Angela

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    Not a sucker for the sales pitch I genuinely want and need new clothes be it from a dept store or charity shop. Have dropped a major amount of weight recently and so I need a new wardrobe. My skirts literally fall off of me and jeans are in constant need of pulling up, I have one pair that in general I walk too fast or run 2 meters and they fall down a little too far.

     

    All my tops are too big and my bras are to small in one place and too big in another. I am cursed and blesed at the same time.

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    How does my termly loan of £1100+ sound like. Cause I plan on spending the load big sis!!!

    Government sponsered shopping spree (The loan is via the gov) that is soo cool

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    lets see like having auburn red hair, a good sense of humour well on that basis yes. Oh wait you are cooler than me! darn we can't be time delayed twins. Can I be your little sis in that case??? lol

     

    I spend too much time on Oxford street and Tottenham court road. Thank god my student Loan comes in soon!!! SHOPPING ALERT!!!

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    Depression isn't nesacarily started by outside stimuli, sometimes it just occurs the most environmental mental illness within the depressive category is Seasonal affectiveness disorder which is set in place by a sever deprevation of sunlight. I will get into how this happens in a lter post

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    Jeanway this is my second time on prozac. As I am natural a dervish according to my mum, I am back to normal.

     

    As I am naturally hyper my drugs have a different effect on me that normally non hyper people. Prozac has calmed me down. This is Normal given my normal behaviour and is well documented in others.

     

    I am making changes. I have managed to find a stron direstion for my life and am researching how to go about it.

     

    I am aiming to be a Child Advocate and coucillor and my end of course essay (Not final year project) will be on the effects of chemotherapy in depressives. As I have experienced this I think this will be a good place to examine and become specialised in.

     

    Each depression I have entered into has been in a way life affirming and a positive experience. I have come to a greater understanding of myself and others, met wonderful people and also made another move to a concrete future instead of being I don't know what I want to do.

     

    For me whilst the effects of depression are awful and in the first instance I was very close to suicide. The after effects and intrespection on my life has been one of the most positive. Every cloud has a silver lining.

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    I shout and use profanity then I shut me in my room and sing christina Aguilera at the top of my lungs, follow it up with Mariah carey to slowly unwind and throw some Nickleback on to chill and listen to.

     

    Chad Kroeger has such a wonderful voice.

     

    My No. one cause of anger? My dad

     

    no.2? friends and guys making me feel like they are rejecting friendship

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    Drugs should be used in combination with changes within your life.

     

    Prozac and other drugs within its particular grouping work in a way that stimulates the brain to make serotonin. Without it you don't sleep, it is a principle componant in making you drowsy to sleep, this bio-chemical also in turn resets your moods and regualtes them. Without these drugs I would have ended up DEAD.

     

    Doctors shouldn't prescribe more than one drug, but if your friend "shopped" around for drugs from more than one doctor thaen these doctors didn't automatically know that she was on more than one drug at a time.

     

    Your friend was probably classed as an acute case sever depressive after her mixing of the drugs. (there are two anti-depressant groups which aren't reccomended in mixing because they combined cause a psychosis)

     

    The use of Electro convulsive thereapy (ECT) isn't recommended unless the case is highly problematic and is used to induce normal brain function. It is tended to be used in cases of severe cases of deperession and rapid cyclers of Manic depression (Rapic cycler is someone who goes from mania to severe depression at a moments notice. the periods of depression can be prolonged and last months, treatment of lithium is often a last result as it inevitably builds in the patients system and causes more problems).

     

    I symapthise for you and your friend. I, myself and on my second bout of depression. Mine wasn't drugs induced, I take nothing unless I have a skull splitter of a headache for more than 2 days. I am on prozac. One of the oldest of the modern drugs. It isn't a drug you can become physically dependant on, you can however become psychologically dependant on it.

     

    There have been more recent inovations in anti-depressants, but as of yet I haven't seen one I would take in place of prozac, despite its side effects. Such new anit-depressants have been Seroxat. A notoriously dangerous drug (I am in no way advising anyone to stop taking this drug) Seroxat have been linked to patients going from mild depression to exhibiting psychosis and commiting suicide, most notably the case of a 16 yr old boy in Florida given seroxat for acne of all things, flying his two seater light aircraft into a skyscraper around 2001/2002.

     

    As yet smithklein beacham's hasn't with drawn this drug world wide nor will it accept an overwhelming wealth of data collected by bopth the European Medical communities nor have they accepted any of the information produced by the FDA. Whether this particular medication is still approved by the FDA isn't known by myself at present.

     

    All drugs are dangerous and should be taken under medical supervision and under consultation with a doctor. Doctors in the UK aren't under the thumb of pharmaceutical companies, however they are pressured by an over taxed and over stressed system to initiate chemotherapy (The psychological term for medicating a mental ilness such as depression) treatments.

     

    A more worthwhile course of action is intensive councelling for 3 sessions a wekk for three months via a behavioural psychologist, where by a review of lifestyle should be taken in to examination and moves to implement changes which would be benificial to the person involved intiated. The sessions would be scalled back to once weekly and inevitably after a year a once monthly affair. Alongside this a 6 -12 month course of drugs as a reinforcement and restablisher of normal biochemical levels in the brain.

     

    I am not a psychologist (Yet, I am studying for my degree in psychology and for an accreditaion by the British Psychological Society) and none of the above is a recommended treatment, it is however, something that myself as a depressive would find a good treatment. Each case is different and the above would be a rare occasion as therapy is a costly affair and therefore in the politics of psychology and psychiatry (a psychiatrist has a medical degree and has interned as a qualified doctor) is deemed a non worthwhile pursuit due to economics.

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    I feel for you and the whole hiding away thing is true.

     

    I am clinically depressed and on prozac. I don't mind people Knowing either. I don't feel I should hide it as something to be ashamed of. I am deficient in a neuro-chemical, the prozac makes my brain restart producing it.

     

    I'm not always happy. I try to be for others. In the end it is lying to myself more than anything.

     

    If you aren't a happy soul talk about it with ppl you are close to. We will always try and help as well. But one of the most fundemental things you can do for yourself is to change one aspect of your life. Find something you like doing and do it. IT DOES WORK!!

     

    I hope everyone who is feeling down the best, I know it sucks.