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Age 30-39
Interview 08  

Interview 08

Age at Interview: 33
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 24
Background: Works as a receptionist. She had a difficult childhood. She has been sectioned in the past, been on numerous medications, and had ECT (Eletroconvulsive Therapy) which she did not like. (Played by an actor.)
Brief outline:With the ongoing care of her GP and ongoing counselling with a skilled practitioner, she has been in recovery since early 2003. Not currently on medication.


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Her warnings signs for depression include intolerance of noise, isolation, a sense of something is wrong and wanting to lose herself with medication. (Played by an actor)

 



You were saying before that you know the warning signs. What are the warning signs for you?

The warning signs for me are I don't listen, I can't listen to music or television. I can't bear noise. I'm very intolerant of any noise. Any kind of noise at all, and I take to my bed. Or I isolate myself. I stop answering the phone, before that something must happen before that. Just generally feeling things aren't right. Something is wrong somewhere. Intuition. Something's wrong. Something's not right.

I don't feel at ease with myself. I don't really want to be with myself. If I could get drunk. I haven't turned to drink. I have drugs, I have used my medication to get myself off my head sometimes, sleeping tablets. I've taken four or five sometimes to just release myself.

And it's the same thing as getting drunk. You kind of need to lose yourself because you can't bear to be with yourself anymore. I'm not really sure what that's about but.
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