how to get past the darkest depressed apathy?

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09 Jan 2012, 12:31 pm

I think probably everything that I might say has been said. But being a verbal creature, maybe a little more around the edges.

SSRIs are not Valium, not even close. Totally different thing. When they work, you feel things. When you're de profundis is probably not the best time to find out which one(s) might work for you, because it takes at least two weeks, probably more like a month, of faithful consumption every day, to know whether it's going to work, and a month for every possibility would take you to high summer, and maybe even around again. When you might well be at the top of your cycle anyway. For an instant effect, a little vacation from the changelessness, try cannabis.

It's the time of year for the depths.

The hopelessness and futurelessness, the idea that nothing is going to change, are illusions, like walls of flame or dragons in a fantasy. You have to _remember_ that they are illusions, and walk through them. Do stuff. Do the next thing. Put one foot in front of another in the black fog when you can't see where you're going.

I question your theology, but this is not the time or place to argue theology.


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09 Jan 2012, 1:12 pm

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09 Jan 2012, 3:08 pm

Verdandi wrote:
I have no idea how you could come to that conclusion.


I don't know why else a person would tell someone about something they already said they don't want to do.



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09 Jan 2012, 4:03 pm

Only on this website could one person's I feel very, very depressed post become such a long convoluted thread AND arguments....gotta love it. Such a diverse and never boring community.

If Fraac has never tried anti-depressants, and I agree with previous post, Valium is NOT for depression, a anti depressant might help him. If he is actually bi-polar, then he would need entirely different meds. He says his doctor is useless and I believe that. I have met more than my fair share of lousy doctors, lame therapists to last me a lifetime, ten times over.

If there is a mental health support group in his community where he lives, where perhaps he could get the names of some decent doctors? I don't know what country he lives in but I am guessing UK or Canada...and it is very tough to advocate for yourself when you are severely depressed.

If you are anti-drugs, as he says he is, then keeping moving and doing daily activities to get through his day is probably the best thing. As long as he can will himself to do so.

His life and his choices, he is the guy who started this thread and he got plenty of responses and then some....I wish the best for him.