DDS
I am so sorry for my mistake on my last posting to you!! I was just cruising through the site and realized I called you Sharon. Again, I am really sorry. :o) Hope all is going well for you!
HELP! I'm sitting here at 6:45 in the morning trying my hardest to get myself up and ready for work. I missed 3 days last week, and just can't miss any more. I just don't understand where these feelings of sadness and dread come from! I have a wonderful life and should feel so blessed that nothing should get me down. I have cried since my alarm went off this morning and can't even put my finger on the reason. I know this happens to people with clinical depression, but sometimes it just drives me crazy! I am so sad and feeling like the bottom is falling out of my life. I can't even think about getting out of bed in the morning without feeling sick to my stomach. AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!
Kelly
Sharon,
I'm so sorry you're having trouble at work. It is hard enough for us to feel comfortable at work sometimes without a jerk making it worse! The co-workers that are worth your time will know that he is just blowing smoke, but I'm sure that doesn't make it feel any better right now. I wish I could fix it for you. Just trust your hard work with the program and remember all the things you learned along the way.
I'm doing so-so. I am back at work, but struggling. I am sitting here now avoiding the trip to school, but knowing I have to go. I am so frustrated with myself. But I just keep keeping on.
If there is anything I can do, you let me know.
Kelly
MsPuck,
I'm right there with you! I have always had a hard time with the cognitive therapy approach. It's my cognitive process that is all cockeyed because of the depression, so what makes a therapist think you can see through the distortions and "stuff" to get to the bottom of your emotions!!??? So, yes, I do feel this way also. It is really hard to separate truth from lies in my mind sometimes. Part of me has just resigned myself to ignoring the negative feelings instead of trying to change them. I know this doesn't help much except to let you know you aren't alone.
Kelly
Steve,
I can definitely relate! Little things to us are much more devistating than to those who don't suffer with depression. I just came off a very down time, and know exactly how you feel about the ups and downs. I do everything I am supposed to do (take my meds, see my psychiatrist, journal, pray, devotions, happy light...) and yet the bad times always seem to come and bite me in the butt. It can be extremely frustrating. I don't know what all you have tried, but I find several things helpful for me. I journal daily, and even though sometimes I don't see my thoughts as distorted, it is still helpful to put them into writing. I also meditate for at least 1/2 hour a day, and I have a "happy light" (full spectrum light for treating SAD disorder) I sit in front of for at least 1/2 hour a day.
Hope you feel better soon! Keep us updated, we all care and want to know how things are going.
Kelly
MsPuck,
I hope you didn't think my comment about ignoring my negative thougts sounded flippant. It wasn't meant to. I know what you mean about thinking something is wrong because you don't feel better after a program is done. I think that some of us have chronic depression that is more chemical than mental, and this sometimes makes "cognitive" therapy a little less effective for us. Not that it doesn't work for a while, or that we don't learn some good techniques to help us get better faster, but I go up and down regardless of how much therapy I go through. We just need to keep up the work and support each other as much as possible.
Kelly
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