[Phoenix07]

(Original post by alexlduffy)
Sorry for bugging you guys again, but what are good things you guys like to do when you're feeling really low in order to feel better? I'm feeling extremely low and while listening to music is helping me, all it's doing is making me feel happy for a short period of time. Think I should just go to sleep? Urgh, I HATE feeling like this. It's at that point where just being around other people is annoying me. With some people, it feels like I have to change myself in order to please them.

Personally it depends what kind of mood I am in, if it is having bad thoughts and stuff sleep might help! But if you are generally feeling low then sleep if you are tired but make sure you set alarms and times you want to get up. Because otherwise I find I often just spend all day in bed when I am feeling low and then just feel worse! It can be really difficult being round other people though, and completely exhausting trying to constantly be the happy bubbly person they want me to be! I suppose at some point you just have to say no I am going to be who I want to be around people but haven't got to that point yet. Sorry probably not much help but hope your feeling better soon!

[Sabertooth]

Holy crap! I just got a text from a guy I last saw in 2006, he's in my area tomorrow and asked do I want to meet up for drinks! HOLY ****ING CRAPPPPP! I'm so excited!

C'mon social anxiety, don't **** this up for me.

[Noodlzzz]

(Original post by Sabertooth)
Holy crap! I just got a text from a guy I last saw in 2006, he's in my area tomorrow and asked do I want to meet up for drinks! HOLY ****ING CRAPPPPP! I'm so excited!

C'mon social anxiety, don't **** this up for me.

Best of luck!

[Idle]

Actually losing my mind, getting away tomorrow night got a bit.. Hopefully it will help.

[Anonymous]

I hate feeling nostalgic, my life was just so much better before as a kid and when I'm reminded of all thing things back in the late 90's and early 2000's I just want to cry.

[SciFiRory]

calmed myself down for now was super wound up earlier but a combination of pizza, cider and blu-rays seems to have done the trick for now at least!

[superwolf]

(Original post by Sabertooth)
Holy crap! I just got a text from a guy I last saw in 2006, he's in my area tomorrow and asked do I want to meet up for drinks! HOLY ****ING CRAPPPPP! I'm so excited!

C'mon social anxiety, don't **** this up for me.

Woop! Anyone I know?

[avhhs]

Oh dear. Feeling quite **** . Just did my first bit of revision for the day, and now can't be bothered to do anymore. Also feeling sad for no apparent reason. Just wish I could go back to the good old days

[Anonymous]

My life is so terrible and I don't know where to begin. My girlfriend says she is bored of our relationship. I haven't had success at anything since I started college. College was really good when it started by now it is dull, and I struggle to sleep because of stress. I'm terrified about exams, I feel as if I have no chance of getting particularly good grades. This is what troubles me the most, because without them I won't get a good university place and my entire life will be destroyed. I just don't know what to do.

[CherryCherryBoomBoom]

(Original post by ViceVersa)
Just on my way home, had a lovely time. Movie was greaaaat too.

[Anonymous]

(Original post by avhhs)
Oh dear. Feeling quite **** . Just did my first bit of revision for the day, and now can't be bothered to do anymore. Also feeling sad for no apparent reason. Just wish I could go back to the good old days

Same here, I hate my life right now, I just wish I could go back to when I was kid, 1997 - 2002 were the greatest years of my life. Years after that were good but not as great as those years, I think my life turned to complete **** by 2008 though.

[Anonymous]

There are only three weeks til exams. I haven't finished my coursework. I have done no work this year. Not a single essay. I have been unwell the whole time. Yet everyone expects me to get A*AA. Everytime I go to do work I end up hyperventilating and doing nothing. Do I give up? Is it even possible to get those grades in that short a space of time? :'(

[Anonymous]

I'm scared of my medication working because then I'd have to make more of a conscious effort to do things and people will start expecting things from me again. But then I think about it and realise I don't do these things because I am depressed and enjoyed doing them before all of this. Also worried about feeling better in the middle of my exams and panicking about how little I know therefore making me depressed again.

Can anybody relate to this or do I need to grow the hell up?

[Moroseblight]

So tired. Seem to be bent on trying to sabotage my 3rd year. Have a 40 credit assignment overdue and I can't write a damn thing. NO, it's not the ****ing frustration or stress. I can't write because I can't see anything in this lethal fog. Blank screens, false starts and muddled lines.

Also, ignoring my counselor and missed a GP appointment. Monumental waste of time. The unpredictable fluctuation of my moods is worse. Pendulum of madness is in constant motion. Sigh.

[Loveuraliens]

(Original post by Anonymous)
My life is so terrible and I don't know where to begin. My girlfriend says she is bored of our relationship. I haven't had success at anything since I started college. College was really good when it started by now it is dull, and I struggle to sleep because of stress. I'm terrified about exams, I feel as if I have no chance of getting particularly good grades. This is what troubles me the most, because without them I won't get a good university place and my entire life will be destroyed. I just don't know what to do.

You can not see the future. The exams are not here yet, and you still have time to do something! Even if you feel like a failure and feel like you can not get good grades, that does not mean it is true!
You can study like hell, maybe get a tutor? Ask somebody to help you studying? I think there is even some kind of study help threads here in tsr.
You ca do anything if you just put your mind to it!
If it feels like you really can not (being depressed makes studying harder) talk to your teachers, you can sort something out I am sure.
Best of luck! Remember you are awesome even when it does not feel like it.

[Anonymous]

Want to go back to bed

I can't bear to listen to music, my room is a tip and I have a pile of revision and essays to do before my exams.

Happy Sunday morning everyone :P

[Anonymous]

(Original post by Anonymous)
I hate feeling nostalgic, my life was just so much better before as a kid and when I'm reminded of all thing things back in the late 90's and early 2000's I just want to cry.

I get like this ALL the time. I remember how happy I was as a child, with lots of friends, always going to parties, family days out at the weekend.. and fast forward to age 21 and everything's changed. My brother has grown up and no longer wants to come out as a family (although I never went through that phase- must be a boy thing) and refuses to come on holiday with us, so we don't go because he can't be trusted at home on his own. I've almost finished my degree which is great, but I can't see that all this "adult responsibility" is going to be much fun. All of my friends are getting jobs, getting married, having babies.. so our get togethers are becoming few and far between, so the only person I have to socialise with whenever I want is my boyfriend. I love him of course, but wish my other friends were still around, too!

Also I hate the way that I spend all day every day sat on my laptop. I work from home as a freelance journalist, so it's not as though I can change that, but it's driving me slowly insane.. I wish I could drop everything and "go out to play" like when I was a kid. Go shopping on the bus without having to worry about getting home to do housework, or paying bills, or anything. I wish I still got £1 a week pocket money and the only thing I had to worry about was which sweets to spend it on!

Incidentally, as much as I probably sound it with this post, I'm not depressed. I just don't think I react very well to change. I'm happy most of the time, but then when I think about everything that's changed I miss my old life. Only posting this so you know you're not alone in that!

BUT- Some things also make me excited! Freedom of having my own place, the exciting prospect of starting a family which I hope to do soon, learning to drive which I can FINALLY afford to do! Yes, the good things are different to when you're a kid, but they are there.

[Webberino]

(Original post by Anonymous)
Thanks.
In the morning.
Thanks again

That's good then!
Its not your fault at all and you have probably done much better than you think you have. You only remember the mistakes you make in exams, not the good stuff!

I have the mother of colds I never get ill!
My mood doesn't seem to be too bad but I'm not sure if it's the cold masking it because I think it's too soon for the fluoxetine to be working.

Thanks. I really haven't, couldn't even attempt most of it.
Just have to try and prepare properly for the next one, can't find any motivation though.
Aww hope it doesn't last too long.
I suppose the cold might be giving you something else to focus on, but never know.

(Original post by Anonymous)
I'm scared of my medication working because then I'd have to make more of a conscious effort to do things and people will start expecting things from me again. But then I think about it and realise I don't do these things because I am depressed and enjoyed doing them before all of this. Also worried about feeling better in the middle of my exams and panicking about how little I know therefore making me depressed again.

Can anybody relate to this or do I need to grow the hell up?

Yeah can be hard to remember that. Think you just have to take things as they come.

[Phoenix07]

hey, on my second attempt at taking citalopram, first time took it for 3 months, and then just now been on it for a month and a half I think .... and it just doesn't seem to have any affect at all. But having been to the Drs and told them about it, it seems like citalopram is the only thing they are willing to prescribe for it. I am not sure if this is because I am not getting across how bad my depression is or whether its because this is just there protocol? Going back at the beginning of next week though because I want to try and get this sorted, so not sure if anyone else has found the same? Or if other people went in saying they would like to try something else or what? Just want to try and get some help but I know I am so used to trying to hide how I feel that I don't think it comes across as though I really do need help! Could just do with some medication advice really, thanks

[Sabertooth]

(Original post by Phoenix07)
hey, on my second attempt at taking citalopram, first time took it for 3 months, and then just now been on it for a month and a half I think .... and it just doesn't seem to have any affect at all. But having been to the Drs and told them about it, it seems like citalopram is the only thing they are willing to prescribe for it. I am not sure if this is because I am not getting across how bad my depression is or whether its because this is just there protocol? Going back at the beginning of next week though because I want to try and get this sorted, so not sure if anyone else has found the same? Or if other people went in saying they would like to try something else or what? Just want to try and get some help but I know I am so used to trying to hide how I feel that I don't think it comes across as though I really do need help! Could just do with some medication advice really, thanks

3 months is more than enough time, generally, to see if a medication is going to have an effect. Usually doctors recommend you see an effect after 6 - 8 weeks, which clearly hasn't happened with you. I'd say if the citalopram hasn't started working yet, it's probably not going to. Maybe you could ask for an increased dose which might help if they're unwilling to prescribe you anything else. But really, first choice antidepressants only have an effect on about 40% of people so what you're experiencing isn't that rare. They should really prescribe you something else. Is there another doctor you could talk to? One thing that it might be is your age, citalopram tends to be given to teenagers whereas some of the other antidepressants aren't so recommended for that age group. Though fluoxetine is licensed specifically for young people so I don't know why they wouldn't try you on that.