Depression Support Group

Hey Patty, enjoy the beautiful day. I am under the weather today. Been in bed since early last night. Going back there in a few minutes. Hope you are feeling better today. I know what you mean by feeling trapped. I feel like I can't even get out of my own body. I will just suck it up and move on today. Hope you have a wonderful day.

Cindy..Why would you think you can get out of your own body..LOL

Your funny...My cold will just have to come with me today..LOL

Hugs, Patty

I think it is both.

I think being able to identify which one it is holds the great possibility of having a good life.

I think one plays upon the other. Thus, causing confusion on treatments.

Let's just say you are living in an unhappy arrangement. It is beyond hard but you keep on because you are really too afraid to change to the unknown.

So, you take all the meds and do all the therapy given...yet they are not working.

Could it be the correct treatment should have been to change the unhappy lifestyle?

To actually change your entire life?

On the other hand, you are living a what should be wonderful life. Great family, friends, spouse, children, finacial security...yet...something is missing.

There is a restlessness in you, an uneasiness, a sadness, and you just can't figure it out.

So you try the meds and happily somewhere along the line it works. This is certainly chemical depression. And all the lifestyle changes in the world will probably not help it very much since it truly is a biological deficent.

Ok, we have established the 2 types depression.

What now?

All areas must be addressed in order to have a healing. By addressing only one then...well, we are still half way sick. And depression can make us feel very badly.

Honesty must be brutal. We may not be wanting to face the changes we need to make or it may be a chemical problem and meds are needed probaby for the rest of our lives.

The hardest is when the 2 are entwined. As, they very often are.

This is simply my opinions on past experiences with self and loved ones.

Depression is real, but we are fighters...all the way.

hugs

Hi all. I believe that there has to be some gene or something that causes one person to find after a horrible experience but does not affect someone going thru the same situation. Tho there are certain things that can cause depression in someone who's been happy go lucky, and generally, in some cases. And I do believe there can be remission when one's life is going well. I know because I've gone thru many bouts triggered by something that I might not have even seen before that first dose of deperssion. But I have a friend whose wife is seriously ill. Her medical costs per year are to a middle class worker what the national debt is to the US. He not only runs her errands, does the shopping and most of the cooking, and in between, he sometimes works 10 hours a day. And w/ all of that, if I really need something and my other 'helpers' aren't around, he'll stop what he's doing to help me. I rarely call him for those kinds of things.

The point is, I've never seen a man w/ a seriously sick wife, a job that requires so many hours, home chores, etc., and can still find an hour or so to help a friend. I believe he did not grow up in a family of depressives. I believe he simply doesn't have the disease or his reactions to everything would be different.

But as I said before, once you've got it, you've got it, tho if it was a one-off due to something very visible and obviously the trigger, if that situation could be 'fixed', he may never feel depressed again.

Ciao,

Sylvia

wow! That's a lot of great feedback and insight from everybody. Thanks! I will try to reflect on them tomorrow. I'm not feeling too good right now, stomach ache and nausea. Will get back to everybody tomorrow, though.