Painful Depression

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I have never done anything like this before. Where to start? I'm 62 going thru serious business problems. More emotionally upsetting is the end of a long term relationship. WE had broken up many times before but this time is over. Even knowing this is better for both of us the depression & stress is beating me up. I can barely fuction. All I want to do stay in bed, not work, & not participate in life. I also have been taking too much xanax. This is very painful.

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I have never done anything like this before. Where to start? I'm 62 going thru serious business problems. More emotionally upsetting is the end of a long term relationship. WE had broken up many times before but this time is over. Even knowing this is better for both of us the depression & stress is beating me up. I can barely fuction. All I want to do stay in bed, not work, & not participate in life. I also have been taking too much xanax. This is very painful.

I don't know exactly what Xanax is but I do know that it will probably just mask your real problems rather than solve them. If it is a sedative, that sounds like the last thing you need for the future. Perhaps with all that is happening, you need some time to calm down before you get back into the swing of things.

Starting out all over again can be very stressful. I suppose I rely on the manner in which my wife and I met too often, since in reality everybody is different. In any event, we met at a library. I had been face first into an opened newspaper for a certain amount of time when I finally looked up to see my future wife smiling at me.

I don't think that I would have had the confidence to smile at her first but because she smiled at me, I returned the smile. Don't be reticent like me. You initiate the smile yourself. Good luck and good skill in finding a partner to share your life with.