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Man, I was exactly the same last week, just really, really down and couldn't seem to get out of it. Which is scary when you've been doing pretty well and feel like its all come down around you like an avalanche. But next week will be better, hell tomorrow will probably even be better. Its the...

I feel you, I've been on a real downer over the past few weeks too but am slowly coming out of it. I recommend cooking for at least an hour when you get home and listening to a lovely, relaxing album while you do it. This is my personal favourite to help calm me down:

same to you!!! thanks for this response, it does feel like i'm being a mad, oversensitive idiot sometimes. Or kind of like... I'm 26 now, I should probably be able to handle having feelings.. its just those times where as you said it overwhelms you.

I'm actually doing ok myself, but since coming off my meds, I find that although my overall mood is good when things are going well, it gets really, really affected by external factors. Like, to explain, if something goes wrong at work, I am sent into an instant state of panic, and tears and...

Yeah thats pretty much what I said to them. I think honestly its more the epilepsy thing, since I wasn't diagnosed as a kid they sort of freak out about it now like I'm a kid, if that makes sense. But sure yeah, I'm making serious travel plans for next year, with a friend that knows how to...

;____; I CANT, I'm going to Slovenia and Austria instead, with two people.

I had a similar experience with my folks, though they meant really well. They just kind of wrap me in cotton wool because of my anxiety/depression and my epilepsy. I'm 26 and when I told them I was going to go to Iceland on my own for a week, they lost their shit and acted like I was a bab. I...

Re the above, your GP will usually be a good one to recommend a counciller, or give you a referral.

*Also, sorry to keep ranting about CBT, but... you mentioned that you feel like you can sort of get yourself together for a while, but not sustain it, and kind of go back into the "whats the point" mentality.. that was / is exactly what I was like, I'd get my shit together, feel like I was happy...

Where abouts are you based? I went to my regular GP in Ranelagh Medical, and she was incredible. She prescribed SSRIs and referred me to a CBT clinic (this is for generalised anxiety and major depression disorder). I'm normally not one for therapy, had bad experiences throughout my teens with...

Not at all, good question hah! Well, I'd been on sertraline for about a year and it was working well, but ultimately was a bad combo with my epilim. I also had a personal goal to give it a year and see if I could do without. I think it'll be fine in the longrun, I think its like... positive...

having a bit of a crap time of late. off my meds about two months now, which i suppose could be part of it. also could be winter, and what not. heres to 2015 being way better.

I'm sorry to read this :( I can't even imagine what you're going through, and its really hard when chronic illness gets in the way of your social life. I had a similar - well not really that similar - issue earlier in the year with my illness, I was sick so often and in hospital so much that I...

And me too. Not that I've been here for 10 years but when I do read over this thread, it kind of alarms me how bad I was at different points in my life, and even though I still have my own struggles here and there this kind of reminds me of how far I've come, with diagnoses, medication, therapy...

Yeah, I think my problem right now is that I'm finding it really hard to do anything at all. Like getting out of bed just seems like the worst idea ever and when I'm out of bed I just keep thinking "I wish it was bedtime again so I could just sleep through all of these days". Agh, that sounds...

I definitely need to get my B12 levels checked out.

Yeah, I really regret not taking advantage of some pretty good councilling services when I was in education, or even going through the NHS, with all its faults, when I was in the UK. I'll look into some local councilling though, its probably the best bet. Re: medication, I've been on Lexipro...

I wonder if anyone can help with this - Unfortunately being unemployed and waiting for social welfare (already depressing), I can't afford to go to a GP, nor can I afford whatever perscription he would inevitably write, yet its gotten to the point where I really, really need to see someone about...

thrawling through this thread for the last three hours has helped somewhat with what i have come to call my impending classic narcissism. i always know its coming because i stop sleeping at night and persist in staying up as long as possible even though im so tired i could collapse. inversely...