If DEPRESSION CAN NEVER BE CURED, then...?
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Depression is very very treatable but only if you ask for help from your doc. Yes there is a point to living but you have to ASK for help. Asking on here will not do it. You have to pick up your phone and call your docs office and schedule an appointment.
I find it's a lot like cancer. It is bothersome occasionally and then you have to get treatment. And other times it's in remission and everything is fine.
There is no point. You know what to do next.
well, they're trying to help ppl make it better.
depressed ppl could take anti-depressants or go to therapy.
they should be around their family and friends often. persuing in what makes you happy is the key.
Maybe you need some type of medicine... I think since you're depressed, what you need right now more than anything is hope... keep hope right now, because from what you've written, it looks like you're losing your hope. Things will get better. It may not seem like it, but it will.
Medications can block neurological activity creating this depression feeling. Depression can be cured over time
Depression can be cured. I've overcome a lot of problems like that. It takes time, but I'm proof.
I've been suffering from depression for years and on medication with therapy for a little over five years. I thought as if there was no need to try and live any more also. Now I have my close family and a few good friends that I talk with on a day to day basis. The medication helps and the therapy helps along with being close to family. I'm no longer depressed and I enjoy life. I had to work at it though and I had to accept the help and seek the help. Life is definitely worth living but you've got to choose to live it. Seek help is my advice for you and don't give up on yourself.
with anything you have to try ; no one said that life is easy ; you have to learn what coping skills work for you and move on to something else; generally, when it is always about me me me ; this happens; look to help others in greater need; a sheltered animal etc; if you don;t tend to your garden you get weeds; stop looking in the mirror for awhile and look to help others ; we have become a me society of feeling good all the time and it doesn't happen; no one feels good all the time; feeling is part of living ; if you feel bad and down ; look to help others and fill yourself up with love for others and just not yourself
Depression absolutely can be cured, never doubt it. I've seen it and I have experienced it. All you have to do is find enough relief that you can begin to search for just one better thought at a time. Feel free to contact me, I would be happy to see if I can help.
Depression may not be able to be cured, but it can be treated.
I have been cursed with depression since I was a little girl. However, because the pain was so intense, I sought out the help of professionals to deal with it.
You need medication (I am on Zoloft) AND counseling. You have to be an active participant in your own recovery. You can't just lie around, not treating your condition, wallowing in self pity, and expect it to go away on its own.
I went through years (over 10) of counseling. I read every book I was told to read, I attended classes (Cognitive Therapy Class).
In the meantime, go to www.drphil.com, click on "advice" then click on "Self Matters" then click on "Eliminating Negative Self Dialogue".
This will not "cure" depression, but it is a beginning of the work it will take to make your life tolerable. It is up to you. No one can do it for you.
It is your responsibility to take charge of your own destiny.
Giving up is the cowardly, lazy way out.
Well that's a good question and one that us depressed people all contemplate. A lifetime of medication, who wants that? You know though, as one depressive to another that death is not the answer even though it feels like the easy way out at the moment. The only thing we can do is take the medication, listen to the psychologist/therapist and do our best to do as much as the depression allows. Stability comes from building a network of friends and professionals who can help and support. It is hard for non depressives to understand and you mustn't forget that. Exert some control, make them understand, show them if necessary, just don't ever give up hope that one day things WILL look better! :)
Your current state of mind is an opportunity to say YES to how you feel, and resist nothing.
Maybe it can't be totally cured but you can come out of it and live a "normal" life. I know because I have done it..I've been to the depths of depression, even to thinking about AND attempting suicide but got help from medication and psychiatry as well as a few good, well-meaning friends, and with a renewed will to live I've come up to where I managed to be taken off ALL medicine and out from under psychiatric care, and I've stayed in this position for about 2 or 3 years now. Granted, I am back on some medication at this time because I've hit a rough spot that I couldn't seem to come out of on my own BUT I am not suicidal and I caught myself in time that I don't believe I will get that far down this time.
So I can attest to the fact that RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE!!
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