I’m 9 months post radical radiotherapy and interval chemo with oxaliplatin for rectal cancer (clear now).

During the Oxaliplatin regime I started feeling extremely depressed/ mentally unwell.

9 months on, despite seeing psychiatrist and trialling a few antidepressants, and forcing myself back to various daily activities including my part time job, I am still seriously mentally unwell.

It’s like I’ve had a complete personality transplant. I’m now almost constantly extremely low in mood, cry all the time regardless of what I’m thinking about, have lost all the good and positive aspects of my personality, my mental function is relatively poor, struggle to cope with the most basic things, have sleep problems, and more..

My mental health professionals are trying to manage / help me from the perspective of post-cancer and cancer treatment anxiety and depression and trauma, but it’s not helping..

I deep down feel like the actual chemotherapy has seriously affected the inner workings (neurotransmitters, regulatory systems etc) of my brain.

I was wondering if there are any medical specialists that I could potentially see (privately if needed) who are knowledgeable and experienced with this type of issue?

Yours (very desperately), Jason