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Originally Posted by happycheeks
I'm also in the UK. I've been to the GP many times. Sometimes I'm prescribed medication or I have to self refer myself to therapy 4 u. It was helpful. The mental health services in the UK I must say in my opinion are not good. Some GP are concerned, some just want to rush you and give you medication. I give up going to the GP. Plus, I'm tired of people forcing me to go to the GP because how I behave and apparently it's all my fault. Forgive me if this has nothing to do with your thread but I hope you get the best treatment possible  |
I appreciate that, Happy Cheeks.
The GP was better than I'd feared. But the antidepressant was more powerful than I'd imagined. And the Valium-type drug was hopeless. I abandoned it almost straight away. It was like taking two sleeping tablets and then (without sleeping them off) going in to do a long and gruelling day at work.
I got a few weird symptoms with the sertraline. Muscle cramps. The kind you get in your legs if you haven't cooled off after exercise. The spasms made me hop around the bedroom, screaming. Only pressing a damp sponge against the muscle would ease the agony. Then a muscle in my neck would do the same.
Some nights, I was just lying there, pressing cold sponges to different parts of my body. I looked like a wounded soldier or something.
That wasn't much fun.