So, This is my first real post. Fun!
I am going through a little bit of a relapse, the depression thing reared its ugly head a few months ago (well more like since mid last year...). I have been finding this really hard. I'm not the kind of person that will go up to a friend or 'trusted' family member and ask for help, or say something is wrong until it is too late or I'm at breaking point. This time it was breaking point.
To set the scene a little better I will explain a few things. Stuff went down at work last year (kass you know about that) and it knocked my confidence back quite a bit. Cosmetics is a rather faulse and cut-throat industry, the term 'Faking it till you make it' springs to mind. So I was making friends at work with people who were always on the ready to stab you in the back if it meant they would get ahead of the pack. This was something that never sat well with me, mainly because I trust too easily, which is a bit of a curse as I keep putting my faith in the wrong people. So I got burnt at work. I moved flat and got burnt by an ass that was trying to molest a friend I invited into the house. I moved home and am currently trying to survive the phenomenom that is Mel.
Mel: The bane of my existance.
She wears me down. She has physically and mentally worn me out. She repeatedly keeps stealing my prized or required things, just to annoy me beyond belief. Mel is hard work. I can see she is going to end up being brought home in a police car sooner rather than later.
With a combination of all this stuff and the added pressure of quitting my job and moving to Dunedin to be with my boyfriend and not getting a job when I got there, has once again taken its toll on me. I ended up on my bed, crying out of pure fustration of not knowing what the fuck to do any more, and Mum coming in and asking me if she needed to take me in to see my doctor. A
biiiig yep.
So Im now onto my third medication - escitalopram (hopefully the final) and Mum has said I now seem 'normal', whatever that is. I finally feel level again.
When I was on
Aropax I was on a constant high, didn't give a shit about anything, was consumed totally in myself. I was really vauge and felt almost airy.
Citalopram was different again. I did NOT want to leave the comfort of my bed, and found it really hard to even go and see my closest friends.I was very paranoid and uncomfortable in the world.
Escitalopram is better. I can function. I still have the ability to get angry, and actually feel emotion without bursting into tears everytime I get tired/angry/fustrated/sad/etc. Im getting there finally.
To get some help I've enrolled in Lifeworks
its a free couse to pretty much help me get my shit together finally.
*jumps into the shallow end and walks to the deeper end*
Labels: depression, drugs, farmers, mel