Something So True

We, the Depressed, in our darkest hours have
1. No energy to move
No reason to live
No will to survive
No hope in a cure
No reason to try.
We roam the earth as the living dead
Wanting only to extinguish
That persistent heart that beats,
That ceaseless breath that enters,
That pain that never relents.
Every cell of our being wants to die,
Yet Do We Live.

Author unknown

I found this and it just struck me as being so accurate, at least in how I feel alot of the time.

Mary Alice

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Thanks for the hugs.

Mary Alice

Best description, but therapy and/or meds can help lead us out of this funk.
Take care,
DE

In giving advice seek to help, not please your friend
SOLON

I agree that this speaks the truth. I, myself, am feeling this way today. I just want you to know you're not alone these days. I know I feel like I am but I come here and feel some sense of peace because I believe you and other people here know what I'm going through.

I like this post Planning. It may sound very negative but I think it is important for people to understand, both people suffering and those who don't, to understand that these feelings are not a side effect of depression but are the very nature of depression itself.

It's not like if we could work ourselves past these feelings we would be free of depression, as outsiders easily think. These feelings indicate a diagnosis that something is wrong with us, something that can be treated, just as a pain in the abdomen may indicate appendicitis. A bottle of tylenol may make the pain go away but it does nothing for the problem.

As with any illness, it may be important to treat some of the symptoms for some immediate relief but ultimately you have to work on curing the disease or else the symptoms will just keep coming back, sometimes much worse.

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This is the shadow that follows me, sometimes overtakes me. Thank God, for the moment, it's only behind me.

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<font color=blue>"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt" --Shakespeare</font color=blue>

so true mary alice

but when we are down we should always look at the bright side (i know there is one.. trust me)
so gimmie me kiss and we will both feel better or at least smile for, we will laugh at each other trying to do that..

ha ha..
<marquee> <font color=purple> (((((((((((((((((( hugs and hugs )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) </marquee>

You are not alone my darling.. and this I know you already know..
the lady has spoken..


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The light is around me now
I see it so clearly now
I feel him in my heart
Lord God has set me free.
Let me rejoice in you
Let me be free
I love the lord God.
I have been Saved by your Grace and love today...04/11/04

Mary Alice, Can I copy this and use it to take to therapy with me because it really is showing my feelings at this point,,,,with no sleep for a few days it really does sound good
Somebody

Be my guest Somebody..............I've been thinking about this alot lately and trying to get past it.

Mary Alice

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I feel the same Lex..........it's the reason I hang out here so much myself. In 3D, I am alone with this.

Take care.

Mary Alice

People have to dig beneath the surface, it's just that unfortunately sometimes they don't.

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Feels like it has me by the throat these days.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxxxxxxxxxxxxoooo

Mary Alice

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You are so sweet.





Mary Alice

I am also familiar with that feeling. Just reading it makes me remember those dark days.

I wish I knew then what I know now. But I learned the hard way, like most of us do. It took a team - me, my T, my Pdoc, and my friends to get me through that darkness. I had to be brave enough to ask for help. I fell to the bottom, and reached up.

I still remember sitting on my T's couch for the first time, and being soooooo depressed, I couldn't even sit upright, and his couch is leather, so I kept sliding off! Now that's funny! Of course, it wasn't then... it was frustrating.

But, I did reach up, and he made me see a Pdoc, and he made me talk to friends (that was the hardest!) and after trying like 1,473 SSRI's and various combinations, with every side effect in the book, and some I invented, we finally found the right combo. Phew..the room stopped spinning!

When we got it right, it was like a gray curtain lifted. Colors seemed brighter, food tasted yummier, life was just more .... alive. Then the CBT...lots of CBT... and then, well, I could fill up pages.

Thanks for the memories. Sweetie...it can get better. It does get better. It will get better. Hugs to all of you!

Emmy

"Language is a Trojan horse by which the universe gets into the mind. ." -- Hugh Kenner

When I read this I went OMG this is so very very true. Isnt it sad that so many of us relate to it?
love and HUGs

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

Carl Gustav Jung

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Yes it is..........and a shame that so many people don't understand what or how we feel. It would be easier if they could - we could share more of our feelings and work through the problems.

Sharing my feelings tends to land me in lock up at the hosp so that is not an option for this old broad!
Will just come round here and lurk in the corners
Love and HUGs

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

Carl Gustav Jung

You are too, and that is what makes me love you more and more every day..

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The light is around me now
I see it so clearly now
I feel him in my heart
Lord God has set me free.
Let me rejoice in you
Let me be free
I love the lord God.
I have been Saved by your Grace and love today...04/11/04

Very true indeed.

<font color=red>~Sundance~</font color=red>

<font color=blue>"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business."</font color=blue>

<font color=black>Norman Vincent Peale</font color=black>

...lurking works. (peeking into corners looking for pooh...)

<font color=blue> meditation is a true way to connect to the Source </font color=blue>

Cont to lurk quietly, ty for looking

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

Carl Gustav Jung