The EADD Mental Health Support Thread

[brimz]

There can be downsides to admitting to such things, they will be more cautious about prescribing anything habit forming like benzos, but then who gets a long term benzo script these days ( yeah I know you got one Brimz)

Just to Clarify i was 1st prescribed Diazepam as part of Heroin Treatment . I was on Methadone 50mg/1ml ampoules & overnight everyone in my city that had a Injectable Script was put on Liquid Methadone & Diazepam/ Temazepam ( it was a sort of compensation ) .
This was in the mid 90s and i've had the same script all be it in different doses , formats ( liquid) and from different Doctors.
The most i had prescribed was 12/10mgs a day & 40ml of Temazepam 10mg /5ml liquid . When the quack that was prescribing that huge dose went on his hols another Doc in the surgery saw how ridiculous it was & within 2 weeks i was struck off from that surgery.

I had to go to the local health authority as it's their duty to get you a GP & they hooked me up with a surgery that wouldn't do Methadone instead they did Df118s ( With my habit they were about as helpful as a Chocolate Tea Pot ) but they did accomadate my daft Benzo script but straight away they put it down to 8/10mgs a day and no more Temazepam liquid but they let me have 20mg of nitrazepam instead.
I found a old repeat from 1999 the other day !!

 

[Allein]

^^^
thou dost protest too much Sir

Fair play to you mate, I knew you'd pick me up on that one

 

[brimz]

well i couldn't let you down

 

[badandwicked]

This is on radio 4 at 9 tonight. Someone heard the trailer & told me about it. Its about how losing touch with nature contributes to depression and poor mental health.

Richard Mabey

The man described as "Britain's greatest living nature writer", Richard Mabey, talks to Claudia Hammond about "the lost years" of his depressive illness. The author of Common Ground, Flora Britannica and Nature Cure admits that a symptom of his clinical depression was that he lost his connection with the natural world.

Allotment "Young at Heart"

The Young at Heart Project in Barking and Dagenham works to improve the mental and physical health of socially isolated men by bringing them together for regular growing sessions down at the allotment.

Ecotherapy

Mental health professionals join Andy McGeeney in ancient woodland, Thorndon Park, in Essex, to learn about ecotherapy.

Lisa on Horticultural Therapy

After many years of illness, Lisa, a former mental health nurse, tells Claudia about the part making a garden played in her recovery.

"Green Therapy": the evidence

Dr Rachel Bragg from the "Green Care Research Team" at the University of Essex describes the evidence behind nature-based therapies and argues they should be part of a "toolkit" of care for patients.

 

[33Hz]

This is on radio 4 at 9 tonight. Someone heard the trailer & told me about it. Its about how losing touch with nature contributes to depression and poor mental health.

I think it was Monty Don that took up gardening after his jewellery business went to shit as a way to overcome his mental breakdown. He's often stated that nature healed him better than any traditional medicine could. Personally, I find walks in the woods, picking shrooms, and such like do my state of mind the world of good. There are few places where I feel more centered an clam than when I'm surrounded by nature. I guess I'm a bit of a hippy at heart, minus the new age BS.

 

[badandwicked]

^ it was, and he set up this rehab based on running a farm and made a programme about it.

I think we're all hippies at heart, because we're all animals. I don't even like that label for someone who appreciates nature. We've just lost touch with nature so much and i think suffering as a result.

It was a good listen, lots of sense was spoken.

 

[33Hz]

^ it was, and he set up this rehab based on running a farm and made a programme about it.

I think we're all hippies at heart, because we're all animals. I don't even like that label for someone who appreciates nature. We've just lost touch with nature so much and i think suffering as a result.

It was a good listen, lots of sense was spoken.

Sounds cool. I'll have to check it out on iPlayer when I get the chance. :]

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Same here, I feel totally at home, at peace and ease in the countryside. Which is the opposite of how i often feel in a city. It would appear to be rather twatish of me to choose to live in a city then, with that being the case, but sadly, needs must, job etc....

 

[33Hz]

Same here, I feel totally at home, at peace and ease in the countryside. Which is the opposite of how i often feel in a city. It would appear to be rather twatish of me to choose to live in a city then, with that being the case, but sadly, needs must, job etc....

Likewise. Though part of me would love to live in Tokyo for a year or two just because of how different it is to my current location. Their culture fascinates me, the city looks fucking epic, and the girls are extremely Kawaii! I blame Lost in Translation for putting the idea into my head.

Also, nice avatar btw. Gotta love JCC.

 

[mydrugbuddy]

Yes I know what you mean about Tokyo,that film was a great advert for the place. Its one of the few cities I would actually want to go and visit. The architecture looks awesome and they seem so far ahead of us in technology and fashion etc, it couldnt fail to be an interesting visit. I could imagine it being very lonely actually living there though. Whenever I can get my arse in gear to go on holiday (not really happening these days) I usually opt for the countyside/mountains/lakes/national parks/wilderness etc rather than cities.

 

[CbRoXiDe]

I don't even know what's going on in my head at the moment. I seem to of ascended past depression into some kind of nothingness. It's like I don't feel sad or upset anymore, I just feel nothing, not a care anymore, not bothered just resignation.

 

[effie]

^ Are you clean at the mo cbrox? Could be PAWS.. or if you're using then that could be what's numbing you?

I had a long period when I felt numb after Dave died.. in a way it was respite and I was almost glad, but it's really bizarre not feeling anything at all..

 

[CbRoXiDe]

I'm on my script at moment, but haven't used gear in about a month or there abouts. But i know what you mean it feels bizzare, I almost wish I would feel some kind of emotion because then it would make at least some sort of sense, I dunno :/

 

[maxalfie]

That sounds very similar to how I feel.
I never really feel happy or upbeat but yet I don't feel down & depressed.
I kinda just feel emotionless neither happy or sad. My brain never feels like it should, its like I never have any thoughts about anything when I am alone.
I can still have conversations with my flatmate but when I am at home alone its just like I am physically & mentally numb.
Would love to know why I feel this way & what a doctor would call it.

 

[33Hz]

That sounds very similar to how I feel.
I never really feel happy or upbeat but yet I don't feel down & depressed.
I kinda just feel emotionless neither happy or sad. My brain never feels like it should, its like I never have any thoughts about anything when I am alone.
I can still have conversations with my flatmate but when I am at home alone its just like I am physically & mentally numb.
Would love to know why I feel this way & what a doctor would call it.

Sounds a bit like Depersonalisation.

Depersonalization as a symptom is an anomaly of self-awareness and sufferers can feel divorced from their own personal physicality by sensing their body's sensations, feelings, emotions and behaviors as not belonging to the same person or identity. Also, a recognition of self breaks down (hence the name), resulting in a loss of conviction with one's identity and a sense that it "slips away".

 

[knock]

Sounds to me more like Flat/blunted affect. (don't know if that's even a term used outside the US, though),

Blunted affect is the scientific term describing a lack of emotional reactivity (affect display) on the part of an individual. It is manifest as a failure to express feelings either verbally or non-verbally, especially when talking about issues that would normally be expected to engage the emotions. Expressive gestures are rare and there is little animation in facial expression or vocal inflection.[1]

Blunt affect 'can be symptomatic of schizophrenia, depression, or brain damage'.[2] 'The difference between flat and blunted affect is in degree. A person with flat affect has no or nearly no emotional expression. He or she may not react at all to circumstances that usually evoke strong emotions in others. A person with blunted affect, on the other hand, has a significantly reduced intensity in emotional expression'.

I'm no psychiatrist! But in the absence of other major symptoms I would guess it's most likely a symptom of depression.

 

[scrooloose]

Depression manifests itself in different ways.

People with fragile minds (such as i) should really avoid stimulants. I cannot kid myself that some are alright.........they are not,same with that potent weed,heightens my paranoia ten fold.

Put this way,after being awake for three days,that's all it takes before i'm scouring the loft with a torch to find "them people". Fell asleep at work the other day. I'm lucky to have a job left.He knows i have issues. I was being more odd than what i usually am.

 

[knock]

I started taking fluoxetine 20mg/day 14 weeks ago. I stopped taking them on Monday 24th June.

I haven't discussed it with my GP, I just stopped, because I am a risk-taker. I feel fine so far. Should I be scared?

Presuming I still feel fine on Friday 6th July (my Birthday), will I be OK taking serotonergic drugs?

 

[scrooloose]

where did my post go? did i press the wrong button or has Sammy G got it in for me.Scrap that it's reappeared

 

[Allein]

I started taking fluoxetine 20mg/day 14 weeks ago. I stopped taking them on Monday 24th June.

I haven't discussed it with my GP, I just stopped, because I am a risk-taker. I feel fine so far. Should I be scared?

Presuming I still feel fine on Friday 6th July (my Birthday), will I be OK taking serotonergic drugs?

That stuff makes me hurl knock, funny it never used to

The advice seems to suggest the effects can last as long as 14 days, but that's for discontinuation of an MAOI, personally I'd be cautious