- melanoma (and subsequent metastatatic melanoma the treatments for which included excisions, radiotherapy, chemo thrapy and immunotheraly) over about three year in total.
- then septacaemia (blood pressure down wat something over zero for a while apparently)
- somewhere in there the loss of my father at less than 70 years old
- two house removals required by job losses
- finding my new job was changed from a permanent to a provisional post based on word of someone gossiping from a previous employment
- loss of my mother (though I though that came after the Aropax was started, DH has corrected me.
At no stage was I ever offered or suggested coouselling or asssistance. I've been a social loner (almost a forced requirement of a job that demanded fifityhour weeks on top of family management) so never had anyone to chat to about how I was coping with the situations.
To find now that anti-depdressants can create health problems with over-long use, and that withdrawal can cause other problems unless carefully managed by medical expertise, is a worry.
Don;t let your doctor put you on them unless he/she has explained WHY, and of course WHAT other help will be provided (It's kind of like - you have financial worries, you have this pill, but it hasn't painted the damned house roof for you yet, has it?) and FOR HOW LONG will you be on them? Have the escape planned before you start them!
