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Intrusive thoughts and Depression and Anxiety

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citalaman
citalaman

Hi, i am coming on to my 9 week of these tablets and the last 9 weeks seem like a blur. I feel more happier but.... I need your thoughts on thoughts.

During this episode i have been reading Claire Weeks book on nervous breakdowns and she has a chapter on thoughts and how you should not pay any attention to them as they can stick and then you can start a whole other cycle of anxiety and depression. Thoughts like \"have i hurt someone\" eg.

Can someone reasure me please that things you think in this state cannot be trusted, i would like some reasurrance from people or someone who has got better then looked back and thought \" i had nothing to worry about, and this whole thing was because i got depressed......blah blah blah\".

I read somewhere that depression leads to the part of the brain that deals with inteligents to mis fire. Has anyone else heard this.

Is depression a spell that we fall under.

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  • Lizy
    Lizy

    Posted

    Hi Citalaman

    I think depression and anxiety is in your genes and triggered by circumstances around you.

    Thats just my feeling on things.

    Glad to hear you are feeling happier.

    Lizzy

  • citalaman
    citalaman

    Posted

    Another thing is that i have never seen myslef as ill. Has anyone else had this issue, its only now after 9 weeks i am thinking i should accpet it. Spunds wierd i know, but you read so much on the internet about depression not being an illness that its hard to know what to think is wrong with you.
  • Guest
    Guest

    Posted

    Hey nothing wrong with you !!!

    Reading material.... \"Ben Elton\"Dead Famous\" reading this at the moment. All females reading material (sorry do not mean to be sexist) try Marian Keyes

    she touches on things which effect us all in her \"fictional family\"great author def worth a read for us, touches on so much stuff \"with comedy..and serious things..

    Andrea KH

    look after yourselves

  • Guest
    Guest

    Posted

    Hi citalaman

    Just wanted to let you know that I have been where you are and give it another few weeks and they wll really start to work. I was quite severely depressed, i had a terrible time and thought things that i can not now even talk about although at the time they seemed real. I now know of course that it was the illness talking an dthe tablets you will find, will help you to block out these feelings by alowing you to not go into them too deeply - youwill have aquick though rergarding something you dont wnat to then later it will become a blur and you will have forgottem what it was that was bothering you - they give you the ability not to ponder which is one thing you do not want to be doing while you feel like this - i juat came off the citalapram after 2 years - slowly and my choice, i feel myself again, although always in the back of my mind i will be hoping it never returns.

    Do not read book about depression, do not read other articles in the hope that it will make you feel better and do not think that ther is something else wrong with you. This will be unique to you an dyour feelings, thoughts are yours. Keep busy, listen yp upbeat music and never feel bad about the way you feel. It is an illness and now i realise that and you too will once you come out the other side, and you will know when you do. You need someone that will sit and listen to you without judgement and just let you talk about what you want to andget it off your chest, that is the best thing. Take care you and remember if someting comes into your head that you do not want there, look in the mirror and say no and turn and go to do something else, knowing it is not really you but this bad time you are going through.

    xx smile

  • citalaman
    citalaman

    Posted

    Thankyou so very much, the things i think seem so real. Things that never bothered me before. How do you feel now emilysmum looking back?
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