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Depression and Lethargy

05 Jul2010

I don’t know what to write. I can’t write anything meaningful, but I wanted to write something. Things seemed better for a while last week (apart from Tuesday evening), and I thought I’d mostly gotten over the adjustment to my increased dose of Venlafaxine. Indeed I was back on my normal daily dose of Quetiapine [...]

Pharmacetica Dramatica

Medications, Random 20 Responses »

29 Apr2010

Monday 19 April, 9pm Order prescription via the online EMIS system. Quetiapine (300mg) is due to run out by Wednesday, and even though I am seeing the psychiatrist on Wednesday, I don’t want to take chance that she will not modify the dose and that I will therefore be without the medication. Lose plot by [...]

Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: An Anti-Psychosis Army? NewVCB and C: Week 47

C, Medications, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy 17 Responses »

25 Apr2010

I don’t really see a lot of point in going into great detail about last week’s (15 April) session with C, mainly as we spent almost the entire time together discussing my recent hallucinations which I have already detailed here and here. Furthermore, because I’ve been too lazy, too fuckwitted or too pre-occupied with other [...]

Insomnia

Medications, Moods, Traumatic Stuff, Triggers 26 Responses »

24 Apr2010

Despite the name of this blog, I don’t think I’ve ever written much about the subject of insomnia. Well, it’s about 2.35am and I am wide-awake, so let me address that issue right now. I know that I could be using this time to write something useful (insofar as the rubbish I write here can [...]

Psychiatrist Appointment Win?

Mental Health Diagnoses, Psychiatry 16 Responses »

10 Mar2010

I saw my consultant psychiatrist, NewVCB, for the second time this morning, an appointment that I’d been dreading for days. Even though my first encounter with her back in January had gone without any significant hitch, and even though I had established on that occasion that she was not as formidably intimidating as OldVCB, I [...]

Progressing, Regressing, Transgressing

Everyday Life, Moods, Traumatic Stuff, Triggers 8 Responses »

14 Feb2010

So. After the misery of January and the earlier part of this month, I had thought that things were beginning to find more of an even keel. That perhaps the Quetiapine / Venlafaxine ( / psychotherapy?) combination might be starting to yield some results. My motivation is still shockingly low, but my mood is higher [...]

Akathisia

Medications, Moods 16 Responses »

02 Feb2010

My descent into complete madness continues, ironically – I am convinced – as a result of anti-psychotic medication. I am fairly certain that I am experiencing, and have been experiencing, the phenomenon of akathisia. It is so difficult – impossible, I believe – to describe this thing of complete awfulness in any coherent or accessible [...]

Sleep…Perpetual, Troubled, Desultory Sleep

Everyday Life, Moods 11 Responses »

31 Jan2010

In the last few days the title of this blog has become something of a misnomer. Ha – no, I’m hugely playing it down in saying that – it is a complete misnomer. I am not anything even remotely approaching an insomniac. I am afflicted with a severe case of hypersomnia, sleeping as I have [...]

First Appointment with NewVCB

C, Fighting with the NHS, Medications, Mental Health Diagnoses, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy 17 Responses »

20 Jan2010

Yet another day with two posts. Sorry. In short, she is better than her predecessor, though as W said to me this morning, she could hardly be much worse. In fairness to OldVCB, I had come round to her a little before our relationship was severed, but nevertheless, I am not exactly sorry to see [...]