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Age 40-54
Interview 20  

Interview 20

Age at Interview: 47
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 32
Background: Originally from Northern Europe, is a health professional. In 1989 her 'emotions caught up' with her, and she became severely depressed and also had psychosis.
Brief outline:Her recovery initially came about after hospitalisation including Electroconvulsive Therapy. With supportive long-term therapy and medication (Prozac and lithium) she has been in recovery ever since 1989.


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Female
Says that being intelligent can be unhelpful when depressed if it means you look for explanations, rather than deal with your emotions.

 



I ah.... I think, being intelligent when you're depressed is not a great thing, because I think what you try to do is you try to, I think I said it before, you try to intellectualise everything, you try to make, understand it, why these things are happening to you, without necessarily confronting the emotional issues. I think also that it, ultimately it gives you an insight, which sometimes makes it more difficult, you know you sort of understand too well about what can happen or what can't happen, but I think the big thing is that it doesn't matter how smart you are, you've gotta deal with the emotion. And I think sometimes intelligent people run away from the emotion by, literally, burying their head in a book, or, trying to find some sort of solution or biochemical explanation why they're sick.
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