This is my first time ever trying something along these lines. I was browsing around the Internet to find a group type therapy in my area and came across this. Everyone here seems to be so helpful and open. I decided to join because I need to know that I'm not the only one and for the first time I would like to know that other people can be as open as I am.
My name is Kelsey and I have been depressed for about 5 years now. I have all of the classic symptoms of Clinical depression and at this moment I'm feeling good about this decision to join in these groups. I have been on and off of pills for about 3 years and also in and out of therapy and nothing works. 2 days ago I came to terms with the fact that I am depressed and am truely going to help myself for the first time. I can't wait to begin discussing! Hope to hear from someone soon!
Hi,
I just joined this center today! I was wondering how you guys control bad thoughts. I get some pretty bad ones and it has reached the point that I have slept infront of the T.V. for the last few months because otherwise my thoughts will overtake me and I wont sleep. This only happens when I'm alone. Does anybody have any techniques to control this? Thank yoU!
Kelsey
Good afternnon Rose!
wow that's quite the story! I am new at this as well and i just joined today! I have experienced panic attacks beofre as well. I have always quit therapies because they weren't working but speak up. Tell them that you still want help and what you want. Be pushy and the outcome will be yours!
Kelsey
Good morning!
Well I definately was not expecting such helpful and caring answers so soon! Thank you!
My thoughts are usually about death. If I watch a scary movie where someone pops out, I will walk around my apartment looking over my shoulder for weeks. I'm so paranoid about being killed. Sounds crazy I know. It's mostly when I go to bed so I have to fall asleep with the T.V. on so my mind is set on something else. I think that because of this I end up waking up 4-5 times a night.
And I also stay up really late sometimes in hopes to get a couple of hours of good sleep.
Another type of thought that isn't so bad is that my boyfriend lives 7 hours away and we are trying to be together. So I'm constantly thinking of details (e.x. do i leave my job? take one that might be offered in my town? are we living together? if I go there, do I rent a Uhaul? ........) And it's hard to get these answered cause he's always changing his mind at every corner.
Kelsey
I have been depressed for about 5 years now. I have told myself in the last 5 years that I deserve everything that comes my way! It's really hard for me to tell myself it isn't. My mom has suffered with depression her whole life so she knows exactly what I'm going through. She gets mad at me when I tell her I'm a horrible person. I just need to find that voice in my head that sais i'm a good person.
Good morning PB!
That story just brought a tear to my eye! You are very well spoken. I have joined this program 2 days ago and I already find that the people here are so very caring. I have NEVER ever felt more accepted than I do here. I feel like people aren't judging me or thinking I'm crazy, I can truely be myself. I really hope you give it a chance to feel the same way. I have always felt like a downer when people were around. It's a hard thing to avoid feeling I find. I have actually recently lost my only friend and partially lost my boyfriend. So currently I have 2 people in my life, my mom and dad! I spend every single day alone and lonely! Please don't give up, your not alone now. We all need each other and this is the best place to feel good.
Kelsey
well today I feel like I have no one! All my friends turned around a ditched me on my birthday. They all think I'm selfish so now there's no one. My boyfriend broke up with me and yesturday my cell phone got stolen so I spent 320$ to replace it. I just feel so beaten down today. Like I have officially hit rock bottom! I just feel like nobody cares! Christmas is coming and I'll be spending it alone!
well my closest friend said that everyone else she knows told her not to be my friend because I am selfish and now she sees what they are talking about. On the night of my birthday my boyfriend found something out that I was hiding from him and when I realized this he had already left. I got mad at my girfriend for telling him and now I'm selfish. This girlfriend knows about my depression and has never really cared about my feelings and my struggles. I'm not so upset with her leaving as the guilt of hurting my boyfriend. I'm having a really hard time with that. I haven't been sleeping and all week i've been feeling like a zombie walking around about to break down at any given time. I can't seem to snap out of it.
And handing out food for the homeless sounds like a good idea to spend my christmas doing.
I have been talking to my boyfriend this week but it's so hard to hear the disappointment in his voice. At this point I just want to give up on everything. It's soooo hard to keep going. I've explained to him that I'm depressed and i've spend the whole week thinking about what happened, why I lied, EVERYTHING!!! It's just sooo hard right now because I'm supposed to go and see him tomorrow (he lives 7 hours away) but he doesn't want to see me. So now I'll be spending the weekend depressed thinking what could have been! I just feel so lost! And yeah my "friend" is nosy.
I've just started the sessions so i'm doing session 1 tonight.
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