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Originally Posted by elevatedsoul
i understand you...
try to make a routine for taking your medication... it wont work properly unless you take it everyday...
i take mine first thing in the morning when i crawl/fall out of bed and grab a cup of coffee - cigarette...
some times its easier to remember to take them before you laydown to sleep...
personally antidepressant by itself has never helped me in anyway...
i've tried several and the only time my depression lifted a bit was when i was over medicated - but i was taking a bit too many pills then.. all prescribed of course
i think the seroquel helped more than any of them... and the klonopins...
but seroquel will make you sleep so you have to take it like right before you lay down to sleep...
being admited to hospital didnt help me any... because i was being treated for bipolar anyway and i dont have bipolar... they just gave me more meds and increased the doses... the only good thing the hospital did for me was keep me from cutting myself...
do you have a psychiatrist? therapist? or seeing just a general practitioner?
regular doctors wont be able to really zero in on your symptoms and treat the specifics... if you cann need to get a psychiatrist - that is best because it is for the longer term ... the hospital can be good for imediate crisis intervention... but it wont make all of your problems just go away you know...?
im sorry you are having a hard time... i think its time for you to either increase the zoloft (50mg isnt that much..) i was on 200mg zoloft...
and time for you to see a profesional that can zero in on your symptoms and treat them specifically... with stronger meds...
stay strong... and keep writing here if it helps you even just a little....
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I've been seeing a "therapist" from the mental health team, she's a community nurse who specialises in mental health. I do have a psychiatrist who I'm supposed to meet with every three or so months. Last time I saw him was about six months ago - appointments are arranged through the mental health team who see me, I have no contact details for him.
I am planning on telling him, when/if I do see him soon, that I either need more help as in more qualified/more regular people to see and speak to, or hospital as a last resort. I'm afraid of myself and I'm afraid I'll end up giving up completely.
My mum recently went to the doctors (general practitioner) and straight away got 50mg of an anti-depressant I was on a few months ago. So yeah, I feel like the mental health team have kind of just forgotten about me. She is also seeing someone once every two weeks.
I am just a bit fed up of being over looked. They over looked me 3 years ago when I was in hospital for an overdose, they over looked me the numerous times when I got black-out drunk alone in my room because I couldn't cope, they over looked me when I ended up in hospital twice in a month because of two overdoses within a week of each other and then still claimed I didn't need to be hospitalised. I was also told three weeks before my eighteenth birthday that I wasn't "bad enough" to be seen by the Adult Mental Health Team. So yeah, very fed up of the NHS Mental Health teams.