I suffer from anxiety…do all of us have deression and/or anxiety? I think anyone in their right mind would be depressed by the amount of pain we have, right?
Hi!
I sure we all have it more or less, but we are not weak…
After 10 years of pain hell I asked my doctor to give me something for my depression, (which sometimes has
anxiety, because you panic with your pain). He said that I cannot use prozac and other happy pills, because the cause of our depression is in pain. We have a chemical or biological depression. I was mad, when everybody get’s medicine, if they have small boops or for big boops. … and we live in our own little hell and we do not get help?
I got to try another sort of depression medicine but it didn’t help.
The best help has been st john’s worths medicine,but it will not mix with many medicines like heart and bloodpressure medication.
Lyrica has had a side effect of easing my mind.
I know it wount’t suit all…
The new medicenes are coming hold on…
In few years we have to get better help.
Yes, I think most of us have problems with depression and/or anxiety. I have been on an antidepressant for years, and I rarely get down anymore.
Pamela
I have had anxiety and depression problems for years, long before i knew anything about DD. I have been on lots of different anti depressant meds, but I am using Cymbalta now because it also helps with the nerve pain. My insurance pays for most of it, its my highest copay but it runs over two hundred dollars if you have no insurance. But sometimes if you contact the manufacturer you can get it for free or discounted.
I have been taking the Lyrica again, at night only I can’t take the full dosage and work all day, I took it Saturday morning because I was going to be home all day, wow was I out there, felt like I was on another planet.
I also have Xanax for anxiety attacks, it really cheap. But either way it helps when I have a bad attack. Thank God I don’t really have to take it very often.
I don’t know how anyone with DD doesn’t take something this is such a frustrating disease to live with, knowing nothing can be done for us is severly depressing. But each of us has our own level of what we can take. I guess after a while it becomes part of the norm. Sad though.
Hiya GranmaS
yes I suffer from attacks of depression. I have been really low lately. The doctor put my on Prozac. In the past 6 years i have used anti-depressants for around 4 years of those. I was on one tablet for nearly 5 years prior that. At one point the demons i was fighting nearly won. I was stronger and sought help. I will never allow myself to go there again.
geordielass
What a bad day, I ran out of my cymbalta and can’t afford to get it until Friday. I have been crying all day and it feels like my water pipes busted. I hated to go to work I would be ok for a while then someone would ask if I was ok? then it would start all over again. I am exhausted from crying all day, I don’t know whether I can work the rest of the week like this. This really sucks, sorry but no other term describes it as well as that one.
Brennie ;o(
Brennie…I am so sorry that you are having a bad day. Try to do something nice for yourself to cheer yourself up. Eat chocolate or have a good soak with some bath salts. Take a nap…I just got up from one. I did not sleep last night because I was going to a new doctor this morning so when I got back I took a nice nap! You know how nice you are to everybody else? Be that nice to yourself today. I find that reading takes me out of myself. Curl up with a nice romance or a funny book like a Janet Evonovich. I know what would make all of us feel better…not to have DD!!!I know people have things a lot worse with them but a lot of people Don’t!!! I want to be one of the people without DD!
Whoops…I was trying to cheer you up and I slipped. : )
Brennie,
I am so sorry you are having such a rough time. It is really bad to stop antidepressants suddenly. The depression that results after a few days is far worse than the depression you were being treated for. Can you call your pharmacy and see if you can buy a partial prescription? Just enough to get you to pay day? They will often split it up for you under those circumstances and that is not a med you can just wait on. I have been there and done that. I’m a basket case without my antidepressant.
Pamela
Thanks I will go to the pharmacy tomorrow morning before work. I feel like I hit a brick wall. I usually put a weeks worth back for just these occasions but I was caught unaware this time. I have had too much going on lately.
Brennie
Hey Kiddo,
Thought this might help you out of your doldrums. This is an absolutely incredible interview with Rick Warren, author of ‘Purpose Driven Life.’ His wife now has cancer, and he now has ‘wealth’ from the book sales, but money isn’t everything. In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren:
Rick said:
'People ask me, ‘What is the purpose of life?’ And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body–but not the end of me. I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn’t going to make sense.Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you’re just coming out of one, or you’re getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that’s not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.
This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don’t believe that anymore. Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it’s kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems.
If you focus on your problems, you’re going into self-centeredness, ‘which is my problem, my issues, my pain.’ But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her. It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.
Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, when the book all of a sudden sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don’t think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease. So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases. Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation. Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back.
It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity? Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God’s purposes (for my life)?When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don’t get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn’t put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He’s more interested in what I am than what I do. That’s why we 're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD.& Every moment, THANK GOD.!