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25 January 2010
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Posted by Izzy
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I thought it might be helpful to share some of my experiences with medication, since I’ve been on several now and I am currently in the process of starting on a new one. Different antidepressants will work for different people, and will
bring out different reactions and different side effects, so my
experiences are by no means representative of how anyone else’s will
be. But whenever one of these drugs has had a weird effect on me I have
found it comforting to read other peoples experiences and find out that
I’m not alone.
30 December 2009
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Posted by Janey
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The Cochrane Collaboration will review all treatments for an illness, not just medication, providing they are based on randomized control trials.
30 December 2009
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Posted by Janey
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Like most people who have been a mental health service user in the UK for a while, I have spent time on the medication chlorpromazine.
23 December 2009
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Posted by Steve
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Happy Christmas!
From Tunbridge Wells in the snow, with abandoned vehicles on every street corner and juggernauts slipping down the hills on ice.
23 December 2009
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Posted by Claire
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Well here it is-Christmas is nearly upon us! For some of us it is a welcome time of year where we can spend that extra bit of time with our families and friends and indulge ourselves with good food and drink. For others it is a difficult time-particularly those of us with any mental health problem.
09 December 2009
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Posted by Adam
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Over the last few weeks, and since my meds have me pretty settled for
the time being, I’ve been good. I’ve basically been experiencing the
up-side of being bipolar; mild hypomania, with all its creativity,
productivity, sociability and fun! I’ve been working a lot and being
very creative. I work as a video editor and animator so when I’m high
the two go together beautifully. I’ve also been pretty sociable, doing
things I wouldn’t sometimes do, and loving it!
25 November 2009
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Posted by Izzy
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I went mountain the other night and it was fantastic, the first thing to cheer me up in ages!
I struggle quite a lot with bouts of depression and one of the worst things about it is that it stops me doing the things I enjoy; everything seems like a colossal effort and instead of getting out and about seeing people and being active I just find myself withdrawing from the world and spending days slumped on the sofa feeling like life is passing me by but not having the motivation to do anything about it.
16 November 2009
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Posted by Ebony
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So I'm doing well at college the creative writing is going well but its winter and I'm blue.
To be more precise I have negative symptoms , apathy and moderate depression not looking forward to the insane crush that is Christmas. My CPN has gone on extended sick leave following the death of a close relative and I received a letter from the Community Mental Health team telling me that they wouldn’t be replacing her.
13 November 2009
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Posted by Steve
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The consultation, New Horizons, has closed. I hope you had a chance to have your say. On the whole I felt it was indeed taking a new, more refreshing approach, but I feel it may have missed the crux, the reality of truly understanding people with mental health problems as human as all of us, what makes up the whole of our lives, our inner landscape, our aspirations, hopes and fears.
Here’s a few thoughts I offered…
09 November 2009
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Posted by Izzy
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“I walk this empty road, the only road that I have ever known, don’t know where it goes, but it’s only me and I walk alone”. Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Green Day.
This song speaks to me; the words seem to empathise with the way I feel, the way my life feels and has felt for as long as I can remember. It captures the sense of unrelenting isolation that haunts me; the loneliness of mental illness. “My shadow is the only one that walks beside me”.
