Morning everyone,
well here we are again in the middle of the night in Bogota and I'm awake and feeling bad. Thank God I am homeward bound tonight and by Saturday evening will be with my wife.
Here is a question. Reading your responses has caused me to look back on my history of depression and I have noticed something. The first, and worst, time I was depressed was over a period of 6 months when I was 19/20 having what was described as a 'nervous breakdown' at Uni. I was put on Meds and after leaving Uni and going back home I was back on my feet after about another half a year.
The next time I was badly depressed I was in Therapy anyway coping with the anxieties about studying that the first bout had caused, and it must have been when I was around 29/30/31 years old. I have no idea how long that bout lasted as I was using a lot of dope to escape my feelings, but again it was a short term kind of a thing - six months to a year.
Here we are again ten years later and I am 41. Is it possible? Is there such a thing as depression that reoccurs regularly over a certain period of time regardless of triggers or life circumstances? Or am I just looking for a convenient hook to hang this hat on?