[angel04]

I know what the slippery slope feels like, I've been through it so many times before.

Is this fall inevitable or can I stop the slide? I feel the depression coming, I can almost see the black cloud on the horizon. Is there any way to stop it in its tracks before it takes me down again?
If I go for meds, they will take 6 to 8 weeks to take effect. I'll be IN the pit by then.
Any advice/ideas are welcome. I have to make it through school but I have come to think nothing is worth anything and I am useless and stupid. My confidence has disappeared and my self-esteem has gone down the toilet. Depression is only one step away, but I desperately don't want to fall into it again.
Help? Any ideas?

Tina

[wisewoman]

meds can start helping sooner. Please go and get started now. If your not sleeping get a small quantity of sleep aides. You will feel some difference within the first 2 weeks and it will buy you time. Don't let it get worse. Are you in counseling?

amen!! i second and third everything WW said. please see a doctor and get something to help you out. and if you aren't seeing a therapist, make an appointment. with all that we have at our disposal these days, it's a shame to let depression knock you in the head. i know, i've been there. i now proudly take two ADs and live a pretty good life.......xoxoxo pat

Get the meds now and line up therapy somehow.

You've been here before you know this landscape and you're aware that you're entering it.

Any help on how to make it until you have those supports in place?

Come here and post. Come to chats if they are helpful to you. Let people in your real life know that you are slipping again. Since you are in a uni town there must be some type of mental health services in that municipality.

Do you have any of the self help books with the lists of how to combat depression a minute at a time? If not then the library has a ton of books that are great that you could copy down these lists from.

I know when depression is steaming down the tracks at you it can be hard to do anything.

You asked. You know how this goes. Please do what is necessary now Tina.

[angel04]

Thanks everybody. You're right, I know you're right.
Everyone in my real life is making light of this. I can't blame them. I have been in such a good mood for months that seeing me like this is just too unbelievable for them. It's a little unbelievable for me too. It just creeped right up to me and smacked me down.
So frustrating when one feels so not in control of their own emotions.
I cried just walking to my car from class yesterday. I couldn't stop it. I've always been able to stop crying, but not yesterday.

Anyway, thank you for the input. I called my doctor this morning and I have an appointment next week, and I have a therapy apointment tomorrow.

We'll see, I guess.
thanks again
tina

[Wants2Fly]

There is a fast and easy way to get a self-help book by going to mentalhealth.org and downloading Psychological Self-Help.

Even when I was so down that I wasn't able to follow through on any onej CBT technique for long, each time that I started a new one, it gave me a little spurt of hope and feelings of efficacy. That eventually I would get better. Before sliding down into the pit again.

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