Ever been so depressed....

[naturally anabolic]

jen, please clean out your pm box

 

[Pamela]

Pamela can I pm you for that pic?

Are you still waiting on that???

 

[Rockafella Skank]

And these doctors who know nothing have had no other patients with similar symptoms and histories? Nor have they ever had depression issues themselves? Come on. To say that they don't know you and therefore cannot help you is not living up to your end of the bargain. It's like going to the ER with a burst appendix and telling them to guess what hurts.

 

[Rockafella Skank]

On the other hand, I realize that there are some lazy docs out there, quick to pass out scripts for antidepressants. But to not accept the largest part of the responsibility for your recovery is unfathomable.

 

[jennifer BFL chick]

And these doctors who know nothing have had no other patients with similar symptoms and histories? Nor have they ever had depression issues themselves? Come on. To say that they don't know you and therefore cannot help you is not living up to your end of the bargain. It's like going to the ER with a burst appendix and telling them to guess what hurts.

IF they were so good at helping people, why is it that people can be on anti-depressants for decades?

I won't say that doctors are worthless, but I will say that in my experience, they didn't help at all. They listen for a little while, then prescribe you something.

Its best to share your inner thoughts with people who actually give a rats ass about you.

Finding "happiness" doesn't mean that your never going to get depressed again. Depression is taking a bad day, and turning it into a monster that you end up fighting for weeks, months, years, ect.

To be happy, you need to except that life can be shitty! You also need to reflect on other things besides yourself. Depression is really a self-centered problem.

 

[naturally anabolic]

i am offended by what you said rockafella to a great extant. I live up to my end of the bargain, i will explain in great detail my problems to the doctor i have gone to in need of help. They will sit there and shake there head at me with there trusty legal pad and express a "I understand" from time to time. When a session would end i would look for something to be pointed in the right direction but i often felt as if nothing was addressed, they would ask questions such as "did your parents love you as a kid",etc probing into my earliast of years and not come up with a dimes worth of help. There suggestion most of the time "come back for another session chris and we will continue this" where the hell is any resolve in that? or they attempt to get me to check in for a "vacation from the outside world" as one of them called it at a mental institution on a voluntary basis. You may be right, they may have seen cases of similair events in other people but how can they rationalize something as if they themselves had lived it or had an ounce of understanding for the pain?

 

[Rockafella Skank]

i am offended by what you said

I apologize. I certainly didn't mean to offend anyone. Chronic depression is a serious illness caused by chemical reactions to stimuli. I would hope that it takes several sessions for someone to find resolution.

I understand the illness to the degree of which I am capable. A very good friend of mine is seriously bi-polar ... we worry about him if we don't hear from him for a few days. At least we used to worry. But my friend knows that his recovery is not a month or a year or two years. It's the rest of his life and that is the responsibility I was talking about. There's a parallel here ... I'm certain you see it.

 

[mini_mouse]

Re: Re: Ever been so depressed....

Originally posted by naturally anabolic:
you just wish something would happen to just make it all end? I have been getting this feeling more and more lately...hmm

anyone else feel this way ?

I've been depressed, to varying degrees, for 5 yrs now. I never quite get out of it but there are short spurts of time where things seem brighter and my perspective changes for the better. I've tried lots of meds too (seroxat/paxil, citalopram/celexa, prozac, beta-blockers, st john's wort) but I don't think they actually did anything of benefit for me. I haven't been taking anything since June and, while I'm not better than I was, neither am I worse. Makes me think that my depression isn't as much chemical as it is reactive (be that to my environment or simply to low self-esteem).
I understand your frustration with the specialists you've seen; I too have found the majority of them are far too quick to pigeonhole and passify with prescriptions.
I've been told that the best way to get out of depression is to do those very things you don't want to do: go out, go to work, fill your life with activity ... trouble is, when right in the thick of it, it's hard to get the motivation going.
I think depression is actually a protective device against bad feeling. That sounds wack, I know, but I've found depression to be a 'numb' state more than a state of sadness. I know that I am most depressed when I can't feel at all. Perhaps, therefore, to get beyond the depression, you have to acknowledge and explore your bad feeling first.

... it all sounds good in theory, eh

Take care and PM me if you want to chat.

 

[spongebob]

you just wish something would happen to just make it all end? I have been getting this feeling more and more lately...hmm

anyone else feel this way ?

did you do your therapy after your cycle??? do you take xstacy often???

desregard both questions if you dont want to answer in public, pm me. take it easy bro.

 

[spongebob]

im a firm believer that all answers are inside you.