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Originally Posted by Alone & confused
I agree with you. Like I said, this was many years ago & there's been more research since I've seen her. But it did give me a hint of an idea if it was something I needed to address with docs or if it was something I could change by changing my environmental situation. I once told her that I must be "terminally sad " then because none of the meds were working! I do believe that things that we go through can change our
Chemical balance. Just like when fear causes the "fight or flight" response. So I think the two go hand in hand. But I don't think that "temporary setbacks" can be considered a depression if it can be easily resolved & is short term. Do you agree? I'm always interested in learning more.
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Being put on an antidepressant help me a lot when I was stressing out over a school vocational program I was involved in. It also helped me to sleep more normal hours, which I hadn't done my whole life.
Then some years later I was getting awful depressed and went to see a pdoc and a therapist. After weeks of seeing them, I was just getting worse. I was becoming suicidal. I asked myself if there was anything in my life, like environment, that I could change. I decided to change where I lived and where I worked, and I stopped seeing the pdoc and T. Once I made those changes, I became enormously improved. I realized I had been trying to persevere in a situation that I hated. What I most needed to do was to get out of it. No one could see that, but me.
I still kept taking the med, which continued to help me. It still helps me. But it would have been useless, if I had stayed in circumstances that made me miserable.