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Hi there Chloe
Ok, so the Doc has diagnosed a bacterial infection. What is the next step for you?? Are there anti-biotics that they’ll give you to treat it? Surely there must be something that can be arranged for you to take to ease this and fix it??
You raised an interesting point with regard to your crying. You say, “I just cry for no reason …”. Again, I’m no psyche or doctor at all, but I’d be surprised if this was the case. While to you, it may appear that it’s for no reason, I think that there’s got to be something deep down, buried, that is causing you to be so emotional. And not just the constant sick feeling and sore throat either.
Are you on anti-depressants? And if so, have you been taking them for a while? Just a quick thought that you “may” need to get a medication review??
Kind regards
Neil
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Hi there Chloe
Thanx so much for your reply and for the further information shared.
Is it possible to take your daughter out and about and do something – something that might help both of you. Like a walk to the park or to some other place that might be not too far away where she might find things of interest to look at etc – I’m trying to think of places where you can just go to, where there’s no money involved. Not sure of your location, but if you’re coastal, a walk along a beach – to find some rockpools – and you never know what you’ll find in some of those.
If you can do something like that, it might just assist you for a while as well. To take your mind off things and to give you something to concentrate on – but also to hopefully see the joy within your daughter as well. Just thoughts.
Having said all of the above, that’s all well and good if you’re feeling “ok” to do something like that. But as you mention that you’re shortly to come off one kind of medication, during these times, we can have differing emotions while we move from one medication to another. I hope that your Dr is keeping an eye on you during this process as well – and you’ve already mentioned that you’ve got some extreme depression upon you now and that is understandable due to the particular medication cycle you’re in.
Perhaps another alternative for today might be simply to obtain one of your daughter’s favourite movies and put that on, and the two of you can watch it. Kind of a chill-out process.
Again just thoughts – but please keep in contact and let go and vent as much as you would like.
Cheers
Neil
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