lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 02-17-07 07:47am
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I'm completely falling into a depression
and have been feeling like this for a few
weeks now and trying to get myself out of
it but nothing seems to be working. I'm
sorry if some of my posts have come
accross as rude or anything lately, I
don't want anyone here to get offended by
anything I write so i'm not posting
much.
Anyhoo, i'm sitting here crying for the
10000000th time this week for no reason
really. Gotta love this.
I luv you girls and just want to say
thanks for being a great support system to
everyone here!
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Becky
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Posted: 02-17-07 07:53am
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Oh my god i'm sorry to hear that jess.
I've been depressed for months now. Some
days are better than others. But I have
days like you when I just want to cry all
day.
Do you know what may of triggered it? I
initially started a course of tablets but
didn't take them as I want to get over
this myself and not have a false sense of
happiness.
It is very hard being a single mum so I
sympathise with you completely. I have
had days where I have seriously thought of
ending my life but I have pulled through
cause I guess you just have to 
If you wanna chat feel free to .P.M me
i love you hun. You will pull
through this!
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 02-17-07 08:30am
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Love I know how you feel. I am soo sorry
to hear about what you are going thru. I
have been depressed for a while now.
There are just a few things I can't get
over.
But you are just fine hun. Pm me if you
feel you need to chat about it.
Love you.
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mayhi
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Posted: 02-17-07 08:34am
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Hi lil-blaze and beckster,
wow.. Really sorry to hear about your
depression. I went through a really
terrible spell of that in 2005/2006.
There were days that I couldn't even take
care of myself. My doctor put me on meds
and put me off work as well. It was the
best thing that I have ever done. Beck,
you say that your doctor put you on meds,
I truely think that even though you say
you want to get over this yourself, you
really need to take them. They go in and
correct your ceratonin levels which are
down and what are causing the depression.
The drugs work to increase them so that
after about 9mths to a yr you are better
and able to go off them. I had no
problems going off mine at all. I know
that if I had not taken them, I would not
be happy today and may not even be here.
I didnt like taking them, but I took them
so that I could be well again and be
myself again. Sometimes in life we have
to do things that we do not want, in order
to better ourselves and the quality of our
lives. You may really want to think
about going back on them and getting
things right again.
If you guys ever need to talk feel free to
send me a message and we can chat through
p.M.'s.
I hope that you are feeling better soon,
take care,
mary
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Idony
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Posted: 02-17-07 08:41am
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I was actualy going to ask you the other
day if you were ok, something just ddnt
seem right, but decided not to cause we
dont know each other that well and I didnt
want to offend you
anyway I hope you can figure out whats
going on and whats caused you to feel this
way (if you dont already know) you are a
very strong bright and loving person I
know youll be able to get better soon
if you need to talk or vent or rant or
anything you can pm me anytime, ive been
in what the doctors beleive is a
depression since I was about 8ish, and
some doctors think im still there, ive
always attributed it to my ocd add and
other stuff I have mixed with my past
i never saw (or see) myself as depressed
just trying to deal with the stuff ive
gone through in the past the best way I
can, for some its harder to get over then
others cause worse things happen to some
people
~alicia~
*edit* I just wanted to add that I was on
meds for about 4 or 5 years when I was
younger and nothing helped they tryed at
least 3 different kinds (cant remember
exactly it was too long ago)...Not saying
they dont work nessesarly just that they
never did for me, another reason why I
dont think its really depression
Last edited by Idony on 02-17-07 08:44am; edited 1 time in total
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Becky
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Posted: 02-17-07 08:42am
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Thanks mary. However, I am now feeling
alot better and I think mine was more
circumstancial depression rather than long
term. I lost my baby, husband and college
course all in the space of a few weeks so
it all got on top of me. I now have a new
boyfriend and i'm slowly coming to terms
with what has happened to me.
Jess, it was good talking to you on msn.
Be sure to show us treys new haircut!
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mayhi
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Posted: 02-17-07 08:58am
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Your welcome beck.
Alicia, you posted that you were on meds
and they didnt work. I have a friend that
was on 6 different ones before they
switched her and found the one that works.
Some of them are just not the one for
you. It all depends on your levels of
depression and what kind of depression you
have. I guess I just got lucky that the
first one worked for me. I have been off
mine since last octorber (just before I
found out I was pregnant) and things have
been great ever since. And like you said,
sometimes it really isn't depression, it
just feels like it is. Lots of the time
its just a funk that you get yourself into
and you need to snap out of it. I knew
mine was depression all leading up from a
bad childhood and then sh*t that happened
with my sister that year. I just got to
the point where I couldn't deal with life
anymore. I am better now so its all good.
Take care girls,
mary
19 wks and 2 days preg! Yay
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Kia
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Posted: 02-17-07 11:31am
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Jess, this is not to you, sweets.
I'd just like to say that clinical
depression is not just feeling sadness.
It is a real chemical imbalance in the
brain.
Therfore taking anti-depressants is not
weak and nor does it give a false sense of
happiness.
It physically puts right the chemicals
that are wrong in the brain.
If you have a hormone imbalance people
don't say - I just wanted it to go away on
it's own.
Depression isn't this mystical thing -
it's a real condition, that very often
requires some form of medical assistance
to overcome - whether that be conventional
western medicine or some form of
alternative therapy or cognitive therapy,
meditation, or chinese or eastern
therapies.
Depression isn't something you catch or
get for no reason.
You can't simply tell someone who has
depression to "cheer up" or "get through
the day"
asking for help when you need it is not
weak, failing to use the assistance
available is; narrow minded.
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Jules
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Posted: 02-17-07 12:06pm
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Kia, you are absolutely right. I hate
this 'stiff upper lip' culture that says
that taking medication is a sign of
weakness. I have taken antidepressants
for a while now and they are such a help
to me. They don't make me 'happy', they
make me 'normal'. I don't feel weak for
taking my asthma medication and I don't
feel weak for taking my antidepressants.
In fact, i'm only stopping them because
we're ttc.
Meds may not be the only answer but they
have their place and they should be
respected and so should the people that
are brave enough to face their illness
head on and use them.
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Kia
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Posted: 02-17-07 12:10pm
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I heard someone on the radio say someting
like this the other day...
"no one is ashamed to say they have cancer
or diabetes or osteporosis, yet it's a
different story if the condition is their
mental health. Why are people so ashamed
to talk about their mental well being".
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HcoBrunette06
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Posted: 02-17-07 12:32pm
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Jess I love you we're all here fo
ryou if you need us.
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 02-17-07 16:08pm
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I've been on various meds for deprssion
since I was about 13. I was on paxil for
6 yrs and weaned myself off of it when I
was preggo with trey. I don't want to go
back on paxil bit after feeling this way
for so long and really trying to get
myself out of it, I think it's time to
head to the doc's again.
Thanks ladies. 
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Kia
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Posted: 02-17-07 16:15pm
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I have found with my meds (prozac) that I
can take them for a while then stop and
i'll be ok for 2-3 months without them,
then I need to go back on them for a
couple weeks.
My doc hasn't heard of anyone else having
a prolonged effect from prozac before but
seeing as it works he's happy with that.
Sometimes you just need a little something
to balance out any thing in the brain that
doesn't function 100% correctly.
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Nataliachick7
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Posted: 02-17-07 17:55pm
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If your depression is circumstantial or
you are depressed over something that
happened, chances are its not a chemical
imbalance and the meds wont help you.
Meds help correct a chemical imbalance and
unfortunately a lot of people that are
depressed do not have an actual chemical
imbalance therefore the meds dont do
anything.
I was on paxil because my mother was
abusive and I was very depressed., it
wasnt a chemical imbalance, it was my
situattion that made me depressed. I was
on paxil for 3 years and I felt like a
zombie. I was also on effexor and
depakote.Now that I am off of meds I feel
so much better.
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mayhi
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Posted: 02-17-07 18:18pm
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I took effexor xr.. Worked like a
charm...
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Kia
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Posted: 02-17-07 18:29pm
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| nataliachick7
wrote: | if your depression is
circumstantial or you are depressed over
something that happened, chances are its
not a chemical imbalance and the meds wont
help you.
Meds help correct a chemical imbalance and
unfortunately a lot of people that are
depressed do not have an actual chemical
imbalance therefore the meds dont do
anything.
I was on paxil because my mother was
abusive and I was very depressed., it
wasnt a chemical imbalance, it was my
situattion that made me depressed. I
was on paxil for 3 years and I felt like a
zombie. I was also on effexor and
depakote.Now that I am off of meds I feel
so much
better. |
you will still find that it causes the
brain to produce different levels of
chemicals.
If it didn't you would only ever feel a
single emotion - or none depending on how
you look at it.
Regardless of the cause the fact is when
you are depressed your brain is not
releasing the natural feel good
chemicals.
Tryptophan, serotonin, melanin etc are all
constantly produced in various quantities
so that you feel various emotions.
If a situation or trauma is causing your
depression it is causing your brain to
produce negativly effective amounts of
various chemicals.
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terpamber
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Posted: 02-17-07 18:48pm
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I have .A.D.H.D which is completely
diffrent but my view on meds are the same
for both (my dad has a chemical imbalance
and has cyclic depression) any way for
cyclic depression and .A.D.H.D I think
meds can be very helpful tool to get you
back on your feet and figure out your
personal coping methods again. You could
use meds for weeks or years just to help
you get back on track for these two types
of "issues." it helped me a lot to have
something to get me back on track and
re-learn the things that I had learned the
last time I had taken meds. I started
when I was in 2nd grade up until 8th grade
when I stopped and I didn't need them
again untill I was a senior in high school
and then only for a year. Since then (5
years) i've been ok there have been some
low points and times that I was about
ready to go back to the doctor but since
my diagnoses has expired it would be a big
pain (although worth it if I needed.)
i also believe that for chronic depression
meds can be amazing, my husband has cancer
and although he dosen't have a chemical
imbalance his situation isn't going to go
away so he is using anti anxiety pills.
Many of the people I interact with daily
for have chronic depression and are doing
very well!
Just wanted to throw in my 2 cents.
~amber nicole
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 02-18-07 00:15am
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Jess, you know that i'm here for you if
you need me. I love you! I will say
that I didn't notice any rudeness.
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 02-18-07 10:29am
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I've always had low seratonin, so i'm
pretty sure that's what the prob is.
I've been feeling angry and sad since trey
was born but kept putting it off as post
partum and since mikey kept telling me I
was crazy or whatever I guess I started
believeing it instead of thinking about
the physical probs (imbalance) nothing
major has happened lately to make me feel
this way, so it's not circumstancial.
Anyhoo, I took trey to the hosp this
morning as he had an asthma attack and
needed a mask. He is now taking part of
a study and got new pumps with counters on
them to see how often he needs them in the
next month. I get 20$ and 2 free movie
passes when I send them back! Woohoo
-note the sarcasm-i never go to
movies-lol. He's ok now, but is on meds
for the next 2 weeks at least.
Gotta run, we're making cookies together
now.
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