Posted by Meltingpot on January 11, 2010, at 3:39:14
In reply to Re: Types of Depression, posted by floatingbridge on January 10, 2010, at 17:55:03
Hi,
So are you saying that you used to have dysthymia and anxiety but now you are having major depressive episodes on top? Also, do they have a beginning and an end to them?
I'm not sure that I do suffer from melancholic depression as I don't cry with it, neither do I have psychomotor retardation. Although I experience severe anxiety, I'm fully compos mentis, have all of my faculties. I thought a major depressive episode means the person cannot even talk properly and they are extremely slowed down which is why I'm confused.
I feel listless and apathetic with my depression but I can get out of bed and have even been able to work at times although I really resent working when I'm feeling like that, well I resent actually being alive.
So what I'm saying is that when I was 35 I felt awful, really anxious, empty, suicidal, I tried a lot of different antidepressants for two years which helped a bit and then I took high dose Seroxat at age 37 which helped quite a lot and then that stopped working as well but I wasn't as bad as I had been before but then when I come off medication I feel like I did when I was 35 again. So I'm not sure what this is. So I don't see myself as having episodes of depression, I see this as being more chronic, I don't think it is just mild depression but then it is not classed as severe.
Denise
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