Do you suffer with depression?

Question

I do and it feels like I can never get out this hole that I'm in. I was diagnosed with Bipolar at 17 but I most suffer with depression. I'm now 30. I take Prozac 20mg daily and I take Amitriptyline 20mg nightly for sleep and anxiety. How do you deal with your depression? I also try to exercise as much as I can about 5 times a week and I'm trying to improve my diet. I am not overweight nor underweight. Quite healthy really.

My question is. How do you deal with your depression? And do you feel miserable with it? I do.

Answer 1

Thankfully I don't

Answer 2

I take Prozac and try to make the best of life.

Answer 3

When I am depressed I try to think what is making me feel like this. and sort it out from there, try to think of some good things that you love in your life and go onto the internet and write down anything that would be your "happy place" like when I am depressed I go onto the internet and www.google.com, beach pictures with amazing views.. and I think of what I am fortunate to have. And just talk to God really ask him and really mean it to help you get through it because before I was so depressed and frustrated I sat down at a table for two with two candles in the middle and talked to God for an hour and ask him if he would guide me through it and he did and now I am hardly ever depressed.  

Answer 4

My bi-polar is seasonally affected: I nearly always stop taking my Depakote in spring & I just wet back to the GP last week & the consultant on Monday

I have to admit I clean forgot to take the prescription to the pharmacist & to ring my GP for another appointment: I must do that after 2pm

2 things that I feel may help all of us:-

While feeling trapped indoors by heavy rain & winds, I try to have Christian TV on to build my spirits up: Mike Bickle has just now begun to speak on prayer & worship @ Kansas City Conference, Sky *580 - http://www.God.TV has click for prayer requests too

It's well worth googling WRAP - Wellness & Recovery Action Plan

& to ask GP for referral to a Mental Health Support Group

I pray for the guy contemplating suicide, as it's always battling with suicidal toughts, as my missing only daughter's b'day approaches, that drive me back to the GP & support groups: there are now  near me, who meet on different days

But only Jesus, as 'the Prince of peace', can truly give us 'the peace that passes understanding' - so do ask @ a good, lively church that can lift your spirits

God bless!

Ian

Answer 5

suffer anxiety and depression,im currently battling on with no medication,taking it day by day =)

Answer 6

Babe i suffer everyday it gets so bad in all honesty i've thought about killing myself.

Answer 7

I suffer with depression, i was diagnosed two years ago, and have just recently been put onto anti depressants after my mum found out i was harming myself.

I cant find a way other than hurting myself to deal with struggle of depression though i am trying and of course i feel miserable with it, its depression it makes me feel like c**p.

Answer 8

Yes.

Just do my best and keep trying to fight it.

Trusting god.

Answer 9

i have suffered depression on and off a good part of 20 years, just now i am quite severely depressed that i have in the past 1 1/2 tried to commit suicide, second time i can't even remember doing it and was taken to hospital i got my stomach pumped, wrists sewn up and one really bad hangover, that was only a month ago. when i woke up i didn't even know where i was. The way i dealt with it i shocked myself as i really didn't want my kids to be motherless, i love the countryside and my dogs and the only way i can get some sort of normality is finding an isolated spot in the middle of now-where and letting my dogs off and watching them running through the long grass or woods, just watching them makes me laugh and appreciate what i really do have, i don't have much, my marriage has just broke down, i lost my home as it was tied accommodation with my ex-husband job, i lost my job as i had to move back up to scotland. but in all i have 2 wonderful and beautiful kids, my dogs and a roof over my head as we're staying with my dad and step-mum in a 2 bedroom house. but i have so far never felt more at ease now than i have for a very long time. this is the lowest ebb i've ever been in and i know now that i can only go up from where i am. I don't suffer anxiety attacks and my citlopram is still at 40mg but i getting slowly, do what i do take one day at a time, good luck for the future

Answer 10

I dont. I dont want to go to the doctor because I deny how I feel and I dont want it to be put under a tag of depression. i put on a facade and only a few people know i am unhappy but none of them understand how much and i no one will understand. it feels like every time i try to be or something happens which may lead to happiness of some kind something goes wrong and i always blame myself for it. i have seriously contemplated suicide but i just couldnt do it to my family and having the one person who makes me most upset yet so happy know it was because of them.

Answer 11

If you are still feeling depressed your medication is not woking, I cahnged my medication a few years back, becuase it was becoming ineffective, so maybe try another SSRI like Zoloft or Eflexor, andif you have an anxiety componant to your depression, which is common, you can try something like Risperidone in a low dose like !mg, it is a major tranquilizor and used for psychtic disorders, but in a low dose it is very good for anxiety and is not addictive

Answer 12

I suffer with depression and anxiety and have been on lexapro which the doctor has just increased the dose, but I have a hobby that keeps me really busy and keeps my mind occupied for a time, and when I can't do my hobby I just try to deal with feeling miserable as best I can.

My psychologist who I see once a week told me that I'm lucky compared to most as I have a hobby to keep me occupied most of the time, he said which a lot of people who have this condition don't even have a hobby that makes them feel good about themselves,but even so, it still makes it hard as anyone with this condition would know.