Tvåhundratjugotvå.
So yeah, appointment with the resident doctor was today.
She was very nice and attentive and asked good questions and listened to what I had to say. Or maybe I'm just biased to any nice lady who'll actually listen to me at this point. I ended up "filling" two whole pages of her little notepad, aha.
At one point she wanted me to to fill out a short questionnaire-thing regarding my symptoms. Basically it listed symptoms and I had to tick a box ranging from "never" to "every day" for how often I experienced them. That was very... sobering. Over half of the symptoms ended up in the every day column, the others varied. It made me think "Shit I'm not actually supposed to feel this way am I?" for a bit because those symptoms were pretty severely formulated.
So then, conclusions. She referred me to the clinic's councilor, got a blood sample to eliminate the possibility of any hormonal imbalances or such, and made an appointment for me to come back and talk to her again in a month. Meanwhile she asked me to take walks in the daylight and slowly (she was very firm on not rushing this) adjust back to a healthy sleeping pattern. I really appreciated that, because I'm reading into it that she knows how easy it is to fail when you try too hard, and subsequently how the depression only gets worse because you get on your own case over failing.
ILU Doc.
She was very nice and attentive and asked good questions and listened to what I had to say. Or maybe I'm just biased to any nice lady who'll actually listen to me at this point. I ended up "filling" two whole pages of her little notepad, aha.
At one point she wanted me to to fill out a short questionnaire-thing regarding my symptoms. Basically it listed symptoms and I had to tick a box ranging from "never" to "every day" for how often I experienced them. That was very... sobering. Over half of the symptoms ended up in the every day column, the others varied. It made me think "Shit I'm not actually supposed to feel this way am I?" for a bit because those symptoms were pretty severely formulated.
So then, conclusions. She referred me to the clinic's councilor, got a blood sample to eliminate the possibility of any hormonal imbalances or such, and made an appointment for me to come back and talk to her again in a month. Meanwhile she asked me to take walks in the daylight and slowly (she was very firm on not rushing this) adjust back to a healthy sleeping pattern. I really appreciated that, because I'm reading into it that she knows how easy it is to fail when you try too hard, and subsequently how the depression only gets worse because you get on your own case over failing.
ILU Doc.