What my CPN suggested about monitoring

Flat rather than sad was the closest I could get to describing mine, and it took me two months to find a clinician who understood that distinction.

What Bel described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

The routine came apart first for me and the mood followed, and my therapist thought that order was informative rather than incidental.

My other medication needed reviewing and a pharmacist spotted something two doctors had not. Do have the interactions conversation properly.

What I would say is that a change in mood is worth reporting even if you cannot attribute it, and especially if you cannot attribute it.

I told my GP later than I should have. Please do not do what I did. The conversation was much easier than the four months of not having it.

I would have written the same thing a year ago, word for word.

What helped was telling one person honestly rather than four people partially. The partial versions were exhausting and got me nothing.

Somebody here said that a hard week does not need a cause to be legitimate, and I have carried that around for two years.

Gently disagreeing with Marguerite, or rather adding the other half of it.

My experience is that this is discussed far too little and I am grateful this circle exists rather than it being folded into a general one.

I found it useful to separate what I could raise with a prescriber from what belonged in therapy, because I had been taking everything to the wrong door.

I had a difficult autumn that had nothing to do with any of this, and disentangling that was most of the work of my second year.