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Age 65+
Interview 14  

Interview 14

Age at Interview: 73
Sex: Male
Background: A retired, married man. He has 2 grown children and grandchildren. Diagnosed in his early 20's he has had numerous episodes of depression and has suffered from anxiety.
Brief outline:Has responded well to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. He has the support of his wife and has built his confidence in a local sporting club. He recognises depression as a phase that passes.


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Describes getting excellent care at an NHS hospital outpatient clinic.

 



We were being treated by the top, the top man at the mental hospital place at the [Hospital], the professor there, and that sort of gave a bit more cred. And he was able to change my medication onto what, onto what's called sertraline. Now this has many, many less side effects than dothiepin and all the rest, for me. Whether it is for everybody else I don't…. I don't know, but it got rid of my stomach aches, wind, indigestion and all that sort of thing, and diarrhoea which was kind of a nervous reaction. And of course, whilst you're depressed I was thinking all those things were possibly cancer or something like that. And it's easy to convince yourself that it might well be because you don't reason straight. So cognitive therapy was, for me, the answer.
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