Hello, i'm mentally ill.. and also British

[Saxmoof]

Welcome Saxmoof I'm glad you decided to join us.

I can certainly relate. I'm an England guy too (despite some recent attempts to prove I'm American due to tea preferences!) I love Yorkshire, we went there for a holiday and had a great time.

I've also struggled with depression during my life, and I still do daily. I'm also in therapy for it and on a very high dose of anti depressants. I have anxiety too, it's better than it used to be but still affects me. At one point I was so anxious I could barely get out of bed and couldn't even open my mail. So I know the feeling all too well.

Feel free to send me a PM if you feel the need to talk one on one with anyone. And I'm sure you'll get lots of support here, so you can tell us what's on your mind anytime.

Don't think i've ever heard of anyone going to Yorkshire for a holiday, you must really like hills because that's the only thing of interest here i can think of

How does therapy for depression work? I'm in therapy for the Anxiety and with that it's fairly simple you just expose yourself to situations that make you anxious and gradually get less anxious. But with depression i've no idea how you'd fix that with therapy because you need a lot of motivation and belief to make it work, when my depression was the main problem i thought there's no point trying therapy, i'm beyond being helped

What medication(s) are you taking? I tried prozac at first but that gave me a temporary high that left me more depressed than before when it went away and now i'm on the highest dose (can't remember what that is) of zoloft and that seems to be working well for me

Thanks for the PM offer, might be a bit too anxious-making for me at the moment to have a one on one conversation with someone but i'll remember you if i ever feel up to it and need to talk

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Yep, I've heard it too. Also, "What, is it like being really sad?"

No, it's really not. It's like wanting to go throw yourself off a cliff rather than grind through another day.

It's more like being constantly apathetic and unable to feel anything than feeling sad which must be hard for healthy people to relate too as it's pretty unimaginable

Yarkshire? Goint down't ruurd! haha sorry I had to

This is blatant racism against me and the proud people of Yorkshire and i am extremely offended