Our Community Correspondent Emma Goodlad shares her experience of reducing her antidepressant medication Four weeks in, I’m feeling a lot more normal. The only side effect that seems to be lingering is the fact that fatigue is figuratively kicking my ass. I am a zombie today, I didn’t notice this morning on the way into […]
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Lena Dunham, panic attacks and getting back to feeling human: part 2 of a diary of antidepressant withdrawal
Our Community Correspondent Emma Goodlad @goodlademma shares part two of her diary of reducing her antidepressants The reality of reducing dosage of meds part 3…wide awake at 2am having a panic attack and not being able to stop crying. #myunfilteredlife #seemescotland @seemescotland #StartTalking #MentalHealth #AntiDepressants #SSRIwithdrawal #SSRI #Sertraline #depression #mentalillness #recovery #realityofdepression #nofilter #unfiltered A […]
I can’t express my gratitude for my friend’s kindness- part one of a diary of antidepressant withdrawal from @goodlademma
A post from our Community Correspondent Emma Goodlad I’ve been on antidepressants since 2015. Compared to some this is a relatively short time. I know people have been on antidepressants for years and will likely continue to take them for the foreseeable future – it’s not uncommon. For the last few months of 2017, I […]
I’m sleeping much better. So why am I still so tired all the time?
The third and final installment of our Community Correspondent Emma Goodlad’s sleep diary So, getting to sleep is much better, I can’t believe the difference focusing and using a couple of things on my phone is having. Bloody Andy from Headspace actually woke me up the other night after I’d fallen asleep in a quiet […]
How my trusty smartphone is helping me get a good night’s sleep
A post from Community Correspondent Emma Goodlad, who is keeping a diary about sleep I found it ironic that the day after I submitted my first blog, I had my first really bad day in a while. I’m realising this is just part of the journey I’m on, that each day is different. I have […]
Bed, sleep, head: a sleep diary from @GoodladEmma
The first installment of a sleep diary from Community Correspondent Emma Goodlad Lately, due to a number of factors, my sleep routine, and ability to get out of bed has been all over the place. Tiredness has been an issue for over a year now, with periods where due to mental illness, I feel constantly […]
Diary power for YOU
From time to time, throughout life, I have kept a Diary. The sequential, day by day empty pages are filled up with plenty of observations and nonsense of all kinds, and sometimes self-analysis of my reactions to these ‘observations’. If you decide to keep a Diary day by day, you will notice strange things start […]