A side effect of steroids can be depression. Some people it hits others it doesn’t. F or me it did early puberty etc attention by the docs, childhood bullying had it effects on me. I have been on citalapram. I’ve just come of them and the side effects well sent me loopy. Weird dreams etc. I’m a student nurse and I always look into side effects of medication with regards to clients so we can see their behavior and if there is a pattern etc. In the BNF the British subscription bible. The side effects of drugs are listed and under steroids is. over weight, depression , Osteoporosis and weaker heart . Research is now going on for the link between steroids and the heart.

My advice?

Plenty of exercise stimulates the feel good chemicals of the brain and good social company and someone to always share your problems with. As most of us know cah is always with us and yes it does get us down now and again. It will do and anybody that says otherwise is a liar. The problem with depression is finding the real cause and not the symptoms. The real cause can go back years.

take care

Ian