ok so i have been depressed and a cutter for about 3 years now. i have been on meds for about a year and a half. i've been ok lately but these past couple days i have been crying out of nowhere and just been really upset. i cant talk to anyone about it cause no one would understant and i feel like no one cares. i mean i love my mom to death but its like shes mad at me for being depressed. i dont understand it. everyone in my family has always expected me to be perfect and when i started getting depressed its like they were dissappointed. i also dont wanna talk to my mom about it cause she has been throught a lot latley and i dont want to upset her or anything. and lately i have had urges to cut but im scarred because last time i di i ended up with stitches. i just dont kno what to do anymore. i have tryed counsiling.. group and one-on-one, meds... ive almost been hospitolized a few times... its like its getting worse and theres nothing i can do about it... i truley feel like everyone would just be better off without me.
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Life suxx
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No, people are the better for you being there. Often we don't express our appreciation of other people enough, because we don't realise how much they mean to us unttil it is too late.Depression is a horrible disease and it affects everyone in the family, and sometimes people get stressed, but you are just as worthwhile as ever.Have you spoken to your doctor? It may be that you need different meds or a different dose.
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hmmm , drugs wont cure you , they keep you in one place, you have to find out what is making you depressed and try and sort it out
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Absolutist answers don't apply in treating depression. Not enough is known about its mechanisms that anyone has all the right answers. Sometimes what you say is true, sometimes it's not. Sometimes antidepressant drugs are useful while a person is counseled. Sometimes they're useful by themselves.Anyone who "knows" how to treat someone's depression without even meeting them is a quack.> they keep you in one placeFrom experience with a family member, I know for sure that that doesn't apply to everyone.
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woot im a QUACK erm , im my experince drugs dont really help but thats just me , yh your right though
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yeah, ive seen like 3 doctors, i really think i need to up my dose... but idk. i dont want to keep bugging my mom about it and sound all selfish...
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It depends on what kind of drugs you're talking about. If it's narcotics, I agree. If it's antidepressants, it's not that simple. I know one case where the person had a couple of episodes of depression, separated by a number of years, and each time, Paxil for a few months allowed the person to function, until the episode passed. In another case, the person is just chronically depressed (it might be something hereditary), and with an SSRI antidepressant, she is fine (with the downside of a sexual side effect).In the chronic case, counseling was tried, but it didn't seem to help much.I agree that more research needs to be done, and there are other ways to address depression, and it's great if you find a non-biochemical reason for the depression. But, the way it looks now, antidepressant medication is effective for some people.