I was first treated for depression in my early 20s (I’m now in my early 50s), I’ve been hospitalised twice, but that was some time ago and there were periods after that when I started thinking myself free from depression. It was during one of these periods that I took myself off my antidepressants (paroxetine). [...]
My First Awareness of Clinical Depression Looking back I know I was depressed before the age of 18/19… but that was when I first became really aware that I was clinically depressed. A few years before this I remember talking to a friend and they showed me a postcard and asked me what it was. [...]