Originally Posted by Sasha4

Our NHS may not be perfect but it is flipping good!

Where else in the world can you be sick and see a doctor or nurse the almost the same day for free? You can if you try.
You have many options in the UK - GP surgery, walk in centre (name is a big give away - you just walk in), hospitals and A&E, drop in centres for other problems, well woman clinic's, emergency doctors, home visits (usually for very poorly people or elderly people who cannot get to the surgery), specialist teams.

If you break a bone and need it pinning or plating and require surgery, that is just done. The simplist of procedures costs around 25,000 pounds and we don't pay a penny!!!!!! They just banadage us up and sort us out, look after us, even if we have done it when we are plastered or drunk as a skunk. Often without judging.

Maybe GP's don't have a great in depth understanding of alcoholism or depression. But they are there to treat where they can and refer onto secondary care when necessary for greater help and indepth knowledge. They have to know so much about so many illnesses. They cannot be experts in everything symptom they see.

Dawnie - go to the doctors, stop putting it off. Just take any appointment and go. If you get nowhere make an appointment to see another GP. Go to AA, stop putting it off.

Invest time in yourself to help you get better.
Educate yourself about your disease.
Educate yourself about treatment.
If you have time to sit and get drunk, you have time to read about alcoholism, depression and anxiety.

Listen to the professionals - if they think it's post natal depression making you agrophobic and pushing you towards drink, accept it and work with them. If it's wrong then let them re-diagnose you.

I think your emotions will become a lot more rational when you have not got a stack of booze in your system.

Just think forward a number of years - do you want your kids to be embaressed of their drunk mum? Do you want to sit and look back on life and regret the time you drank away.

Children grow so quickly - don't miss a moment, especially not to a bottle or can of rotton fruit. Please.




This is serious stuff.