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Old Dec 13, 2013, 05:45 PM
Clio19 Clio19 is offline
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Location: My own personal hell:(
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Originally Posted by Kendyll View Post
I'm taking my medication. That part is fine.
But what do you do when situations around you feed depression? My pdoc was worried that I was slipping over a month ago, just from the seasonal changes and the fact that I'm not thrilled with my job. her idea at that point was to increase my Cymbalta for a few months to get me over the hump. I respectfully declined. Cymbalta gives me NASTY discontinuation symptoms and I don't want to take more because I don't want to have to stop taking it later. She was OK with that.

Now life has piled on. My cat died on Tuesday, and now my Grandmother is dying. I'm OK with my grandma passing on - she was 94 and she'd told me several times that she was ready to go home to Jesus. It's sad, but not unexpected. My Twinkie was a horrible shock and I'm really feeling bad. As if things weren't rough enough as it is. This is the first Christmas without my Daddy, for real. I mean, he was in the nursing home, so he wasn't there, but now that he's dead, he's really gone.

(Yes, I've already posted in the Grief board)

I just find myself wanting to sleep all the time, or not able to sleep much at all. The same goes for eating. I'm either really hungry or not hungry whatsoever. I don't want to do anything, and I haven't for months. No fishing, no target shooting, no shopping, no cooking (beyond what's needed for meals), no reading. I've even skipped a couple of AA meetings, and that scares the heck out of me. I don't want to call anyone to talk because I don't want to cry anymore. I need to get out of myself, but how can I be there for anyone else if I can't be there for me?

What are some of the thing you do to deal with situational depression? I mean, you've got treatment and for the most part it works, but then life slings you a couple rocks and knocks you down for a while. How do you get through it?
I'm sorry to know what you're going through... usually what i found out it works wonders on me is doing exercise...because it makes me focus on the moment and all the adrenaline rush that i got makes me move on...

As the others have told you take one step at time... take deep breathes and feel free to PM if you need someone that listens you...
Thanks for this!
Kendyll