Hi, I’m considered treatment resistant. I’ve tried different medications and such and it’s either the side effects or they poop out after a few months.

I know that you said that you didn’t find therapy helpful, but honestly, in order for therapy to work, you and the therapist (or whoever does the therapy) must connect and work together. I finally have a good psychologist doing therapy with me. My last person wasn’t the greatest either, and I felt it was a waste of time to be honest. I’ve been overall lucky I guess, and a social worker I saw was also good. A pdoc who did therapy with me was also okay... I don’t know. I liked her, but she wasn’t too good with therapy I guess.

I also know working on sleep and diet help. It’s not a solution to “curing it” though. I think it just helps you get better. If I don’t get enough sleep, then I’m really emotional the next day and I feel awful. Sometimes I get irritable.

Thyroid conditions can cause depression, so working on that would be key.

I know that exercise is suppose to help too. I haven’t gotten to a stage where it has helped, at least in my mind, but there are a lot of studies that it does help with depression.

Being outside and exposed to the sunlight may help.

I don’t have too much advice, but I’ll let you know I understand about being treatment resistant.