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Age 40-54
Interview 06  

Interview 06

Age at Interview: 44
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 41
Background: A married health care professional, with 4 children. Has probably suffered since her teens. She experiences mainly depressive episodes with some euphoria in-between.
Brief outline:Has responded very well to Prozac (currently 20 mg) and cognitive behavioural therapy, and feels she should be on an antidepressant permanently to correct a chemical imbalance.


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Her mother was ashamed of depression, but this health professional strives to be more accepting of depression.

 



I think that my mother had very similar experience to myself. She had, you know, I remember these highs and lows that she had. And I remember a couple of cases where she had you know a depressive, depressed period where she actually was on antidepressants. She didn't like taking them. She was ashamed of her depression, and she stopped taking them probably far too early, but you know this was just a period where I was in my probably late teens, early twenties. But then unfortunately she died shortly after that, so it's difficult to follow that through.  

And I suppose she wasn't seeing the real me in the short periods that we had together by that stage, because I had left home and was only coming back for a few days at a time. But whether you... she didn't see her depression as being a chronic illness. I'm not sure, I... part of me thinks that I am better at recognising it in others now. I sometimes see it in patients that are exhibiting maybe those early signs of what could be clinical depression that I might have missed before or given another reason for. But there is a familial link and I don't know if there is, but if there is a familial link you know I would hope that I would be more aware of how they are dealing with things in general. And maybe how I could help them if indeed they became like that. I think, I have a much more open relationship I think with my children now than I ever had with my own mother.
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