No pills work for me.

I'm really sorry to hear you can't find anything that helps... I. Addition to sertraline I find regularly drinking herbal and green tea really helps, my favorites are twiningsgreentea cranberry and raspberry and cranberry green tea but there are loads you can try. Also I've found I'm happier when I regularly exercise. Just gentle jogging or swimming even once a week helps. Also I've recently taken up a few more hobbies these keep my mind and body busy so I don't think about my depression as much. New crafts and skills also help you make new social links which can lift your midi any day.

Have you tried theropey? The Red Cross are always looking for volunteers to help elderly or vulnerable people as home care volunteers and helping someone else may help you help your self.

Hope you find some answers and feel better soon .

Take care of your self

I feel a bit better when I exercise too but I have bad joints so most cardio is too painful for me including swimming and cycling. I also injured my ankle in March and wasn't able to exercise for months after which was difficult.

As for hobbies, I don't have any. I watch the tv, that is my hobby. I don't really know how to start a new hobby.

Have also tried therapy, seen 3 therapists and a life coach in my life. Also currently having cognitive behavioural therapy which involves lots of making notes of my thoughts which I hate. I just don't think it will work for me.

Hi Vicky , like me your still young enough to work through this. I myself am only just starting to understand myself and depression.

It's a strange thing because most doctors don't know afar causes it. The best I've been told is that it's a hormone imbalance which causes the severe anxiety and low mood . I have tried keeping a thought diary but I only seem to maintain it when I'm particularly low.

And because if my busy work life and weird shif patterns I also find it hard to remember to keep at it. I'm very forgetful.

Does any of your family know about how you feel? My mum suffers from depression really badly.As well as having an under active thyroid and chronic fatigue syndrome so talking to her does help because she understand my struggle. We haven't always been close but since I moved 300 miles away we have more in common, and fight almost never .

Which part of the county do you live, if you like I could have a look and see waft free hobbies and help there is in your area.

Take care of yourself

Ps. Try the herbal tea it works wonders. And as for hobbies if you watch channel 4 Kirstie Alsop has loads if programes on now to inspire you

Yes I only manage to record the thoughts when they are particularly bad, and even then, I find I can't change my thoughts without someone talking me through it.

My mum suffers with depression too but manages it with St John's Wort and 5HTP. She has helped me organise therapy in the past but when I get frustrated about the pills not working we fight and I sometimes worry that she feels guilty as we both know it is partially in our genes to be depressed. Also telling her that I'm suicidal makes me feel guilty because I don't want to add to her depression.

I live in London. I used to do wine tasting and I used to sing in a choir, both of which I would love to do again. It's just difficult once you get that down, to drag yourself back up to being able to go out and do fun things. I should make more effort. I will try Kirstie Allsop too, I love her programs. I would really love for there to be something like 'depressed annonymous'. To be able to go to a group therapy session for free whenever I need would be amazing. I don't know if anything like that exists.

I'm not sure if there is such a programe , but ill have a look around, try and keep positive over the festive season . We are thankful for our lives when many have less than we do. Even at our lowest points there a re people in the world who would give their life's worth to live as we do. Although this may not feel encouraging now each day we live is a small success.

Try being thankful each night before you go to bed of all the small victories you have achieved that day.

For example yesterday I was thankful for being able to wear clean clothes. It may sound strange but weirdly it lifted my mood ever so slightly .

Take care

I had also faced same problem some time ago, then I had started an exercise like swimming jogging

hi,

i can defenetly relate to your acid reflux, im on a lot of meds for high blood presure, an aortic annurysim and depression which left me with terrible reflux, and of all the serious things wrong with me the worst thing was the acid reflux it made me depressed and my appitite was so depressing that every thing i ate used to repeat on mei was i a terrible state untill i saw a great doctor that introduced me to ranitadine its a expensive drug but to me it was the best thing since sliced nread so now i take 300mg every morning and i can take my meds and eate again so i can face my other problems with a bit more calmer outlook so go to your doc and beg them to prescribe ranitadine and dont take no for an answer good luck u will feel better soon i promise