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<font color="#000088"> </font> i'm new to this room, but would love to chat and help support others with depression, i'm not a good talker, but a great listener.
and i really do care about other people, really
if you want to chat here, fine if you want to e-mail me my add. is tinybabyrex@aol.com, i suffer from severe depression and i would love to learn about how others cope and how i might be able to help

how very kind of you.......i cope by taking meds and trying to talk myself out of my lows.....how do you cope?

i don't take meds and i guess i don't really cope, i pretend i'm fine, i talk to other people about them. that is how i deal. how long have you suffered from depression?

Welcome to the forums TBR. We can all use some support.

I cope by taking meds (which I think need adjusting), waiting out the lows because I know they'll get better, enjoying time with the kids and my pets, and spending a lot of time in here.

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Hi TBR, I just recently admitted to my Long depression. So I'm quite new to things as well. I'm on Paxil--working my way up the dosage, atm =) It's helped me alot.
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i am sooooo scared of doctors and drugs. there are alot of people in my family who have problems with both. i'm glad you are doing better tho.
weren't you afraid to take a new med.?

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weren't you afraid to take a new med.?

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If you mean me? No...I most likely wouldn't be alive if I didn't try it. I was willing to try anything, if it had possiblilty of helping--at all. =) Anything would have been better than where I was 3 weeks ago!
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i think i've been where you were, 3 weeks ago, all my life. i don't like......trust doctors, i had a bad one.
and i still find it hard to believe that there is a "fix-it" pill.
and how much does your meds cost you?
aren't they expensive?

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I've been that way most of my life, since age 13. But I was getting ready to act, and I wanted to see my husband and baby neices again.

My meds are covered by current insurance, but a month supply is $98 according to the bottle.

The paxil doesn't fix everything...it helps though. =)
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i'm happy for you. i hope someday i can be on the "other side of the fence".
i wish i had insurance, why does helping yourself stay strong, healthy, and safe have to be so expensive?
it isn't fair. i have 3 baby neices......all girls, i watch one thru the week. they are such a joy. oh to be that innocent and blissful...................................................

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Thank you =)

We still get meds...but doc visits have been cut to 5x a year...and no referrals to specialists. I'm just glad they left us something.

I have 2 baby neices, one is 6 weeks old, the other is 4 months old =D

Babies are such a joy and so innocent and trusting...I love being around them. Trying to have some rub off, or learn from them, maybe I love them, which is reason enough to see them. =)
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6 weeks, and 4 months.............probably so cute ya could just eat them up!!!!!!!
congrats to you.
being an aunt is soooooo wonderful, isn't it.
good luck to you, and thank you for talking with me. i hope to chat again sometime.

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Well, since I si by biting I don't that's a good thing for me to say

But I want to squeeze them =D hehe

Congrats to you as well, getting to spend all week with one!

Yes, being an aunt is Wonderful =)

Thanks, take care. I'm here to talk whenever you need or want to =)
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