Posted by Automated Lady on March 6, 2002, at 7:18:44
I have to put this in, because I am getting to a point of despair about ever recovering from my depression.
I have been seriously depressed since I was 18 (although I have had symptoms of depression from a very young age) and have tried Prozac, Efexor and Celexa. Each one of these has affected my life in such a way as to make it worse rather than better. Although ADs have lifted me out of the darkest moods, they have also made me so tired I have had to sleep 15 hours a day, changed my appetite so that I have been scared and incapacitated by my compulsive eating, made me lethargic and numb, made me not care about my life enough to try and change it.
I am sick of being in this mess, which is that I can't cope without ADs and can't cope with them. I am trying to do a university course and am failing miserably because I can't get myself together enough to do any work, talk to anyone or go to any classes.
I have an NHS doctor who is not interested in combining drugs or trying anything unusual (eg. MAOIs) - he isn't even interested in the fact that my depression is different from the "classic" type (it's atypical). I feel like in order to get any real help I will have to do something desperate, and I have no wish to do that. I just want my life back.
I apologise for being very negative, but I would really appreciate some advice.
AL
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