Posts by Newsprint
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My expectations of the content of Girlfriend magazine were pretty low. What really shocked me was the level of comment from your panellists. An intelligent discussion of this issue would be a great thing . . .
And yes, wow . . .
And wow, it's amazing how a few years in the fashion industry can apparently obliterate the philosophies one learns in women's studies.
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the first approach to depression should be attention to the state of the person's endocrine function, nutritional status ... etc ...
You might well think so, but, I spent three years under the misdiagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, taking numerous medications which made no difference, injecting myself with B12, while the undiagnosed depression manifested in obsessive compulsive behaviours which eventually drove me to seek further help.
I cannot emphasise enough, and you see it in the thread here, that many/most? depressed people will go out of their way not to be diagnosed as such, or at least medicated. Following my diagnosis I then wrestled with SSRI's, going on and off them (not avisable) for a few years before actually seeing any benefits, which were gained by taking them daily with a mind that this would be an indefinite part of my life.