Ha!

Yeah, thats what they put me on, and it was the only antidepessant that worked for me whilst I took it, then i sacked it in.

I heard it does something to your sex drive, but that's just what non-doctors have told me, and I couldn't comment, as when I was on it I was on a dry patch of 7 months endless frustration..

ah, the good skin tablets were for malaria. Like I said though, they used to give me horrible nightmares where I saw gnomes living in my walls, and where two spheres would bounce repeatedly against my windows, getting faster and harder as they did (neither of which sound scary, but they used to have me waking in a sheet of sweat...) as well as having them on an empty stomach would cause me to vomit- and seeing as I rarely ate breakfast back then this would happen most mornings. Still, before I took them a blind man could have read my face like braille, whereas now all that is left is a veritable Flander's field, with the occasional indent reminding of past artilary fire.

I told everyone I took them to ward off malaria... but actually, I wasn't even in a malaria area. WORTH IT THOUGH.

if its any consolation, in my experience, you wont be talking about emotions etc too much to the psychiatrist. In fact, you may not even see the psychiatrist, but their junior who will run through a list of questions, make some notes, then come back and tell you that the psychiatrist is too busy, come back later.

A counsellor would be where the feelings thing comes in, whom you may be directed to by the psychiatrist, either that or one of these other types of therapist like a CBT or something, though to me those were oft pormised but never delivered.

You say that you don't like talking about your feelings and opening up- but from the looks of this thread I get the feeling you may be feeling the need to (though that doesn't mean it will be pleasant, I know)

If you aren't shafted to talk to somebody about how you feel, but you want to be, to try and make sense of yourself, you could go back to your doctor and ask to be referred to their counsellor. Don't do what I did, and in fact still do, which is consider that its cheating if you ask to see somone, and that it only counts if you are made to... because often, they won't. or say they will, then forget, and if you need it- why not ask?

As always though- I don't know what I'm talking about.

I just hope you are okay.

I'd imagine it depends on how understanding your employers are, and how much you are expecting your mood to affect your work.

Having just written a godawful piece of coursework on the disability discrimination act, I would say that its best to only tell your employers if you HAVE to, as depression and mental illnesses are not adequately protected by the act, and can lead to some rather horrible situations where employers can discriminate against you, but not get done for it, though on the flipside, if you dont tell them you have depression or whatever, you cant claim to be discriminated against because of it.

that said, they dont always do that, and can be accommodating to your needs etc, even get you time off work if you need it, and only in worst case scenarios do people lose there jobs over it... so just work out if you actully NEED to tell work what you may be like in a few weeks, as unless it could seriously, and absolutely affect you, there isn't that much need to say anything.

i don't feel like i have anything to contribute or offer in this thread, but i hope that things go well and improve for Darren.

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Had a meeting with the Doctor today. I'm now on Citalopram. Anyone here been on this?
I'm also being put on the list of people who needs to see a shrink, joy!

Yes. Hated it. Didn't feel any improvement whatsoever over the few months I was on it my balls shrunk to the size of raisins. To begin with, feeling nauseous and maybe a little 'in your own world' is normal, but as Joel said it should last more than a few days.

Also, have a look into neuro-linguistic programming. There's books 'n' shiz.

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Had a meeting with the Doctor today. I'm now on Citalopram. Anyone here been on this?
I'm also being put on the list of people who needs to see a shrink, joy!

Yes.  Hated it.  Didn't feel any improvement whatsoever over the few months I was on it my balls shrunk to the size of raisins.  To begin with, feeling nauseous and maybe a little 'in your own world' is normal, but as Joel said it should last more than a few days.

Also, have a look into neuro-linguistic programming.  There's books 'n' shiz.

Can anyone recommend any books on neuro-linguistic programming? I'd really like to try it as I've heard it is now being used to treat M.E. as well, although I'm not sure how that would work...

Anyone had any success with it with regards to depression?

Hope you're doing a bit better now that your body is adjusting to the tablets, Darren

Sarah xx

Thank you, that would be really useful ! I've just been reading on the net about it and it is a really interesting concept... As well as being about the only route I haven't tried to conquer depression and M.E! Looks worth a try!

Sarah xx

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Thank you, that would be really useful ! I've just been reading on the net about it and it is a really interesting concept... As well as being about the only route I haven't tried to conquer depression and M.E! Looks worth a try!

Sarah xx

Shall do, PM me your email address and I'll send them over tonight. I've got a good paperback, simply called 'Confidence Using NLP' which is good for what you described. It basically attempts to have you re-wire yourself during the course of reading the book to focus on the details that you see, rather than the details which you think of that *might* be there, which often slip into negative thoughts about the subject in question.

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The only books I've read concerning NLP are to do with conflict resolution and owning a conversation/interview.

I do have a few books that I downloaded that I haven't yet had a look at, but I'll attach them to an email and send them your way.

could you likewise to me, especially the conflict resolution ones?

The conflict resolution one I only have in paperback rather than e-book. I'd send you it but it's due a re-read soon because I'm taking my SIA training over summer. It was this one, if you have a spare £7.

Mark I can e-mail you some stuff too if you want.

And yes it is, but I'm just doing the government-required training to support a licence application.

oh yeah. same page now.