Today I had my first meeting with my new community mental health nurse. So it wasn't a good day for feeling like a normal human being! I arrived even more stressed out than I would have already been as I got completely lost and walked miles out of my way before I found the clinic, and so only had half a session left!
There were actually two nurses in the meeting, as one was a student nurse, and the other was supervising her, but the supervisor kept taking over. They were both really nice though, and just treated me like a normal person, which helped. I have discovered that once you are diagnosed with a mental illness you are then doomed to spending your life repeating yourself, answering the same questions over again. At least these two actaully listened though, unlike my GP and psychiatrist, who I've explained to that the anti-depressants don't help, and the nurses agreed with me. They also said that they don't think I should be on the Seroquel as it's mainly an anti-psychotic, and what I really needed was a mood stabilizer. Seroquel does have mood-stabilizing properties but they're obviously not very strong. The thought of taking lithium scares me somewhat though, the side-effects are meant to be pretty heavy....
2008-07-13 @ 17:24