Posted by SLS on April 9, 2006, at 6:44:09
In reply to ADs have ruined me. whom else has been HURT by AD?, posted by Doug_Saving_The_team on April 9, 2006, at 2:44:22
You are not alone.
Some antidepressants have made me feel worse instead of better. Some produced a syndrome of amotivation and apathy as a side effect.
What did your doctor say to you when you first told him about how you felt?
I like what Bipolarspectrum had to say.
You really are young, and you do have a long life ahead of you to build anew. People go back to school and switch careers in their 40s and 50s. In the meantime, try to live in the moment and not dwell on the past or project into the future. Take things one step at a time and try to compartmentalize your issues so that you can work on them one at a time.
It will take some time to grieve for the time lost, and it is healthy that you should. However, there will arrive a point where you will accept the loss and move forward. In the meantime, if you are depressed, you should understand that depression influences one's thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. It tends to make one think and feel negatively and perceive things as being catastrophic. That doesn't mean that you don't have anything to be be upset about. It just means that you might perceive things to be worse than how they would seem if you were not depressed.
How much anxiety are you experiencing?
- Scott
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