Hello mate.
Like you, I am one of the many on here that suffers with the black dog. I had a bad time with it for a year up to April. Then my new meds kicked in and made a difference. I have had a couple of dips but feel better. I had been on 5 or six different anti-depressants over that year before one started to to take effect and I was really getting desperate, at that point. Have you talked to your GP about different dosages or different pills? What was particularly worrying - and also very common - was that the meds I has used for years with quite a success, now didnt do anything. So, it was trial and error until we found one that works - not very scientific but the only way to do it, seemingly.
Like so many of us, I also use alcohol even though I know it is contributing to the problem. This goes back to my mid-teens - any problems that life threw at me I would be drawn to have a drink.
I do not drink to a level that it causes a problem itself but it is too much and every day. I have discussed it with my shrink and he doesnt think my drinking is a massive problem while i get back to a steady state of mind but obviously he told me that it is unhealthy and must be reduced. He told me straight: slow down or just be honest and admit that you cant.
So, I need to reduce my drinking but for so long it has been my little treat at the end of each day; a couple of hours where I really relax and unwind. When I need to to go without, I do but the problem is I really enjoy a drink. Drink claims to be my friend but I wonder if it is lying to me?
The new SSRIs that I am on now do what is needed but come with lots of very common side effects. I have to accept them because the pros far outweigh the cons. Until some other treatment becomes available, I will be on these pills for life. Not the end of the world but I have a chronic condition.
If only there was a pill we could take that lets us relax and be at ease without the side effects and addiction.
Like you, I am one of the many on here that suffers with the black dog. I had a bad time with it for a year up to April. Then my new meds kicked in and made a difference. I have had a couple of dips but feel better. I had been on 5 or six different anti-depressants over that year before one started to to take effect and I was really getting desperate, at that point. Have you talked to your GP about different dosages or different pills? What was particularly worrying - and also very common - was that the meds I has used for years with quite a success, now didnt do anything. So, it was trial and error until we found one that works - not very scientific but the only way to do it, seemingly.
Like so many of us, I also use alcohol even though I know it is contributing to the problem. This goes back to my mid-teens - any problems that life threw at me I would be drawn to have a drink.
I do not drink to a level that it causes a problem itself but it is too much and every day. I have discussed it with my shrink and he doesnt think my drinking is a massive problem while i get back to a steady state of mind but obviously he told me that it is unhealthy and must be reduced. He told me straight: slow down or just be honest and admit that you cant.
So, I need to reduce my drinking but for so long it has been my little treat at the end of each day; a couple of hours where I really relax and unwind. When I need to to go without, I do but the problem is I really enjoy a drink. Drink claims to be my friend but I wonder if it is lying to me?
The new SSRIs that I am on now do what is needed but come with lots of very common side effects. I have to accept them because the pros far outweigh the cons. Until some other treatment becomes available, I will be on these pills for life. Not the end of the world but I have a chronic condition.
If only there was a pill we could take that lets us relax and be at ease without the side effects and addiction.
