Posted by SLS on March 26, 2015, at 1:41:31
In reply to Re: Has Your Depression Gotten Worse With Age?, posted by babbler20 on March 25, 2015, at 23:04:54
> The thing that alarms me the most is that the longer this goes on the less I care about everything and the more I detach from life.
It is reasonable for anyone who has suffered so long a series of failed treatments for any illness to become depressed, hopeless, helpless, and detached. When this is compounded with a biological mood illness, these normal reactions are exaggerated or distorted. When anxiety and anhedonia enter the equation, derealization becomes a possibililty.
I don't know what to suggest to you for you to renew your positive energy. For me, I have always liked to have a list of untried treatments to look forward to. It is very proactive and can be empowering.
Please don't give up.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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