LETS ALL LAUGH AT PEOPLE WITH DEPRESSION!!

Lollipops23 wrote: »

Ugh after 6 months of uninterrupted contentedness and normality, anxiety has decided to rear its ugly head. No reason. Just for the lols.
My anxiety attacks tend to be nocturnal- I'll wake up in the dead f night in the deep grip of the attack. Last night I woke at half 12, managed to stave it off, and woke again at 3.30am and stayed awake til after 5. Thankfully I can work from home, as I wasn't in any fit state to go into the office.
Spent the day jittery and tearful all day, and feeling extremely paranoid.
Ugh. Great.

Has anything happened in the last few days that might have triggered it?

I am so tired when people ask me 'What is your dream job? If you could do anything what would you do?'

Have struggled for years to know what to do with my life. That question is such a waste of time for me. All it does is make you raise your hopes and have unrealistic expectation of what you can do. My CV is a piece of s**t. Graduated in 2008. 'Work' to me is just getting paid to do something you don't like which is usually based in an open plan office and is incredibly monotonous.

"What's your dream job?" - oh please f**k off. :rolleyes::mad:

Orwellmerchant wrote: »

Hello folks, started on zispin last week after almost a year on cipramil. Feeling absolutely exhausted from doing nothing.
Any else feel the same whilst taking both of them?

I'm on cipramil 20 mg and I always feel tired,sluggish and bloated I presume it's a side effect ,hope things improve for u.

Orwellmerchant wrote: »

Hello folks, started on zispin last week after almost a year on cipramil. Feeling absolutely exhausted from doing nothing.
Any else feel the same whilst taking both of them?

I'm on 30mg of Mirtazapine a generic brand of Zispin again since July and I take it at night to help me sleep but I still feel tired during the day, am hoping it will level out after a few months. Best of luck:)

My father has been suffering from it for the best part of the decade, diagnosed with it about 10 years ago, but really I think he's had it a bit longer but never realized, like when I was a kid growing up, he only had seasonal work here and there, and my mother was working full time, so my Dad looked after us most of the time but a lot of the time he was sulking a lot and sleeping the whole day away and he's be like an anti-christ if you woke him.

He's worked nights in hotels most of his life and slept during the day, I'd imagine that didn't help, he was never much of a people person and him working in a budget hotel, hated the Irish guests because they'd be drinking all night and being loud and waking all the guests upstairs that came in off tour buses, Dad often came in saying "Much prefer the non Irish guests, they are no hassle, one pint of Guinness or a glass of wine and they'd be in bed by 12, that's the way I like it"

He has had to take sick leave from work and is on medical certs for the last year or so. Basically he's not happy in work, he's not happy out of work and it's exhausting.

He developed a taste of cannabis/weed about 14 or 15 years ago when I was a teenager before he was formally diagnosed with depression and anxiety, and I have read in recent years that it brings on an underlying mental illness or makes it worse. He's been on anti-depressants since about 2008 and is off and on the weed. He spent most of last year off it in fact, and the atmosphere at home wasn't too bad at all, he was in ok spirits most of the time but his sister became homeless a few months ago, she also smokes it, and she had to move into our house for about 2 months, and lo and behold she brought the weed with her and Dad fell off the wagon, which really annoyed me being it just creates an unpleasant atmosphere in the house and my mam and I have to walk on eggshells, I have to live at home because of the rents. I'd be gone otherwise.

He's been using weed a lot lately, even grew a plant in the garden shed for his own use, I'm sure it's making it worse being I've read being on both his anti-depressant and smoking that messes with the chemical balance in the brain and his mood has been very off for the last fortnight, and it's very hard to watch and live with. I've said to my mother many times that he is his own worst enemy by smoking that and taking prescribed medication and I've shown her the stuff I've read about it. She has told him, but it falls on deaf ears most of the time. He has given it up in the past and can stay off it for months but all it takes is one of his siblings, they all dabble in it (which is a wreck the head) and all it takes is one of them to walk in the door when he's off it, and bang he's back on it again.

I do be on the verge of completely losing the rag and chucking them out of the house, because I have to live there, and I like a nice easy going environment at home and whenever it happens, I get pissed off but the mother says "don't get involved" and I stay out of it to not disappoint her.

Don't think Dad has gone near the exotic tobacco for a few days being he's been very off form, he had some sort of depressive/anxiety episode while I was on a course day the day before yesterday while my mam and aunt were there, my mam now hopes my aunt now see's what that stuff can do when your mind isn't well. He went to see some sort of mental health doctor the day before yesterday but he keeps my mam generally in the dark of what's said, doubt his use of cannabis is even mentioned to them. It's just hard to live with.

He's not the only person close to me that struggles with it. I also had to end a relationship 2 and a half years ago and one of the reasons I ended it was her having depression and high functioning anxiety and panic disorder. Wasn't the only reason, she was an academic too and worked way too much, her workload set off her illness and basically I got completely phased out of her life, just felt like the relationship didn't matter to her, there was no room for me. Everything was about her like and I was feeling like too much of a crutch. Plus her and I had different ideas about the future, children and so forth and I'd hoped there would be some sort of turn around but it wasn't happening. It got very complicated and I got very burned out and ended it, which stung a lot, she's a great person, loved her to bits, but her dark side was hard to cope with and I got to the end of my rope.

Drumpot wrote: »

You have Plenty to say about your dad, your family and even an ex girlfriend Zcorpian88. How are you doing?

Could be better Drumpot, revising for an exam at the minute, so keeping sane

Good article here I thought ....

https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-health/building-better-mental-health.htm

Hi everyone,

The following is not intended as looking for medical advice.

Any anyone who takes an antidepressant on a daily basis noticed that after a few years that their therapeutic / desirable effect has gradually worn off?

And if so....Did you change to a different antidepressant medication and did the change help to improve your mood and or stabilise your depression any?

I have been on 60mg Cymbata for the guts of 10 years but in the past six months, my depression has become much more of a problem on a daily basis. I will be pursuing counselling and CBT soon but am also considering a change in antidepressant medication to see if this can help in any way also. Over the past six months I have moved from my regular 60mg dose up to the maxamium 120mg dose but my depression continues to be quiet poor.

Just looking for anyone to share their experiences in changing their medication and if it helped.....or not?

Thanks

Read a January article .....

"Increasingly, evidence is emerging to support the power of immersion in cold water as a form of 'blue therapy'," says pro surfer Dr Easkey Britton, who is currently involved in a project at NUIG studying the health impacts of sea bathing. "Early preliminary findings suggest the potential mood-enhancing and stress-reducing benefits with first-time sea swimmers, as well as a heightened sense of self-awareness in a multi-sensory environment. Studies also show that cold water stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system and with long-term exposure boosts the immune system. But build up slowly so you don't shock the system and always swim safely (Irish Water Safety has great courses)."

Very relaxing soulful track

Best listened to with earphones

https://youtu.be/hYvMR4u-LEM