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Originally Posted by East17
Your friend sounds as though she is a functioning depressive. Able to maybe hold down a job / have a family life / carry out the day to day stuff, but underneath all that is a person who is struggling to hold it all together. Sometimes we get through through on autopilot, but there's nothing left for anything over and above just coping with that.
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This statement describes my situation nearly perfectly. CPTSD and GAD and situational depression have been torturing me for over a year. I work full time, I maintain 4 websites as a freelancer, self teach myself programming, keep a home, care for my MI daughter, do yard work. I have bad knees and am one back injury away from back surgery. At the end of the day and on the weekends, I just want to veg. I don't want to talk or visit or go do fun things with people. I just want to build up the energy so I can do it one more day, one more week. Because I have to. It's just survival.