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I'm back at work and on the board after being diagnosed with depression and having been signed off since March. I've only just started on medication really, so I can't offer any relevant information on coming off it. Just didn't want to start a new thread specifically to talk about me!
I was started on fluoxetine in March and after a week things had gone downhill so badly that I spent half the night on the phone to the Samaritans. Lovely chap called Tim with a down to earth Blackburn accent reassured me that the beds on mental health wards were far too full for them to section people who could still talk as rationally as I did. Fortunately for him the sun comes up early in Spring, and I could cope better by then!
Am now on paroxetine hycrochloride 20mg and it is working much better. I am over the side effects mostly, just twitching occasionally. Would rather have kept the loss of appetite! The fact that I am capable of coming into the workplace shows that it must be working, otherwise I'd still be catatonic on my sofa, but it's taking a lot of effort. I had hoped the drugs would suddenly kick in and I would no longer have to fight apathy to do even simple things like maintain personal hygiene, but it seems to be small steps uphill at present. Just have to keep reminding myself that even small steps are steps.
Glad to be back for the intelligence, the wit and the irreverance as much as the support. You folks got a good place here.
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