Hi has anyone gone private to see a psychiatrist I'm thinking of doing this as I'm really fed up of feeling so low and depressed been on meds 20 years and yet again been swapped to another med which is mirts just had a crying fit it's day 2 and been so tired and eating none stop
Do you think local gp has any idea what they doing ?
Same for me but I do think they are starting to work, as for dose think everybody is different and when you get used to the affects try and find the right dose that suites you. I was going to go private but being on this site made me realise that when my head is working I am the best judge. The side effects are strange and don't know if they last, lost a lot of weight while I was really bad but eating everything I cin get my hands on now, my head is clearer but my body won't behave. Think it is better than not wanting to live, I just do what I can even though I feel strange, dizzy, wobbly, headaches ect. Not able to work but can function better than I have for years. Stick with it and try to take control when your head is clearer, only you really know yourself. Good luck
Thks for the reply it helps a lot I'm just about to open some wine I feel that low I'm not gonna feel any worse how long have you been on them Judith ?
I have a partner but he just doesn't understand thinks it's all in my head that doesn't help at all just feel suicidal ATM 
Don't drink if you can help it. Only for two weeks swapped from venaflaxine it was horrible but have tried some many tablets and drink stuck with it even though I felt worse to start with. I have not got a partner but my daughter and lodger try to understand but how can they! It's not there fault I was in hell for 7 months living was harder than dying but I couldn't leave all that pain behind. I am hear keep strong
I know it's so hard it is hell makes me so mad with partner when he tells me it's all in my head had to give in to a glass of wine to calm me down and to get me through until another day
I was so sure these were gonna work I'm still gonna hope they will as you say we have to give it time
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Sorry didn't mean to sound harsh about the wine. I said it because I drank 3 bottles of vodka when I was bad just to sleep, my kids and my best friend found me me after 3days in bed wet myself and didn't know what was happening. I was supposed to have picked up my mum and looked after my grandchildren but the pressure of it got to me. Thought a few drinks would help then three bottles in one day! Doctor said I would die if I had any more so stopped that day after years of hiding behind drink and pills. That's when I got really bad no drink to take the edge off and put me to sleep. I have been diagnosed with severe depression and general anziety disorder and had managed for 15 years to hold a job down some how. Now I can't work and have had to face it head on! The hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life.
It is not all in your head it is an illness and can be cured, can't believe I am saying that last week I would have said nothing could help me! Your head is broken and like a broken leg it can be fixed depends on how bad the break is.
Yikes I understand where you are coming from the most I have is 2 bottles of wine I thought that was a lot omg Judith I'm so pleased for you how you have stuck at it and your feeling better your a strong person 
I only work part time 6am till 9am then Sundays that's all I can manage I'm deaf as well have a cochlear implant
I was married had two lovely kids 1 of each all I ever wanted and my husband went off with my best friend. Got through that eventually drink, keeping busy. Married again very happy he died after ten years together, go through that, drink and antidepressants, my brother got lukimia and died over 4 years just waisted away. Dad had a heart attack died after a year just before my brother, mum got breast cancer and dog died. All of this happened in 4 years but got through it same way, had to be strong for mum and little brother who is in a wheel chair and mentally disabled. What has all this got to do with it, well I didn't get through it I didn't grieve like I should have done. I didn't think about me too many other people relying on me, cracked in the end hence the 3 bottles of vodka I was so scared icouldnt do it any more. You know what it was the best thing I ever did, the hell I have been in has been mine but all the people I was trying to help are still there they can cope without me so now I have to find me again after 39 years of beibg there for everybody else. I can do it and so can you
I think I have answered that with my rambling. Lucky you having an in plant they are fab, only down side is you can't turn them off if you don't want to listen as far as I know. My friend who was deaf did it all the time she used to drive me mad with it. How old are you any kids?
Thank you it's so reassuring that I'm not the only one going I through it so glad I found this forum yesterday so much better than fb lol that really makes me worse when everyone is having fun 
It's talking to you that is making me realise how much better I am, feeling like that for so long it becomes part of you and in a strange way it is scary when it starts to lift, who is this person who is telling someone they will get better when last week my friend told me the same and I said I never would. She was right, light at the end of the tunnel don't know what better is anymore. Relearn to live I think just in a different way, have to fill the gap of work, drink and holding other people up, how I don't know! Day by day I suppose.
What is fun I can't remember but I am dam well going to try and have some of it when I can. Come on we can do it!!!!!!
We sure can 
you've come a long way x
Maybe as I said you don't know who you really are any more we need to find ourselves it's going to take time so give your self time. I am trying to but I have never looked after me before don't know where to start! X
Tablets and telly in bed for me now, see what tomorrow brings! Nite nite good luck x
Hi, I'm being treated privately by PDrs in Singapore, I have seen 3. All they do is diagnose the problem then put you on meds! They do not get into deep discussions only support meds and how their working for you. Here they even sell them so it's all about money and gaining / keeping clients!!! For myself I think just sedatives would have helped, but now I'm stuck on Remeron which I have began to taper down. It sounds like you have an ongoing condition and your fed up with your current support. Tharapist are likely a way forward rather than PDrs. I read so much on these forums and these med's are too easily prescribed to people who could likely get by with something less. Not sure I helped and perhaps PDrs are different where you are. Take care.
Hi Norman I agree they don't get to the bro elm that has caused it. I recommend cognitive behavioural therapy, got a book called CBT for dummies and it has loads of info and ways to cope and move on. As for tablets I think we are the only people who know hoe they affect us! Good luck
Good morning hope you feel a tiny bit better. I am possative at the moment not that terrible panicky I used to wake up with so will crack on while it lasts. My daughter wants me to go out with her today and I am going to try my best! Will let you know how I get on. Take care x
Good morning! As Judith said, CBT is a forward for us. I had 4 intense sessions where really too much was went over due to limited time, but I recorded 3 of them so I can go back over them. Judith recommends CBT for dummies ( that's me!!!) which now I moved to my bro house in KL Malaysia from Singapore I will try to find, but currently none in any book stores but can see it on Amazon. If your anxious to go out with your daughter just keep in your mind that your safe with her, the people you will see will not hurt you, their just going about their lifes, take some deep breaths when you need to and just think what your accomplishing, your on the road back to being better! Depression wants you to do nothing, it wants us to dwell on negatives, these often end up in a spin cycle, when you feel the start of one break it, be ready for it with a positive thought or memory, I think you get the idea. The more we do the less depression can hold us back. Depression hates activity becuase when were busy we're not dwelling on the problems so not feeding the depression. I look at it like walking in thick mud, the more we do the easier it is to walk, the thinner the mud gets! But I'm guilty of not following this myself so I know how hard it is to do. You could try a daily routine as I had. Up early, breaky, go for walk perhaps with daughter at first, shower, read as reading stops you thinking and gives you a rest. Lunch, try a hobby or internet, time with family then evening have dinner, have a think other things you can do, watch TV and then bed. Take care and chin up and all that!