Does anyone remember? Question for all..
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Does anyone remember? Question for all..
| Tue, 04-06-2004 - 11:23pm |
Do any of you remember your onset of your depression? Do you remember how it feels to be "normal", as in not depressed??
Do you remember each onset of each depressive episode (if you have had more than one)?
I am curious... I would like to know. And it seems like something that if lots of us share about it, it may help us all.
Was there one event? Were you abused? Were you neglected?
What brought you into this depression?
Thanks for your answers!

There was one weekend when two terrible events happened at the same time. I won't bore you all with the story. However---that apparently started the whole depression thing. I hid it for almost a year---but things finally came to a head and I was drug off to a hospital for evaluation.
I don't remember each onset of episodes. In the beginning, I was put on medication and it seemed to help for a while. Then I would start feeling bad again and amother med was tried.
Is this the kid of 'stuff' you wanted to know?
But it was a long, long time ago. lol
Thanks for contributing.
I hope you are well.
Sending hugs and good thoughts your way.
Take care,
Lisa-)
We hide all the time don't we... GREAT words Deb.
Thanks for your insight!
You are the best!
Sending hugs and good thoughts your way.
Take care,
Lisa-)
Do you remember each onset of each depressive episode (if you have had more than one)? the onset was usually something very stressful or very emotionally charged, mostly when I was ignored that is when it was bad for me.
I am curious... I would like to know. And it seems like something that if lots of us share about it, it may help us all.
Was there one event? Were you abused? Were you neglected? I cant say if I was neglected because I had an Aunt who helped my mom raise me and she gave me all the love she had inside of her, but I think alot of it came from my childhood the emotions that I bottled up inside and when I was a teenager I just let them all out but the anger I held onto and am learning to let it go it is a slow process but it is going to be worht it in the end.
What brought you into this depression? the feeling of being unwanted unloved not needed ect. I have a huge issue with feeling like I am being ignored that is what usually sets me on a downward spiral that and others emotions my old living situation really set me off I was always sad never smiled ect.. but now that I moved I am feeling a little better each day.
I hope I helped a kittle.
Erin
Thanks for your answers!
I can't remember a time when I didn't have problems with depression, although I didn't understand until my 20's that that was what was wrong. My parents divorced when I was five, and my sister was four. It was an ugly divorce, and there was a lot of fighting and bitterness between them for many years afterward. There was always the feeling that each parent wanted me to be on their "side" and against the other parent, so being close to both at the same time was somehow disloyal. I would be close to one for a while, then something would happen and I'd be on their bad side, but then the other parent would embrace me and say how unfair, and what a bad parent the other was...etc.
Then, around the time of their divorce (or within a few years, I was really young at the time), my father developed a severe chronic auto-immune disease. When it first hit, he almost died - and although they were able to stabilize him, there was always the possibility that he could go any time. Over the years he gradually lost his health, became frail and disfigured from the disease.
I think my sister and I learned too young about mortality.
Finally, now I know that depression runs in my family.
My sister went on to develop anorexia and bulimia, and at 34 she still struggles with it.
I became really introverted and depressed, and am still struggling with that.
The answer seems as nebulous as the disease.
Please know, that I feel you are someone who should never be neglected or ignored. You are one terriffic lady! I hope you don't feel unwanted here....I want you here!!!!!
Thanks for taking the time to answer!
Sending hugs and good thoughts your way.
Take care,
Lisa-)
I do know that I have been in and out of depression all my life.
Thank you so much for taking the time to post a reply. Long term family issues and illness can be huge!
Sending hugs and good thoughts your way.
Take care,
Lisa-)