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Depression worse in evening?
I have Major Depression, recurrent. I take Prozac for my depression, I've tried several others but Prozac works best for me. I also take Effexor, low dose, to help cope with the hot flashes and other side effects of the drug I'm on to try to prevent a return of breast cancer. Recently I have found that my depression gets worse in the evening, I hate to see the evening come aound. Does anyone else experience this and if so how do you cope? Right now my depression is a little worse but I think it's due to having had open heart surgery 7 weeks ago.
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Lynda, I'd like to bring a few members into the conversation @kareniowa @nhaegele @liz223 @dawn_giacabazi @wolfer1975 who have written about depressaion, as well as @crhp194 and @thankful who haven't written about depression and anxiety as well as managing heart issues.
You may also be interested in joining this discussion https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/i-have-been-on-so-many-anti-depressants-over-the-past-35/
@lyndamm, how do you help yourself face the dread of the evening coming around?
I can tell you what I do every evening to reduce my depression or anxiety. I self medicate and that, along with my many meds, has been a lifesaver.
Hi Lynda,
Would love to share information on biofeedback. Here is a great link.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/biofeedback/home/ovc-20169724
The training I received involved several electical monitoring devices. They taught me how to contral my breathing, heart rate, muscles, body temp. Then we made a recording of one of my training sessions for the difficult times and need a reminder on how to do it.
Most insurance companies cover this therapy. You can receive biofeedback training in physical therapy clinics, medical centers and hospitals.
Sorry, I can't help with this because I dread getting up in the morning. It is my time to procrastinate. The longer I stay the worse it gets. Eventually I get up. I am retired now so I don't have a set time to get up unless I have something scheduled for the day. What I have found helpful is setting my alarm for 10 minutes before I want to get up and allow myself to hit the snooze button only once. When it does off again I throw my legs over the side of the bed and get up. It works for me.
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1 ReactionBefore the surgery I tried to stay busy in the evening. Now by evening I'm so tired and hurting that I haven't found anything that helps. I have always read a lot so I'm trying to read in the evening. In the past I used to cross stitch but I just haven't felt like doing that in months.
How do you self medicate? What do you use to self medicate?
Thank you, Dawn. I have heard of using biofeedback for anxiety, I have never seen it used for depression. I would love to try it, however, I live in a very small town and we have very limited medical facilities. How often did you have to go to the training, I get all my medical care in a large town over the mountains but it is anywhere from 1 1/2 hours To 2 hours travel time one way. I will look into this and see if anywhere near here offers biofeedback. Again, thank you .
I totally understand, for years I got up at 5 am to get to work on time and since my retirement I sleep later. Before the heart surgery, I made myself get up by 8am but now I'm sleeping till 9:30 am and later. I will work on that after I feel a little better.
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1 ReactionRight now I haven't found anything that works. I've always read a lot in the past and I'm trying to do that again. Before the heart surgery I tried to stay busy in the evening, but now by the evening I am so tired and hurt so much that I am just sitting in my recliner.
Do you mean you self meditate? I did mediation many years ago and maybe that's an idea to try again. I think I'll try that for the next week and see if that helps. Thank you for your suggestion.