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Age 65+
Interview 01  

Interview 01

Age at Interview: 75
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 35
Background: A former brewer, feels he was probably depressed even as a child. He has had a number of bouts of depression and currently has cancer.
Brief outline:Treatments have included ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy), hospitalisation, talking therapies, lithium and medication. He was on a preventative, low dose of Zoloft (sertraline 100mg/day) due to his wife's death.


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Argues that very depressed people need to accept help from doctors, including medication, at least initially.

 



I mean it obviously needs to be a medical person. And I've met with such a lot of kindness from the medical world that... you've got to trust them. And accept that they are giving you drugs for your benefit. You've.... you've nowhere to go. So your back's to the wall, so the only way to get better is to... let the medical people help. 

I mean I can judge situations in retrospect, but at the time, I was almost immobilised, inert really. Yeah it was.... I would sit in a darkened room with my arms over my head for hours, feeling so wretched I didn't want to eat or drink. So I was totally.... almost totally withdrawn, so you're not really able to make any judgements and that's it....
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