Posted by katia on November 13, 2003, at 0:37:10
In reply to Re: Im i deppressed, posted by Flipsactown on November 12, 2003, at 23:35:17
> When my therapist suggested I start taking prozac along with my monthly talk therapy, I immediately thought, "I'm not crazy. I'm normal like everybody else." To make a long story short, I took the prozac, and in 2.5 weeks, I felt like the dark cloud over my head finally disappeared! I was feeling like my old self. When I was depressed, I thought of myself as a failure with nothing to live for. I did not realize that it was depression that was causing me to continually dwell on negative thoughts. Every thought that entered my mind were negative. Prozac and my monthly cognitive therapy saved my life. It allowed me to be the old happy-go-lucky guy. Hang in there and get some therapy soon. Depression is an illness and nothing to be ashamed of. With proper therapy and medication you will be your old "normal" self.
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> Currently, 12 years later, I am still taking antidepressants and I consider myself as "normal".
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Hi Geri,
I can't second what he says enough. get help now while you're still so young and you won't waste so much time and years struggling with this as so many people have, including myself. and it's just not lost years, it's so much more. What's worse? The possible "imagined" embarrassment that MIGHT ensue from opening up to a professional or family or really close friend (I doubt that would happen) OR feeling like this for possibly the rest of your life? I know it's so hard to reach out when you're feeling vulnerable and knocked down. It's ironically the most important time to reach out, but yet the most difficult time to reach out.
katia
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