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Originally Posted by northern
I just couldn't believe he's attitude and blaming my husband for my depression etc. Been living this nightmare for years and just battling along, being the supermum. I'm very good at hiding my feelings until I hit a brickwall and I start ranting & raving and pulling the house apart.
I believe I have always had this problem since age 14 and at times it has nearly destroyed me and my marriage. My husband has always been there for me, in all of my mood swings. He is the calm one, and takes alot of crap from me. So I suppose in a sense the poor man is an idoit for staying for the past 32 years.
Once at aged 17 I was put on an antidepression medication and I totally lost the plot. Tried jumping out the back of a moving Panelvan as I thought everyone inside the car where monsters. I couldn't see anyone I knew after a nap, just freaky monsters. Screamed my lungs out and tried to dive out the back.
At the time I was just taking the prescriped meds, no funny fags, no alcohol, no party drugs etc.
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What a crappy experience!! I'm sorry you had to go through that when you were already having a hard enough time without the jackass psychiatrist.
Call me paranoid, but I think all psychiatrists are lacking in proper education and/or oversight. Usually both. Secondly, their training in psychotherapy and clinical psychology is substandard to say the least.
I always say that you should see a clinical/counseling psychologist (PhD. or PsyD.). Do you have that option? They can refer you to a GP for prescription medications if you both think it might be worth a shot, but only in collaboration with the psychologist, and as a team approach. I'm American, and from everything I have heard from people here on PC about the quality of your mental health system in Australia frightens me. I thought America had problems, but it seems that you guys might have more problems in that area than we do... and that's crappy!
What is your next step? I always make contingency plans because I don't trust people based on reputation or credentials alone.
