Really depressed...hormones??
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Really depressed...hormones??
| Wed, 11-10-2004 - 11:45am |
I have been feeling very depressed for about three weeks. In the beginning, it was only in the evenings, but for the past few days, it is all day, every day. I can hardly get the energy to move and I want to cry all the time. I think often of suicide. A voice in my head keeps saying, "I want to die," even though I really don't. The strange thing is that this often happens to me for a day or two before I get my period, but I'm actually just starting a new cycle (day 5 of my period). I also have had really terrible skin for a few weeks, just like when I'm getting my period but lasting longer. I'm taking vitamin B and an Omega supplement, as well as my Celexa, but it's not helping. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've just turned 38; could this be some kind of pre-menopause? How could I find out?
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Nicola

Maureen/Mo
If this was a real life it would have come with instructions.
Maureen/Mo
If this was a real life it would have come with instructions.
I has been getting darker where I live, but I don't have SAD symptoms. I got really depressed in the spring this year, so I don't think it's related. I have a light that my mum gave me when she got a smaller one (she has SAD), but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
Anyway, thanks for your reply.
Nicola
i attempted to commit suicide a few times in the past- or at least it ended up being that way. i swear i wasnt thinking "i want to die" while i was doing it. it was just the sort of thing where i wanted to see if i could still feel at all. i was SO emotionally exhausted that i literally felt numb to everything. i felt so invisible to everyone important in my life that i just had to...i dont know...prove to myself that i was still really there i guess? i know it sounds crazy... i doubt anyone really even knows what im talking about...its a really akward thing for me to talk about because i hear myself saying the words and know what i would think of someone if i didnt feel the same way and they were telling me the same thing. i would probably think they were crazy... i have thoughts like this all the time but i am so afraid to talk to the people i love about it. i alreayd know that i need help...i know what i have to do but i dont have the strength and courage to do anything about it. i could never see myself saying "mom...dad..i need help." they think so highly of me right now and i dont want to ruin that. they ahve their own problems and we just buried the ones we had in the past. (my parents getting divorced and the hostility i had towards it...i finally just gave up and took it for what it was.) i dont know...i better stop before you guys get tired or reading and dont finish... i dontk now what im expecting to get out of this...but hey...i guess i dont know a lot of things...
~Leanna~
(((Nicola))) I am sorry you are feeling bad.
I hope you are doing better today,
Nicola
Thanks for your reply,
Nicola