Mental Health Support Society MKVII

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.


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

Woop! Anyone I know?

Do any of you happen to have diabetes or be at high risk of getting it? I have a very high risk of developing it because my glucose levels are too high. I´m finding it very hard to deal with. I end up eating my emotions or hurting myself in other ways. I have no will power and can´t fight anymore.

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.

But you attempted some of it which is better than none whatsoever. You have other exams so just try to do what you can in them. Try not to be too hard on yourself either, you're awesome.

Thanks Feel guilty about not revising. I woke up, went downstairs for bacon and now I'm back in bed. It's my own fault I know that, just need to stop being so pathetic and pull myself together like everybody else does.

How are you today?

Sorry if this sounds offensive, but are you overweight? If you are, then losing weight might help to reduce your risk.

The medication I'm on causes diabetes which worries me a great deal.

Aww
Wish this tiredness would just go away, not helping when I feel exhausted after revising for 10mins.

It's not your fault.
I have days like that all the time.

Alright thanks, just tired, but snooker final should be good!

I have an essay to write for Tuesday but I literally cannot motivate myself.

Hi everbody,
I just need somewhere where I can get some advice about getting help for depression. At 14 I saw the doctor about anxiety and very low mood. The doctor referred me to PCAMHS where I saw a PCAMHS worker once a week, supposedly for 6 weeks but I stopped after 3 weeks because I found her patronising and it was making everything worse than ever. I just told her I felt fine again and so I didn't think I needed to see her anymore.....all completely untrue, but I didn't know what else to tell her. After about a year, things did eventually get better. Now, aged 19, since moving to university in September I have been having very low mood again, and worse than before. I know when something is normal and when it is normal, and I know that this type of low mood really isn't normal. I don't want to do anything, I don't want to see my friends, if I do see my friends I don't enjoy it, I don't really want to go outside, I have only managed to cook 4 meals for myself since moving to university. All of this is not because I am a lazy person and is very out of character for me. I know how to cook and used to enjoy it, I used to enjoy going out with my friends etc. I had been thinking about going to the doctor for about 3 months, since Christmas, and finally went a few weeks ago. However, I was unsure about going because I didn't feel I was taken seriously when I was 14, even though I knew then that what I was experiencing wasn't normal, so I went to the doctor with tiredness, feeling weak, dizzy etc. knowing that they would ask about mood, which they did. However, although I was able to say that I'd been experiencing very low mood for 7 months now, she just said "see what happens". I could understand that if it had been 1 month, but 7 months is too long and now I'm not sure what to do. I know this is not a normal type of low mood, it is all day, every day, somewhere in the back of my mind even if I am doing something that I am finding enjoyable. I will probably go back to the doctor again in a few months, but I don't think I will be able to really express exactly how bad I feel.

I have an essay to write for Tuesday but I literally cannot motivate myself.

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!

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.

Do any of you happen to have diabetes or be at high risk of getting it? I have a very high risk of developing it because my glucose levels are too high. I´m finding it very hard to deal with. I end up eating my emotions or hurting myself in other ways. I have no will power and can´t fight anymore.

No, you did help me, thank you Went to bed early, watched some American Dad, and woke up relatively happier!

Sadly, my mood went pretty much downhill. I was meant to be going out with two friends today, but both cancelled on me, using the same excuses they always do. It annoys me because I know that at least one of them is lying, and it annoys me that the one who I know is lying didn't tell me until I texted her to say I was leaving. I would have turned up at the park by myself and I would have been stood there for ages waiting for her.

I've lost all motivation to try and contact my friends again now X_X It took me AGES to work up the courage to ask them, and I know I shouldn't feel like this, but I feel like absolute crap, and my mind's telling me that my friends don't give a crap about me. I don't want to be around people anymore because I just keep on getting let down again and again. I'm sick of being this person where everyone thinks I have no problems and that they can walk all over me. I just feel so worthless.

Then, after that, my brother's girlfriend left (she stayed the night), and when he came back home from dropping her off, he started treating me like crap. He was hurling insults at me, shouting at me for laughing at the TV, and just being generally nasty to me.

I feel so horrible today. I just want to scream and shout and break stuff, but I can't. I feel like nobody gives a damn about me, that I'm just completely worthless. I've got people shouting at me to do this and do that and I just can't goddamn cope anymore. I just despise everything about myself. I hate the way I look, the way I act, who I know...just EVERYTHING about me. I wish I was someone else.

Just got off the phone from talking to my mum. I told her almost everything and it was heartbreaking to hear her cry but I don't have to lie anymore.