Posted by alchemy on January 3, 2013, at 20:44:17
In reply to Melancholia is my existence, my life. Please read., posted by alabamaauthor on December 21, 2012, at 19:57:49
Hi alabamaauthor. I am so sorry for your pain, and I appreciate you sharing it. You have definitely gone through a lot, seriously horrible. It made me realize how much more other people have had to deal with, and also made me not feel so alone.
Give yourself credit for how much you have had to deal with. Those experiences for a child of course are traumatic and leave an imprint of some sort. Combine "external" stressors and experience with a pre-disposed disposition to mood issues sucks! For example, there are alleles are corresponding genes on chromosomes. If someone has 2 long ones (don't remember which ones), they are likely to be the most resistant to stressors (those happy-juice people). If someone has 1 long and 1 short, they are less resistant to stress. I don't even want to think about having 2 short ones! With as much stress that you have had to deal with, it probably doesn't matter. It also sounds like you have seen this tendency in other family members.
All of our opinions vary on this board, as do doctors. I lean more to the physical side. Like you, I have not found therapy to be real helpful although I think it should be involved. Hell, I read the book Feeling Good when I was a youngster. But there is some thought that EMDR can be helpful for PTSD if you haven't tried that.
If you haven't tried MAOI's, it might be time. It's not an allergy thing, it's a potential hypertensive thing. And some people actually find that they are able to still eat some of the things that they shouldn't have. I just tried parnate, and unfortunately it didn't help me. But I was amazed at how many people who had experienced even decades of depression found amazing results.
I also seem to be allergic/sensitive to things I eat. My body also over-reacts to sugar even though I am not diabetic. I am starting to try taking aspirin at night to see if it might help in the inflammation department. Inflammation & the immune system can also be involved of course with depression.
(side-note, if you set your name up to accept personal messages, it is always good to have someone to talk to)
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