Hi everyone:
I decided to give this support group a try. I have been dealing with depression for a few months now, although my therapist thinks I have been dealing with it for years but was good at coping with it. Anyway, it's gotten worse. I live by myself and my family is geographically far away. I get most of my social support from my friends and my family (over the phone), but sometimes I feel they are getting tired of hearing about me and my depression. I just wish I would get better already. I also suffer from delayed sleep phase syndrome and this whole depression thing has made my sleep problems worse. I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. Granted, things have been better. I guess I just need to be patient. I'm on Celexa and I'm doing incredible efforts to get through each day. I'm in my third year of graduate school and as someone here said: sometimes I'm just amazed at the things that I am able to accomplish given the way that I feel. I also agree with how good I have gotten at pretending that I'm fine. Ugh!
Well, just getting things off my chest.
Roski