Dealing with depression - suicidal thoughts - Join the conversation (including helpline details)
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primmiemoo
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The little I know about it is never to take it with prescription antidepressants, and always to talk to the Pharmacist and the GP if wanting a herbal alternative to conventional antidepressants.
Dread to think what might happen if someone made their own concoction from picked plants without the right training. I can think of four yellow flowered herbs found in similar places that include St John's Wort. One is decidedly poisonous.
And the leaves aren't as distinctive in field conditions as might be expected.
yes.
...or at very least discuss it with your usual/regular ( who knows you and your situation well ? ) mental illness understanding GP. ... ??
No, it's crap, and can also interfere with other meds you are taking. I find Valerian root to work quite well for mild anxiety and sleep problems. You can swallow the capsules, or I mix them into camomile tea. And take some diazepam!
Christoph1945
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Rather than actually adding something to your diet, could it possibly be that one needs to drop something from one's diet? For me it's wheat, gluten in general, and moderate alcohol and caffeine.
Sensitivity to certain foods has been known for centuries. After all, Adam and Eve were advised to avoid a certain fruit; after eating which there mind sets were changed. No doubt, Cain continued to eat the same said fruit and he suffered severely from paranoia and killed his brother.
Well worth keeping a food diary and seeing if depression/anxiety (irritability) follows close on the heels of consuming certain foods.
Chris
Sensitivity to certain foods has been known for centuries. After all, Adam and Eve were advised to avoid a certain fruit; after eating which there mind sets were changed. No doubt, Cain continued to eat the same said fruit and he suffered severely from paranoia and killed his brother.
Well worth keeping a food diary and seeing if depression/anxiety (irritability) follows close on the heels of consuming certain foods.
Chris
Christoph1945
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Hi Bob,
Mother passed away in 1984, just after I returned from working in Eastern Europe. Dad passed away some three years later, following recurring depression but his passing was from natural causes.
I was saddened to hear that you lost your parents so early in your life and I imagine the loss must have moulded much of your every day thinking. Were your parents taken from you by an accident?
Chris
Hi Bob,
Mother passed away in 1984, just after I returned from working in Eastern Europe. Dad passed away some three years later, following recurring depression but his passing was from natural causes.
I was saddened to hear that you lost your parents so early in your life and I imagine the loss must have moulded much of your every day thinking. Were your parents taken from you by an accident?
Chris
No accident Chris. They both died of cancer Dad when I was 12 and mother when I was 15
I also lost a sister who was 10 years older than me when I was 19 also to cancer
Christoph1945
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Were they farming folk? Or perhaps smokers?
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Christoph1945
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Our daughter once dated a farmer's son who's mother died from cancer and who's father later also developed and died from cancer. Our daughter's best friend later married the farmer's son and she also developed and died from cancer. I couldn't help wondering if there was some sort of link between cancer and the farm!
Chris
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I’m the first one in family to have any thing to do in farming
Mothers family had drapers shop business for many years
dad had prostate cancer but also smoked mum and sister both breast cancer
I’m the first one in family to have any thing to do in farming
Mothers family had drapers shop business for many years
Christoph1945
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A tough hand to be dealt at such a young age Bob. How did you cope with it all?
nickirl
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Today is my uncle birthday he would have been 58 he died of cancer at 50.
I spent more time with him than my father.
Watching him die was horrible and i understand how hard it is.
Time does heal but as @country_gal there are always reminders of him everywere but you just have to get on with it.
I spent more time with him than my father.
Watching him die was horrible and i understand how hard it is.
Time does heal but as @country_gal there are always reminders of him everywere but you just have to get on with it.
It's nice when the reminders make you smile. A little story that makes me smile....my mums favourite place was Disney World in Florida. We went as a family for holidays and then two years before she died her and my auntie went by themselves. My mum brought me home two decorations for my Christmas tree. One was Belle from beauty and the beast and one was Jessie and bullseye from toy Story. She showed me them and said she would keep them safe and give me them at Christmas time. Well the next two Christmases she turned the house upside down and could not find them. She was so upset about it. I thought she had maybe given them to my auntie by mistake. She literally raided the house. When she died and we were sorting through her things I was sure we would find them. But we didn't. Then one night I went to visit my dad and there sitting on his sideboard were the two ornaments. I literally squealed out loud asking where did you find those. My Dad said they were sitting in the sideboard on top of his photo albums and he couldn't figure out who they belonged to or how they got there....I told him how mum and I had been looking for them as she had bought them for me.....he couldn't believe it because he had had all the albums out previously to get pictures for the funeral and hadn't seen them. So Belle sits on my hall table and Jessie and bull's-eye are in my book case
nickirl
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Spot on
Losing a loved one feels like that, too.
Reading that, I couldnt quite believe how accurate that is, absolutely 100% spot on sadly.
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I've often tried to describe my anxiety and depression, without much success.
This, sums it up perfectly.