   Hi, Miss Laura. The first step to solving a problem is acknowledging that it exists, and now you've done that and taken the appropriate first steps to taking control of your life and health. It takes at least 3 weeks for Prozac to accumulate in your system to start experiencing some real therapeutic effects, so be patient. Does your pdoc also provide psychotherapy? If not, you might want to consider finding a good T who can help you maneuver through the depression - as they say, "Know thine enemy." The more you understand how it affects you, the better you will be able to develop coping mechanisms to protect yourself and learn to heal. Please keep posting and let us know how things are progressing, and know that there are plenty of us here who know the terrain pretty well and can lend a helping hand.
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"I walked a mile with Pleasure; she chattered all the way, But left me none the wiser for all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow and ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her when Sorrow walked with me!"
(Robert Browning Hamilton; "Along The Road")
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