Posted by hyperfocus on July 6, 2011, at 0:19:23
In reply to can you be depressed if you want to do things, posted by lepus on June 23, 2011, at 21:56:26
It is very hard to separate out physical illness from mental illness. Thyroid problems, Lyme disease, mercury fillings in your teeth, - all of the stuff that bleauberry warns us about - can all result in serious conditions that cause symptoms that could be attributed to depression and anxiety. I just read about hyperventilation syndrome which is like a chronic breathing problem in people with anxiety that causes chronic daily fatigue amd tingling sensations in your extremeties that puzzle most doctors and basically make the anxiety far more debilitating. A lot of people will argue that there shouldn't be any separation between physical and mental illness because the body is infinitely connected and one type is co-dependant on the other. Depresion has been theorized as some sort of inflammatory disease. I know one persion who saw his MS tremendously improve from a course of probiotic yougurt. Some people get a sudden improvement in depresion when taking an antibiotics course.
I think that if you have the will to do something and are unable to do then it's definitely your illness causing it. Illness has nothing to with personality or how outgoing you are or how much energy or effort you neeed to expend on something.
The best thing you can do is hit the internet hard and connect with information and people and communites that have the knowledge to help. Psychiatry moves too fast for most doctors. I definitely think that there is information and drugs currently out here than can get us to remission. It's just a difficult process in finding it. I wish you well.
C-PTSD: social phobia, major depression, dissociation
Currently on 300mg amitriptyline, 50 mg sulpiride: single dose at night
Also: Allegra 12-hr, 1000mg Vitamin C, multivitamin.
Improving.
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