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Originally Posted by PoorPrincess
Attending therapy is going to be the best help for this kind of depression. What do you do in your daily life to lift your mood? I know its bloody hard to get motivated to do fun things, but with this kind of depression the more fun you have in your life the better you will feel. QUOTE] 
Here's a trigger for me, in that I've never "gotten better" in depression from therapy. It's a bandaid as the meds for me are band aids only. They do not heal, they do not repair the damage done, they don't stop the angst and pain of existence.
As for "fun", I have no capability to enjoy, so where's the fun in fun then?
It doesn't lead me to feel better for having been around "fun". In fact it makes me feel yet worse and more miserable for not being able to experience it.
Make sense?
Sorry, it just needed to be said. |
Key words here - FOR THIS KIND OF DEPRESSION. That kind of depression IS improved by behavioural activation and therapy. It is a FACT. It sucks for a while but you keep pushing and pushing through the suckyness and for atypical depression it WILL improve your mood. Thats why it is good news that they have figured out that it is not bipolar, atypical depression has more chance of being managed a put into remission for spells.
Yep it sucks when you cant enjoy things, but you do them anyway - that is life with depression in general. But avoiding potentially fun things because you think you might not enjoy them is not beneficial at all.
You've got it all backwards - MEDS are a bandaid solution - therapy is the long term fix. Just because you havent got there yet doesnt mean therapy doesnt work - it means you either have not been committed to therapy, or you have not been in it long enough or you just dont have a good therapist.
Again keywords - for this kind of depression. Bipolar can be another kettle of fish.