Questionnaire for my blog

[Rennie1989]

Hiya guys

I write blogs on mental health, whilst trying to end the stigma attached to it, and I want to write one on how anti-depressants are prescribed too readily by GPs. My fiancé and I were discussing how when we saw our GP as soon as we mentioned a symptom of depression or that we are depressed the GP would just give us anti-depressants, without exploring other methods like counselling and therapy.

Although the blog is mainly based on mine and my fiancé's experiences I want to find out other peoples' thoughts and feelings about the subject, so if you could answer a few questions, either post them here or PM them to me, I would be most appreciated.

Age:
Location:
Diagnosis (and year):
Antidepressants prescribed (and year):
How easy was it to get antidepressants? (i.e. was it given out easily by your GP):
Were other methods explored?:

I won't be hanging around for long, I'm going to wait for a couple of days whilst I gather information for this blog and another I want to write.


Thank you


EDIT: I have been asked my MIND, the mental health charity, if I would write blogs for their site. I would like to get this blog written as soon as possible for them to publish so if I could get more responses that would be great!