The only useful purpose this blog serves for me personally is to keep track of my mood swings, so I can look back and see if there is any seasonality or pattern to them.
As such I should record that about 2.5 weeks ago I began to feel depressed, but thought it would just pass in a few days like it often does. About a week later I was overwhelmingly depressed, though not suicidal, and experiencing anxiety, intrusive thoughts and OCD symptoms.
I went back to the doctor I first saw for SAD last monday and have been back on Fluoxetine (20mg/day) for 6 days now, and am feeling a lot better than I was before - this seems soon for the pills to start working, so perhaps it is just placebo effect but no matter.
The fact that this depression began to set in with the onset of the winter weather perhaps suggests seasonal affective disorder. However I have also been under immense amounts of stress from university so perhaps it is related to that.
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That's the most difficult part, trying to link or trace the depression back to a particular thing. Especially when there's so much going on, there's too many factors to really pin anything down.
ReplyDeleteBut you owe it to yourself to try. I hope this blog proves a useful tool, and you feel better soon.