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Treatment resistant depression help.

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@johneckenrode11

Suicide does NOT sound wonderful. Please consider the following five easy steps:
1. clean up your diet, eat more good food, less junk food.
2. reduce alcohol and tobacco use.
3. exercise, to include aerobics (walking), strength (weights, resistance) training & stretching if possible.
4. Have a reason to live - wake up with something to do every day. Boring is bad. There's much to do in this world! Volunteering makes me feel better.
5. Be kind to people, reduce or eliminate hate from your mind. Say something nice to a person once a day minimum.

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Thanks for taking the time to respond, I am not considering suicide. I am just accepting that without taking poison in the form of anti-rejection medication I will just let nature takes its' course. Where I live Voluntary Assisted Dying is available and I qualify for all but one term, I must be diagnosed to die within 7 months. I watched my mother waste away and it had ongoing effects on me and my family, I do not want to go out without my dignity. Granted my mother refused a lung transplant something I wished I had done. I eat good food, I do not drink or use tobacco. I think really, really hard about walking and exercise but here lies my problem, I have no drive. I have an engineering workshop and a blacksmith shop and used to make knives pre-transplant, again no drive. My reason to get up each day is family my children and my wife. But each day I suffer a considerable amount of pain and take copious amounts of medication which are likely to lead to acute kidney disease. Since the transplant I have had a melanoma a common side effect of the anti-rejection medication. I feel like I have been down every single fork in the road, and each has reached a dead end. I do my best to be kind to people but as an ex-Prison Officer I do not respond well to unkind, inconsiderate people. But that is a whole topic just on its' own.