Max Power 83
All Australian
If you have to ask, you've stepped over it.How do you understand that it is time to get professional help or you can still manage with everything alone?
Where is this line?
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If you have to ask, you've stepped over it.How do you understand that it is time to get professional help or you can still manage with everything alone?
Where is this line?
Iso and even the past two years being pretty cut off has been rough, then the added anxiety and difficulty of just being expected to bounce back to being a completely social creature only compounds it.Iso by myself hasnt been great
You’re not a loser .I'm probably experiencing some delayed depression after my dad told me I'm not welcome at his place anymore. He has always been a difficult character so initially I thought it was just that, but then I began thinking about what a loser I am and how nobody likes me. Also I've been flat for the last month or so after some stress at work.
Footnote - my father, my sister and my psychiatrist all think this a fantastic plan, and I'll be continuing my quarterly FaceTime consults with my psychiatrist, because hey....everywhere I plan to go has wi-fi, so it just means doing the session at 1AM rather than 1PM. And the medications I am on are all ok too...although not for everywhere, but certainly for all the places I have any interest in traveling to.
I find COVID has done that for me. The last two years just seem like mush. No real memories because of all the lockdowns etc.In a weird spot. Not feeling the weight of depression of late but just feel incredibly numb. Days and weeks slipping by with nothing to really show for it. Struggling to see the point of it all. Thinking I need to shake things up without being destructive.
I don’t think that’s true. Mental illness affects 45% of the population at some point in their lifetime, most people have experience with depression and anxiety (either first hand or through someone close to them)I know most people don't think depression exists.and that's fine.
Not in my experience. Anyway I don't think it even matters really. It is what it is.I don’t think that’s true. Mental illness affects 45% of the population at some point in their lifetime, most people have experience with depression and anxiety (either first hand or through someone close to them)
In my experience people are pretty understanding and supportive of depression sufferers as long as they’re making a visible effort to move forward and manage it
It’s a hard slog but I’d encourage you to keep working at it - going to the appointments, taking the medication, holding yourself accountable for following the advice and doing the right thingsNot in my experience. Anyway I don't think it even matters really. It is what it is.
I'm pretty much done with doctors, psychologists etc anyway. Just have to figure out a way of living that best fits
This is true. Also from here on inIt’s a hard slog but I’d encourage you to keep working at it - going to the appointments, taking the medication, holding yourself accountable for following the advice and doing the right things
If you refuse treatment, you will push your friends and loved ones away
The trick is to keep trying. If you can find the right antidepressant and the right psychologist, it gives you that little bit of support to break the spiral and start making and acting on good decisions. Once you start making good decisions they become self-reinforcing and you end up in a virtuous circle. People see you making progress and they become more supportive and helpful.This is true. Also from here on in
I will need to be very strategic and careful how I live my life and come to an acceptance of it. Certain things are just too much for me add in I'll never really function "normally" or by the majority way of doing things. I just don't relate to others or the world that way.
Eventually for example I'll have to leave my job and figure a way of getting by. Working for others just doesn't work neither do 40-55 hour weeks. It will end up killing or destroying me.
Issue is what treatment. A GP will give you anti ds psychology is just hit and miss and beyond that there isn't much else.
Read your post above on seratonian syndrome. Make sure it's nothing to do with that acting up.Just wanna jump in front of a tram
If there is anyone on this earth that you love or even care for don’t do it for their sakes as much as yoursJust wanna jump in front of a tram
I'm curious to know how much attention you all pay to diet and exercise, and how that affects your state of mind?
If there is anyone on this earth that you love or even care for don’t do it for their sakes as much as yours
I’ve lost people this way and it’s a horrible and finite thing to be left on earth trying to deal with
I don’t know what else to say , in my 51 years alive I’ve been at that point a few times but I’m still here and very glad of it .
Hang in there
I hear you. By my own hand, my life is beyond what Id call a total mess too. I would be well gone if it wasnt for the damage that would do to my family. Im on a slow suicide path I think.I reguarly run I ran today. Will go tomorrow.
On anti depressants too. Have cold showers. Doing everything I can.
My life is a total mess. Just want it to end. Got no support at all. So tired. Mentally so tired.