Posted by Meri-Tuuli on March 2, 2007, at 9:16:22
In reply to Re: Atypical depression, posted by Ines on March 2, 2007, at 8:01:15
Hey again!
Well there's actually lots of UKers on this board. And well, I don't know how to put this, but I saw a psychiatrist (on the NHS) and they weren't clued up with atypical depression really either unfortunatly. I asked the pdoc if he thought I was an atypical depressive and he said 'well your depression isn't that atypical' and I was like 'how is eating and sleeping all the time, not very atypical?' until I realised that he thought that I literally meant atypical as in 'not typical' rather than the depression where you eat/sleep etc alot. It was quite strange anyway and quite disheartening. In general, I would rate the pdoc as um, pretty useless (putting it mildly).
Well I think GPs should know about atypical depression, considering its the more common form, and something like 1 in 4 appointments are to do with mental illness (or some high figure like that) so thats alot of patients who aren't getting diagnosed properly. Plus the *average* pay for a GP on the NHS is £100,000/year, well I really think they ought to know, don't you?
Have you tried moclobemide? Thats a sort of 'soft' MAOI. I got my pdoc to let me try it. Zyban (wellbutrin here) might be useful too. Thats only licensed for smoking cessation, but my GP let me try it as its also a popular AD in America.
Another thing, you can have access to the BNF online (you know, that little book GPs use and look stuff up in). Its very useful to see what drugs are there, and what they're indicated for etc etc. Its http://www.bnf.org/bnf/ and you have to register, but its dead simple.
Let us know how it goes!!
Kind regards
Meri
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