I've got a chronic health condition that has left me disabled as well as cfs/me, depression, anxiety and ptsd around anything to do with hospitals.
I'm on 60mg of fluoxetine and 50mg of nortiptilyn (although the latter is for pain). I've just completed an 8 week course for pain management which included cbt and relaxation techniques. The problem I'm finding is that the course which was a total of 40 hours at the hospital has triggered my ptsd even more as I was surrounded by all of the reminders of bad experiences in hospital.
The 60mg of fluoxetine was keeping the depression at bay although not getting rid of it. What I've found in the past couple of weeks is that it is wearing off by mid afternoon. The clinical psychologist who ran the course will be recommending further treatment through my gp but I need to get my gp to do something first. He has previously said I need to reduce the fluoxetine before I can go on something else. Is this true? I'll be in an even worse situation then.....