Posted by James Hastie on February 11, 2004, at 10:42:24
... it's my first time posting here.
I've been reading these posts for a while now, and I've finally got round to registering so I can post myself. So I thought I'd say hi to you all and introduce myself a bit.
I'm 30, British (I live in SW England) and work as a computer programmer. I'm married and my wife is expecting our first child in July. I also suffer from recurrent depression with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - basically I get periods of my life when I get miserable for no good reason (that I can see) and start brooding constantly on negative thoughts, usually about death and dying. This will go on for days, weeks, one time it went on for three months, and then it will just lift almost as quickly as it came on, and I'll be back to normal for months, before it starts all over again. This has been happening to me since I was 15, and I must have had dozens of episodes since then. I have kind of learned to live with it, except when the episode lasts for a while (I'm currently in my sixth week), and then I get really frustrated and hopeless.
I would love to hear from anyone who goes through the same sort of thing, especially if you're a fellow OCD sufferer (with or without depression). Sometimes I feel I'm going through this alone in all the world, and I would dearly love to be proven wrong on that.
Anyway, nice to make contact with you all,
TTFN,
poster:James Hastie
thread:312018
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