Mood dipped at week six and lifted at week twelve

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

Taavi has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

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.

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.

Coming back to say I am better. It took two clinicians, one medication review and a very patient friend, and it took about eight months.

That is a very clear way of putting something I have never been able to put clearly.

Picking up Abram’s point rather than starting a new 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.

Reading this at half past six with a cup of tea and nodding at every line.

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