Posted by fallsfall on December 5, 2003, at 21:40:56
In reply to Re: You Are Not Alone, posted by geri122 on December 5, 2003, at 15:06:11
Geri,
Thanks for sharing your poems with us. The person you talk about in the second one - have you talked to them about what is going on now?
I understood that your friends were not receptive to you, and you hadn't told them of your depression. One of the reasons that therapy is helpful for depression is that by the time you figure out that you have it, and get it under control (with meds or therapy or luck), you have probably messed up a good portion of your relationships. Depressed people aren't a whole lot of fun, usually. They can be negative and crabby and unreasonable (at least *I* can, when I'm depressed). To people on the outside, who don't know *why* the person has suddenly "changed", this can be a problem. So lots of times, but the time someone has figured out that they have depression, they have already alienated a bunch of their friends. Maybe this is what has happened with you and your friends. It is work to get the relationships back, but I find that if people know that I have a problem - BUT I'm working on it - that they are much more patient with me.
Please let us know how you are doing.
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