If you have got through depression without tablets, come and talk to me

[NAB3]

Sorry, that it is me again.

Goodness! Did I miss something? Do you get a prize for getting through depression with0ut meds?

I can't do it.

somepeopl find the tablets worse than the depression.

What do you mean, allhallows?

Stop running sweetie.

Can I email you? I have a feeling you're even more like me than I thought before.

[email protected]

allhallows, stop being flippant.

You obviously haven't read where Nab says she will have to come off it eventually no matter what she takes... & that's the part she can't deal with.

Sure you can. Trsut me you can do anything, just stop thinking that you can't.

Not everyone judges NAB - and nobody (normal)judges people, no matter what their age, who are in vulnerable situations.

wish I could do more to help

I was so happy when my baby was born.

at some point you just have to say to yourself - shit happended it was really rubbish now i have to make me happy.

how are you going to make you happy

certainly wollowing ont he unformtunate events that have brought you to this isn't going to help

the ting about telling other people rubbish thigns that have happened in your life is two fold

1. you have to listen to their stories - they mght not be as rubbish and you can't create a rubbish hierarchy - or they may feel they dont' deserve sympathy and ergo feel rubbish!

2)it just sends the wrong unhappy signals - not a lot of real life people want to sit with me whilst i tel them how i watched my dad die and how i found my mum dead earlier this year.

but i have to move on.

grief and depression though connected are different. I have had major depression and the key is to just wake up and say "today WILL be better, i WILL go out of the house, I will do something fun with my kids , i will...etc...etc. make your own list.

I knew that kind of post was coming.

custy - sometimes wallowing can feel a whole lot safer.

Yea, well the wonder of this is you are completly free to ignor anything you don't like!

Check your email.

I am not wallowing. Believe me, I hate being like this.

I didn't mean to be flippant, God knows, depression is too terrible to be flippant ab0ut but tell me, NAB3, why are y0u coming off your meds?

Well Then, Its time to fix it. You can, it is possible.

Think you have been struggling with this for years. This what i would be like to wake up sometime in the future and not have the weight pressing down on you.

You can do this and you are not Wallowing, your struggling and you are not alone.

God I'm so sorry NAB - I didn't mean it like that I know you're not "wallowing" in a self indulgent way. I meant that it's bloody hard to get out once you're in there.

You can beat depression without the help of medication but you have to have the determination and will-power to fight it. I've done it. I'm sure others can too.

I've got friends who have been on ADs for years and want to get off of them but are too scared to.

I'm just so glad and relieved to have been persuaded not to go down the road of ADs.

I am off the drugs as the gp told me too and we both thought I would be fine.

I had been great just recently.

Have sent you a short email.

NAB - StaryNightSky speaks very wisely - I instinctively feel it'd be good for you to chat. I have to go (sorry - v pg & can't sit for long) will be back tomorrow though. You'll be fine.

Haven't got it, FFF2.

Well, you have been doing really well.

Look you can handle this but you have got to find the courage from so where. I know you have it you've got so far already.

There are plently of people here that will try and help.

If you are determined not o go back onto the tablets. Then you have to move forwards.