Also, I have been on every type of antidepressant and I am so depressed. There's more but no room
I am very unhappy where I'm living. I have MS and chronic pain caused by trigeminal neuralgia. I have no friends here. We recently relocated to AZ and it is just way too hot for me. I cry everyday. I know I should exercise but I just have no desire. I'm on SSDI. I can no longer do my job as a nurse and it makes me so sad. I'm only 41. I go to online support groups and I have a therapist but nothing seems to be helping. I am up to my eyeballs in debt and feel like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. I have been unable to find a dr. here and am going back to MN to see my primary. We are planning to move back to WI in October if we can afford it. I just absolutely hate it here. I feel like I know what I should do but I just can't do it.
I lived in AZ for about a year and I agree its tooooooo hot, feels like a living in a frying pan some days, i liked las vegas better, about 10 to 15 degrees cooler and more wind or breeze.
Feeling depressed, painful feelings is hard or unpleasant I know, and to top it off you dont want or feel like doing what will help relieve it, so it keeps its grip on you. Some days I stay in bed all day etc-- but even though I dont feel like it or want to if i can get out of the house and maybe walk around the block, or go to a mall and walk for 15 minutes it helps, it doesnt eliminate everything but it starts you feeling a bit better. Meds dont work for everyone nor does therapists, one person I read about who suffered as bad as anyones does found talking to another person who understands how he feels on a regular basis, like 2 oe 3 times a week is the only thing thats helps him. If the other person is really down he tries to help, so they support each other, not a group just one other person-- i never thought of doing this but meds didnt help him at all, therapy sessions didnt help him either-but he found this talking to a friend he trusted did work. There are more things to try, pain always makes me feel depressed too as you said, I have no friends either but recently Ive made an effort to just say a few words to anyone, like the grocery store checkout person, UPS deliveryman, anyone- then I feel like im making an effort and getting some response thats usually positve back- we arent friends but its a contact with another person--
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I sent love and light to you in my mind... Hope you can feel it.
I have MS, too, and I once studied in a nursing school, so I feel some kind of connection with you..
This time, it is the fifth attack already I think, and I just turned 30.
Recently I have been trying to ignore the physical discomfort and trying hard to change my thinking system, my inside. I had been too negative. I never knew I had to learn to love myself before loving others.
These few days, I have been doing a practice: Everytime I breathe the air in, I imagine Love and Light of the whole universe coming in the top of my head to my belly, and as I breathe out the air, I imagine them expanding to the every part of my body. I feel Love this way. Hope this can help you, too, Michelle!
Please never give up hope. Things will be settled just right when the time comes... I believe.
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