[Lost Lamb]

How long are we to put up with this depression? I'm exhausted from fighting it. I'm tired of just laying on the couch holding my head. I'm tired of crying and not being able to cry. I'm tired of being me. HELP!

[mehrnazsh]

I need help too , i pass very hard days and i don't have enoght energy to do anything

[mehrnazsh]

Originally Posted by Lost Lamb

How long are we to put up with this depression? I'm exhausted from fighting it. I'm tired of just laying on the couch holding my head. I'm tired of crying and not being able to cry. I'm tired of being me. HELP!

i have too situation and i try art make something with wire and go to gym
is it hard to start but you must do it

[regretful]

I know the feelings well. Ultimately, I surrendered to it by giving in to medication and therapy. I also started slow by getting back to some of the things that I used to enjoy. For me, it was exercise. I set on a plan to get to the gym daily...that lasted about three days...but I didn't quit. I worked on the idea of successive approximations. That is, I felt good for going those days, and then when I started again, I shot for four days...and so on. Though I'm still depressed, I'm not laying in bed crying anymore, which is where I was only two months back. Then, I found it so hard to function.

Since then, I've gotten a lot of help from folks here with their kind words of encouragement. I'm also taking cymbalta (30 mg) with some success, and am in talk-therapy a couple times a month. I'm not out of the woods yet...oh, I'm also reading a good book called The Deperssion Cure by Stephen Ilardi, Ph.D.

Feel free to send me a PM if you need more help.

[alone in the world]

Just hang in there. Try finding something you can do from the couch. Do you journal? I find journaling my struggle to get moving helps me to see the real reasons. don't try something big because if you don't succeed it makes it worse. write a poem, I find coloring pages on the internet and color, for a few minutes I can be focused on other things than the thoughts in my head. my hat off to you for crying real tears do work to release the strees. I have yet to cry in over 3 years and I keep all that trapped inward. try posting while you are on the couch to just reach out as long as you post, I will respond.

[Lost Lamb]

Thanks for the suggestions. I did find enough interest to start reading a book. And I journal all the time. At least those things and being on here keep my mind occupied for a while. I just needed to vent.