What Symtoms do you find the most distressing in Depression?

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I have had burnout,panic attaks and depression for 11 years, and am wondering if others feel the same as I do and how do you cope?

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I have Clinical depression and prolonged postpartum depression from giving birth to a stillborn baby in june of 2005. I have stuggled with no appetite, malnutrition (my skin became scaley cracked and dry) I developed the fear of leaving my house from with drawing from friends and family.. and i am mentally and physically exhausted from trying to beat it on my own. the only way to cope with it is to open your eyes everymorning and just keep on living. But that is any way to live a life.. i just finally realized that it was time to get help I am seeing a psychologist and he has gaurenteed me that i am going to get better one way or the other. He told me that everything i allowed myself to feel for pain and struggleing for life could have been helped sooner and i wouldnt feel the way i feel today.. good luck to you. email me if you want to talk ciao_baby19@hotmail.com

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The feelings of worthlessness and the suicidal thoughts are the worst for me.

I feel weird sometimes. I'm not sure if i have depression but sometimes i feel i am not supposed to be here. It's not fun. But my worst sypmtom is harming myself or the next step. And the thing is i don't do well with coping. I need serious help.

Please pick up and read a copy of the book by Sherry Rogers, M.D. called: "Depression Cured at Last!". She will teach you the causes and cures that clearly have not been addressed in your case. Eleven years is a long time to suffer without getting effective treatment for the underlying cause of your problems. This book will teach you everything your doctor/therapist does not know (but should).

It is available at Amazon.com or from the publisher at 1-800-846-6687. I highly recommend this book.

Best wishes and good luck.

the physical pain i feel

Hi, I have suffered from depression on and off most of my life, I suffer from mood swings, deep days where just getting out of bed is a challange, tired all the time, cant think clearly or rationaly, mood swings with violence, I also got chucked in as an free extra (LOL) OCD just for a few laughs.

I followed a treatment of cognative thinking, medication and seeing a psychologist for a few years it has helped immensly and I am know off my tablets (hopefullly for good) but time will see.

I wish you the best of luck with your depression and you can always im me ozi_nut is my yahoo Id good luck

Lets see, the constant need for solitude, Dark rooms and dark thoughts. The constant reminder I get from loved ones about my attempts at suicide, I dont want to hear about them because my stomach starts to burn and I in someway taste death, and then when the taste has dissapeared I crave it like a junky craves the escape of his worn down body. I for some reason do not mind the thought of death I do not try to block the thoughts of suicide because I beilieve that the thought of death for a suicidal person is a way of letting go of the thoughts of living a shitty life, which in fact, is one of the reasons why alot of us are still breathing, if you take away our escape route , how are we suppose to get out of the fire? Do you know what I am saying? Well let me answer your actual question a little more now, some of the symtoms that I find I dont tolerate well in depression would be the fact that I am labeled, sterotyped, I dont like that, I dont like the medication they give you to make you feel normal to make you feel that living is better then not living, Ive been on so many and I have been in the mental hospital and none of it has done me any good, infact the drug prozac is what I was on the last time I tried to kill myself, lets just say that..2 minutes away from death is tasty LOL. Oh and another thing that pisses me off about all of it is the fact that Im also a cutter and a drug addict. Trying to stay away from the G (speed) , trying to do other things instead of cut, like body piercings, trying to see "the good in life" and trying to laugh more then cry, trying to feel happiness instead of anger and trying not to pop shrinks right in the mouth is stressfull and overwhelming. blah blah blah, I dont care what anyone says , everyone in this world that has feelings has some kind of damn depression, weather it may come and go like it should or it just takes over everything else and moves in, at some point in a persons life , their own death will cross their mind.

The feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness. When I look at the number of years, and all of the ways I've tried to cope, but nothing has really worked, and that the older I get, the faster time goes, and there is so much that I'd like to try but the depression seems to hinder those things. Something that angers me is when people go out and do things that they know will damage their lives, and then compare themselves to those of us who have to face it for reasons that we can't change or that we don't know of.

What bothers me the most about being depressed is not knowing if it's ever going to end or if I'll fail at this like I do everything else. How long is it going to take before I can actually live my life. I started therapy about a year ago which has helped quite a bit and have been on meds for several years. I wanted to find out how I got this way in the first place and get it behind me. Another thing that really bothers me is the fact that I can care about others so well but I haven't the first clue about how to care for myself.

things/symptoms i hate about my depression.

that thought of wishing i was never born
suicidal thoughts
always being down and blue
take meds
having to "pretend" i am happy for others
leaving my room
that i can cut and have it accepted
going to therapy seems like a waste
lack of energy

sure i misssed a few thousand things, but since i can't sleep, oh there is one thing there.

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