical depression. Most of us feel down (depressed) at times and that can be due to many things personal to us or simply the inability to get things done due to matters outside our control. Take this year and the floods; enormous and almost continual rainfall, dark depressing days, no change for months, putting a hold on so much of normal life. We are not normally likely to feel down (depressed) during the good days and a spell of sunshine (as now) is enough to lift our spirits and get on with life.
So when you say you've never had a formal diagnosis I start looking elsewhere than clinical depression. Why? Because with clinical depression you are in a circle of decline which you do not bounce back from. If you have clinical depression then you do need a diagnosis - in fact I would say getting that diagnosis is paramount. When you are suffering clinical depression then medication will help you; not as a cure but to dampen down all those negative thoughts giving you time to recover your normal persona.
After a diagnosis, yes or no, your other problems can be attended to and it should also be clear about their cause. Your GP is your first port of call, nobody else except a psychiatrist will do but I favour a GP because they can be much more open to alternatives.
When you've seen a GP then come back to talk about your other ailments.