Frustrated

Know what I hate, Lindsay? It's when everything is going cool, and all of a sudden I get this 'overwhelmed' feeling that takes me seventeen places at once...that's what I hate! Just happened about a half an hour ago too. I still have some Zoloft around here, so I googled it to see if anything new was up with it, and I ran into your rant. My turn. 

...and we listen.  I remember having shocking post natal depression and 2 little babies to look after...My husband was hopeless....some of my friends said they thought there was nothing wrong with me and that I was saying I had Post Natal Depression to get attention. Other lovely friends decided to take me out on the town..to cheer me up. I remember thinking, if only. If only that would lift the depression, knowing of course that it was not going to happen. The only thing that lifted it was medication. Its funny because when my baby was 18months old I broke my arm.  I couldn't believe how many people bent over backwards to help me because they could "see" what was wrong. I remember ringing my mother and laughing I said " I have this piddley little broken arm and when I had PND I felt like I had two broken arms and two broken legs and a broken brain and nobody lifted a finger "(except my Mum.) Nobody would ask a diabetic to "snap out of it". This is no different. I just wish you could get back on some medication. Talk therapy is good but Cognitive therapy combined with proper medical intervention  better I think. Go to www.facingus.com for some wellness ideas and try to get back to your doc as soon as you can. Best wishes Rusty

lol....You made me think of my mother (who is 80 and still has more energy than I ever will) Among many other helpful hints she's always thought it would help me to hear - "You just imagine what if you lived in AFRICA....then you'd have a reason to be depressed"  or CHINA or BOSNIA or most recently "in IRAQ having your house and your kids BLOWN UP in front of you..."

!!!??? Why doesn't anyone need a reason to have diabetes or pneumonia or a brain tumor? Well, it's slowly changing. Not fast enough, but it is what it is.

I know exactly how you feel. It is so hard to explain to anyone who has never been through it. I stopped going to my Therapist because it became too expensive after my husband was laid off. Now I'm out on disability because I kept trying to stuff it down and "be happy". But it comes out. My work is trying to deny my disability even though I have a documented history of depression. My Therapist told me "They just don't want to pay", the disability advisor says "Your Dr. isn't providing us with enough info". I'm stuck in the middle. I'm so frustrated by the whole process. The meds that don't help, the friends and co-workers who don't understand, my family not knowing what to do and looking at me with those sad eyes. I can't stand it. Where is the help!