Antidepressants

Andrew: Admitting and talking to the doctor about it and him saying, ‘You know what, just what you’re telling me is - you’re depressed, you know, and a lot of these thoughts you’re having are just because you’re depressed.’ Fantastic, that was a good conversation and the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and the citalopram that I’m on have been fantastic.

Sonia: I guess I would advise anyone to find out what the side effects are because some of them aren’t bearable [um] and it, it is very different for everyone, whilst someone might get, you know, horrendous side effects on fluoxetine another person might not get any at all  [um] and you have to kind of think, you have to really think hard is it going to be worth it [um] because if you’re incredibly, you know, if you’re at the lowest point you can possibly be the side effects are probably worth it, if you’re mildly depressed they’re probably not going to be.

Stuart:  I think drugs are always, always worth trying and from my experiences they work very differently for different people and you can’t tell until you’ve started taking the drugs what they’re going to do for you, you can’t tell what the therapeutic effect is going to be, you can’t say what side effects you’re going to get if any.

Melanie: You know, I have heard people have said when they’ve taken antidepressants that they go all fluffy and they don’t really know what they’re saying and what they’re doing and I didn’t really want to be like that So to be honest when I did get my first prescription I read the leaflet inside, front and back, to make sure I knew exactly what could happen to me.