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The EADD Mental Health Support Thread

My dizzy spells have only just subsided in the last couple of weeks, three months after stopping taking fluoxetine, and I'd taken it for less than three months. The dizziness was not exactly debilitating but it was the most unpleasant and long-lasting side-effect of any drug I've taken! And fuck knows if it did me any good, it felt like it did for the first few weeks but that's not the way they're meant to work. Very possibly placebo. I feel better now than I have done for a long time.
 
Charlei you speak troof as usual. how can a psychiatrist that only sees a patient for an a hour a week in a false situation possibly know the patient better than the patient themselves? You are right about the medication thing. I could have argued with my drug worker the other day about the old h. She was saying "you take that and it never does any good" i agree overall the out come is bad , except that it is the issues around illegality that make the negatives most negative. Ah well. In this target driven society she has given me till june to be out of treatment.
 
pinkpapaver said:
Charlei you speak troof as usual. how can a psychiatrist that only sees a patient for an a hour a week in a false situation possibly know the patient better than the patient themselves? You are right about the medication thing. I could have argued with my drug worker the other day about the old h. She was saying "you take that and it never does any good" i agree overall the out come is bad , except that it is the issues around illegality that make the negatives most negative. Ah well. In this target driven society she has given me till june to be out of treatment.
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Aye, my therapist is lovely and she does help in many ways but sometimes she says stuff and I'm sitting there thinking "you can't possibly know that and you're totally fucking wrong", sounds like she's regurgitating text book example stuff occasionally.
 
pinkpapaver said:
i'm fed up of having so "talk about it" for so long so often. it only adds more to the making me feel bad for doing it.. but if i don't do it i break into a sweat...etc etc etc
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I chose to go to a therapist, I imagine it's much more difficult / annoying if you're there because you're required to (I assume that's the case if you "have to" do it?)

I'll probably stop going soon, I'm going less often anyway and I sometimes wonder why I'm going.
 
Hey Yella,yeah the quetiapine does cause drowsiness but doesn't knock me out like the olanzapine did.I had to see a senior shrink and he put me on this to supposedly boost the antidepressant effect of the sertraline aswell as having antipsychotic properties.I do find myself needing to sleep for a couple of hours during the day and tend to lay in. Hope your relative has been put on the right med.It's all trial and error.

All the best to those struggling.
 
Tell yer man who's "given you tlll June" to discharge treatment to do one. They may encourage abstinence but not enforce it against patient wishes. Too many dsps are putting patient welfare second to the boosting of funds with "successful discharge" bonuses and misrepresenting the situation to users unaware of the precise guidelines. As a result,many allow their scripts to be reduced before they're ready and find themselves back on the corner again.
 
Charlie I am so pleased that you are around to inform people of their rights and help us all be aware of the games and lies that the different Dsp's try and fob us off with.
Knowledge certainly is power regarding them lying to us about government guidelines and the other crap they come out with.
 
Spent last night at my friend's house, well we were at his girlfriend's house for the first part of the evening. They live in the same town but both have kids from past relationships, so no room to live together. His girlfriend's friend was round too, with her two kids from her broken relationship. What a mess!

Obvious set-up, and the lassie was nice enough, we got on well but she came out with some really blinkered shite about how junkies should be sterilised. She has a sister with a habit and she was talking about how she has unwanted children, yet she was tanning the booze and drugs quite happily with her own kids upstairs! But it made me think about my own hypocrisy, I cane the drink and drugs but I was saying that a more palatable course would be a temporary contraceptive implant rather than sterilisation, while they get themselves sorted. Yet I wouldn't want to give up getting wasted if I had kids. I might tone it down a bit, but I can't see me going straight edge if children came along. Same logic applies for heroin addicts. I spent a while today examining my prejudices, I think it's quite a healthy thing to do. So, I detected some of my own bullshit and labelled it appropriately.

Also was the most relaxed and at ease with myself as I have been for literally years. I was able to see and let go of my own anxiety and uptightness. Things, including myself and other people, may not be perfect, and improvement is always welcome, but there's no point being anxious about it. I think I've been anxious about things for too long. There's a difference between caring about things and wanting to make things better, and being worked up and stressed about them. Hopefully I can hold on to this new, more relaxed way of being.

Oddly enough I think I got to this Zen state with the aid of stimulants - 4-FA to be specific. It's actually a very fucking relaxing drug. Gets bonus points from me. <3
 
That should work mate, going for morning jogs although I dont do it anymore, but when I did do it it set the day up in a positive way, get's all your endorphins pumping early and can make things seem a whole lot easier.

If you need anyone to chat to mate just give us a bell, you've got my number, well you do if you look at my facebook wall.
 
Mugz said:
That should work mate, going for morning jogs although I dont do it anymore, but when I did do it it set the day up in a positive way, get's all your endorphins pumping early and can make things seem a whole lot easier.

If you need anyone to chat to mate just give us a bell, you've got my number, well you do if you look at my facebook wall.
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Thanks for your concern man, its nothing too major. Iv just been having heavy weekends for the past couple months and find the week days more difficult than need be. Im sure if i take care of myself properly for a while il be sorted!

Yes mate i have your number and likewise if your not feeling well and want to chat!
 
i'm now on 600mgs quetiapine and they knock me for six within an hour,up from 450 mgs.I'm bouncing off the walls,slurring. I wouldn't call it enjoyable.I've taken them about five minutes ago,supposed to be at 6pm a bit early. I want to fight it.I'll see if i'm dribbling in my roast lamb dinner later. My missus said i awoke stumbled to the kitchen,ate two apples then went back to sleep on the sofa,and i half wake up talking nonsense,intermitently,but i don't remember any of it.
 
See if you can get trihexyphenidyl, it can alleviate some of the problems with quetiapine.
 
Quetiapine made me bite my tongue, it was horrible, risperidone was the worst for drooling though, I hated the stuff.Trihexyphenidyl does help though.
 
Filling out my form now for the new doctors. I was genuinely surprised that the jobcentre actually recommended to me that I keep getting sick notes until I am not even getting proper SSP anymore, or until they fire me. I just hope my new doctors will oblige.
 
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