black dog
It’s all a question of balance
Strange. Even with everything going so well; new place, lots of early season snow promising an amazing winter, business looking up etc, the black dog tries to poke his annoying head in. I could sit and analyse the reasons he’s shown up - the waiting, the stress of moving, blah blah blah, but essentially it’s [...]
Prozac doesn’t work when wrongly prescribed
So says the news today. No shit. It works just fine for the particular purpose it’s designed for - it’s just that it heavily over prescribed to people who don’t need it. If you don’t need it it, it’ll do nothing. That’s the beauty of it. Unlike the old skool tricyclic antidepressants which had terrible [...]
Back to normal
Whatever normal is supposed to be. That’s how I’m feeling as my second week in the smoke comes to an end. Being back in the UK was pretty stressful to begin with. The early starts, constant travelling, the people rushing around shouting into phones, busy office, the bombardment of advertising and strangely the food. British [...]
Petite’s black dog
I don’t know if petite reads my blog, but I certainly read hers. Blogging about the black dog recently was a difficult decision for me, and hard to write. This beautifully written post by Petite Anglaise, which I think covers the same topic, is strikingly accessible even to those lucky folks who never feel the [...]
Autumn
It’s suddenly got very cold up here. Crisp blue skies and low temperatures, autumn has arrived. People were scraping ice off their windscreens for the first time this morning. I like it. I like the fact that the summer is drawing to a close and time moves on. The seasons are so distinct up here [...]
SSRI Update
So after nearly 2 weeks of SSRI’s, how is it going? Better. I’m not out of the woods yet, but better. To begin with it was a little like being hit over the head with a frying pan. Like I was knocked out, I kind of shut down. I started sleeping a lot. I’ve had [...]
Looking for lumberjack schools
Sometimes I get really sick of working with computers and start to daydream about what else I could do for a living. I call it looking for lumberjack schools because a few years ago I came up with the idea of going to Canada and being a lumberjack. Playing with chainsaws and all the smoked [...]
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
I should have done this a month ago. The signs were there, the sleep disturbance, the hair-brained schemes, the inability to concentrate or make decisions, excessive consumption of alcohol and cigarettes, anxious irritability and loss of interest in…. well, everything. Stop messing about, I need SSRI’s.
I found a doctor here in chamonix, did some research [...]
Private: Black Dog
So if I’m going to do the Samuel Pepys thing, I might as well go the whole hog. There have been subjects I’ve avoided writing about on this blog. Sex is top of that list, and that won’t change, but I’ve never really broached the subject of depression. It’s not even a word I particularly [...]
