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Coming off Citalopram – crying in the car…

October 21, 2012 By Ellen

Don’t worry this isn’t a sobbing into my shredded wheat kind of post.I just thought that there might be some interest in how I’m doing since I decided to come off Citalopram.I have, for once, done exactly what I said I was going to do. I cut down dropping half a tablet here and there […]

Filed Under: antidepressant, citalopram, Coming off citalopram, depression, PND, post natal depression, Radio 4

Advice for a new mum on her due date

October 5, 2012 By Ellen

You will think your baby is cuter than this no matter how many chins it has My friend Julie Scrumptious is expecting a baby – her due date is today.  It’s a little over 13 years since I sat there all fat and fed up waiting for IT to happen. I remember how it felt – […]

Filed Under: advice, gestation, help, Julie Scrumptious., new baby, PND, pregnancy, pregnant

What would make this country the best in the world to bring up children?

October 1, 2012 By Ellen

Glasgow’s Riverside museum – fabulous and free We all want the very best upbringing for our children. Of course we do. It goes without saying that along with the stretchmarks and eye bags we get a built in urge to try our hardest to make this happen. Often this journey is one of impossible riddles […]

Filed Under: child poverty, childcare, flexible working, help, lone parents, National Parenting Strategy, parenting, PND, Scottish Government Tagged With: childcare

Coming off citalopram

September 1, 2012 By Ellen

  First things first: My only medical training is a nearly 20 year old St Andrew’s Ambulance certificate in first aid. Therefore I am not qualified to tell you what to do, your GP is. Go and see them, please. I don’t know how many people are on antidepressant citalopram but, lots certainly. Put it […]

Filed Under: antidepressant, citalopram, depression, mental health, nhs, PND, post natal depression, withdrawal

Mental health carnival: Stroking the black dog…

January 23, 2012 By Ellen

“And I write this to encourage all of you out there who are stroking the Black Dog, who endure the gray days with a Blitz spirit, as I do.” Vegimite Vix When Carol from Dance Without Sleeping asked if I’d mind holding a mental health carnival, I agreed in an instant.  Mental illness, of all […]

Filed Under: carnival, depression, guest blogger, mental heath, PND

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