Depression Learning

Can anyone help??

Question:

This is exactly how I behave when I’m depressed.  The sadness usually comes after the agitation and anger – if it comes at all. "Depression" is really a misnomer for this illness. Before you buy.

Response:

hi jessica i don’t feel qualified to comment on your doctor’s diagnosis, but you don’t sound so dissimilar to me and many others. did your doctor discuss with you any ways of addressing his diagnosis? therapy/counselling, medication. i know it’s a hard thing to accept and you may be right. personally, i find a lot of my frustration comes from a basic lack of self worth. i constantly fear disapproval and therefore i feel like i’m walking on eggshells, like everything i do may be disapproved of and i’ll be rejected for it. ok, this is a bit extreme, but it’s kind of how i feel when i get frustrated. constantly feeling like you’ve got to do the ‘right’ thing can make you forget to look at your own needs…this too is very frustrating for me…feeling like the real me never gets to come out. i have found that a balance of medication (prozac) and therapy is helping me deal with it enough to try and understand my situation better. i’m not trying to say that this is why you get frustrated and that you need drugs and therapy too…just hoping that you can see there are ways to deal with the way you feel. i think you’re doing the right thing by researching it and posting here before committing yourself to anything. this makes total sense. whatever name you give to the way you feel doesn’t change the way you feel one iota. the word depression carries a lot of stigma. good luck pete   I don’t feel depressed.  But my doctor tell’s me I am.  He says I suffer   from anxiety symptoms and have a mild depression called "dysthimia".  I   don’t believe him.  I have done some research on both of these and I   don’t have any of their symptoms.  I’m hoping someone who feels the way   I do can help to explain to me what is wrong.     Depression runs in my family, so I am more than likely to get it.  But I   need an answere that makes sense.   I get in these moods where I get frusterated easily, then agitated.  And   I can be perfectly fine five minutes earlier.  If I don’t escape the   situation, I snap.  Fly off the wall.  Start yelling at anyone around   me, including my 4-year-old son.  I can remember my mom doing this with   me and my siblings when we were younger and never knew why.  We just   thought she was in a bad mood again.  I don’t want my son to look at me   the way I looked at her.     Don’t get me wrong.  I love my mom.  And I am a really nice person.  But   the stupidest things set me off.  IS THERE A WORD FOR THIS??   I really need to know.  I have to get handle on my problem.   Thanks for any response,   Jessica

Response:

Sorry that you dont agree with your doctor. I cant say wether your depressed but I can say that being easily irritated and yelling when you know you shouldnt is a lose of control and the like sounds like the start of depression.You dont always have to be weepy and sad to mean your depressed,sometimes it just gets you angry instead and you feel moody and like your gonna snap someones head off and you cant figure out what it is that got you so upset to start with. If you dont trust your doctor go see another doctor and get a second opinion. Good luck Tanya   I don’t feel depressed.  But my doctor tell’s me I am.  He says I suffer   from anxiety symptoms and have a mild depression called "dysthimia".  I   don’t believe him.  I have done some research on both of these and I   don’t have any of their symptoms.  I’m hoping someone who feels the way   I do can help to explain to me what is wrong.     Depression runs in my family, so I am more than likely to get it.  But I   need an answere that makes sense.   I get in these moods where I get frusterated easily, then agitated.  And   I can be perfectly fine five minutes earlier.  If I don’t escape the   situation, I snap.  Fly off the wall.  Start yelling at anyone around   me, including my 4-year-old son.  I can remember my mom doing this with   me and my siblings when we were younger and never knew why.  We just   thought she was in a bad mood again.  I don’t want my son to look at me   the way I looked at her.     Don’t get me wrong.  I love my mom.  And I am a really nice person.  But   the stupidest things set me off.  IS THERE A WORD FOR THIS??   I really need to know.  I have to get handle on my problem.   Thanks for any response,   Jessica

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I don’t feel depressed.  But my doctor tell’s me I am.  He says I suffer from anxiety symptoms and have a mild depression called "dysthimia".  I don’t believe him.  I have done some research on both of these and I don’t have any of their symptoms.  I’m hoping someone who feels the way I do can help to explain to me what is wrong.   Depression runs in my family, so I am more than likely to get it.  But I need an answere that makes sense. I get in these moods where I get frusterated easily, then agitated.  And I can be perfectly fine five minutes earlier.  If I don’t escape the situation, I snap.  Fly off the wall.  Start yelling at anyone around me, including my 4-year-old son.  I can remember my mom doing this with me and my siblings when we were younger and never knew why.  We just thought she was in a bad mood again.  I don’t want my son to look at me the way I looked at her.   Don’t get me wrong.  I love my mom.  And I am a really nice person.  But the stupidest things set me off.  IS THERE A WORD FOR THIS?? I really need to know.  I have to get handle on my problem.

I’m no MD, but it sounds like depression/dysthymia to me.  IMHO, if you are open to it, you can move through it faster than if you fight it off by being closed to it.   Good luck. Sincerely Stewart — The Metaphor Man  *and*  The Great Defender of the Self (remove the SPAMBLOCK) Please send me an e-mail copy of your posted response.

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