Date: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:34 pm
Subject: RE: Seroxat User Group Re: derek seroxat_addict
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Agreed I have put a lot of time and effort into the group. But it’s the many other users who contribute to what makes the group what it is. A much needed support network, something the NHS doesn’t seem to appreciate. In a recent survey in the Guardian 95% of users sought help from online groups rather than their GP's. Their GP's were quick to prescribe an antidepressant but when it came to withdrawing them from it they were absolutely useless (they didn’t know how), and users then turned to online groups such as ours for help. Members of this group as a whole have a lot of experience to share and unlike the NHS or GP's know something they don’t or are unwilling to admit, Seroxat and many other antidepressants are defective and should not be prescribed. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy should be the first choice antidepressants being the last resort after all other avenues have been explored. I've already been referred to a cognitive therapist previously and found her of little benefit, but then she was a trainee, and the choice of therapy was the wrong one I should have been according to my consultant psychiatrist been provided with mindfulness cognitive therapy. I'm being referred to Ninewells Hospital Neurology department to determine how best to manage my mental illnesses. Like you say the group is only as good as the people who attend and post regularly, in some instances individuals can provide support to someone at their lowest ebb and who have been failed by the NHS which needs to be radically transformed from a useless service into one that caters for the needs of mental health users like ourselves.
Derek. Xx
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/mindfulness/ might be of interest to our Welsh members?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1572307064/202-4401450-7961438
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