Depression -Is there a way through it?
May 4th 2008 03:12
Four years ago I suffered from a really bad period of depression, but got through it with good friends and work. I had put this all behind me until just over a week ago, it reared its ugly head once more. I know the triggers and this time I wasn't prepared for the strength of the spike.
Just over a week ago, my dream girl who i was just starting to allow myself to fall for, told me that she was still in love with her ex, they had been in touch and had talked about getting married. How she had done this whilst dating me was a huge suprise.
Hence the deep and now reacurring low spikes. For me the hardest thing is how quickly it can change your feelings, thought patterns etc. One moment I'm flat but okay, the next I am alomost bursting into tears. Very hard to deal with.
The other day I had planned this blog as a postivie thing to help maybe others going or feeling the same thing and to encourage them that there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel, although this weekend has been very hard for me so this first post isn't what I expected it to be, but as an author, I need to express myself and I will try to help/advise or answer any questions my readers might have if I can?
Average Guy NZ
Just over a week ago, my dream girl who i was just starting to allow myself to fall for, told me that she was still in love with her ex, they had been in touch and had talked about getting married. How she had done this whilst dating me was a huge suprise.
Hence the deep and now reacurring low spikes. For me the hardest thing is how quickly it can change your feelings, thought patterns etc. One moment I'm flat but okay, the next I am alomost bursting into tears. Very hard to deal with.
The other day I had planned this blog as a postivie thing to help maybe others going or feeling the same thing and to encourage them that there is hope and light at the end of the tunnel, although this weekend has been very hard for me so this first post isn't what I expected it to be, but as an author, I need to express myself and I will try to help/advise or answer any questions my readers might have if I can?
Average Guy NZ
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Comment by jimmyjames
Writing is very healing and that's where we need to be
heading is toward support.Things that make us feel good about ourselves.
Recovery is an inside job
keep the faith
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Of course I tried all of the self-help methods, St. John's Wort and so on, but it always came back. Therapy did no good; I had no repressed horrible memories or recent incidents to blame for my bouts; they just occurred, sometimes for no reason I could fathom.
I also found that as I grew older these bouts were increasingly more frequent. That was enough incentive to thoroughly research depression and its causes. So many different types! The bottom line was this: frequent, recurring depression is caused by a chemical imbalance. Rectifying the imbalance is still an inexact science, but great strides have been made in the pharmacological treatments available. At the age of 41, after years of resisting drug treatments because I half-believed the myths of such treatments, I finally found relief through SSRIs and later, SNRIs.
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