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Thursday, December 03, 2009 Mianca asks

Q: I think I suffer from depression & I get irritable & angry at the smallest things

 

My fiancé just ended things with me. His reasoning being that I was simply an unhappy person and that he did not see things improving.

 

I think I do suffer from depression and I get irritable and angry at the smallest things.

He said my bad days by far outweighed my good days. I thought I was a fairly normal person, with normal feelings and emotions, normal thoughts, but to have lost him now for good over this has got me questioning myself.

 

I seem to have no control over it and it has luckly never turned violent.

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Christina Bruni, Health Guide
12/ 3/09 11:26pm

Hello Mianca,

 

Carolyn is a devoted community member here who has just responded to you in the best way possible so I will simply urge you to consider seeing a psychiatrist, as Carolyn has also suggested.

 

Feel free to post here again another question or to write a SharePost.

 

You dont' have to go it alone.

 

Regards,

Christina

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12/ 3/09 10:18am

Is there any reason why you chose the "SchizophreniaConnection.com" site?  Or are you asking your question at several mental illness sites?  I have survived and substantially recovered from both severe depression and schizophrenia, so maybe I can help.

 

I would guess that since your fiance ended things, the problem is more serious than you realized.  The time to get help is now.

 

The best thing by far that you can do for yourself is to make an appointment to see a psychiatrist.  Family doctors are second best, but they just do not have the special training and experience of a psychiatrist.  Write down the symptoms you have and the questions you want to ask and carry them with you to refer to.  It is easy to come out of a doctor's office with questions still on your mind.  And going to a psychiatrist does not mean you are "crazy" and, in fact, no one else even needs to know if you choose not to tell them.  But take a friend if you are uncomfortable facing the task yourself.  My mother went with me several times until I was comfortable going on my own.

 

The doctor will probably prescribe an antidepressant.  Take it as prescribed, for the lengh of time prescribed.  Often it takes several weeks for an antidepressant to take effect, especially if it is your first time to take one.  But don't be surprised if you have to take several different medications or even a combinationn of them to get relief.  Unfortunately, it can be a trial and error thing.

 

Please report back and let us know how you are doing.  This is a great group for support and advice.

 

Best wishes,

Carolyn

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12/ 4/09 9:27pm

I disagree with Carolyn & Christina,

 

Talk to your mother and sisters and/or best friends until you have it all talked out, and then go have some fun. Do something exciting like go to a bar & grill, with a girlfriend of course, and see who else is out there. Someone might want your cellphone number or give you his, but whatever you do, be choosy, there are plenty of other fish in the sea.

I'm going to get in big time trouble probably for saying so but most people in Psychiatric Therapy will suggest a Psychiatrist, most people that would like to break it off with their own flame will tell you to think, like, good riddence to your finace', most people seeing a Psychologist will advise you to see one and let him/her help you get your thinking straightened out, while mom or dad will give you what you need better, or just jumping back in socially might do the trick, or just having a good cry for a few days will lighten the load considerably, but your finance' made you doubt yourself only to make it easier for himself to brake it off, most probably, and while you were doubting yourself, he said, "That's the reason why" to kind of let it reach home in you. He maybe just had cold feet, or thought he wasn't really ready, or maybe even found someone else, and had to ditch you. Whatever the case, and whatever the reason, it doesn't take much time usually to get over something like this if your just honest with yourself and say that you just maybe didn't truly click or he wasn't truly ready, or maybe you yourself really weren't sure. Don't let his remarks that you have more down time than up throw you. Either he's a idiot to put it all on you and not tell you the real reasons or else your being an idiot for taking that kind of doubt inducing crap from the cad.

Go turn on TV or Stereo and call a friend or call mom, and then go to bed. Start a new day tomorrow.

 

Love,

 

Mike Jeffers

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12/ 4/09 9:40pm

P.S. Maybe you get irritible or angry and weren't depressed but just weren't too sure and thinking and thinking and considering that ex-joker, like, was it really right, and while you were so much thinking you took his distractions of his needing your attention in an irritible way and were angry that he was distracting you, so you must have had thoughts or emotions of uncertainty about him, and he probably wasn't really right for you at all, and the doubt he threw at you, just maybe confirmed it! If I'm right, you were the one also seriously doubting the relationship? Am I right? So are you going to go to a Psychiatrist because you think Mr. Right, the real one will probably never come along, so you'll go get medicated to oblivion to drown out any thoughts of not having the true Mr. Right, the one truly right for you, and with you one day, because maybe you just pacified yourself with him because you really just don't want to be alone? Am I right? The attractions of Marital Happiness (Marital Duty) are inherent to all mankind, women to. Do you at all remember puberty? Oh my God, I remember mine. Oh my God. I'm not slipping Freudian, I'm saying it? Am I right? Or am I wrong? I have 3 sisters who used to tell me every explicit thought. I thought I would die. Ha. Hope you find one who will give it all to you!

 

Love,

 

Michael

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By Mianca— Last Modified: 11/01/10, First Published: 12/03/09