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Is deppression a life time illness
Hi, today am writing for you to learn from your experiences...
I have a low mood sometimes but my GP said that this is not a depression or maybe mild depression since when it happen it last for 2 or 3 days and stops (I feel weak, tired, quick heartbeat, stop eating, loosing weight...)
I never took any antidepressant and MY QUESTION for the poeple who already are deppression free... are the medication life time used or determinated period? means that poeple who suffer from mild or moderate depression and also the ones who experience anxiety do they have to take treatment for all their life or not?
Thank you for your support!
I have a low mood sometimes but my GP said that this is not a depression or maybe mild depression since when it happen it last for 2 or 3 days and stops (I feel weak, tired, quick heartbeat, stop eating, loosing weight...)
I never took any antidepressant and MY QUESTION for the poeple who already are deppression free... are the medication life time used or determinated period? means that poeple who suffer from mild or moderate depression and also the ones who experience anxiety do they have to take treatment for all their life or not?
Thank you for your support!
Listen to what therese83 said. Trust me we would never take this poison if it was not 100% nessasary for us to fuction.
No way I would EVER touch this stuff unless it was liteally a life and death situation. Unfortunaty in my case it is very life threatining.
To those that think Severe Depression is always caused by past life trama....Rubbish!
I am living proof that this is absolutly not the case. It can absolutly be an actual dissorder of the brain and the way in which it fuctions. Science and modern Psychiatry proves this fact.
For people like this, no amount of talk Therapy or self affermation will help.
Severe depression that is cronic can be an actual disease that ONLY medication will respond to.
Trust me if that were the case with you then you would know it. Your mind would constantly feel like a swurling Tempist of Fear, Doom, and Dread so powerful that it would literally bring you to your knees in mental and physical agony. Your body would tremble in fear and doom just as if a person was actually pointing a gun to your head.
It can be so bad that Death will seem like a real viable option to end the suffering.
I have no words to properly describe just how horrible it can be in it's worst manifestation, but trust me....If you had it then you would know it because your mind would be on fire with pain so great that if feels like sand bags are hanging from your head and pulling you to the floor.
It is a pain that I would not wish upon any living being. For me to even begin to actually describe the power of it is beyond what words can convey.
Lets put it this way. If God came to me tomorrow and told me he would grant me complete cure of this disease if I gave him my right arm.....I swear as I type this I would make that trade. That's how bad it can be for some people (myself included)
My close friend once asked me what my condition feel like when I relaps or my meds stop working. I told him, close your eyes and imagine this day..... You wake up for work and find that you just lost your job, then minutes later you were informed that your spouse and children were just killed in a car accident. Then later you lost your home and had no place to live. Now close your eyes and imagine how paralized your mind, body and brain would feel. The anguish, pain, shock and fear that you would feel at that very moment....... That is exactly what severe depression feels like at the exact same level all the time, yet for no outward reason at all.
Can you imagine such pain tormenting you like that for no reason at all? It makes you feel insane. You can't even consentrate, read, write, or even fuction at a basic level.
I relate it to taking a long trip thru the depths of Hell itself. Only your still alive to experience it's sufferage.
You feel like that, then you know it's medication time for sure.
It's not that we don't want to live. My God, we want to live more than anything, but sometimes for some people the pain is just too much. That's when siscide becomes more than just thoughts. It becomes a plan of action to escape the pain.
Many years ago (prior to being hit with this disease) I always wondered how or why anyone would kill themselves. It just never made sence to me. Now I now why.
It's a mental disease. At that level, It can not be resoned with, it can't be wished away, it can't be talked away, and it simply will not stop EVER unless it is treated very aggresivly with every tool known modern science has.
That my friends is Severe Cronic Depression. It goes far beyond what a normal person even has the ability to understand. They think they understand, but trust me they don't understand. Just the same as I have not the ability to understand what it feels like to suffer Schizopherenia and it's symptoms.
So there you go that's why some people take medication for this dissorder.
No way I would EVER touch this stuff unless it was liteally a life and death situation. Unfortunaty in my case it is very life threatining.
To those that think Severe Depression is always caused by past life trama....Rubbish!
I am living proof that this is absolutly not the case. It can absolutly be an actual dissorder of the brain and the way in which it fuctions. Science and modern Psychiatry proves this fact.
For people like this, no amount of talk Therapy or self affermation will help.
Severe depression that is cronic can be an actual disease that ONLY medication will respond to.
Trust me if that were the case with you then you would know it. Your mind would constantly feel like a swurling Tempist of Fear, Doom, and Dread so powerful that it would literally bring you to your knees in mental and physical agony. Your body would tremble in fear and doom just as if a person was actually pointing a gun to your head.
It can be so bad that Death will seem like a real viable option to end the suffering.
I have no words to properly describe just how horrible it can be in it's worst manifestation, but trust me....If you had it then you would know it because your mind would be on fire with pain so great that if feels like sand bags are hanging from your head and pulling you to the floor.
It is a pain that I would not wish upon any living being. For me to even begin to actually describe the power of it is beyond what words can convey.
Lets put it this way. If God came to me tomorrow and told me he would grant me complete cure of this disease if I gave him my right arm.....I swear as I type this I would make that trade. That's how bad it can be for some people (myself included)
My close friend once asked me what my condition feel like when I relaps or my meds stop working. I told him, close your eyes and imagine this day..... You wake up for work and find that you just lost your job, then minutes later you were informed that your spouse and children were just killed in a car accident. Then later you lost your home and had no place to live. Now close your eyes and imagine how paralized your mind, body and brain would feel. The anguish, pain, shock and fear that you would feel at that very moment....... That is exactly what severe depression feels like at the exact same level all the time, yet for no outward reason at all.
Can you imagine such pain tormenting you like that for no reason at all? It makes you feel insane. You can't even consentrate, read, write, or even fuction at a basic level.
I relate it to taking a long trip thru the depths of Hell itself. Only your still alive to experience it's sufferage.
You feel like that, then you know it's medication time for sure.
It's not that we don't want to live. My God, we want to live more than anything, but sometimes for some people the pain is just too much. That's when siscide becomes more than just thoughts. It becomes a plan of action to escape the pain.
Many years ago (prior to being hit with this disease) I always wondered how or why anyone would kill themselves. It just never made sence to me. Now I now why.
It's a mental disease. At that level, It can not be resoned with, it can't be wished away, it can't be talked away, and it simply will not stop EVER unless it is treated very aggresivly with every tool known modern science has.
That my friends is Severe Cronic Depression. It goes far beyond what a normal person even has the ability to understand. They think they understand, but trust me they don't understand. Just the same as I have not the ability to understand what it feels like to suffer Schizopherenia and it's symptoms.
So there you go that's why some people take medication for this dissorder.
Hi again
To umadam
I think everyone well most people are anti medication and only take it when there is no other choice.
I had mild post natal depression for one year and did nothing about it.
Then one day WHAM, I stopped sleeping and fell into severe depression, so bad I could not hold down food or water. I mean I could not function in any way. Then I took the medication, mostly for my kids I didnt care about myself. I needed a lot of drugs to shift it in any way.
To Hensley
One reason to keep going is that even in your bad situation you give others hope of survival :-)
To umadam
I think everyone well most people are anti medication and only take it when there is no other choice.
I had mild post natal depression for one year and did nothing about it.
Then one day WHAM, I stopped sleeping and fell into severe depression, so bad I could not hold down food or water. I mean I could not function in any way. Then I took the medication, mostly for my kids I didnt care about myself. I needed a lot of drugs to shift it in any way.
To Hensley
One reason to keep going is that even in your bad situation you give others hope of survival :-)
First of all wish all the best and wish you can be depression free soon..
myself the doctor (GP) do not think that I have even mild depression, all what I have is postpartum blues not more and stress.
But because I read many times about depression I really felt bad about everyone who suffer from it and I wished that will never come to me.. and I was wondering if it is life time illness or curable specially am ANTIMEDICAMENT woman , i don't like pills and I know long term taking it could be bad for the organs...
Thank u for your reply
Cheers
myself the doctor (GP) do not think that I have even mild depression, all what I have is postpartum blues not more and stress.
But because I read many times about depression I really felt bad about everyone who suffer from it and I wished that will never come to me.. and I was wondering if it is life time illness or curable specially am ANTIMEDICAMENT woman , i don't like pills and I know long term taking it could be bad for the organs...
Thank u for your reply
Cheers
Some do, some don't.
It really kind of depends on the actual level and severity of the depression.
Oher factors such as, the depression being manifested thru a situational life event or simply for no reason at all can also play a part.
I happen to be one of the "no reason at all people."
In my case my condition is cronic and Very severe. So severe that it actually effects my mind and body in some very bizzar ways. Most of which are bad enough and cruel enough to make death seem a warm and comfortable thought process for me.
In severe cases I do not believe it to be curable. Treatable yes, but curable....No way. At least not yet.
In more mild to moderate forms, I think it can sometimes be eliminated or at leat be put in a remissive or dorment state. (with professional help of course)
I was lucky in the fact that upon my inital diagnosis by a very experienced Psychiatrist, that he was on the level with me. He didn't mince words or sugar coat the situation and told me that my condition was a lifelong dissorder.
We just work together and keep trying different things. Occasionally we hit on a med combination that will eliminate my symptoms for up to a couple years, but they always return. Usually worse than before and then it's back to the drawing board to find a new cocktail of meds that will produce a response.
Didn't used to be that way. 17 years ago when I was first diagnosed, just a simple SSRI did the trick and I felt normal again in several weeks. Last 7 years though....Ugh, it's getting harder to control as I become more and more resistant to medications.
Just a note: Any Psychiatrist or MD that tells you that you can not build up resistance to Antidepressant medcation is either a liar or just not well informed.
Fact is that most people (given enough time) will become resistant to antidepressant medication. For some it can take many many years, but eventually it will happen. Just a matter of how long.
I'm sorry. Wish I had better news to tell you about this disease. I can only be honest when I say that in more severe cases it is often a cronic condition.
The good news is that there are many wepons in the arsonal to fight it with. Also, new treatments and medications are increasing at a very rapid rate. At this point I really think that medical science is only a few years off from cracking the depression code. Maybe 10 years or so.
Billions is being spent each year to find better and more effective medications and treatments. This is hope and most of the time hope is all we have left when we are slammed with such a cruel cronic condition.
I am 39 and have survived 17 long years now with Severe depression and trust me, my case is VERY severe and medication resistant. Not sure how I have managed not to kill myself yet. I guess I just still somehow keep a fine thread of hope that a new treatment will arise to help me.
I guess that's what keeps me alive. Hope.
It really kind of depends on the actual level and severity of the depression.
Oher factors such as, the depression being manifested thru a situational life event or simply for no reason at all can also play a part.
I happen to be one of the "no reason at all people."
In my case my condition is cronic and Very severe. So severe that it actually effects my mind and body in some very bizzar ways. Most of which are bad enough and cruel enough to make death seem a warm and comfortable thought process for me.
In severe cases I do not believe it to be curable. Treatable yes, but curable....No way. At least not yet.
In more mild to moderate forms, I think it can sometimes be eliminated or at leat be put in a remissive or dorment state. (with professional help of course)
I was lucky in the fact that upon my inital diagnosis by a very experienced Psychiatrist, that he was on the level with me. He didn't mince words or sugar coat the situation and told me that my condition was a lifelong dissorder.
We just work together and keep trying different things. Occasionally we hit on a med combination that will eliminate my symptoms for up to a couple years, but they always return. Usually worse than before and then it's back to the drawing board to find a new cocktail of meds that will produce a response.
Didn't used to be that way. 17 years ago when I was first diagnosed, just a simple SSRI did the trick and I felt normal again in several weeks. Last 7 years though....Ugh, it's getting harder to control as I become more and more resistant to medications.
Just a note: Any Psychiatrist or MD that tells you that you can not build up resistance to Antidepressant medcation is either a liar or just not well informed.
Fact is that most people (given enough time) will become resistant to antidepressant medication. For some it can take many many years, but eventually it will happen. Just a matter of how long.
I'm sorry. Wish I had better news to tell you about this disease. I can only be honest when I say that in more severe cases it is often a cronic condition.
The good news is that there are many wepons in the arsonal to fight it with. Also, new treatments and medications are increasing at a very rapid rate. At this point I really think that medical science is only a few years off from cracking the depression code. Maybe 10 years or so.
Billions is being spent each year to find better and more effective medications and treatments. This is hope and most of the time hope is all we have left when we are slammed with such a cruel cronic condition.
I am 39 and have survived 17 long years now with Severe depression and trust me, my case is VERY severe and medication resistant. Not sure how I have managed not to kill myself yet. I guess I just still somehow keep a fine thread of hope that a new treatment will arise to help me.
I guess that's what keeps me alive. Hope.
Thank U both for your comments it's wonderfull to hear from others'experiences..
However, I nevertook any medication and even my GP think I am stressed and not depressed but scared from beeing so...specially now I seat more home because of my baby..
anyhow, BEAR, I know that depression is caused from the imbalanced chimicals in the brain but i also read many side effect of the long term of all med intake and regarding the deppression med there are some scarry side effect like blood inflamation or for the heart, kidney etc... and just this freaked me out!
Hope you all will be better very soon ...
xoxo
However, I nevertook any medication and even my GP think I am stressed and not depressed but scared from beeing so...specially now I seat more home because of my baby..
anyhow, BEAR, I know that depression is caused from the imbalanced chimicals in the brain but i also read many side effect of the long term of all med intake and regarding the deppression med there are some scarry side effect like blood inflamation or for the heart, kidney etc... and just this freaked me out!
Hope you all will be better very soon ...
xoxo
I've been diagnosed with depression for most of my adult life, and was just recently re-diagnosed as bi-polar. There is always the hope of living without medication, and therapy can be a great way to cope with your depression. Sometimes it's just a matter of a thought process change for some, but for others it's truly a chemical imbalance that can be better served through medication.
I have hopes that one day I can be medication free, but I know that it takes a lot of work to be able to overcome the depression.
But yes, I think it's possible to be med free and still be able to cope with the occasional down swings.....
I have hopes that one day I can be medication free, but I know that it takes a lot of work to be able to overcome the depression.
But yes, I think it's possible to be med free and still be able to cope with the occasional down swings.....
It is not always for life. A lot of people on this forum have ongoing depression, so you might get that view here.
In a lot of cases it can subside in about 8 - 10 months and you can make a recovery with maybe medication and therapy to get you through to that point. Especially if it is post natal depression, a full recovery can be expected.
I know many people who have made a full recovery, though I am not one myself, for me it has dragged on for three years, but I still do not rule out recovering.
My sister had very severe depression, I would say psychotic and she made a full recovery in about one year. She is just one example, it is the norm to recover.
In a lot of cases it can subside in about 8 - 10 months and you can make a recovery with maybe medication and therapy to get you through to that point. Especially if it is post natal depression, a full recovery can be expected.
I know many people who have made a full recovery, though I am not one myself, for me it has dragged on for three years, but I still do not rule out recovering.
My sister had very severe depression, I would say psychotic and she made a full recovery in about one year. She is just one example, it is the norm to recover.
Hi dear and thank U for replying...
I do beleive also that support from friends and family counts a lot..
Keep it up....
I do beleive also that support from friends and family counts a lot..
Keep it up....
Hey ive suffered quite severe depression to the point i was almost hospitalized but i took medication till i was well enough to cope with out. Depression is for life how you cope with it determines how it affects your life. I feel absoultly like nothing could hurt me now and i love it But in a couple of weeks i could be down again But i have learnt how to make myself feel better with out meds. I use my family to help me feel better. Just knowing they are there is all you need. Love and support from people helps a lot also and talking. You find a friend you can talk to and your half way there xx Keep your chin up
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