General / Mental Health Support Thread

PinkFinal said:
Has anyone ever had an increased dosage of an antidepressant and felt worse?
This last week has been one of the toughest of my life. Absolutely ducking horrendous.
Though so far I've avoided hospitalisation or self harm.

They doubled my Mirtazapine dose recently.

I think it's worth mentioning that if my experience is anything to go by you can't just feel better by taking antidepressants. You should combine it with regular exercise, good diet, sensible sleeping and the rest of it.
Which also includes less time doom scrolling.
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I recently had my citalopram upped from 20mg to 30. I think it's starting to help...less feelings of doom. Even with City's recent form, I thought: "oh well...it's just like the good old bad times".
 
PinkFinal said:
Has anyone ever had an increased dosage of an antidepressant and felt worse?
This last week has been one of the toughest of my life. Absolutely ducking horrendous.
Though so far I've avoided hospitalisation or self harm.

They doubled my Mirtazapine dose recently.

I think it's worth mentioning that if my experience is anything to go by you can't just feel better by taking antidepressants. You should combine it with regular exercise, good diet, sensible sleeping and the rest of it.
Which also includes less time doom scrolling.
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Hopefully things will improve for you after another week or so of adjusting to the new dose. If problems persist, I’d speak to your GP about reducing your dose and possibly consider trialling a different medication. Personally, mirtazapine just made me ravenous.
 
Coming up to my 1-year anniversary of nearly dying of pneumonia, and I'm on my 3rd chest infection in 3 months.

It's really getting me down, blues. The relentlessness of it.

Signed off work so feeling useless. Scared to exercise in case I can't breathe. Scared to go anywhere because there's germs everywhere. Too exhausted to clean my house or cook a decent meal or see people or prepare for Christmas.

Can't begin to describe how much I'd love a thumping City win and some positive vibes right now.
 
Lauz9888 said:
Coming up to my 1-year anniversary of nearly dying of pneumonia, and I'm on my 3rd chest infection in 3 months.

It's really getting me down, blues. The relentlessness of it.

Signed off work so feeling useless. Scared to exercise in case I can't breathe. Scared to go anywhere because there's germs everywhere. Too exhausted to clean my house or cook a decent meal or see people or prepare for Christmas.

Can't begin to describe how much I'd love a thumping City win and some positive vibes right now.
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Sounds awful mate, hopefully brighter better times ahead. You got anyone you can talk to
 
normskih said:
Good, hope you're feeling better soon. Put some feel good DVD's on, anything to make you feel better. Take good care of yourself.
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Thank you. Bunkered down for the day under a pile of blankets with a big pot of tea. Luckily these infections are responding to treatment but it's just grim to keep getting them.
 
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