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Feb 15, 2017, 08:13 PM
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I've had unipolar depression for two years now. Have so far been tried on 9 different meds in many many combinations (at one point was on four different antidepressants/mood stabilizers at once). Hospitalized twice. Am feeling just as bad as when this all started, have occasionally had a week here or there where I felt okay but it has never lasted.
I've been dutifully going to therapy once or twice a week since this started, but I don't know if it has helped at all. Do y'all think that therapy helps for treatment-resistant depression? (To cope? To keep you alive? To actually treat the depression?) |
 Fizzyo, Fuzzybear
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Feb 15, 2017, 11:53 PM
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It is helping me to cope better and I do see some changes. I'm less wedded to my negative worldview than I used to be. But real change in my depression has yet to materialize and I'm at the two year mark with therapy. Past the twenty year mark with depression, though. I think therapy helps. It helps me enough to keep going back, at any rate.
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Feb 16, 2017, 06:45 AM
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In my case, only a little. It is more helpful for the people with a reactive depression.
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Feb 16, 2017, 04:14 PM
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Some people it can, some not so much.
I have been doing a group course in "Compasionate Mind" a mindfulness and CBT based approach which aims not to cure problems but enable people who are not good at self soothing or who are really hard on themselves to reduce the suffering from the emotions theyhave. There is research to show benefit. You may want to google compassionate mind.org or listen on utube to find out more. Or, if you're able to concentrate on reading, this paper might be interesting. http://compassionatemind.co.uk/uploa...rapy-paper.pdf Their materials are available free on line. Good luck to you and anyone who wants to try it, it takes time and practice to build new circuits in our brains. 
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Feb 16, 2017, 04:44 PM
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I think it helps to keep me grounded. It helps me face the mood swings.
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Bipolar I, Depression, GAD Meds: Zoloft, Zyprexa, Ritalin "Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most." -Buddha  |
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Feb 17, 2017, 05:03 PM
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Thanks, all!
Fizzyo, I'll check out that paper, thank you. I have been trying some of Chris Germer's self-compassion meditations, which are also free: Christopher Germer, PhD, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion; clinical psychologist specializing in the application of Buddhist psychology and meditation to alleviate difficult emotions in psychotherapy and everyday life. |
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Feb 18, 2017, 04:48 PM
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Thanks chirochild, I will check them out.
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Feb 20, 2017, 05:15 PM
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Feb 21, 2017, 02:22 PM
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Therapy has helped my treatment resistant depression but ECT has more.
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