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Mental health
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Channa
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Yep, voice of experience... I fell into a deep slump over a year after I lost Martin and just after my worse time of year - Christmas and New Year. Grief and loss and loneliness hit me like a punch in the gut again, as raw as if he'd just died. It was like a dawning realisation that he really wasn't coming back, that I'd lost my best friend, I had no-one to share everything with anymore, this wasn't a temporary thing but really was my life now and I just didn't like it... not one tiny little bit. I did the whole hibernating thing. closed the curtains, gradually didn't bother to get dressed, didn't answer the phone or the door and eventually didn't get out of bed or eat for several days. I had the holiday of a lifetime to look forward to... a six week visit to my daughter in Australia with lots of adventures planned but I didn't give a damn and couldn't even think about it or make a start on packing a case or anything. After a week or so, I obviously knew this just wasn't me and it wasn't right and Martin would hate to see me like this but I couldn't do anything about it on my own, so I chose to get some anti-depressants. They helped keep me out of the deep lows and gradually climb out of the spiral. Within a few weeks I was feeling much more like the cheerful eternal optimist I've always been and began planning and making lists and packing and really looking forward to my trip and seeing my daughter. By the time I got back from that amazing trip in the April, I felt totally myself again and ready to tackle anything... bring it on world, I can handle it! I took the pills for the full six months and would go back on them in a heartbeat if ever I ever feel that way again.
Summed up perfectly ! lack of motivation, prompting to take food nutrition, the feeling of social isolation ,,you got it in a nutshell having been there myself.
However and relates to my earlier point I am now questioned as having Aspergers syndrome which would explain a lot and many of the traits are very similar.
But what is important and I endorse what you say 100% seeking help is ok, slowly stigmas are being broken down, I think we have adequately demonstrated on this thread that MHI has no respect for backgrounds , gender etc .
I am glad you feel a bit better to fight, as others have said re Sue, you too are a person that one wouldn't suspect as having had issues, there is a moral to the story here I think for all of us.
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St Johns wort works for some people not others the same as some prescribed interrupters .Forgive me for sharing what I have been told on various occasions and perhaps stating the obvious, On NO ACCOUNT should it be taken with prescribed anti depressents It is one or the other,I tried St John's wort for a month, I thought this is rubbish it's had no effect on me.
After I stopped taking them I noticed the change in my mood drop so there is a natural alternative.
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St Johns wort works for some people not others the same as some prescribed interrupters .Forgive me for sharing what I have been told on various occasions and perhaps stating the obvious, On NO ACCOUNT should it be taken with prescribed anti depressents It is one or the other,
Channa
Like many I tried this as an alternative to drugs and found it made me worse. I would suggest that if you try it do it with care and watch how you react to it