Arteta2391
Player Valuation: £30m
Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for an Everton fan?
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Discussion & help on depression & mental health related issues
- Thread starter Groucho
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Rugby Toffee
Player Valuation: £60m
After being signed off work with PTSD in August, subsequent resignation(circumstances detailed earlier in this thread) , I am attempting to get back into some sort of work with Royal Mail next week upto Xmas.
This will be the 1st time I have really been sociable since August. So in one way looking forward to it , but in another bricking it.
This will be the 1st time I have really been sociable since August. So in one way looking forward to it , but in another bricking it.
That's good to hear. Hope it goes well.
Rugby Toffee
Player Valuation: £60m
Thanks mate..it is a start , small steps and all that
Many years ago, I worked as a temp in a sorting office doing nights over the Christmas period. It's busy as hell, but you'll have a great laugh if you're in a large sorting office
Goonymook
Player Valuation: £950k
Sorry for the delayed response but to answer your question I'm not currently not involved with a counselor as therapeutic services in my area scarce to non-existent. Also i'm lacking heath insurance which is a major hurdle. I've seen seen an extensive amount of therapists/counselors throughout the years with a minute amount of progress achieved. I've had massive difficulties connecting or developing a rapport with certain ones where I feel like I'm being patronized. But there have been other instances been able to gel wax on philosophical ideas but with little progress regarding applying techniques and skills that promote an improved mental being. I also feel I'm somewhat responsible as I can approach these situations with a dismissive demeanor that is detrimental to my personal health.
witchdoc187
Player Valuation: £60m
Hungover mate. But my parents been round today and i have spent all day with my lad. Am putting a timetable of exercise and stuff to do from Monday to keep myself occupied. It's my birthday 27th so I am treating myself to Southampton away. Though it may not be such a treat
I don't post a lot in this thread but always read it and it's uncanny how many peoples situations mirror what I've been through living with anxiety everyday. The bits @Bungle and @COYBL25 wrote about not walking in to get a haircut or sitting outside with a beer because you just don't want to face the crowd made me laugh as that's exactly what I've done in the past and thought i was the only person in the world to do stuff like that.
Also, like everyone else I'm quite worried that @wbn61 hasn't been on here for a while.
Also, like everyone else I'm quite worried that @wbn61 hasn't been on here for a while.
I've PM'd him mate and he normally gets back pretty quickly. So far he hasn't, which is a bit worrying.
Just out of interest how did you manage your anxiety problems / what caused them ?.
witchdoc187
Player Valuation: £60m
Getting a haircut is an absolute nightmare haha. I have to auto pilot in. As soon as I start thinking about it I walk around in circles around the shop which must look a lot weirder than walking in awkwardly hahaha
Nothing in particular caused it, always had a brain that never stops racing and it just kind of manifested to worrying about every little thing. After chatting about it with my gp and psychiatrist once diagnosed they both came to the conclusion that it was a mixture of a few things which just overwhelmed me to the point i could barely function - my wife and i were trying to get pregnant for about 7 years and it looked like it wasn't going to happen then it did and she had a miscarriage after 9 weeks in january last year, she was absolutely inconsolable and depre
^ sake i accidentally pressed post halfway through writing that post and wrote a whole lot more and it timed out and wouldn't edit.
@COYBL25 I'll try and finish writing that post again.
The wife was depressed after the miscarriage as was i so we booked a trip to new zealand for october so we'd have something to look forward to then the day before we left we had to get our cat put to sleep, I'd had the cat since i was about 16 - I'm 35 now so it lived a good long life but it was heartbreaking having to do it. Anyways we get back from nz and find out she's pregnant again but then I started having a few health issues which thankfully were nothing but the anxiety at the time had me thinking i was dying and not going to be around for much longer. My gp diagnosed me with anxiety and depression around this time and i started seeing a psychiatrist and started on escitalopram in about February, it seemed to get worse for a bit before it started getting better but i got through it, we had a healthy son born in june and I'm loving life again. I just accept I'll have to live with general anxiety and can cope with it better now.
The wife was depressed after the miscarriage as was i so we booked a trip to new zealand for october so we'd have something to look forward to then the day before we left we had to get our cat put to sleep, I'd had the cat since i was about 16 - I'm 35 now so it lived a good long life but it was heartbreaking having to do it. Anyways we get back from nz and find out she's pregnant again but then I started having a few health issues which thankfully were nothing but the anxiety at the time had me thinking i was dying and not going to be around for much longer. My gp diagnosed me with anxiety and depression around this time and i started seeing a psychiatrist and started on escitalopram in about February, it seemed to get worse for a bit before it started getting better but i got through it, we had a healthy son born in june and I'm loving life again. I just accept I'll have to live with general anxiety and can cope with it better now.
I think the " acceptance " is a masive part to managing anxiety. I fought it for years, had CBT etc, but it always crept back in and eventually got worse. I can't remember what made me accept it was probably never going to go away, but I know when I did, it seemed to subside to a manageable point, with the help of excercise and avoidance of things like coffee / ale.
It's so hard to treat, which is half the problem. Plus a lot of surferers convince themselves that they are the only people in the world who suffer from it. The relief that you're finding out that many others suffer is a massive relief in itself !.