Bacongrills
LE
What treatments, plans, tricks, and methods have you used and found to work for clinical depression ( not just feeling a bit down and having a Jaffa cake to cheer you up depression ) my thoughts are as follows based on 20+ years of experience if it helps anyone.
1. Meds are the first step , without changing your brain chemistry you can't proceed to get better, you have to find the anti depressant that is right for you by trial and error, some have side effects but some don't , some work for a while then you get immune to them and have to change.
2. Eliminate stress, depression is always looking to find a way in when you are stressed out and distracted, its like a vulture that follows you around waiting for you to stumble so it can find a way in. If depression is long term you might need to change your lifestyle, work, and where you live to a low stress , non noisy, non city environment.
3. Are the NHS mental health services actually helping you are they stringing you along to justify their own jobs with endless assessments and bogus promises of treatments that never actually appear ? Ask to see what they are writing about you in their reports. Change your GP as many times as you need to until you find the one that you have confidence in.
4. You are probably ashamed to have depression and feel you have let people who depend on you down, mental illness still has a stigma attached to it but you didn't invent that so you don't have to accept it, depression may just be another physical illness that affects your brain chemistry which you have no control over and are not responsible for, the same as any other medical condition , if you think of it that way it no longer holds any power over you. Stop pretending you are OK when you're not.
5. Acceptance , once you accept that you have depression and stop trying to hide it depression looses its power over you, you can then move on to learning how to keep it in the shadows where it belongs and be in control of your life again, when it comes back you will then have a strategy to let it do its thing while you take the day off and go into survival mode, stay in bed if you want to, sit around in your pants, eat a whole bag of jelly babies ?
Change your life to stop doing the things that cause you stress and anxiety and refuse to get involved in them, instead concentrate on the things that you enjoy that don't trigger your illness. If you had cancer would you feel guilty about stopping work and taking time out to enjoy your life ? Of course not.
6. Are you going to tell everyone that you have depression ? This works both ways, some people need to know and will stick by you but others will avoid you from then on, some people will do the worst thing and try to " cheer you up " when you want to be left alone.
7. Drink and drugs won't help you out of this one, nor will comfort eating, forget about them as a way to cope. Piling on weight will just lower your self confidence even more.
Over to you...
1. Meds are the first step , without changing your brain chemistry you can't proceed to get better, you have to find the anti depressant that is right for you by trial and error, some have side effects but some don't , some work for a while then you get immune to them and have to change.
2. Eliminate stress, depression is always looking to find a way in when you are stressed out and distracted, its like a vulture that follows you around waiting for you to stumble so it can find a way in. If depression is long term you might need to change your lifestyle, work, and where you live to a low stress , non noisy, non city environment.
3. Are the NHS mental health services actually helping you are they stringing you along to justify their own jobs with endless assessments and bogus promises of treatments that never actually appear ? Ask to see what they are writing about you in their reports. Change your GP as many times as you need to until you find the one that you have confidence in.
4. You are probably ashamed to have depression and feel you have let people who depend on you down, mental illness still has a stigma attached to it but you didn't invent that so you don't have to accept it, depression may just be another physical illness that affects your brain chemistry which you have no control over and are not responsible for, the same as any other medical condition , if you think of it that way it no longer holds any power over you. Stop pretending you are OK when you're not.
5. Acceptance , once you accept that you have depression and stop trying to hide it depression looses its power over you, you can then move on to learning how to keep it in the shadows where it belongs and be in control of your life again, when it comes back you will then have a strategy to let it do its thing while you take the day off and go into survival mode, stay in bed if you want to, sit around in your pants, eat a whole bag of jelly babies ?
Change your life to stop doing the things that cause you stress and anxiety and refuse to get involved in them, instead concentrate on the things that you enjoy that don't trigger your illness. If you had cancer would you feel guilty about stopping work and taking time out to enjoy your life ? Of course not.
6. Are you going to tell everyone that you have depression ? This works both ways, some people need to know and will stick by you but others will avoid you from then on, some people will do the worst thing and try to " cheer you up " when you want to be left alone.
7. Drink and drugs won't help you out of this one, nor will comfort eating, forget about them as a way to cope. Piling on weight will just lower your self confidence even more.
Over to you...
