Postby TackingIntoTheWind » Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:44 am
Welcome to the forum! Like you, this is the first internet forum that I've ever tried. In fact, I didn't even have an e-mail address until a few months ago, when I realised that I needed one to post on this forum, and give the world the benefit of me.....er......" wisdom. " ?
Seriously though, there a lot of people with depression " out there ". I was off work for five months with anxiety and depression, worsened by a previously undiagnosed inherited genetic blood disorder. When I returned to work and people asked me where I'd been, I would just give them a brief explanation of the fact that I'd been off with anxiety and depression. And, on several occasions they turned out to have depression themselves, and before you knew it we were swapping antidepressant stories!
Good luck, we're not as alone as it can often feel!