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Originally Posted by Lonely4321
My story is too long to get into details, but I'll give you the most recent bits so you have some idea what I'm going through.
In February I lost my job. in April I lost my apartment and very nearly ended up homeless. Moved back in with my mother in Pennsylvania (I was living in upstate NY). By this time I was suicidal, but did not actually attempt. I went to the hospital for help, they put me in the psych unit for a week and gave me a bunch of pills that I didn't need (anyone who's been through this knows how horrible it is).
Since I was discharged, I've been living with my mother (who I don't have a great relationship with). I got a crap job at a warehouse where it's a minute-by-minute not to just walk out. I have zero friends in this state, I'm not close to any of my family so I have literally no support.
They changed my meds 3 times already because first nothing was working, the second drug gave me a bad panicky-manic reaction for 3 days, and I just started taking a new one supplemented with lorazopam.
But over the course of the last 3 days, I've been feeling the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed and just slipping backwards into myself.
I don't care anymore. I have never felt so alone, or so unwanted. I don't have the motivation to even try to look for a better job or to take care of basic bills I need to pay. I missed 2 days of work this week. I just stopped caring completely.
I'm afraid of where I'm headed right now, but a big part of me doesn't care anymore. I don't know what to do. I've tried professional help, I've tried meds. Nobody in my life gives a **** about me. I don't know what to do with myself anymore.
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Hi Lonely,
I definitely know the feeling.
You've gone to the professionals, and they haven't helped much from the sound of it. This can be discouraging because if the experts can't help you, you must be in bad shape, right? Actually, the experts often don't have a clue and the meds mostly don't work anyway.
I have a couple of suggestions for you. First, try to understand how your own depression really works. See these notes, for instance:
http://egg.bu.edu/~youssef/SNAP_CLUB...0164151576.pdf
Is this happening to you? Whatever it is, it is happening in your own head, after all, and who knows better what's going on in there than you do? If the notes are right, it's very understandable that you should feel bad after a change in your life like what's happened.
Another suggestion is that there are a lot of known things to do to make depression better that are great for your health anyway. There is no down-side to giving these a try:
http://forums.psychcentral.com/4262681-post105.html
I find many of these things to be very helpful myself.
- vital