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Mental Health Issues....
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Silly Sausage | Report | 5 Mar 2014 09:56 |
Thats what I mean Sylvia how many new Mothers have and probably still do felt they were in a pit of despair and looked around at ofther mothers and thought they seem to be coping why cant I. How many have confided in others and been told to snap out of it. I do remember my Mum referring to one of 2 people as " living on her nerves " At the time never quiet grasped what she actually meant. |
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Sylvia | Report | 5 Mar 2014 00:37 |
Aww I really do sympathise with everyone who has suffered with any kind of depression. I also suffered from it after the birth of my second child years ago. He had a heart condition and was so poorly. We were told we could lose him. He had surgery at eleven months old and was a very sick baby. After a week on life support he started to get stronger and was able to come off it. I had never seen a doctor about my depression because I was embarrassed at the time and thought people would judge me. I know different now. As he got well the depression lifted and I came out of that bubble I was locked away in. I was lucky and our son will be 31 years old this month.xx |
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Silly Sausage | Report | 4 Mar 2014 22:11 |
I remember my mum telling me about when she was nursing and had sent with an ambulance to an incident this was in the 1950’s. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 4 Mar 2014 21:58 |
as you say Wend, she was in a bad place and chose to "get out" |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 4 Mar 2014 21:27 |
My mum also suffered from mental health issues all of her life and had every form of treatment known. Largatil, E.C.T and Lithium ect |
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Mersey | Report | 4 Mar 2014 20:31 |
Wend <3 <3 <3 |
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Wend | Report | 4 Mar 2014 20:28 |
I know Ann - it just wasn't successful in my mum's case (and perhaps there was more to it that I don't know about). Her treatment to-day could well have been very different - who knows? I don't ponder too much - I've just come to accept that she was very unhappy and what she did was probably for the best. She would have continued to live a miserable life otherwise :-( |
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Silly Sausage | Report | 4 Mar 2014 20:25 |
Awww Wend how awful <3 Its susposed to cause an fit which then releases a chemical in the brain that makes you feel happy or happier , but I am old fashioned and think its messing about with nature, however its confusing as I do support the use of anti depressants if needed. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 4 Mar 2014 20:15 |
that's awful Wend - I do feel for you |
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Wend | Report | 4 Mar 2014 20:01 |
Thankyou Barbs and Kitty - it wasn't PND in my mum's case - she was just totally shattered when the husband she adored left her with 2 small children to care for (me and my bro) when he was 30, for a married woman aged 43, whom he later married :-| |
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KittytheLearnerCook | Report | 4 Mar 2014 19:50 |
Awww your poor Mum Wendy, how sad is that :-( |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 4 Mar 2014 19:48 |
Oh Wend, how very sad. I am so sorry. |
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Wend | Report | 4 Mar 2014 19:31 |
My mother was given electric shock treatment when she was 26 in the 50's and I think, as Sylvia said, it did more harm than good. She was prescribed Largactil (as the girl in Midwife was) and that had terrible side effects. She never recovered and eventually succeeded in taking her own life aged 49. |
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Silly Sausage | Report | 4 Mar 2014 19:20 |
I think its more than 1 in 4 Ann maybe only 1 in 4 will admit it as some still sadly think that being depressed is a weakness. |
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KittytheLearnerCook | Report | 4 Mar 2014 14:26 |
Same here Ann, I barely functioned for a long time, but still needed people around me to treat me the same as always. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 4 Mar 2014 12:48 |
one in four of us is likely to suffer with mental health problems - I am one of them - I have clinical depression |
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KittytheLearnerCook | Report | 4 Mar 2014 11:26 |
I often wonder how many more visitors my Mum would have had if she had suffered a physical illness that didn't affect her brain. |
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Guinevere | Report | 4 Mar 2014 07:31 |
I had to look away as well. I know someone who had it done not that long ago. |
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Sylvia | Report | 3 Mar 2014 23:47 |
I saw that Hayley and thought how awful it must have been. I had to look away when she had the treatment. Like you say, thank goodness things have changed I always wonder if it did any harm rather than good to the people who had that treatment . |
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Silly Sausage | Report | 3 Mar 2014 22:20 |
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