Posted by cubbybear on January 26, 2003, at 2:21:18
[I posted this message also on the psycho babble board and one poster suggested that I add it here too.]
I would just like to hear from anyone who can help me feel that I'm not alone--that having to suffer from major depression is hell on earth. Every waking minute of every day for weeks or months on end, your mind is in excruciating psychological pain and worst of all, you are continuously terrified that it will never end--that it will go on forever. Maybe you have a few fluctuations or little uplifts from time to time, but they are just false starts. You fear that the meds you've been taking will not work; meanwhile you have to wait the usual 4-6 weeks till they kick in (if they help at all.). Then of course, there are all the usual symptoms, like waking up early and not being able to get back to sleep, having no appetite, not wanting to do anything that ordinarily gives you pleasure. Can you identify with this? The part I really want to know about from other fellow-sufferers is that, when you're badly depressed, you think that it will go on forever and ever and never stop--you think you have an incurable mental illness. I just need some support from anyone who has gone through it, too.
poster:cubbybear
thread:2305
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20021230/msgs/2305.html