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depression wins again

By sherrigibs Monday, January 03, 2011

Everytime I feel God gives me something good in my life I feel the devil comes into my life and takes it right away. God gave me a perfect job and Anixiety attacks took it away . It started very quick when had rain/ ice on night in georgia and I slide off the road . The next day I became scared to drive I had already quit a job to take a new job . The scaredmess didnt go away. I thought I was going to slide again. The next week we had snow and ice again the scareness built inside me into i going to go off the road again. I traded cars because i became scared to drive that one the wheels were not good and i was scared of the car so i thought this would end the problem . then came rain in new car and night driving the scareness was in me. i took every thing that has happen while driving and created a fear on it . once i hydroplained in the rain i had car accidents before . i slide in ice. i created in my head a nightmare and everytime i got into that car i focused what bad things could happen from big trucks and sliding off the road to what if it rains today and half to drive back tonight in the dark while it raining . i created a fear from just sliding off into the ice once and began to think about all the other times things have happen. I lost a job i wanted so bad today because God gave me something good a awesome job! and the devil took it away. FEAR .. I was on abilify and depression meds and bi polar meds all at once i thought it was too much medicine so i stop the abilify for made two weeks I dont know if this could do it or was just plain fear that did it . Depression is thing that controls your life you feel your no good and never going to get anything good in life . you feel when you do something is going to come along and take it away. today that ahppen it is my fault but within two weeks I tried mutiple times to see the doctor and explain what happens i got some more medicine but it did not work for me . for four years I have felt in the way of my life not living sadness extreme depression . i was finally leveling out and God agve me a good job and I created such fears in my own head that i coudlnt tell what was happening from what was real . I am scared that nothing good left for me. when people look in my eyes sometimes I smile but there is alot sadness there . nothing good but this job has happen to me and fear destroy it i am unsure what will happen to me next . I let down my family let down my self and destroy my hopes of became someone and finally letting the past go. I try not to tell jobs i am on medincine or that i get depressed because no one will hire me but when something goes wrong you want to explain. today i feel like i lost my only hope of letting go of depression and giving hope a real chance . today fear won and i lost but i tried to seek help many times in two weeks . I could have fix the probelm but time ran out .

Merely Me, Health Guide
1/ 3/11 6:31pm

Hi Sherri

 

You have not visited here in some time.  I had wondered how you have been doing. 

 

So what you are telling us is that you had a job and you had some sort of car accident which made you afraid to drive in bad weather?  What sort of job did you have?  Was there any way you could have taken public transportation or did carpooling?  There are a lot of people who are afraid to drive...I am one of them as I have a driving phobia.  I did not get one job because of my fear but I found other jobs where I didn't have to drive.  One remedy is to work on your phobia or...another solution is to get a job where you don't have to drive. 

 

You can rebound from this.  Was there any way to explain the situation to your employer?

 

Let us know how you are faring in the weeks to come.  I am really sorry this happened to you.

1/ 3/11 6:34pm

Hi, Sherri.  I'm so sorry that you lost your job.  What happened?  Were you unable to go to work because of your fear of driving?

 

Maybe you could try to look at depression, and fear, as just something you are feeling - I don't believe they come from the devil.  Maybe it feels that way to you, but they're part of you and something you have to deal with.  Perhaps when you stopped the Abilify it did something - I know my son takes it and has tried going off it, but eventually things don't go well and we have to get him back on it.  Did your doctor tell you to stop taking it?  You really shouldn't do that without talking with him about it.

 

You apparently loved your job and if you weren't able to get there because of the fear, that's really an illness and you shouldn't have been fired for that.  Depression should not be treated any differently than any other physical illness.  Or did you quit because you couldn't deal with driving any more?  There is therapy out there for stuff like that so that you don't get so upset when you're in that situation again.  Do you have a therapist?  You can get through this, just like you've survived everything else you've gone through so far.  Maybe you need a little more help from a therapist.  Let us know if there's anything more we can do here.

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By sherrigibs— Last Modified: 01/03/11, First Published: 01/03/11