you guys are bloody great xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx love you all xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Look, your breakfast kipper may be going cold, but I'll reheat it if you lemme know if you have an instant messanger at all. ? MSN? By PM will do if you don't want all these perverts knowing it.
hi funk
if you need a chat, regarding anything relating to this thread dont hesitate to pm...im a fully qualified Drug and Alcohol worker...(councillor).
nige (mr sophiebifem)
I may be being a bit contentious here but I have read many times on the site that people are taking I find it quite shocking that someone 21 is taking anti-depressants. I don't know your situation Funk, so basically what I mean is that if you have issues that require you to take anti-depressants then I sympathise with you and hope you can sort out the issues soon.
However, I do feel that doctors in the UK are just too ready to slap people onto AD's rather than try to find out what the root cause of the problems are.
Earlier this year I went to see my GP as I was feeling run down and lacking motivation at work. Within 5 minutes my GP had me out of the door with a prescription for AD's! I've talked about this to some of my friends who have said they have experienced the same thing...
Whatever happened to being able to talk over your problems with your GP and just having an impartial professional ear to bend? I don't blame all the GP's, as some are so overstretched they can't give people the time, but there are some who think that AD's are a good way to keep their patience out of their waiting rooms.
Funk... as I said I don't know why you're on AD's and I'm not the person to discuss it with nor is this the place, but I hope you will get down to your GP and ask for professional counselling to overcome the issues, rather than potentially spending many years taking pills to dampen the symptoms...
Oh, and by the way... I'm not suggesting for one minute that people who do take AD's are wrong to do so, so anyone on AD's please do not take offence...
*Bites lip so hard it bleeds*
Did not say it was offensive, just slghtly.... misguided? Misinformed?
Am not getting drawn into this, sorry.
Occasional moods of discouragement or sadness are nornal and usually pass quickly. but more severe depression, accompanied by despair, lethargy, loss of sex drive, and often poor appetite, may call for you to see the doctor. such depression can arise from life stresses such as the death of someone close, an illness, or sometimes from no apparent cause.
minor depression does not usually need drug treatment. support and help in coming to terms with the cause of the depression is often all that is needed, moderate or severe depression usually requires drug treatment, which is effective in most cases. anit depressants may have to be taken for many months/years. treatment should not be stopped too soon as the symptoms are likely to re appear.
depression is caused by the reduction of the level of a curtain chemical in the brain called Neurotransmitters. which affect the mood by stimulating brain cells. the neurotransmitters are constantly reabsorded back into the brain cells where they are broken down by the enzyme called Monoamine oxidase, in depression fewer neurotransmitters are released.........this is why anti depressants are prescribed by GP's, so the levels of neurotransmitters are raised .
nige (mr sophiebifem)
When I went through a phase of depression (not that anyone can ever be sure that a "phase" is finished for good) I was greatly helped by joining a self-help group, funded by the local area health authority. Just thought I would mention that as an alternative, or addition, to counselling. Maybe we've even got the start of a sort of self-help group amongst ourselves here in SH. Anyway, I for one would always be happy with messages or PMs from others here about depression.
Mike.
mike north....you can always rely on Brian.....
nige (mr sophiebifem)
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as you didn't have to reveal so much about yourself...
The public face is very extroverted and bubbly ... pretty much how you described yourself.
