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Hi
I suffer from clinical depression since I had a break down in 2005, and have had good periods and bad ones, at the momements my depression is very bad, the phsych is changing my medication so I am on nothing only valium till they can start the new one. I wonder if someone can tell me if it is ok cos over the past 3-4 days I have been losing touch more and more with what is happening around me. Today, I just wanted to say good bye to the family cos I felt, not that I wanted to commit suicide but that I was losing touch with life reality and what is happening is this ok and when i start the new medication on friday Moclobemide will it begin to get better? if you have answers please help

This is normal when changing meds. I do it a lot. It will slowly start to ease up when you begin the new meds. But don't give up. give the new meds a chance to work and help you and try to hang in there until they do.

Thanks for your words,
Today is life is so much worse and i can't describe it but even the phone ringing frightens me, strangers may be on the other end...... taken to keeping the doors and windows locked just in case, I am frightened when i take my dog for a walk I may meet someone............. sorry folks but this losing touch with reality is terrifying

I kept my windows covered in blankets. Had no home phone for fear of it ringing. Never left the house even to go get the mail or take trash out. Lived this way for a long time. The longer you allow it to go on, the harder it will be to break it. And it is possible to break it. I did. I know you can too.