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on antidepressant so cant even
Posted: May 28, 2014
I finally interviewed with the company of my dreams. I thought it went very well. Got the call that I was not chosen. Invited to test for another place, spent about 3 hours on a test for a company (no foot pedal) and never even received a sorry the position was filled email. It is so hard, so hard.
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[ In Reply To ..]If you are depressed because of this MT job, you probably don't need an antidepressant, you need to get out of MT--that's what I did. Mine was strictly situational-type of depression, and probably not bad enough for an antidepressant, but it went away when I quit MT. You know yourself best, so only you can decide. I knew right away it was because of MT work.
If you have ongoing depression not related to work (though, certainly work can make it worse), then it's hard to know what to do. If MT is making it worse, definitely get out of MT.
MT work is making me depressed BUT - I do not want an antidepressant
[ In Reply To ..]I have always thought antidepressants mask problems and also wonder if OP may have been affected by antidepressant while testing/interviewing for a job.
no, been on them for many years - OP
[ In Reply To ..]due to family/childhood like one might see on Dr. Phil. Thanks for posters input. Am mid 60s so too old to change fields. Just wanted to express my bitter disappointment to those I knew would understand. Don't usually take things so hard, but this truly was my dream job and I had wanted to interview for over a year.
I don't think I'd still be alive if it weren't for my - SSRI. It smoothes out the -
[ In Reply To ..]peaks and valleys of life, keeps my temper under control, gets me up and out of bed every morning. Best of all, NO side-effects from the medication, other than the intended effect, which is to help keep major depression (not just situational - but lifelong) at bay. It doesn't always work as well as it should - dose has to keep getting adjusted up and down - but it's kept me from offing myself, so for that reason I'd say it's a success.
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