Feeling down.

Hi. Ive been feeling down for awhile. Its been lingering. I think part of it is also that I still havent taken care of any of the issues that have been ongoing for 5 years....
Now I just feel stressed out all the time....I wake up and the tears just start. I want to be strong but i feel weak. I think Ive had too much time in my head. I feel pretty bad overall. Ive seen a dr and rhey gave me medication for depression but Im scared to take it because somewhere in the back of my head I think its more of a situational problem. I still do feel emotionally zonked though....The only way I can describe it is the way I feel when i really overtired and or PMS....but usually i do sleep and its not that time of the month for me.....im just worried because I dont think its normal to cry all the time...Maybe I just need to take better care of myself. Thanks for reading.

Labelleliason: If you are crying, I think you're depressed. I once cried in front of my psychiatrist, and she said, "Aw you 're just depressed." She was very cold, but she was right. The reason I was crying, was because through a foul-up of this same cold psychiatrist, I got off my anti-depressant and my Lithium, and I went straight into depression, and then there was a concern about going back on them.

You're playing a part in this, as was I when I went off the medicines, and then stayed off. I realized later, I could have taken a portion of the medicine, like 1/2 of one pill, to see if it was going to kill me. If it didn't, I could take the entire pill the next time.

You say, " Ive seen a dr and rhey gave me medication for depression but Im scared to take it because somewhere in the back of my head I think its more of a situational problem"

You've seen the doctor, he gave you an anti-depressant, but you haven't taken it. Gosh, wonder who's to blame for this one? That one's pretty tough to figure out.

Another problem could be, as you say, "Ive been feeling down for awhile. Its been lingering. I think part of it is also that I still havent taken care of any of the issues that have been ongoing for 5 years...."

Gosh, if we could just find somebody to blame. I've heard the saying, "The person you have to defeat, is the person you have to look at in the mirror every morning." Labelleliason, hello! Anybody home?

I'm basically housebound, also. Some 20 years ago, I was housebound for six years. I know what that's like. How could you lose everything? You find it hard to drive, I don't drive, so I get someone to take me places. How do you get your groceries? If you got out of depression, would it make you think more clearly about how to solve some of your problems? Are you still married? I was in a bad marriage for 28 years. What is the internal problem? What is the ongoing problem?

I would say medication will help. get help