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Nov. 10th, 2006 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
retro_geekso, earlier today I went to the medical centre, saw a nurse, then a doctor, and after 45 minutes of umming and ahhing and weighing and filling in forms, here is what the three of us concluded:
*I am NOT anorexic (ha! told you so :P )
*I am, however, very, very underweight, down to 7st 4lbs
*this gives me a BMI of 15. The healthy optimum is 20.
*University has left me clinically depressed.
*As a result, they want to put me on prozac.
This was all a bit scary and overwhelming, particularly the last point. It also raises two potentially equally scary questions:
*If I decide to go on prozac/take some time off uni, should I/how do i tell my housemates?
*Same again, but with my parents?
Ohhh. I think I need a nice cup of tea and a sit down
(except I don't like tea, so hot chocolate will have to do).
*I am NOT anorexic (ha! told you so :P )
*I am, however, very, very underweight, down to 7st 4lbs
*this gives me a BMI of 15. The healthy optimum is 20.
*University has left me clinically depressed.
*As a result, they want to put me on prozac.
This was all a bit scary and overwhelming, particularly the last point. It also raises two potentially equally scary questions:
*If I decide to go on prozac/take some time off uni, should I/how do i tell my housemates?
*Same again, but with my parents?
Ohhh. I think I need a nice cup of tea and a sit down
(except I don't like tea, so hot chocolate will have to do).
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Date: 2006-11-10 03:30 pm (UTC)i took antidepressants for years without ever telling my family, because that was right for me.
(they dont pay much attention to me as a rule anyway, so it wasnt an issue)
do you want to take time out of uni?
the medication may affect you negatively to begin with (im not trying to put you off!) but if it would help longterm it can be really good.
do some reasearch online, thats what i did before i decded wheteher or not to take anything.
xxx