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Originally Posted by Elsewhere
I think my pdoc focuses more on my depression vs. anxiety since I see him only for meds...and there are many more options for depression vs. anxiety meds (in theory...except that I have had an awful reaction to most all of them). I think he thinks my therapy might help my anxiety (yeah, right).
Maybe your pdoc was just trying to understand how you (specifically) deal with being depressed? Because just as we are discussing here, I do think people handle it very differently.
One of my Ts has commented on people who walk around with "a dark cloud of depression" over their heads...and said that I was not one of them. He also said that I don't really complain (not sure if that's moping exactly, but it made me think of it). I know for myself there is stuff I still have to take care of regardless of how I feel, so I focus on that a lot of the time. I also had to work for quite awhile feeling like absolute crap and got used to faking it day after day...it was exhausting, but I got used to acting like everything was "fine."
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Ha! I've had the same situation with meds. I get reactions to most of them or they don't work at all. Sucks majorly
I really only see my PDoc for meds too (I was commenting to my T that my PDoc has this effing huge office in the agency, with a couch and everything and he only uses like the tiny section where his desk is - the couch is way, way over on the other side away from his desk. My T joked I should go lie down on his couch next time I see him LOL).
Yeah. I don't have the cloud either. People are always asking how I cured my depression and I'm like, WTF? Uh. No. Not even close to cured. At all.
My T says I try to control how I feel. Maybe that's part of it.