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Every person I have known who has admitted to taking anti-depressants has been incapacitated by their condition before seeking help. Their illness has dicked around with their life - unable to work, or caused a relationship breakdown, or self-medicating to the point of a hospital visit.
Oh, I lie. A bulimic friend was prescribed Prozac back in the 90s.
It just made her hyper, so she came off it.
Ideally I would like to receive CBT therapy.
It's supposed to be the very best long term solution for many depressives.
But it is time and labour intensive and only available in a very few places (on the NHS I mean - I couldn't afford it privately).
I've had some other counselling but it just seemed rubbish to me. Sit and have a chat.
I quite liked alcohol counselling, I admit. I would sit and flagellate myself and the counsellor would tell me I had no reason to hate myself so much and instead I was a wonderful person. I used to walk out of there with a spring in my step. It wasn't effective long term re becoming teetotal. But it really helped for a while.
Perhaps I'm not depressed, I'm just narcissistic. Is there a pill for that?
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