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Jul 19, 2014, 09:18 AM
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HI. I have suffered with depression and anxiety since School, particularly through university and in places of work and it has affected me in other areas of life. I have learnt over time that i have a challenging illness which depression and anxiety are part of.
I have been to courses, workshops, read articles, talked to different people, had counselling/therapy etc.. and tried things like meditation, yoga, mindfulness and activities to help increase my level of self esteem, assertiveness and improve my relations with others. I'm aware that I need to make important changes in myself, controlling or stopping certain negative, unhelpful habits, developing skills, strengths, finding new opportunities, altering the way i view and am with self and others, and improving my life generally, the way i live my life. There are a lot of things I'm not happy about, that im still affected by from past and want to change. But, I currently feel stuck/trapped in difficult dark place, feel like im currently living out of touch with real life, missing out on things and lacking people to spend time with, share with who feel get on well with . I want to feel freeer, less restricted, well, and able to have more control over my life and live more fully. Have other people tried to make efforts to help themselves, to try to change but encountered a lot of negative outcomes? |
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Jul 19, 2014, 09:58 AM
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Like you I have tried many thing to improve my life and personal growth. I practice them to this day. The problem is depression and anxiety jump right in there and don't care about those things. I don't see it as a negative outcome though. All those things have impacted my life in a positive way. I think for me the disease is just more powerful than those things and affects me anyway.
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Jul 19, 2014, 02:19 PM
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Jul 19, 2014, 04:24 PM
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I have just about no progress to show for years of seeking help and being a cooperative, compliant patient. I'm still alive, though. The professionals and medicos have provided me with medications and a few behavioural tools. Even so, I have at no time approached pre-depression functionality. May your experience eventually prove more encouraging.
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Jul 19, 2014, 05:25 PM
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Is medication really the only answer do you believe?
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Jul 19, 2014, 05:26 PM
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I think its about changing one's lifestyle that's important.
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Jul 19, 2014, 06:13 PM
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I think medication can be a part of the answer if you can find what works. Very effective for some, not so much for others. It is only part of the solution in my view.
A lot depends on causes and severity as well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman Major Depressive Disorder Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun. Recovering Alcoholic and Addict Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide. Male, 50 Fetzima 80mg Lamictal 100mg Remeron 30mg for sleep Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back |
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Jul 19, 2014, 06:13 PM
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Hello, Creative1onder.
Dr. Grohol: Changing Our Routines and Habits | Psych Central I wish you well. |
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