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May 05, 2010, 11:20 PM
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I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed, frustrated, and trapped. I've struggled with depression for 8 years. I'll start a new med, feel better for a little while, and then the effects seem to wear off. This has happened again this spring, this time with Zoloft/Abilify/levothyroxine. I see a great therapist, and I try to exercise, attend to my spiritual life, and spend time with friends... but the depression keeps coming back. I'm trying to finish my master's degree, but I can't seem to get the final paper written... I'm paralyzed by inertia. I know with each round of depression I learn stuff and hopefully cope a little better. But, it feels like I keep ending up in the same place.
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May 06, 2010, 08:35 AM
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Hello, garden gal. Does the psychiatrist have any new ideas for meds? I assume your therapist knows about the problem with the thesis? A lot of times perfectionism is the cause of procrastination. What at times has worked for me is to just start working on it. Making some progress may fuel more progress.
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May 06, 2010, 12:04 PM
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((((garden gal))))
I can understand how frustrating the treatment-resistant depression is for you. I am sure that you know the words to say to yourself : "Things will get better soon. This misery will soon pass. Etc.." If you haven't been reminding yourself of those facts, hop to it!  Thinking of you...
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"Only in the darkness can you see the stars." - Martin Luther King Jr. "Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness but because you deserve peace." - Author Unkown |
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May 21, 2010, 12:09 PM
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Just dont give up. Keep trying different treatments. Get a writing tutor, talk to your T about your inertial with your final paper.
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In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the...feeling felt as truth...that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.-William Styron |
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May 21, 2010, 02:04 PM
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I'm sorry for what you're going through... Hang in there
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A bearer of a shattered soul and a mind all ripped and torn I will rather learn to enjoy misery than partake a life of hypocrisy |
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May 21, 2010, 09:07 PM
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How are you doing, garden gal?
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