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Sharing about Depression

Posted by AfternoonNapper @afternoonnapper1, Aug 8, 2011

These diseases, and others, need not live in darkness. It is through exposing them that we take away some of their power, through sharing that we find like souls, and through difficult, sometimes painful work that we begin to heal and make peace.
http://afternoonnapsociety.blogspot.com/2011/07/theres-something-wrong-with-us-but-were.html

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JW2 | @jw2 | Oct 5, 2011
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@honeybee6636

I feel like such a failure suffering with depression. I just want to remember what its like to be happy. I feel hopeless and sad and I know that I shouldnt feel this way. I want to try an anti depressent but I never hear anything good about them. Does anyone have any happy endings to share?

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jw2
I was taking paxl for about 16 years and it stopped working for me too. After being off paxil and then starting it again does it work? I am on Cymbalta and It isn't doing me much good.

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honeybee6636 | @honeybee6636 | Oct 17, 2011
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@honeybee6636

I feel like such a failure suffering with depression. I just want to remember what its like to be happy. I feel hopeless and sad and I know that I shouldnt feel this way. I want to try an anti depressent but I never hear anything good about them. Does anyone have any happy endings to share?

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Thank you for the words of encouragement JW2. I was given the set from the Midwest center, they had a lot of good things to say and offer I wish I could just go somewhere and get that type of intense help in person, give me like a few weeks! I am suffering severely right now with depression, it just seems really heavy right now, not sure if its due to feeling such guilt over my husband's suicide in March of this year. Its hurting me to see my kids hurt too.....I am trying to take college classes after being out of school for 25 years, I need to get a job that is going to support me, but I also have fibromaylgia something I have had for almost 18 years. This is why I didn't work, I just cant handle the stress. I want to work! But I think the fibro has settled in my back or something because that is the source of my pain, along with all my aching muscles. I just started a new medication called Savella, I have a hard time taking meds just because I worry about what they are doing to my body. I take Zanax as well, and it helps me. I have heard to many horror stories about antidepressants... like you said you try something and it works for a while then it seems the body gets used to it and you have to either go up in dose or switch, then start all over with side effects. I know it does affect the brain, I see how it affects me. And I know it effected my husbands brain. That is why they have warnings on the medications.
I want to be happy, and joyful.......I want to succeed in life..........things just seem so heavy. And I am tired.

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gdnovey | @gdnovey | Aug 6, 2012
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@honeybee6636

I feel like such a failure suffering with depression. I just want to remember what its like to be happy. I feel hopeless and sad and I know that I shouldnt feel this way. I want to try an anti depressent but I never hear anything good about them. Does anyone have any happy endings to share?

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I've suffered from depression since college and now I'm 31. I've been able to manage my depression with medication. I once thought that I didn't need medication, that I could fix it on my own but that wasn't the case for me. Acceptance was hard for me and looking at what I was putting my wife through wasn't acceptable. Through her support I was able to go see a doctor and get my depression under control. I'm so much happier now than I ever was.

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birdlynn | @birdlynn | Sep 5, 2012
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@dag1960

I have been struggling with depression for the past three years so I can empathize with your issues. My doctor (ob) put me on cymbalta - one for the depression and also because i have cervical degenerative disc disease. I cannot tell that the cymbalta helps with either issue, however, when i try to stop taking it i suffer from withdrawals. Mainly, and this may sound crazy, there is a shocking sensation in my head....my doctor doesnt seem to believe me but i have read where others suffer the same symptoms. This is the only anti-depressant i have tried but would be very reluctant to try another and would love to stop taking the cymbalta!!! I really wonder if the medicines are help or hinder to our depression issues???

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Shocking sensation in your head? Oh, that would do me in. No thanks. You can sure try something else! 🙂

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birdlynn | @birdlynn | Sep 5, 2012
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@dag1960

I have been struggling with depression for the past three years so I can empathize with your issues. My doctor (ob) put me on cymbalta - one for the depression and also because i have cervical degenerative disc disease. I cannot tell that the cymbalta helps with either issue, however, when i try to stop taking it i suffer from withdrawals. Mainly, and this may sound crazy, there is a shocking sensation in my head....my doctor doesnt seem to believe me but i have read where others suffer the same symptoms. This is the only anti-depressant i have tried but would be very reluctant to try another and would love to stop taking the cymbalta!!! I really wonder if the medicines are help or hinder to our depression issues???

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I tried Zoloft for two days....headache, and weird thoughts that kept me awake at night, therefore I quit! I've tried Paxil too, but that was too weird for me too. I about ready to try Prozac, (10ml) but I am still too afraid to try that too. 🙁 I am extremely sensitive to drugs, personally, terrified about them. What to do....

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birdlynn | @birdlynn | Sep 5, 2012
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@honeybee6636

I feel like such a failure suffering with depression. I just want to remember what its like to be happy. I feel hopeless and sad and I know that I shouldnt feel this way. I want to try an anti depressent but I never hear anything good about them. Does anyone have any happy endings to share?

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So true, honeybee....that is how I feel exactly. We need to hear from the brave souls who have had good experiences by these. 🙂

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birdlynn | @birdlynn | Sep 5, 2012
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@honeybee6636

I feel like such a failure suffering with depression. I just want to remember what its like to be happy. I feel hopeless and sad and I know that I shouldnt feel this way. I want to try an anti depressent but I never hear anything good about them. Does anyone have any happy endings to share?

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You are so lucky you have a wife who is supportive of you. Some of us don't have anyone close to support us, so I wish you the best !

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birdlynn | @birdlynn | Sep 5, 2012
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@honeybee6636

I feel like such a failure suffering with depression. I just want to remember what its like to be happy. I feel hopeless and sad and I know that I shouldnt feel this way. I want to try an anti depressent but I never hear anything good about them. Does anyone have any happy endings to share?

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Have you tried to apply for social security disability?

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birdlynn | @birdlynn | Sep 5, 2012
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@honeybee6636

I feel like such a failure suffering with depression. I just want to remember what its like to be happy. I feel hopeless and sad and I know that I shouldnt feel this way. I want to try an anti depressent but I never hear anything good about them. Does anyone have any happy endings to share?

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But some of us live alone, and if I get a bad reaction, I can't handle the anxiety that it can produce. 🙁

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birdlynn | @birdlynn | Sep 5, 2012
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@honeybee6636

I feel like such a failure suffering with depression. I just want to remember what its like to be happy. I feel hopeless and sad and I know that I shouldnt feel this way. I want to try an anti depressent but I never hear anything good about them. Does anyone have any happy endings to share?

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Totally, just like me too.

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