Thank you ellie,
How is everyone?
I hope this thread does not die a death as it helps to know there are others in the same boat.
Been on sert just over three weeks now and six weeks before that on citalopram. My anxiety in the evenings is better than before starting ADs but, a lot worse in the mornings than before.
The same could be said of my low mood. But my worst problem now is absolutely zero motivation.
Before starting I went to bed every night and got up every morning, washed and dressed and then cleaned up and walked the dog.
Now since starting the ADs I sleep on the sofa in my clothes most nights and go three or four days with out showering or changing and I am doing nothing around the house instead spend my days on the sofa watching rubbish tv and worrying this will not get better.
I feel a fraud as not a mum, I am a single man who gave up work to move in and look after an elderly friend with health problems who suffered injury after a fall.
Then after eight months an operation and many hospital visits my freind recovered at which point I developed a headache for several weeks which inturn triggered my anxiety which led to my current foray into ADs.
I really need to get better from this as the sofa has become a prison and my friend as gone from the cared for to the carer and I feel a burden.