I have been depressed for a while mainly due to moving away from my kids and grandkids 9 years ago. I know I should be grateful to be living in a nice place but I would move back if I could. I start theraphy on Tuesday and have started taking cymbalta along with zoloft which I have been on for a while.
I AM A MOTHER OF 3 AND HAVE 2 GRANDSONS. THE BOYS ARE MOVED OUT AND MY DAUTHER TIA IS 12. THIS WHOLE THING CONTROLS OUR LIVES. GOD IS THE ONLY THING HOLDING ME IN THERE RIGHT NOW. I DONT HAVE NO ONE TO TALK TO ABOUT THIS AND I FEEL LIKE I AM NOT A WHOLE WOMAN NO MORE. I WAS GOING TO GET MARREID THIS SPRING AND SINCE I HAD THE OSTOMY SURGERY IN MAY AND HAVE TO LIVE WITH THISBAD NOW HE LEFT US THE DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING. WHAT A THANKS!
Where to start? The basics. I’m 31, married with 2 kids. I suffer from depression (MDD), which may now becoming psychotic depression, which I had never heard of, GAD and anorexia. I’m not that thin, though. Seriously! I’m far from skeletal like those people on TV. I want to hear from other people with similar problems who are struggling, as I am, to find a med or combo that will treat my depression and not make me fat. My doctors don’t seem to understand that making me gain weight makes the depression worse cuz it gives me more to be depressed about. Circles!!! Bad marriage, worse affair. I’m a wreck and in a free fall.
I am going to school to be a Drug/ Alcohol Counselor. I want to help people overcome that disease. I know it is possible, I did it.
this is my first time doing anything like this. i’ve gotten help before but i’ve never been able to stick with it. so maybe this will help me figure out how to help myself.
Iam a caregiver of my 83 year old mother who has alzheimers. She wasn’t doing too bad but recently she became very aggresive and did not want to take her medication, and very emotional. I had to call the ambulance to take her to the hospital and have her checked out. She was fine but the doctor put her on ativan, to relax her but now she is very unsteady and has fallen a couple of times. I am at my wits end I feel so alone and depressed. Is there someone out there who is going thru the same thing and how do you handle all these feelings.
looking to share , get motivated , been in a slup depression, caused my divorce, just cant seem to shake it, tried different a-d drugs no help
depression , panic attacks and menapause
I suffer greatly from bipolar disorder.I have been an inpatient at the David Lawrence Center and became extremely discouraged when they could not help me.I struggle with alcohol and substance abuse.Wanting to connect with someone who is happy to be alive inspite of their condition.
I’ve suffered from major depression for about 10 years. I’ve tried many drugs, had ect, but nothing seems to help.
i have been depressed for about a month ,no appetite loseing weight no concentration
my 30 yr old son is in a severe depressive state and says he cannot think. anyone have any answers or suggestions? Things tried and true to help? He has tried hypnosis, many different meds, therapy…his thinking ability comes and goes…mostly comes at nighttime when in bed.
I believe my husband suffers from bipolar disorder, and his 2 sons as well. I love him very much, but he seems to only be happy when everyone else around him is miserable. He has depressive bouts (won’t work for days and even weeks on end)… and then has these horrible rages over minor issues that wouldn’t cause the average person to bat an eye. I have read the symptoms, and feel that he exhibits all but one of them (thoughts of suicide). I don’t know where to turn, or how to approach him with the subject of getting medical help. I need to feel like I am not going crazy with this weird behavior which I am not accustomed to. I don’t want to end the marriage if there is hope; but all my friends tell me I am crazy to stay. I hope to find someone who can reassure me that all is not lost, and offer some advice as to how to deal with this.
I am 45 years old, and married to the most wonderful woman. We have been honeymooning for the past 15 years! In the year 2000, My wife suffered a perforated colon. This meant lifesaving surgery with a 50/50 chance I could lose her. The Lord sent us an angel…She had a reversable colostomy. When I took her home, I took FML to spend time caring for her. I cleaned her wound and changed the dressing, I dealt fully with the colostomy bags and just …was there. I still can’t understand why she was so afraid that I would leave her as damaged goods! That is painful just to think about! I think she now knows…she isn’t getting rid of me that easily…
I have bipolar disdorer hpomaia rapid cycling audio hallucinations depression-mood swings and I am very worried that they do want to put in a hospital-I am scared I want be able to get out!! I am 58 yrs old female live with my daughter while her husband is in Iraq for 18 mos she has two girls 8 & 9. I need help and see a doctor but I do realize something is wrong with me. can I get answer from ya’ll=Thank you,
Maury Ross - Alaska
I SUFFER FROM SEVER DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR DISORDER. I AM HAVING MORE AND MORE TROUNLE COPING W/EVERY DAY LIFE. I AM ANGRY AT THE WORLD AND SAD ALL THE TIME. MY HUSBAND DOEN’T UNDERSTAND ME AND NEITHER DOES MY FAMILY. I AM LOOKING FOR ANYTHING THAT CAN HYELP ME GET THRU THESE REALLY HARD TIMES. I HAVE SUFFERED FROM DEPRESSION SINCE I WAS A CHILD, DOCTORS AND SCHOOL OFFICALS CONVINCED MY PARENTS TO ISOLATE ME AND START ME ON RITALIN. AND NOW AS AN ADULT I FEEL TRAPPED W/NO WAY OUT AND NO PLACE TO GO. ALL I WANT TO DO IS GET BETTER.
Manic Depression
I am 59 years old, had breast cancer diagnosis 6 years ago, radiation and surgery. Became depressed at that time, although I did not know it. Finally, I started taking Celexa and it helped. Then I started to get More Depressed on the drug and started tapering off of it.
We sold our house in NM and my husband and I moved to Washington State. I found that I needed to go back on an antidepressant after about a year or so here.
I’m dealing with age issues, financial issues and my husband’s son who is thought to be and diagnosed as Nassisstic Personality Disorder.
I am an artist, ceramic and a painter. I have started a gallery and website and am struggling to keep my head above water emotionaly. I feel angry at times, raise my voice, feel unreasonable…I’m going through some very difficult times right now.
I have been battling severe depression for 2 years now. I find it hard to discuss with my friends and family what I am going through right now. Any advice or help would be great
Depression, sometimes sever, since my daughter became paralyzed from neck down. She’s Bi-polar, had and still has husband who is emotionally & physically abusive,and an alcoholic. She had quit drinking, but after meeting and marrying him, she started drinking again, wouldn’t take meds for Bi-Polar, etc. You’ve heard those stories so I need not go further, except for the fact that I have raised her son since he was 3 yrs old. He’s now 16 1/2. In 1999 my daughter, not medicated, came here in one of her psychotic states, angry with me, said she wanted to ‘kill’ me. Hit me on head, side & back, with aluminum bat, did much damage to bedroom, door frames, etc.
In November of 2001, still drinking, not on meds, and being emotionally & physically abused, she came to the house and wanted us to take her in. After ‘taking her in’ several times prior to Nov of 2001 and then having her not wanting to cooperate with us, her doctors, etc, I refused to aloow her into our home. She tried to break in, was drunk & disorderly, so I called police (which I had done several times prior to this). They picked her up, took to her local jail, transferred to county jail. Neither of the jail personnel paid any attention to her when she told them she needed her meds and also was suicidal. I had informed the local police officers of her condition and all I wanted was for her to be able to ‘get some help!’. Three days after being transferred to the county jail, Patricia, my daughter, intentionally went over the rail of the second floor balcony. We later found out the nurse & deputy both had decided she was not suicidal, nor did she need any type of medication. NOTE: This was about the 6th time she had been incarserated in either one or both of the above mentioned jails.)
Naturally there was a law suit filed but the “Judge” in his so called statement of the law suit, was that there was sufficient cause to have a trail and the law suit was ‘frivalous’.
Immediately after she jumped, I contacted the person who had been so helpful a few years previously. She is one of the top supervisors with the County Mental Health Program and was well informed concerning my daughter. After hearing what had happened to hear, the first words this person said was, “The county jail is LIABEL. They should have checked her records from previous times of incarseration and should have at least been given necessary meds, and put on suicide watch.”
MY OPINION OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM, THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM, ETC., IS VERY LOW. THERE ARE MANY MORE REASONS, CURCUMSTANCES, & COURT RULINGS FOR MY FEELING AS I DO.
I SOMETIMES LAY AWAKE AT NIGHT WORRYING ABOUT MY DAUGHTER’S SAFETY BECAUSE THE COURT HAS APPROVED THE REQUEST BY HER HUSBAND TO PURCHASE A HOME AND HAVING HER MOVE INTO THE HOME,YET SHE WILL NOT BE GETTING 24 HOUR A DAY CARE. (SHE IS UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING FOR HERSELF)
The money to purchase the home would come from a different law suit my daughter filed in connection with her tradgedy. That amount is only $300,000.00, which I’m sure her husband will be only to happy to get his hands on,especially since he hasn’t worked in the last several years!
SORRY FOR THE LONG STORY, BUT BELIEVE ME, IT’S ALL TOTALLY FACTUAL AND I HAVE WHATEVER PROOF NEEDED.
My husband & I did have Temporary Emergency Guardianship & Conservatorship of our daughter right after she did the stupid act of ‘jumping’. Her husband fought us on that and the court ended up having a court appointed guardian.
I ALSO WOULD LOVE TO FIND OUT WHY MY HUSBAND OR MYSELF WERE NOT ALLOWED TO READ OR BE INFORMED OF THE COURT ORDERED INVESTIGATION OF HIM WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO TERMINATE OR MODIFY OUR GUARDIANSHIP OFHER SON, OUR GRANDSON. THE MAN IS NOT HIS FATHER AND OUR GRANDSON FEELS TOTAL DISLIKE FOR THE MAN. THE JUVENILE COURT INVESTIGATOR TOLD US WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE THE REPORT, THEN SHE ADDED, “ALL I CAN SAY IS GO BACK TO COURT AND FIGHT FOR GUARDIANSHIP OF YOUR DAUGHTER. HER HUSBAND IS NOT A NICE MAN AND I WILL TELL YOU HE HAS A CRIMINAL RECORD IN SEVERAL STATES.”. At least his petition regarding guardianship of our grandson was immediately dismissed by the court, but the report is a part of our grandson’s guardianship file, but that part is under lock & key. No one supposedly is allowed to view it. I’D LOVE TO FIND OUT IF THERE IS ANY WAY AT ALL FOR ONE OF US TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE REPORT, OR WHEN OUR GRANDSON TURNS 18, IF HE CAN FILE UNDER THE ‘FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT’.
My name is Millie, so if anyone out there in cyberland wants to connect, chat, be an e-mail buddy, or whatever, I’d be glad to hear from you. With the turmoil we’ve had for about the last 12 years, I can understand why, at times, I’m in a down & out mood. At least my psychiatrist told me he thinks I’ve dealt with everything in a rational way and I try my best to get control of my anger, my bitterness, my hurt feelings, etc., even though my doctor knows exactly how much I detest and why I hold her husband also resonsible for her present condition. The doctor also underatands why I feel my daughter could have prevented all this if she would have listened and taken the advice so many others gave her…that advice being…GET HIM OUT OF YOUR LIFE!
O.K…I’ll finally shut up and click “Register”…Hope someone reading this is able to under!
THANKS…MILLIE