Question for you all... Please....

I fell into another depression... yepper.. the deep well of depression......

have had depression thru out my life.. my first really major one at 13..

so.. I have also been in therapy for 23 years.. because of other issues.. my childhood bacjground of abuse - DID, PTSD and an eating disorder..

My question is.. does therapy help you during the worse of depression? not just light depression but the deep - can barely function.. enough to dress and eat depression...

How does your therapist help you? What does he do?

My T on Monday.. said the usual - "this to will pass", "join a social group", "find a hobby", "volunteer", "work out"

All very good suggestions... but I had told him.. I had just been worked into the doctor's earlier because I was passing out..

My eating disorder.. is causing me trouble with my blood pressure.. and blood sugar...

In other words, I am sicker.. than a dog...

And he is making these... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr suggestions..

This PM.. sounds so very civil... when I really want to tell him to "go jump off a cliff"...

Because I am so depressed... I am in this deep well.. with no hope of getting out right now.. his suggestions... well would like to tell him to stuff it...

depression.. has taken over my life yet again..

sometimes freewill, i think the suggestions sound better when coming from a loving friend, rather than a T? just a thought.. i know in my experience, all the 'paid ' advice in the world didnt carry the same weight as the same words from one loving friend...

whew... i sure know how hard it is to do any of that when one can barely get out of bed! I was juat at that point and MD put me on meds.... Lexapro.... now im sicker than a dog on that stuff... but my productivity is waaaaay up even after just one half dose. i got up, ate, unloaded the dishes, cleaned the livingroom... i mean these are things i haven't done in months. t gave me all the same suggestions... so have friends and i just couldn't. when the body feels like lead casing, it is hart to have any motivation to have a hobby or excercise.... now sleep - sleep was something i could understand.
I'm really not answering your question am i?
One thing was was really trying to do for myself was go volunteer. I figured if i stopped focusing on me and instead helped kids, or animals, or a cause, then i would be functioning better and be doing a good thing... ya know? but i never got out of the house. and that was something i came up with - volunteering with the mccaw foundation or a pet shelter. but my heart wouldn't get out of bed.
(((((((((free))))))))) i hope you find a way to feel better soon!

In my experience, therapy is useless when you are in a crisis. Therapy is something to do when you feel good or relatively good, to understadn WHY you get crises and how to avoid them in the future. The therapist is not a dentist, unfortunately...