too many down days

What medication are you on? Try to keep active a little more! I know it is hard and I can sympathize ! Also give the meds time to work! I have been on generic Lexapro for 7 weeks now and just beginning to feel somewhat better! Also try to seek some therapy!

I have been depressed for 2 years now. Many meds. Don't help. In therapy. Does this illness ever go away. I used to be highly functional.

How long have you been feeling depressed? You say years. Did it really take years for u to find meds that help your anxiety and depression?

Hi Michelle, I've been depressed for just over 8.5yrs now (since my daughter suddenly passed away).  Was only last year that I finally found the right depression meds .. anxiety meds were ok.  I had alot of reactions to alot of the meds giving me abnormal thoughts etc... then a psyche put me on one which I used for a couple of years but it made me numb and want to sleep all day long but not at night.  So I weaned myself off them without telling my dr and when I went to see him he said I looked shocking what was wrong and I told him that I had stopped taking my meds as I hated the way I was feeling and he prescribed me cymbalta and I'm happy on that one .. well I naturally still have my moments .. honestly don't think any drug will make me ever feel myself again but this will have to do.  For anxiety I take Paxam 2 x 3 times daily and have valium for a back up if needed.

 

Cymbalta made me feel worse. They all have. I be that you can get back to how you used to be. I have been so depressed and anxious for 2 years now. Last year I was bed ridden

Are you still depressed?

Yeah unfortunately still depressed but the meds help heaps .. I'm worse when it comes to family occassions and especially ones with my immediate family .. I still need to have a lie down in the afternoon if I'm home which I nearly always am.  Doctor doesn't think that I'll ever recover as he knew the special relationship that my daughter and I had .. we were best friends and soul mates I'll never get over losing her she was 25 when she passed away

 

I was on Annafril (sp?) for a couple of years and that was an old drug that made me feel like a zombie and just want to stay in bed all day that's the one I took myself off .. I couldn't cope feeling like I was any longer.

I'd get a new dr and a good therapist. I wouldn't go to a dr that thought I would not recover

Hi Michelle .. I so trust my dr I've been seeing him for 25yrs and he's always truthful with me, we have so much respect for each other when he mentioned that I wouldn't get over it it was my husband and him talking as my husband doesn't think I will ever get off meds either.  The bond I had with my daughter was so strong and losing a child I wouldn't wish upon anyone.  I've seen a few different shrinks and also a couple of psychologists (as with psycholoogists here in Australia we can get up to 10 free visits per year) .. all 3 shrinks that I saw also thought the same .. when I find I'm really stuggling I now have an awesome psychologist I really find that helps me thru my tough times... I just ring my dr and he will get me in to see him asap, I'm so lucky as the psychologist will work later or start earlier to fit me in.

So your Dr is saying you will be clinical depressed for the rest of your life? I am so sorry about your daughter. I couldn't imagine losing a child. I pray that you can fully recover and find peace and healing, with or without medication

Thank you Michele .. I to hope that one day I can also find peace one day .. I know that is what she would want .. but I'll just take it year by year and see how I go.

Have you discussed TMS?