Sounds like good advice & like you say I do have an exit strategy should things get too much.
Glad to hear you are doing marginally better, I'm sorry to hear you have no support except from on here, a bit like me I guess, I get a little support from a few fb friends who live many miles away so it's not like I actually see them or socialise with them. My mom is pretty supportive but I don't tell her everything as she has enough health worries of her own, my dad doesn't 'get depression' he just says 'f*** them all if they get you down', I don't talk much to my brother & my sister has no comprehension of depression or the effect it has on a person & their life, she thinks everyone should just get on with things regardless & that's about all the family support lol!!!
My appt with the mental health nurse went really well, he was really nice, made me feel at ease or as much at ease as I could be as I get anxious in those kind of situations, he was very thorough & really listened to my answers to his questions & really listened to what I was actually saying. I'm now going to be referred & my case will be discussed at the weekly meeting with the comm mental health nurses, drs, social workers & so on who attend these things. The nurse I spoke to wants to take my case on & for him to be my case worker, his opinion is that no-one has ever looked at the root cause of my depression & all that's happened is that I have been given anti depressants. He suggests a change of medication for one thing as the citalopram don't seem to be doing what they should do & some counselling & discussing of coping strategies. It all sounds very positive so I just hope the others who make the decision agree with him & I'm allowed to go on his case load.
Work are being a pain & have decided after 8 months that they are going to refer me to occupational health. I had a telephone referral with them today where they asked a lot of questions, I've now been emailed a copy of that report to see & agree or disagree with before I give my consent for it to be passed onto hr at work. The occ health nurse reckons that I won't be able to return to full time hours in the foreseeable future, hr are saying to me they cannot have a manager on 25 hours yet it's been ok for me to do that job for the last 8 months!!!!! I've no idea what will happen next, we will see, if I lose my job I will deffo go stir crazy as the days I work are the only days I manage to get out of bed & lead any sort of normal life.
How have you been today Craig? Are you sleeping any better now or are things about the same? What sort of things do you do/use as coping strategies when things get really bad?
Hoping you are improving as each day goes by xx
