Cannot depend on having energy...

[eija]

The meeting with the shrink was today. Oh my he really was not my kind of guy   
Also, he really didn't understand anything about sjs - but somehow it was good anyway. He was determined that my symptoms are depression, not sjs (even the pain and the dryness!). He explained that depression shows itself via many different symptoms - and it can very well be there even though my mood isn't depressed. And that it is totally appropriate and recommendable that I'm on sick leave because the level of my condition.


Ok, so I take that and quit feeling guilty about my sick leave.. BUT... if I have depression without depressed mood - doesn't that equal an atypical depression? And here http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=100237 they say it might be because of CNS-SS - especially since I have positive ANA, SS-A and SS-B. And if that is the case I should be treated with steroids instead of antidepressants  and quickly, too, to avoid permanent damage!


Yep, I feel alone in this, totally alone. Just hoping that a SJS-expert would fall from the sky at my feet... Just wondering what they talked at their meeting about my issues in the afternoon - this shrink, a psychologist, my own gp and a general dr of occupational healt. Maybe my gp will call me tomorrow.