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Discussion & help on depression & mental health related issues

flippa said:
I was sadly expecting this news, but it doesn't make it any less gutting. I've posted in the dedicated thread, but like all of us here I'm sure, I do feel like I've lost a friend today, even though I never met Michael. I'll be playing Z Cars for him today.
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I just read this today, so incredibly sad. It's a strange notion of friendship amongst people who haven't met but it feels like a friend lost too. Thoughts with his family and everyone here that was praying for him throughout
 
COYBL25 said:
@DanEFC92 @Tim's tourettes

How you getting on with your new meds ?
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Thanks for asking, doing well I think! Bit queasy for hour after taking them but can't say have noticed any sides apart from that.... Don't know if it's coincidence or wishful thinking but I seem to have calmed down straight away with them. For example , often if I wake in the night (my little lad often gets up) that is the time my mind starts racing and I catastrophise. Since the tablets I don't seem to be doing this and I feel like the worry has been diluted, it's still there but it's not as strong. Again though I am only on day 4 so I don't know whether it's just coincidence......
 
Tim's tourettes said:
Thanks for asking, doing well I think! Bit queasy for hour after taking them but can't say have noticed any sides apart from that.... Don't know if it's coincidence or wishful thinking but I seem to have calmed down straight away with them. For example , often if I wake in the night (my little lad often gets up) that is the time my mind starts racing and I catastrophise. Since the tablets I don't seem to be doing this and I feel like the worry has been diluted, it's still there but it's not as strong. Again though I am only on day 4 so I don't know whether it's just coincidence......
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They're doing their job then - you're actually starting to feel normal again ;)
 
Tim's tourettes said:
Thanks for asking, doing well I think! Bit queasy for hour after taking them but can't say have noticed any sides apart from that.... Don't know if it's coincidence or wishful thinking but I seem to have calmed down straight away with them. For example , often if I wake in the night (my little lad often gets up) that is the time my mind starts racing and I catastrophise. Since the tablets I don't seem to be doing this and I feel like the worry has been diluted, it's still there but it's not as strong. Again though I am only on day 4 so I don't know whether it's just coincidence......
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They can work that quick. Glad your feeling better.

Sometimes tablets are the answer sometimes not, but they appear to be the current solution for you.
 

Groucho said:
You need to speak to your GP.

It's good that you feel you want to come off them, but don't stop taking them suddenly - often they need to be reduced rather than abruptly stopped.
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Yeah I've read that you need to taper off them gradually so i wouldn't just stop suddenly.

As much as they've helped me out over the last 10 months or so i don't particularly want to be on them forever.
 
cronullasharks said:
Yeah I've read that you need to taper off them gradually so i wouldn't just stop suddenly.

As much as they've helped me out over the last 10 months or so i don't particularly want to be on them forever.
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As Groucho said, see your doctor and any reduction in dosage and condition can be monitored and acted on accordingly.

It's great to see the stigma of mental health being knocked down on many football forums. The fact that (mainly) males can open up and help each other is a massive positive step.
 
cronullasharks said:
Re: tablets. I want to have a crack at getting off mine sometime next year so any advice from anyone who has would be appreciated.
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After hearing, reading, seeing it in the papers and TV over nearly 20yrs..."X" Millions are on tranquilisers and some may be due to misdiagnosis from poor/lazy GP's.
Mrs D decided to come off them...8yrs is enough, they don't seem to be doing anything anyway and that doctor of mine seems a bit to quick with the prescription, tbh the Doc was always mentioning it...'we' must get you off these things one day, but never did anything about it. So we did.
It's easy enough to do, it just takes time.
3yrs down the track and it's all OK...until 2 emotional blows in 6 weeks triggered another episode
4yrs of Lexapro - all good-ish, mostly...you know how it is...*waggles hand.

edit; 2yrs into the Lexapro there was another severe blow and plenty of guilt to go with it but the Lexapro took/takes the sting out and keeps it out on anniversaries

just sayin like and one size doesn't fit all
No doubt @Groucho will correctly say - medical supervision
 
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degsy said:
After hearing, reading, seeing it in the papers and TV over nearly 20yrs..."X" Millions are on tranquilisers and some may be due to misdiagnosis from poor/lazy GP's.
Mrs D decided to come off them...8yrs is enough, they don't seem to be doing anything anyway and that doctor of mine seems a bit to quick with the prescription, tbh the Doc was always mentioning it...'we' must get you off these things one day, but never did anything about it. So we did.
It's easy enough to do, it just takes time.
3yrs down the track and it's all OK...until 2 emotional blows in 6 weeks triggered another episode
4yrs of Lexapro - all good-ish, mostly...you know how it is...*waggles hand.

edit; 2yrs into the Lexapro there was another severe blow and plenty of guilt to go with it but the Lexapro took/takes the sting out and keeps it out on anniversaries

just sayin like and one size doesn't fit all
No doubt @Groucho will correctly say - medical supervision
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That's what I'm on actually, escitalopram/lexapro - same thing different names. No real side effects of any great note - find it a bit harder getting out of bed and as well as levelling out bad moods and anxiety it also seems to stop me getting over excited at things like an everton goal for example. I used to go ballistic and wake the whole neighbourhood up in the early hours when we'd score a goal now it's just more of a fist pump and that's it haha.

Is mrs d still on the lexapro now ?
 
degsy said:
which was what we thought and was/is the perceived wisdom

@cronullasharks But if your brain returns slowly to it's default state(?) not that 'they' know everything about how/why brains work.
There could be a case for staying on them.
Again - just sayin like...different strokes etc...recommends nothing - just telling my tale.
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That's what worries me, i don't ever want to return to the state of mind i was in at the start of the year.
 
cronullasharks said:
That's what I'm on actually, escitalopram/lexapro - same thing different names. No real side effects of any great note - find it a bit harder getting out of bed and as well as levelling out bad moods and anxiety it also seems to stop me getting over excited at things like an everton goal for example. I used to go ballistic and wake the whole neighbourhood up in the early hours when we'd score a goal now it's just more of a fist pump and that's it haha.

Is mrs d still on the lexapro now ?
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yep been back on for the last 4yrs as stated...forget what she was on previously, we're talking 1998 here, new Doc said 'xxxxxxx?' was seriously 'old tech' for tranks.
 

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