to want my colleague sitting opposite to stop crunching his fucking apple so loudly, the woman the other side of the office to stop thumping her bloody date stamp so regularly and loudly and everyone

[Ormirian]

in the entire bloody office to stop irritating me?

Well am I?

I am suffering from citalopram withdrawal atm so consider your answers very carefully.

Oh yes and AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!

Thankyou.

Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment!

YANBU I once had a collegue who ended EVERY phone call with "cheers, thanks, bye" but the bye was whispered and soooooooo annoying..

Feel free to kill

adverse - that is true. I spend more time sitting 6 ft away from said colleague than I do sitting that near my DH. Unfortunately I can't tell him to shut thh fuck up

i get the head zaps all the time. And feel drunk quite a lot - but not the nice cheery rose-tinted bit of being drunk, the nasty lurching 'woo...what happened then' bits.

And winter - that would wind me up too! I used to get unreasonably irritated with someone who would make a call and say 'Is X there at all?' to the answerer! WTF? At all? At ALL? Yes, he's here but only a bit

But I do feel better. I went to the pet shop and discussed dog crates.

YA definitely NBU.

I could write a book on how annoying the people I work with are.

Baby when I saw the thread title I thought it was one you'd started

I think winter definitely kicks the depression off in me - it's that long bastard 3 months between the august bank holiday and Christmas. Then I put on weight because I eat constantly. Then the cycle of self loathing begins. Then christmas and all the familial nightmare. The fucking January again.

I am going to keep aware of my moods going forward, I don't ever want to take drugs again, perhaps I will just have to accept that I am prone to nasty fits of depression, and by keeping a diary I will spot the cycle. Fuck knows what I will actually do when on another downward spiral of misery, but at least I shall confront it, iyswim.

Orm - take a lunch hour. I have found that since I have got this job I take a lunchhour and go out - I am so used to just eating at my desk and working through. I think it is really impirtant to take a physical break from your desk, and the morons who sit next to you.

However I am within walking distance of Swindon outlet - I end up spending money!

Hmm..Swindon, you say? Yet, you mention depression.

Totally with you, install ejector seats and buy yourslf a cone of silence....

I have one colleague who for no reason whatsoever it seems makes a random humming noise "mmm-mmh" like he is about to eat an imaginery ice cream sundae every half hour or so.

Then bridezilla and the verbal diarrhea on wedding favours, table dressings, menus, blah blab blah blab. I feel like my head is going to burst like that chap from the film"Scanners".

Funny i too have depression, do we pick up on sound more? Much as i love my husband his snoring makes me want to drive a pair of scissors into his chest when it's 4 am and he won't even turn over in bed.

I find myself sympathising with "Serial Mom " more and more these days!

I agree about taking a lunch break - though have to admit I've got in the habit recently of eating at my desk and barely moving all day. I feel better when I do it though. It's good to have a break from the stresses and annoyances, and if you can get out for a brisk walk, I think the exercise and the natural light are good for my mood.

Starting tomorrow I'll try to take my own advice!

Oh god i used to live in Swindon too! Well the outskirts....but close enough for the depression fallout dust to reach me ......

I just work in Swindon. I live however in Gloucester.

Oh.

"YANBU I once had a collegue who ended EVERY phone call with "cheers, thanks, bye" but the bye was whispered and soooooooo annoying.. "

I've just imitated somebody doing that as it doesn't look that bad on the page.
and:

FLIPPIN HECK IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT ACCEPTABLE

I had a colleague who wore ear-rings with little bells in them and shook her head at regular intervals to hear them ring. In an open-plan bloody office. In the end a much, much older (and very scary) woman told her where to put them - where she would not have been able to hear them but the sharp end which goes through the lobe would have been painful - and we never heard them again.

Getorf, there is a new website where you take a little test each morning, it gives you a score, and you can track your moods and look for a pattern-

www.moodscope.com/

If I were a viking and had to go into a beserker rage, I'd just stand next to a sniffer, clicker, tapper, nose whistler etc and I'd raze the bloody world to the ground.

RAAAAAAAAA!

And I want a silent death ray that can be used when you stop to let another car through where the road is narrow and they DON'T SAY THANKYOU! I mean it's just simple manners....death's too good for 'em!

I sit over from a French lady, a LOUD French lady, she sounds like Michelle off Allo Allo. Constantly
AH SAID SHOE PURRRRRRRRRRR non non shoe purrrrr - Esssa UUaa PPPPaa E Rrrrrrrr yes, yes oui our SHOE PURRR plan.

kin 'ell

and she eats crisps, with her mouth open..... mind you, she would say....

I sit ovah from an English lady ooo sings bladdy loud!

I too am coming off citalopram (hurrah!) and am down to 5 mg. Wish I could say that my general annoyance with annoying people was down to that though. I just always find it hard to tolerate people. The sniffing and coughing and eating noisily and breathing is all too much. I need to live on a desert island.

Good luck ohboob! Sounds like you are doing well.

See...I am a natural pollyanna - this is most unlike me. I leave the grumpy snarling to my Victor Meldrew of a DH usually/

I cold turkeyed off citalopram last year as it was making me feel weird.
You know when you were young and tried your Granny's glasses on and the world looked strange then you took the glasses off and it took a minute to readjust then it was normal again?
That is the only way I can describe it.

I lived on obscene amounts of chamomile tea, Naturecalm and wild bloody lettuce drops for a while and was a massive vache with earplugs in.

Good luck to all of you coming off citalopram.