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Q; Over the last 10 years since I was 14, I’ve been struggling with severe depression. I have been on several medications, having counselling, CBT, taken time off and travelled overseas to hope I could leave it behind. Nothing works. My problem is that nobody has any idea that this has been going on and [...]
It took a friend to tell me I had a problem. For years I shut myself away, kept my daughter by my side, scared that she would leave me. I always assumed people with post-natal depression felt withdrawn from their child, mine was the complete opposite, I have learnt now that this too, is also [...]
I have had a person* say to me that “I was selfish and it was all about me” when I was in the depth of a depressive low mood, does depression make you selfish? I think it does. When you are depressed you can barely take care of yourself let alone others, just surviving a [...]
I am 33 now but this post relates to a time in my life when I wanted to set myself on fire. I was eleven when I was diagnosed with depression. I lived in a violent home. I was bullied badly in school and most of my school life was spent trying to be invisible. [...]
I often sit and feel sorry for myself, its difficult to not think why me? What did I ever do to anyone to deserve the life I have been given. To the outsider looking in I have it all, six beautiful children, a loving husband, a nice home and friends and family. What nobody [...]
It’s becoming more common that landlords of large apartment buildings don’t allow candles into the spaces that they rent out. Some people prefer to keep candles out of their homes for safety reasons. It all makes sense – having an open flame in your home is obviously a dangerous tactic, but candles create such [...]
It woke me this morning, that heart sinking feeling washing over me, drowning me, taking me to a place I know so well, yet despise. I hate that place, the place of unknown, that place that turns me into the person I loath. That person is me. I loath myself. I have allowed this to [...]
Since I was small I had this urge to please everyone I couldn’t not sleep, I could not dream about anything other that making people proud of me all that matter was what people think. I used to make myself so ill worrying what people thought of me how I came across, I was never happy [...]
After 7 years of seeing different therapists I’ve been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder (BPD). It may be weird, but it came as a major relief.
One of the hardest things about PND is trying to make the distinction between reality and depression. Where does my depression stop and where do I begin? Trying to explain how PND can feel is next to impossible.
I wrote this poem in November 2009. Stolen Mind Do you think that I am crazy or think I have gone mad , One mintue I act so happy, the next I am down and sad? You ask me many questions , the answers I can not find, I know you are trying to [...]
I have depression, I have had depression since my baby was born, I could not attach to him like other mums do. I felt like he was better of without me. It took me 5 months to go doctors and speak to them about my depression. They put me on antidepressants and said they wanted [...]
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