Hi everyone , I also suffer from drug resistant depression and come from an abusive background. PTSD is a part of my life as well. In your posts I learned that there are other people who suffer from debilitating fatigue as well. It is nice to know that I am not alone . I am new to this forum and I am grateful to have found you here! Thistime of year is very difficult for my due the Seasonal Affective Disorder. For some reason it starts early for me.
Hi @jimhd! I'm not saying this is what is happening with you. But for me, I kept being anemic for years without any explanation. I was having trouble with bleeding too. I started going to a different dr and she ran blood tests for Celiac and they came back positive. I had to not eat gluten, wheat, barley, rye, and malt. With Celiac, your body just doesn't absorb vitamins and nutrients like it should. It damages the vili (?) in your small intestines that are suppose to absorb them. I am doing better with the bleeding since staying away from gluten, but I still have to take the iron from time to time. Hope you find your reason for the low iron.
Hi everyone , I also suffer from drug resistant depression and come from an abusive background. PTSD is a part of my life as well. In your posts I learned that there are other people who suffer from debilitating fatigue as well. It is nice to know that I am not alone . I am new to this forum and I am grateful to have found you here! Thistime of year is very difficult for my due the Seasonal Affective Disorder. For some reason it starts early for me.
I was tested for Celiac a few years ago and was negative, thank you, Lord. I'll be seeing a doctor in a couple of hours, and I think I'll ask him if the test should be repeated. My wife and I really wouldn't want to live with that kind of diet.
Hi everyone , I also suffer from drug resistant depression and come from an abusive background. PTSD is a part of my life as well. In your posts I learned that there are other people who suffer from debilitating fatigue as well. It is nice to know that I am not alone . I am new to this forum and I am grateful to have found you here! Thistime of year is very difficult for my due the Seasonal Affective Disorder. For some reason it starts early for me.
Hi everyone , I also suffer from drug resistant depression and come from an abusive background. PTSD is a part of my life as well. In your posts I learned that there are other people who suffer from debilitating fatigue as well. It is nice to know that I am not alone . I am new to this forum and I am grateful to have found you here! Thistime of year is very difficult for my due the Seasonal Affective Disorder. For some reason it starts early for me.
I appreciate your sharing that story about celiac and anemia. I would never have considered a connection! I always say that at Mayo Connect we all learn from each other, thanks for a new lesson!
Hi everyone , I also suffer from drug resistant depression and come from an abusive background. PTSD is a part of my life as well. In your posts I learned that there are other people who suffer from debilitating fatigue as well. It is nice to know that I am not alone . I am new to this forum and I am grateful to have found you here! Thistime of year is very difficult for my due the Seasonal Affective Disorder. For some reason it starts early for me.
yes jimhd iron is good. i do that,plus monthly iron shots, and whatever the doctors need to do. even to give me in fusions of ferreitin (iron). but the hosing of the popular poison for plants keeps coming over the fence. neighbor will not stop. going on 15 years now.
Hi parus .... yes, you're right .... what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. Reading "info" has different effects on different people .... you find that it does not help you ...... but hinders how you feel. I, on the other hand, read like a fanatic and could probably open a used bookstore!!!! I seem to feel better knowing what I'm feeling or thinking has a name and is not that abnormal. For me knowledge helps. I've been blessed with a wonderful therapist and also psychiatrist, and truthfully had it not been for my therapist I doubt I'd be here ..... he pulled me "off the ledge" more than once. I love nature and being outside too ..... to me the perfect morning is to sit on a tree stump, cup of tea in hand, with a book, just soaking in the beauty of the world around me. For two years after my divorce, I rented a cabin just outside a national park ...... it was called Bear Claw Cabin (the name says it all). It was in the middle of a dense, climactic forest and yes, there were big bear scratches all over the outside walls and door .... you had to ford a small creek to get to it. Except for at night, I often was sitting on the porch, book in hand. I tend to isolate when I'm down, which I know isn't good, but is the way my psyche seems to be. You're not alone ... believe me. I guess the only difference between you and I is that my interactions with my therapist and psychiatrist have been lifesavers.
Bless you my friend,
abby
All I can say right now is, "I am a survivor". A struggling survivor-still, a survivor. So many others suffering. I finally did seek out another therapist-a PHD. Whether this one can clean up messes of others that have bird-seed for brains...? Optimistic.
I have got to get myself back on track..I am the only one that can do so. The depression is taking over and I don't want to be around anyone. I cannot find my smiley face for now. This time of the year nearly always catches off guard...42 years ago on 10/26 my dad blew his brains out. I do not fault him for doing so as...no wonder my mental status is at the bottom of the vortex. I am being melodramatic...that was a long time ago. He was always the happy face and everyone loved him. He never appeared sad and helped others so much. Anyway, bummed...Every time I leave home I get scared. Dumb, so dumb to allow PTSD do this so severely.
Thanks as it helps some to come here...Be assured I am not as pathetic as my words express. I am strong...
Your words are so true...seems the older I become the worse the past abuse and my quality of life has plummeted and physical pain keeps me from life and all I can do is be bashed by the past. The verbal abuse was the most painful. Seems the memories are ruling my existence-rather like there boogie men everywhere. Fear is crippling.
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Hi @jimhd! I'm not saying this is what is happening with you. But for me, I kept being anemic for years without any explanation. I was having trouble with bleeding too. I started going to a different dr and she ran blood tests for Celiac and they came back positive. I had to not eat gluten, wheat, barley, rye, and malt. With Celiac, your body just doesn't absorb vitamins and nutrients like it should. It damages the vili (?) in your small intestines that are suppose to absorb them. I am doing better with the bleeding since staying away from gluten, but I still have to take the iron from time to time. Hope you find your reason for the low iron.
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I was tested for Celiac a few years ago and was negative, thank you, Lord. I'll be seeing a doctor in a couple of hours, and I think I'll ask him if the test should be repeated. My wife and I really wouldn't want to live with that kind of diet.
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I appreciate your sharing that story about celiac and anemia. I would never have considered a connection! I always say that at Mayo Connect we all learn from each other, thanks for a new lesson!
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1 Reactionyes jimhd iron is good. i do that,plus monthly iron shots, and whatever the doctors need to do. even to give me in fusions of ferreitin (iron). but the hosing of the popular poison for plants keeps coming over the fence. neighbor will not stop. going on 15 years now.
Hi parus .... yes, you're right .... what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another. Reading "info" has different effects on different people .... you find that it does not help you ...... but hinders how you feel. I, on the other hand, read like a fanatic and could probably open a used bookstore!!!! I seem to feel better knowing what I'm feeling or thinking has a name and is not that abnormal. For me knowledge helps. I've been blessed with a wonderful therapist and also psychiatrist, and truthfully had it not been for my therapist I doubt I'd be here ..... he pulled me "off the ledge" more than once. I love nature and being outside too ..... to me the perfect morning is to sit on a tree stump, cup of tea in hand, with a book, just soaking in the beauty of the world around me. For two years after my divorce, I rented a cabin just outside a national park ...... it was called Bear Claw Cabin (the name says it all). It was in the middle of a dense, climactic forest and yes, there were big bear scratches all over the outside walls and door .... you had to ford a small creek to get to it. Except for at night, I often was sitting on the porch, book in hand. I tend to isolate when I'm down, which I know isn't good, but is the way my psyche seems to be. You're not alone ... believe me. I guess the only difference between you and I is that my interactions with my therapist and psychiatrist have been lifesavers.
Bless you my friend,
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2 ReactionsAll I can say right now is, "I am a survivor". A struggling survivor-still, a survivor. So many others suffering. I finally did seek out another therapist-a PHD. Whether this one can clean up messes of others that have bird-seed for brains...? Optimistic.
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Wishing you well!
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1 ReactionI have got to get myself back on track..I am the only one that can do so. The depression is taking over and I don't want to be around anyone. I cannot find my smiley face for now. This time of the year nearly always catches off guard...42 years ago on 10/26 my dad blew his brains out. I do not fault him for doing so as...no wonder my mental status is at the bottom of the vortex. I am being melodramatic...that was a long time ago. He was always the happy face and everyone loved him. He never appeared sad and helped others so much. Anyway, bummed...Every time I leave home I get scared. Dumb, so dumb to allow PTSD do this so severely.
Thanks as it helps some to come here...Be assured I am not as pathetic as my words express. I am strong...
Your words are so true...seems the older I become the worse the past abuse and my quality of life has plummeted and physical pain keeps me from life and all I can do is be bashed by the past. The verbal abuse was the most painful. Seems the memories are ruling my existence-rather like there boogie men everywhere. Fear is crippling.
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