Happy To Be Here

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-12-2006
Happy To Be Here
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Wed, 12-09-2009 - 7:11pm

Hello to all,


I'm new and I just wanted to let you know about me. I was dianosed w/ chemical depression when I was 19 and I have been fighting it for over 20 years. I do have some good days, but I also have bad ones. There were times years ago when I couldn' get out of bed except to shower. I have two daughters who are married and I think I'm suffering from empty nest syndrone. This is the time of year that S.A.D. kicks in so I have to make sure I get plenty of life.. My antidepressant is doing ok. None of them really work for me. My Dr. has tried me on so many, but no luck.


I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you. Have a good night.....peace.....SC

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Registered: 11-04-1999
Thu, 12-10-2009 - 5:12am

Hi and welcome.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-12-2006
Thu, 12-10-2009 - 2:58pm

Hi,


It was so good to read your post. I'm not alone after all. Wouldn't it be nice of we could know the days that were going to be bad ahead of time?? My depression is chemical so it always with me but my antidepressant has things under control most of the time. My daughters try to understand what I'm going through, but that's a tough job unless you have endured it for a while.


Hope to talk to you tomorrow.........peace.....Connie

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Registered: 12-09-2009
Fri, 12-11-2009 - 7:11am

Hello! I am also new here and everyone here was so nice and welcoming.


You are brave for even getting on here to post, so know that you should be proud of yourself for that.


I have been battling my depression since I was 19 as well. So far everything I try works for a while and then stops working. sometimes it gets really tiring to change medications, doesn't it? You feel like nothing will ever really work or at least not for very long. It's scary to think that or sometimes I get really anxious when I think about it. I'm trying to just remember the good parts of it and not look so far ahead.


SAD is kicking in for me too. It's really hard this time of your for those of us with depression, I think. It's nice to know there is a place to come to where we can all support one another!


Welcome!


Jen

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~~The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ~~The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost