depression

Mental health
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Hi first time on here, been really down lately anxious paranoid happy one min sad the next, went to the out of hours and they gave me some diarzepan to help calm me then go to doc an ask to see a psychiatrist, im scared really scared has any one done this and got through

 

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Sorry to hear this i cant really relate to this as im just sad all the time with my anxiety im just full of fear dullness but im sure youl be ok chin up

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have you seen anyone

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Yeah im on anti deps

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and there not helping i take it, my friend said they can help but need to get the right one s, thats why im doing this but finding it hard to face

 

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Hi Suzanne

Yes I've felt this way many times throughout my life starting from when I was 18 (I'm now 40) and yes I got past it albeit with medicaiton.  You will get a lot of folk telling you on here that meds aren't the right way forward and maybe for you they are not.  For me this time around I started back in February with really bad anxiety, panic, depression, feeling all over the place really.  I fought as hard as I could on my own without meds because I had worked reallly hard to come off Seroxat which is an AD they don't like to prescribe now because of the withdrawals that come with it when you come off.  I tried my best, seen a therapist, tried all the relaxation techniques available on youtube, I worked at my job throughout.  Panic attacks were not my biggest issue as I could calm these down but it was the day to day anxiety and the constant torment my mind was putting me through.  Eventually in July I gave in and went to my GP and she gave me Citalopram.  I'm not saying it was a walk in the park because it wasn't, at first these meds increase the anxiety and for a good 3-4 weeks I thought I wasnt going to get through it and they were never going to work but now I feel soooo  much better.  For instance today I went xmas shopping in a busy city centre with my husband and thoroughly enjoyed it with no anxiety.  I feel content, happy, I have no side effects from the meds, I can now start looking forward again.

Please don't feel despair, it really can be helped and believe me I know because I have felt like you do often.

Louise xx