07-21-2016, 11:37 PM
Cutstack....Hello!
Depression and anxiety are topics I wish none of us ever had to become familiar with. I don't doubt that anyone battling a serious desease feels like no one can really understand. But, with depression, no one can really understand.
I have spent the first third of my life unaware of why life was often so dark and hopeless, the next third, keeping it a secret because of the stigma attached to "mental illness" and this part of my life, trying to speak openly about it. I can't tell you how many times people have said things like - just pull yourself up by your bootstraps or it's mind over matter or what do mean you can't get out of bed? You just do it! And the meds. I call it the medication merry-go-round. First you try the grey horse, now higher on grey and straddle the white. Now higher on white and lower the grey. And reach out with one hand on the black. Never ending. The reality is the Psych Docs only know what the pharm rep tells them in their brief 10 minute spiel. And then there are the side effects. And insomnia. And heavy poundage weight gain.
Oh....I hope I'm not depressing you with that rant. I just really wanted you to know.... I understand and am here for you if you need to talk, ask questions, compare notes and even laugh at ourselves
Talk to you sometime soon!
Junia
Depression and anxiety are topics I wish none of us ever had to become familiar with. I don't doubt that anyone battling a serious desease feels like no one can really understand. But, with depression, no one can really understand.
I have spent the first third of my life unaware of why life was often so dark and hopeless, the next third, keeping it a secret because of the stigma attached to "mental illness" and this part of my life, trying to speak openly about it. I can't tell you how many times people have said things like - just pull yourself up by your bootstraps or it's mind over matter or what do mean you can't get out of bed? You just do it! And the meds. I call it the medication merry-go-round. First you try the grey horse, now higher on grey and straddle the white. Now higher on white and lower the grey. And reach out with one hand on the black. Never ending. The reality is the Psych Docs only know what the pharm rep tells them in their brief 10 minute spiel. And then there are the side effects. And insomnia. And heavy poundage weight gain.
Oh....I hope I'm not depressing you with that rant. I just really wanted you to know.... I understand and am here for you if you need to talk, ask questions, compare notes and even laugh at ourselves
Talk to you sometime soon!
Junia
It's never too late to be what you might have been.