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I now find
myself trying to live with depression, but, I have played around with different
antidepressants to find the right one for me. I am on a very low dose, 5mg, which I take every 2nd or 3rd
day, just to take the anxiety away. I
have chosen not to be drugged up on antidepressants and to try and learn to
live with the depression. I have good
days and bad days. I take each day as it
comes and only do what I can on good days. Bad days I tend to stay home and wallow in my own despair, that way I am
not having a negative impact on family or friends and only see them when I am
chirpy.
From my own experience, antidepressants are a
nightmare, but they should be taken if you need them, depending on the degree
of the depression. When I had the
breakdown, I definitely had to be on a higher dose. For people with a liver disease, like
hepatitis C, half the recommended dose is applied, as antidepressants are toxic
to the liver. If any of you need to be
taking these, research all antidepressants and find out all you can about them,
some have more side effects than others.
I
have suffered 3 different kinds of depression, they have not all been
the same experience and are not related to each other in any way in my
opinion.
Another
thought on this subject is that at this time in my life, I have never
been happier, I have no stressors, I have a wonderful partner in my
life, I long ago accepted the fact I had hepatitis C, diagnosis was not
the onset of depression as many studies seem to suggest, I have no
financial problems to cause me stress or depression, so why do I still
suffer depression? My theory is that the hepatitis c causes depression
with relation to the neurotransmitters in the brain and tissue.
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