Today is World Mental Health Day

[SupremeSpod]

Today I saw my GP and have just swallowed my first levothyroxine pill. Optimistic that years (decades) of feeling knackered and bloody miserable were all caused by low thyroid hormone and two weeks from now I should be a new woman!

Watch this space!

Good luck with that.

How will we recognise you?

[SimonMac]

Today I saw my GP and have just swallowed my first levothyroxine pill. Optimistic that years (decades) of feeling knackered and bloody miserable were all caused by low thyroid hormone and two weeks from now I should be a new woman!

Watch this space!

[mudskipper]

Good luck with that.

How will we recognise you?

I'll be the randy one - apparently low thyroid also affects libido.

[SimonMac]

And you couldn't even get that right!

An old "joke" but someone had to post it.

How do you feel now?

I wouldn't expect anyone to alter their behavior just cause I am ****ed up in the head, so its all good.

I am much better, took me a while to "work out my demons", started concentrating on what is important, finding out what I needed to make me happy and spend more time getting close to the kids again after pushing them away with my past actions.

And so joining CUK General made you realise that in fact there are far more fruity loopier people in the world than yourself.

Every morning I look in the mirror and say "You can do it, at least you are not MF"

How do you know if you're sufferring from depression? How does anybody know?

I was lucky and had people around me who noticed

[SimonMac]

I'll be the randy one - apparently low thyroid also affects libido.

Should make the next Steak Club interesting

[Ketchup]

I think there are lot of people who suffer with depression and dont even realise themselves, they have been in that state for so long the think it is the norm. I have suffered with bouts of depression as a by-product of anxiety, and it is not something you can snap-out of like most people think.

I think doctors need to be better trained in anxiety/depression. Although they are vastly different disorders, they are both treated in the same way by most doctors (meds), IMO (IANAD) meds don't cure the underlying issue, they just alleviate the symptoms so the patient can get better. I tried to get help a couple of times, both times i was just given meds and told there was a 6 month waiting list for any of the treatments that were meant to be the most effective (exposure therapy, CBT). So i researched the treatments myself, and practised what they taught, telling myself it was all or nothing, i gave myself a time limit to get better or give up, i am pleased to say i did get better.

[SupremeSpod]

I think there are lot of people who suffer with depression and dont even realise themselves, they have been in that state for so long the think it is the norm. I have suffered with bouts of depression as a by-product of anxiety, and it is not something you can snap-out of like most people think.

I think doctors need to be better trained in anxiety/depression. Although they are vastly different disorders, they are both treated in the same way by most doctors (meds), IMO (IANAD) meds don't cure the underlying issue, they just alleviate the symptoms so the patient can get better. I tried to get help a couple of times, both times i was just given meds and told there was a 6 month waiting list for any of the treatments that were meant to be the most effective (exposure therapy, CBT). So i researched the treatments myself, and practised what they taught, telling myself it was all or nothing, i gave myself a time limit to get better or give up, i am pleased to say i did get better.

Is that from the outside looking in?

I'd be getting your money back from specsavers.

[doomage]

Does anyone else think that CUK is a good approximation of the internal monologue of someone with Multiple Personality Disorder?

We all need an Admin to ban the bad posters who dwell within.

[KentPhilip]

I've suffered from depression several times over my life, and am currently on long-term antidepressants. They work well, and at the moment I'm as happy as a loon.
One benefit of contracting is that you can more easily hide gaps in your work history caused by being unable to work through depression. Although when permie you can be off sick you won't get any career progression after such an episode due to not being trusted to not go off sick again.

[mudskipper]

Does anyone else think that CUK is a good approximation of the internal monologue of someone with Multiple Personality Disorder?

We all need an Admin to ban the bad posters who dwell within.

So this thread was a ruse to round up all the loonies before carting them off to the funny farm?

I've suffered from depression several times over my life, and am currently on long-term antidepressants. They work well, and at the moment I'm as happy as a loon.

Happy loon is better than sad loon.