Support circle for depression

Mary Wargo · Post by **Mary Wargo** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 5:58 am

KT-SEA - I read a lot of determination in your post. It's good to hear you are making this priority one and that nothing is going to get in the way of the program. Good for you. The patience and determination will pay off. I had gotten to a point where I was saying to myself "How bad to I want to feel better" My answer was always "Bad enough to stick with this!"

Peace67 · Post by **Peace67** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:20 am

Hello everyone,

I would like to join your circle. I just finished reading all of your posts and I can relate to so much of what you are all going through. I would like to give and receive support here.

I am 40 years old and married and a Mom of 3 young girls. I have suffered from depression and anxiety since at least my teens.

I am in therapy and take antidepressants. I have been in and out of therapy since my early twenties. It has helped but not always.

I have started the program and it is helping alot combined with my current therapy. I finished Session 4 and kind of went quickly through 5 and 6. I feel I need to go back to 4 and apply myself to the homework and go more slowly. I am one to seek immediate gratification so I need to remind myself to go slow with the program.

I relate to all of you who have low or no energy. I have a very hard time getting going in the AM. This has improved. Last winter was excruciatingly depressing for me. I could not function and that brought lots of guilt because I was not doing my job as Mom. I admitted myself to hospital twice and that was not so helpful.

Anyway, I am glad to join you all!

KC

joy jenkins · Post by **joy jenkins** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:00 am

Hi, I am doing better in the mornings as I mentioned in a previous post. I did get up today about 8:15 a.m. and felt not too bad for a while, I am about to start session 5 and was reading about nutrition, etc. so decided I'd try eating my biggest meal at lunchtime which I did. Then started to feel so tired and down and gave in and went back to bed about 2 p.m. I am just up again at 5 p.m. and feel terrible! By now I feel I "should" have learned that going back to bed never works for me. I feel soooo depressed, tummy ache, nauseaus, generally rotten, it will take a few hours to start feeling better I know. I'm not going to eat a large meal at lunchtime again, it would have been so much better to have gone out for a walk or something, just got out of the apt. It's better when I have an appointment during the day,something to aim for - tomorrow I have a dentist appointment, oh well better than nothing! It's wonderful to be able to confide to all you wonderful people when things happen, however small. Such a relief and you don't feel so alone with all this. Thanks so much for being there.
Joy

sk8r · Post by **sk8r** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:03 pm

Great to see everyone posting on here. I'm a 34 yr old male who is very confused. I'm in one of those, which came first the chicken or the egg? situations. I struggle more with physical symptoms than emotional but they both seem to be getting worse. I deal with dizzyness and nausea almost every time I'm upright and ocassional sluggishness with my motor skills. Does anyone else experience this? I've had a history of depression before all these symptoms started but I can't tell if my depression is causing the symptoms or the symptoms are causing the depression. It's soooo frustrating. I've had docs look at various things but no one has found anything. I'm in week 2 of the program and am a little skeptical. Again, not sure if these tapes and positive thinking will get rid of the symptoms. Anyone else had experiences like this?

pecos · Post by **pecos** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:55 pm

Hi. That has got to be unbelievably frustrating. I do strongly encourage you to stay with the program. Session Five, changing my diet and eliminating the primary stimulants from my day, helped me get a handle on a lot of nausea problems I was having. If your doctors don't think your problems are physical, I hope you get relief as you move through this program. I also added something that has helped me with dizzy spells: gatorade. I know that is funny, but sometimes we need more than just water to get our body fluids in shape. Good luck.

DaDutchess · Post by **DaDutchess** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:45 pm

I just wanted to add I to not only have stress and anxiety I also have depression its like a package deal and I have been dealing with all 3 for years I just never know which one if not all are going to effect me in the same day.But I get depressed from guilt or seperation anxiety then I get depressed when something Im use to is taken away I cry and then here I go everything hits me.I hope you know people like me have depression just as much and we are all her to beat it.Good luck

SAGE19 · Post by **SAGE19** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:01 pm

Hi everyone,

I've been living the last past years of my teens with depression, it has been a moderate to extreme at some points in my life but I never dealt with it I just pushed it aside and did anything to forget about it. I recently broke done thinking I was going insane because of what I was going through and feeling. I have lost interest in things that I used to do, things that made me feel good and happy. Everytime I do something now its more like an obligation and not as a voluntary thing I want to do. An exmp(I've been skateboarding since my teens on and off, sometimes when im skating I feel like theres no point in doing it or why am I doing this.) I hate when I say this to myself because its been apart of my life for a long time, and I've enjoyed what skateboarding did to my life.

My childhood wasnt the best and there was a lot of problems, I know that that has played a big role in how I got to be depressed.

My sincerest thank you's to all of you, we will get through these hard times and be able to live are life to the fullest.

pecos · Post by **pecos** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:52 pm

Greetings Dutchess and Sage. Yes, depression takes its toll and drains us of our energy and our enthusiasm for the things we once enjoyed most. Skateboarding sounds so energy intensive! This program has certainly helped me, and many others, with our depression. Keep in touch with us here on the Depression Forum. Best to both of you.

Shona Lee · Post by **Shona Lee** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:32 am

I'm on board and it's nice to know, we are not alone!! This certainly pertains to me!!!

SAGE19 · Post by **SAGE19** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:38 pm

thanks for the support pecos adn everyone