I've been being treated for depression & social anxiety for the past three years, I'm currently on the maximum dose of venlafaxine & have been for the past 6 months. For the most part, my depression is pretty well controlled now; it's more problems with anxiety and low self esteem I struggle with on a day to day basis, but from time to time I have episodes of feeling completely..........I suppose desolate or desperate is the best way to describe it, with suicidal thoughts & ideas, and it seems to happen for no apparent reason.
As an example, I've had a fairly crap week for various reasons, but I was coping alright with things until yesterday evening when I became VERY depressed, couldn't stop crying, even though I didn't know what I was crying about, and I just wanted to end it all then and there.
In the end, I took a big dose of sleeping tablets to make sure I wouldn't do anything stupid, but it scares me a lot.
Any ideas why this is happening and how I can stop it?
2007-12-15
10:50:08
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