Depression

[Leeana]

Hey, basically i think im starting to get depressed agian. When i got Coco everything seemed to go away and i stopped everything that i was taking bc Coco basically curred me. But some stuff that has been going on lately (grandpa died, both my kittens got killed this week and just about everyone i know has yelled at me atleast once in the past couple days. I can tell something is changing and im worried

...should i tell someone? Because i really dont want to go back to therapy and take them pills agian! I dont know if i should tell my parents because they were the ones that got me all messed up before in the head ..but i dont know if i should tell them or just work this out on my own. I was planning on taking a break from the net and phone and taking a day or two off from school but i dont know.

So much bad is happening ...i dont know what to do.

Leeana

 

[Relic]

l like you l know your young but you sound like a good kid who loves horses. lf you are having issues that are getting you down for sure talk to someone the sooner the better. Teens and depression are nothing to fool with and very hard to come out of sometimes...good luck

 

[BFS_Simon_Says]

I know exactly what you are going through. I few years ago I was having a battle with depression, I was trying everything I could to numb myself. I was drinking excessivly and doing other things that I shouldn't have been but it helps to talk. Go to your doctor, or a counsellor at school. Talk to your parents or friends. Let someone help you because doing it by yourself doesn't help anything.

 

[lyn_j]

[SIZE=14pt]Leanna, In my other life before diabetes and the blindness I was a nurse, I worked in a psych hospital on an adolescent unit for several years. When the kids started feeling better they stopped taking their meds and then they got depressed again and even more so sort of like a boomerang effect. Please go back to the therapist and to the meds. Its not a shame to need the medicine. Lots of people do from time to time and some people need them always. If you want to PM me you can. I know you dont like me very much right now because of the other post but I really do care about you and what you are going through. Some meds for depression if you go off them suddenly it is really bad for you. Coco gave you something to think about and occupy your time with. The chemical balance that the meds have restored are pretty much out of your system after about a month. You need to get that back where it was.[/SIZE]

Lyn

 

[littlehorse2]

Can you talk to your doctor? That's what I did because I was feeling the same way. As a matter of fact I just had her up my meds because I was going back to the same thing as before. You deffinatly need to talk to someone. I don't go to therapy, yet, but that might change once my husband gets laid off for the winter.

Christy

 

[disneyhorse]

Depression is your HEALTH and you should never take your health lightly. If you don't have your health, you dont' have anything!

I would at the VERY least seek counselling, your school should offer it at a limited basis for free or be able to refer you to a low cost therapist.

I haven't had to take drugs for my depression in the past, but I think i would if it was needed to improve my mind and health.

Depression is definitely something you will need to learn to manage over your lifetime, it is difficult but it must be done!

Good luck! DO get some help!

Andrea

 

[New_Image]

I know how hard things get at times, and every one gets depressed, let down, air deflated out of their baloon, what ever you want to call it. I think you should tell some one how you feel, talking things out can really help, and let people know where your at... as for takeing meds I think your deserve a big

for getting off them in the first place. I am very "Anti - meds" especially when it comes to something like depression. I dont see it as a life long issue. I dont see it as a illness. I see it as life. Everyone goes threw hard times, sometimes its a bad day, sometimes its a bad week, sometimes its the normal feeling you get when a family member you love dies, your kittens are gone, and it just seems like no matter what you do or say your always yelled at!

Any how - If you ever need some one to talk to you can PM or e-mail me

 

[New_Image]

I know how hard things get at times, and every one gets depressed, let down, air deflated out of their baloon, what ever you want to call it. I think you should tell some one how you feel, talking things out can really help, and let people know where your at... as for takeing meds I think your deserve a big

for getting off them in the first place. I am very "Anti - meds" especially when it comes to something like depression. I dont see it as a life long issue. I dont see it as a illness. I see it as life. Everyone goes threw hard times, sometimes its a bad day, sometimes its a bad week, sometimes its the normal feeling you get when a family member you love dies, your kittens are gone, and it just seems like no matter what you do or say your always yelled at!

Any how - If you ever need some one to talk to you can PM or e-mail me

 

[SunQuest]

I am very "Anti - meds" especially when it comes to something like depression. I dont see it as a life long issue. I dont see it as a illness.

 


Nicole,

 


Please understand that this is not the case. Those with chronic depression really have a real illness. It is not something that is easily solved and then never comes back, and unless you or a loved one that you know suffers from severe depression, it is hard to comprehend. And if you ever have a person who was very close to you try to kill themselves because of it, you would understand that it is VERY VERY real...

 


Leeana,


Please go back to your doctor. This is an issue that you will have to learn to deal with and you need to work with your doctor until they discover the right drug that helps and allows you to feel well. Listen to Lyn. I am sure she can tell you some really bad things that she has seen when people don't get depression under control.

 

[Ashley]

I agree with Sunquest. and I hope you never have to run into somebody with serious depression, and if you do, I hope you dont treat them the way you think.

 

[lyn_j]

[SIZE=14pt]There is a HUGE difference between being down some times, sad, peeved, whatever and true depression. That is cause by a chemical imbalance. Nicole, Depression is a very real physical illness that can progress to debilitating things if not taken care of.......This is different than teenage girl moodiness. If Leeana was on meds before she needs to go back. Clinical Depression, Bi-polar disorder , these are not things to mess around with. Even the two are different. If you have big mood swings from super excited, giddy, extra happy...very busy, not sleeping to very sad, tearful, sometimes still not sleeping or wanting to sleep all the time. Feelings of hopelessness or helplessness Those are signs of Bi polar disorder. Sometimes people are always on a high to normal sometimes they are very depressed to normal with no highs...either way the norepinepherine and dopamine in the brain is off.... I get S>A>D> Seasonal Affective Disorder, when the days are short or very gloomy starts usually in October thru March, I get very sad, lonely, weepy.....extra tired.... I dont take meds now for it but I did several years back. I lost my grandmother and a foster son within 2 weeks of each other. I had a VERY VERY bad depression for about a year. I could function at work but not at home. my kids were young teenagers and really needed me and I wasnt there for them. I had sick kids at work all day and when I came home I went to bed. One of the drs that I worked with called me into his office and told me I needed therapy and meds or I wouldnt be good for anyone. I took Effexor for about 2 years and then I was able to get off.[/SIZE]

Being sick with Depression isnt a stigma of a horrible thing and neither is having to take the meds. I cant help it I am a diabetic and I couldnt help it that I was depressed but I HAD to get it taken care of like I have to take diabetic meds now and forever.

When you are a teenager things can seem pretty bleak.....there is light at the end of the tunnel IF you get help.

Lyn

 

[Leeana]

Today i talked to my counsellor after school. I read this thread during my lunch period and i got a couple idea's. I hadnt really thought about the school counsellor ..thanks all you guys who brought that up. We were talking and she called my mom and asked her to come in. Mom came in and we started talking about this. My counsellor knows about how i was a year ago (about 9 or 10 month i think). My counsellor knows why i went into that depression (which was my first) ..and my mom doesnt so she asked her to leave the room. She asked if that was what it was. Buts its now anything to do with my parents. Its just so much stuff has happened lately im just expecting something else to happen. With me it was more of a 'kind of down all the time' kind of thing, the doctors said it wasnt really a 'depression' ..more of just all this bad stuff adding up and building on my shoulders, which resulted in a mental breakdown almost. But this time its like that to ...the pills didnt do much for me. I mean they made me feel good, but i still knew something wasnt wrong and i hated them pills ..they really didnt do much for me and i changed pills about 3 times. Mostly counceling did more for me and i think thats what my mom wants me to do. Ms. St Marie (school Counst.) schedulled a appointment for me to talk with her after school tommarow and Monday. Were going to do a Monday, Wensday and Friday 1/2 house session after school for a few weeks or untill im better.

I think all i need is to talk with a professional here, and know its not leaving that room. Mostly what it is is just normal things, but they just build up. When so much stuff happens in a short period of time ...you get down and need to talk.

Leeana

I will keep you guys updated.

I have a friend that has been VERY depressed for the past 3 or 4 years, on Meds (no Counst. though) and i dont want to be that guy. I have never seen anyone as happy as when there around a horse before, when he gets around Lorado or coco or joey ..he actually smiles and lauphs and isnt all down. I dont want to be that ..i was never that bad.

this is why i want to have my 'Helping Hearts Pony Farm' for people like him and how i was.