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Too depressed to clean my apartment.
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Feb 6, 2019 | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
@keva74 - I'd like to add my welcome to @hopeful33250's. It's a huge step to admit you are feeling too depressed to clean your apartment. Recovering from a major colon surgery and pulling your back out would definitely be barriers to me to cleaning or anything else.
I'd like to also invite @parus @becsbuddy @grandmar @aliali @mmussak @harleneq into this discussion for their input for you on feeling depressed and like it's hard to get started on things like dishes, laundry and floors.
Have you mentioned to your prescribing doctor for the sertraline that it doesn't seem to have much effect?
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@keva74
Welcome to the group!
Although I do not suffer from depression, I do suffer from anxiety (for which I take meds that help). And although I didn't have major colon surgery, I've had 2 spinal surgeries this last year.
Please remember that I am in no way a medical person, just an ordinary person who suffers from more ailments than I'd like to admit. I do not know if you've bee diagnosed with depression before your surgery and your back issues. It is not unusual to become sad and angry after a major surgery. It's hard to come to grips that you cannot do what you like to do or what you used to be able to do. It's also hard to accept that you are not the way you were before. These things alone, can make you depressed. However, once you are on your way to better health and on your feet again, it is possible that the depression will lift.
If depression is a condition that you have been living with, it might be possible your doc will have to either change things up or give you something else to get you over the hurdles. It might be temporary, it might be permanent. Talk with your doc and see what is suggested. For me, I got down in the dumps for a couple of months. I don't think I was clinically depressed, just literally sick and tired.
Now that my first surgery is 11 months ago and my last one about 4 months ago, I am feeling so much better! I still can't do what I used to, but I do see a light at the end of the tunnel each time I go outside and walk!! I am lucky to live in a warm weather climate so getting out is usually easy for me. I still have my moments and I am not out of the woods yet, but I am better.
Give yourself time to heal both physically and mentally. If you are 'stuck' in the house and/or bed, find something to occuply your time. If reading isn't your thing or you can't concentrate, listen to music, look at magazines, go on the computer or, as I did, get an adult coloring book with some nice markers. THAT, my friend, worked wonders for me!!!!! I got hooked and I found it very relaxing although I would stay up to finish a picture until all hours and even if my hands cramped. But that was OK, I didn't think of me.
Hope some of this helps!
Good luck!
Ronnie (GRANDMAr)