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Originally Posted by momto2boys
My son is being treated for depression. Therapy plus medication. He says his depression is better. He will get sad sometimes but he rebounds well and quickly. When he started becoming depressed, one of his symptoms was lack of energy. Even though his depression is better, he still has no energy. It was take him all day to get one task done. Any thoughts on this. He recognizes that it should not take him all day to do one task but he is not sure why he has no energy.
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One often overlooked aspect of mental health treatment is to first rule out physical causes of symptoms. Chronic fatigue syndrome, for instance, can manifest an awful lot like depression at first glance.
I was referred to a psychiatrist who diagnosed major depressive disorder and anxiety. Turns out I had come down with a nasty auto-immune disorder that left me too weak to work and hence support myself or my family, in chronic pain which led to zero percent stage three or rem sleep (as later confirmed by a sleep study), and a host of other physical byproducts of the auto-immune disease. Being one step away from homelessness and unable to do anything about it did rather make me a bit depressed and anxious - but treating the psychological consequences of a physical disease without addressing the root cause is not the answer.
When was the last time your son was given a comprehensive physical examination?