Posted by Deniseuk190466 on April 16, 2007, at 11:37:40
In reply to So when did your depression and/or anxiety start?, posted by football on April 14, 2007, at 21:24:56
I was 17 years of age when I started to feel something wasn't right and I actually thought for a long time that I was dying.
I had all the blood tests and xrays and they found nothing until eventually the Dr just told me to go away as there was nothing wrong with me. I even then thought there was something physically wrong they just hadn't come up with a diagnosis. I never considered myself depressed just ill.
Then when I was 24 it seemed to get worse and I went to my GP in tears. He prescribed this Prothiaden (tryciclic) which I didn't want to take because I didn't think I was depressed. I'd never even heard of antidepressants at that time.
I gave in and took them and WOW it was like being reborn (the experience was so profound) I'll never forget it and I never really looked back.... Until now of course.The prothiaden seemed to stop working so well when I was about 28 so took Seroxat which again worked wonderfully. I also had therapy which I found pointless. I then came off antidepressants at the age of 31 and lo and behold my old (long forgotten friend) came back to haunt me at 35 and is still haunting me now, I'm 41.
Denise
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