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Hi Spicefox You have already received some good advice and I am glad you are going to the Dr. and that your sister is coming with to help you. I have been fighting depression for about three years now. Actually fighting 2 years but suffering 3. The only thing I want to add is about your researching ...

Aw Waynec, I am so sorry for you. Ive told you what I thiink before but maybe youve got to look at it differently. Maybe it was not just the relationship ending that caused your depression. There may have been other underlying issues and the breakup was the tipping point. Either way you have to look...

Hi Bluejay23 I am glad you went to Dr but sorry it was uncomfortable as your regular doc was away. I think you have made the right step. I have not ever taken zoloft but the antidepressents I am on took 5 to 6 weeks the first time to really kick in so do not give up if you dont see immedeate results...

Hi waynec It has been a very long time since I have been in a situation like yours with regard to your relationship, but I can certainly relate to the deprssion you are suffering as a result. I agree with balcony that there is no such thing as closure when it comes to the loss of a loved one whether...

hello bluejay23. I am glad you found this website. I hope you find as much support here as I have. I am sorry you have had these bad thoughts. I read your other post and see you have made an appointment with a Dr which is good. Once when I was feeling completely overwhelmed and considering suicide, ...

I believe too much introspection can be a bad thing but I know it is next to impossible to stop doing for some people including myself. My whole life I have strove to be a good person in every way possible. I’ve stayed out of trouble, respected women, achieved academically, behaved kindly with other...

Hello whoelsethinkstoomuch. I can certainly relate to your feelings. My experience with depression has lasted about three years that I can reckon but considering prior self medicating with alcohol, may have been much longer. I have been on and off anti-depressants for almost 2 years now. I saw a psy...

Hey TackingIntoTheWind, I am glad you enjoyed this song. I thought I had posted the link for the video for Stan Rogers but note I did not so here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-aEcPgkuA&feature=related I listened to the Liam Clancy version you had and it was good. I also like the quote ...

Stan Rogers was a great Canadian Folk singer who you would think was raised in a fishing family on the east coast rather than Scarborough, one of the larger suburbs of Toronto. Anyway this song seems to have a somewhat uplifting quality for me and I hope it works for you. I have attached the lyrics....

Hi Destination Huggles accepted and greatly appreciated. Thank you for your responce and viewpoints. All quite accurate I would say and made by someone who I think has travelled a similar path to my own. I saw the crisis team and was once again diagnosed with major depression and anxiety and possibl...

for a disease that makes one feel so alone, there are an awful lot of us that feel the exact same way. Is this irony or just another of the universes practical jokes? As long as there is one person every once in a while who is truly interested when they ask how are you, I will struggle through and a...

I was writing an email to my sister to help her understand me. She is a recently retired nurse and can handle a lot but once I started reading it over, I decided maybe it was inappropriate and would worry her so I took out the portion I have put here. I am not sure if anyone else can relate to the d...

I am truly sorry that as human beings we have been brought together because of this shared illness and not a more pleasurable common thread. AS I mentioned the last couple of years have not been good for me but this last month and a half have been bad. I am still off work and today have used up all ...

Thanks Monty Its good to know there is someone out there.

Hello in there. On xmas day 2008 my father died. Feb 25/09 one of my best friends commit suicide. In May of 09 my wife had femoral arterial bypass surgury. Became infected and started 2 years of hell including 2 emergency surguries, near death exeriences, pools of blood, discovery of lumps on her th...