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@meingan When I first learned to in my 30’s that I had been suffering from depression since college I finally had a name for what I was going through.
I remember reading a Time Magazine with Prozac on the cover. The next day I called my PCP at the time and said this article is describing me. We tried Prozac and I did not react well to it. Then we tried Zoloft and my mind had no adverse effects.
She referred me to a psychiatrist and eventually we added Wellbutrin, Buspar and Klonopin for anxiety. I have tried other antidepressants and always came back to Zoloft. I actually cut my dosage to 50mg a day and kept everything else the same.
I am certainly not a doctor but I believe depression, anxiety and OCD are all tied in together. My son suffers from depression and my daughter has OCD.
My mother by the way was clinically depressed her whole life which led to a pretty dysfunctional family growing up.
I hope for you it is hormonal because my son had panic attacks and they were frightening.
Good luck to you.
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@daveshaw
Thank you for sharing your story. I’m 67 and have always been a melancholy person, and often felt depressed all my life. But it was never so bad as to adversely affect my life. So I was probably not clinically depressed. I grew out of my depression through my own talk therapy, healing my gut which recent science is acknowledging as a possible contribution to depression, and finally developing as attitude of gratitude.
I am not actually depressed at all, and I’m not actually real anxious about anything in my life, but I’m suffering from the horrific physical symptoms of anxiety.
I read someone else’s post that they too are suffering the physical symptoms that are not driven by the psychological. Although it’s a 2 way street; when you suffer the physical symptoms, the worry or just being alive makes the physical worse.