Why does depression seem to be stable with medications and then all of a sudden crash, return full-force, with positve and negative stressors?
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Q: Why does stability suddenly change with stressors?
Answers (6)
9/30/08 5:31pm
Hiyah Kate
Yeah I have wondered this myself. Things seem to be going fine and then out of the blue...the depression returns. Sometimes you can pinpoint some stressor and sometimes you can't.
One possibility is that the medication you take can lose its effectiveness. When the depression comes back...it is time to talk to your therapist or psychiatrist about causes. Once you have ruled out biochemical causes like needing a medication change...I try to assess if it is something medical or biological causing the change in mood. Have you gotten enough sleep, are you eating okay, has your health declined in any way.
Then it is time to look at the stressors...I like how you say it can be either positive or negative stressors. I do think anxiety and depression go hand in hand....and one can definitely have an effect on the other. It takes a lot of energy to handle extra stress...energy that would have gone into keeping our mood stable. When we encounter stressful situations...it is good to examine them head on...talk about our stress with our therapist or supports. What I find for myself when I am dealing with either excitement or stress is that your adrenaline system is working so hard and then even if the stress goes away...you are left emotionally and physically tired and depleted. Sometimes the feeling tired just makes you feel...depressed.
This is an excellent question. I am glad you asked it. I hope others can chime in with their experience.
10/ 2/08 1:59am
don't know why i'm still under Kate..............but there is no doubt that symptoms and
illnesses exacerbated by tragedies, feeling overwhelmed, no support, crisis financially,
----you have used all your resources to cope with the depression, and now another strssors and anxiety trigger is added..........day after day..........no repose, no support.
the world outside becomes just another stalker waiting to hurt us............we curl in a ball, no one can "take" our condition, no one can "help" in the way that we need.......no i don't need soup, i need to get to the bank, can u drive me there. i need food, i have to pay bills, i need you to hear everything i am up against and promise you'll find time to put my life ahead of the material world............
Educate the public..............more people die of suicide than heart attacks.
They don't buy it. Pull up the bootstraps.
Try being in charge as an RN of a 20 bed psyche unit one month, then unable to leave the door of your home and go into a hospital to learn what a b/p or coping skill is.
Can we deal with real life issues. the government has no idea of the wasted dollars on agencies and people who are not doing their jobs...........they become more bullies to us.............our allies just add more for us to do, more calls, more paperwork, when we can't do what we were given 10 months ago.
We don't do that........call here...............there............i can't help you...........it just reminds me of "the family"...........
someone needs to pay attention soon..........more divorces, more defamation of spouses and stigmatization which leads to poor or no care.............fraudulent billing, no responses from ceo's after going through chainof command. no respect for your knowledge/experience..........works against you........you should be "out of this by now.".........
this is of help, but by no means enough........it took a gun to your head to get into our unit....even when empty beds......lies........
don't let them win. trust me, "they" are sicker than you could ever imagine. just own your own, keep talking, find some forum......this is my first attempt here...........had no choice...............
someone please give instructions......a, b, c,
yes, we know to eat, sleep, etc........
please address indiv prob as you can be sure others have the same..........connect us
or give way to please. no one wants to die/ they just come to believe it's the only way to be out of pain and not be in purgatory on earth. ......
10/ 2/08 1:10pm
A person can be stressed when they are happy or unhappy both can cause anxity which in turn can cause a person to become depressed. You have to learn a new way of dealing with the negative talk in your head. You have to learn to replace it with positive talk . This I have found helps Liz
10/ 2/08 4:13pm
do you suffer from bipolar, i suffer from bipolar and both negative and positive experiences cause crashes, i think it is too much emotional stimulation, i find it is almost like we cant process things, and the body goes into a distress response, sort of like shutting down, i think our feelings do not create a normal response in the brain, a bad chemical reaction to sort of explain it. of course meds are crutial, but we almost have to re-program our bodies..cbt or dbt can help alot, i hope this helps you, and the best advice, sleep, eat well, and take time for yourself.
10/ 3/08 3:00pm
I have no idea. I am not stable with medications, and haven't been for years with different meds.,different Drs. and reading every article on the internet and books. So if someone know the million dollar question, lets hear it and better yet how you fix it!
10/ 7/08 1:32pm
because some people don't understand about depression
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