Hi everyone.
Firstly thanks to mods for doing a very quick job in accepting my request to join.
Im a 43 year old male, married with 3 kids and self employed.
Ive been suffering from depression for.............. I dont know how long
Funny how it creeps up on you and then one day bam! Well it was over a few weeks of bamming then it came to a head.
Had a pretty bad time but once i owned up to myself and gave in to the fact that I was not right things have got soooooo much better (with i hassen to add the help of prozac, am I allowed to say that ?). I have an overwelming need to speek and help other people and am amazed that if you open up to people they do the same. I now have profound conversations with all sorts of people, total strangers and long standing customers. I know prozac is not the long term answer (is it?) but at the moment things are ok (obviously with the ocassional crap day or bad reaction to something) and I just want to enjoy whats been missing in my life for whats been a loooong time, without realising. I think "meds" get bad press but then again im a bit of a med virgin
and maybe I will wish I was off them but they got me out of a scary place after kidding myself I could eat and exercise my way out of the black tunnel I gradually crawled down.
What hacks me off is peoples ignorance to depression, meds and therapy. This general attitude I think is to blame for people to be ashamed or scared to ask for help. There is no need to suffer and I have decided to join this forum tonight as a result of reading about a young snowboarder who took his life. No one around him seemed to realise he was in need of help. Any way perhaps im overstepping eticate here and I dont want to get booted off after my first post. +-_
Anyway hi again or maybe it will be bye.
Plumb
PS what next? where do I post or the best place to help share my experiances?
PPS sorry about my spelling, does anyone care? is there a spell check?
