Interview 05  

Interview 05

Age at Interview: 33
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 24
Background: A computer programmer, married with children, who has had a number of episodes of depression, the most recent was very severe. (Played by an actor.)

Brief outline:Has very good care from his GP. Medication was somewhat effective. He recently stopped taking Lithium and Effexor.


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Antidepressant medication helped him to feel better, but he did not initially recover fully. (Played by an actor)

 



But my mood, started lifting. I did start feeling better, more energetic, less tired, more able to concentrate and more able to function. One of the, one of the most striking things that struck me the first time I took antidepressants and the second time is all of a sudden you realise how much colour is, there is in the world. 

But I think when I was depressed my, my perception of colour had really diminished. In fact I was sort of progressively seeing, you know, everything in a monochrome world and all of a sudden you know, you take antidepressants and you think, "Wow, aren't trees green", you know. Or, "Wow, apples they are red and they are sort of yellowie." 

And you sort of start noticing colours and things like that, which was great. But the pills weren't strong enough and although I felt much better, I didn't, I didn't stop feeling depressed and that was shortly before, before Christmas....

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