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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeven signs of high functioning depression
Gotta figure a lot of people here can relate. To be aware and keeping up with news likely means being depressed too.
Interesting little article might be comforting. It's not just you and not just me. It's what happens.
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Isolating from friends and family.
No longer finding joy in the activities you loved.
Persistently criticizing yourself.
Frustration with small irritations or setbacks.
Turning to mindless habits for hours on end.
Always feeling low on energy.
Managing day-to-day tasks but feeling empty inside.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,752 posts)Attilatheblond
(2,277 posts)They often mess with other parts of people and that isn't always so helpful.
yagotme
(3,028 posts)and a sweater with the arms that tie in the back..
markodochartaigh
(1,177 posts)*subject to insurance approval
yagotme
(3,028 posts)But, if it's court-mandated, do I still have to pay??
"They're coming to take me away, ha ha, to the funny farm,..."
underpants
(183,024 posts)No kidding. I checked off quite a few.
dclarston13
(414 posts)what is the prize??
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,752 posts)LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)Attilatheblond
(2,277 posts)Long time ago, I flippantly suggested America needs crop dusters to hose us all off with anti-depressants. Might be time to dust off that old whimsical hare brained scheme.
grumpyduck
(6,291 posts)directed by the Jewish space lasers? Love it.
ret5hd
(20,563 posts)I have read that pre-diabetes and diabetes can cause anger and rage episodes.
Since reading that, i have often wondered about all this road-rage stuff, and how much of it may be caused by undiagnosed diabetes.
Just looking at my friends/neighbors/city-mates, i think almost everyone would be doing themselves a favor by getting their A1C level tested.
Just what IS A1C?
I hear it mentioned in ads all the time but I have no idea what they are talking about.
Marthe48
(17,125 posts)Shows how your body used glucose the last 3 months. A good A1C is lower than 5. Over 7 is not. The result might not come back as other lab tests. A1C has a longer name, too. I missed it when I looked at my labs on my hospital access last time.
Our daughter is a renal dietitian.
It has always been a mystery to me.
keep_left
(1,798 posts)It's also sometimes abbreviated HbA1c on lab tests.
ScratchCat
(2,020 posts)I can't say I turn to mindless habits for hours on end, and I don't persistently criticize myself, but the rest are me for sure.
Attilatheblond
(2,277 posts)Oddly, I find some of my best insights come while doing mundane chores that don't take a lot of brain waves. Not sure that equals 'mindless habits'. If it does, it might be semi-productive for me.
and I am constantly criticizing myself.
Mossfern
(2,610 posts)I don't take pills.
I can force myself to function.
Marthe48
(17,125 posts)I tried meds, decided to take it on the chin.
Depression, anxiety, PTSD in the mix.
EMDR didn't work - I have xanax for panic attacks
It sucks
Unwind Your Mind
(2,043 posts)Are my meds, maybe the green stuff too
Martin68
(22,967 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,931 posts)There is a tight bond between your gut and brain and one can affect the other and vice versa.
Best to ya.
my therapist suggested I read The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
I highly recommend the book.
I'm considering switching to a neurophysiological therapist....if I can afford it.
twodogsbarking
(9,931 posts)atreides1
(16,113 posts)What do I win if I get all of them?
Gore1FL
(21,169 posts)Attilatheblond
(2,277 posts)Nearly fell asleep making the bed.
sarisataka
(18,922 posts)rubbersole
(6,756 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,855 posts)limbicnuminousity
(1,407 posts)the Covid lockdown literally traumatized many people. Most people are hardwired to respond poorly to isolation, a remnant of times when being kicked out of the tribe was a death sentence. Just a suspicion, but I think PTSD and terror management theory explains a fair bit of some of the more insane behavior witnessed over the last few years in the US. There's a lot of behavior that seems reflexive, not thought out, as if individuals are trying to reassert control over their lives and environ. The policies are similar to what conservatives have always aimed for but there is an urgency to their actions that seems pathological to me.
Evolve Dammit
(16,817 posts)Skittles
(153,310 posts)is if the lockdowns didn't really change your life much
electric_blue68
(15,030 posts)While not the only way I get energy (music, creative pursuits, hanging out w friends f2f, phone) I love walking parts of Manhattan in particular, parts of Downtown Brooklyn when I lived there.
Not in overcrowded areas, but a well walked street w stores, restaurants, interesting architecture, mini parks. I get energy from being around people, as well as enjoying being by myself.
And at 70, near 71 still feeling cautious about being in more peopled areas (where I used to be). I'm all vaxxed, maxxed, and masked.
I might try being out more this later Spring, and the nicer weather of Summer in parts of Mahattan esp where I can sit in a park, too. 👍
elocs
(22,650 posts)I can do the social sprint but have no interest in the social marathon. I am very friendly, but I have no friends and I'm fine with that. I am depressed because I'm not allowed to see the one person who means the most to me, my adult daughter. But I am high functioning as much as I need to function.
SunSeeker
(51,800 posts)elocs
(22,650 posts)and the person who hates me the most in the world, her mother, has the ear of her guardian. So I have neither seen nor talked with her for over a year now and I've never been told the reason. (My daughter is 32.)
SunSeeker
(51,800 posts)I'm so sorry you are going through this.
elocs
(22,650 posts)We can't see each other or talk, but I wonder why they didn't figure out that as soon as she was allowed online and could use the computers that she would email me, which we've done for most of the past 8 or 9 months. I send her packages from Amazon that don't say who they are from so I guess they assume they are from her mother. She is basically isolated from any friends or family. Her mother visited her twice last year when at the same place I used to visit her every week and we went out on a 4 or 5 hour pass.
I never imagined that as bad as things were that they would get worse, but they did.
progressoid
(50,020 posts)kimbutgar
(21,278 posts)The only joy she has is her cat. If I dont call her I wont hear from her. Once a month I set up a hair appointment for us and if I dont call her and set it up it doesnt happen.
Evolve Dammit
(16,817 posts)maxsolomon
(33,461 posts)I've been cataloging my vinyl records. I can turn off the overthinking for a half hour and just do.
It's better than watching MSNBC talk about Trump more.
Boomerproud
(7,984 posts)I knew this election season would be unbearable but I can't take their droning on and on every day any more.
maxsolomon
(33,461 posts)Frustration with small irritations.
Rather than friends and family, I'm avoiding the news lately.
Orrex
(63,277 posts)Hey, wait a minute!
I have some stuff that didnt make the list! I wonder what comes after high functioning? 😁
SunSeeker
(51,800 posts)I lost contact with a lot of Trumper relatives. And lost faith in humanity.
And I spend way too much time on DU.
mobeau69
(11,169 posts)A lot.
BunnyMcGee
(464 posts)Me on all counts. Back to bed.
Hekate
(91,013 posts)for more 'downtime' for us- ugh!
Martin68
(22,967 posts)That is a clear sign of disfunction. I've suffered from high-functioning depression, but without friends and family I would have been lost.
limbicnuminousity
(1,407 posts)the healthiest option to pursue is to separate from friends and family. Especially for the young raised in conservative areas.
Martin68
(22,967 posts)considered "a sign of high functioning depression." Quite the opposite, in fact.
twodogsbarking
(9,931 posts)Actually, being depressed is a feeling and many who suffer from depression feel nearly nothing.
You know how you should feel but you don't. Eventually not much if anything matters. It is all the same.
Your brain betrays you. When you realize it you end up battling yourself because it is all so fucked up.
You once had good and bad days but now only bad days, even when things are actually great.
It happens not unlike other common illnesses.
Skittles
(153,310 posts)"I have bad days when I feel bad, and I have good days when I feel nothing"......that's chronic depression
Farmer-Rick
(10,240 posts)I felt invincible, but not in a good way, when my spouse died.
It's that I felt that nothing but my loss had any meaning, so I could do anything. The one person in the world I wanted to see, I would never see, so I just didn't care
I didn't care if I lived or died....not that I went out of my way to try to die. It was just that I had no fear of anything because nothing mattered. Nothing mattered because I felt nothing.
That TV series "After Life" with Ricky Gervais touched on it when he stood up to the mugger. He wasn't afraid of dying or getting hurt. He felt nothing, so he fought the would be thief off.
You have to feel nothing in order to fear nothing, unless your a psychopath.
Martin68
(22,967 posts)classic symptoms of depression but was able to function well in a job and social situations. It did occasionally cause problems in those areas, however.
twodogsbarking
(9,931 posts)Martin68
(22,967 posts)friends and family is confined to those living in politically extreme families or social situations, shouldn't that be stated? Are there other situations where someone is considered high functioning even if they are isolated from family and friends? You are coming very close to gaslighting me by simply dismissing me with "you don't understand." I've lived with depression and know what I'm talking about.
twodogsbarking
(9,931 posts)Martin68
(22,967 posts)have been politely asking for a clarification or an answer to my question regarding your assumptions and your only reply was "you don't understand." That's just rude.
twodogsbarking
(9,931 posts)RandySF
(59,770 posts)Getting better, though.
chowder66
(9,104 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,255 posts)At least I didn't have kids and spread it to the next generation.
Polybius
(15,525 posts)Define mindless. I'm online sometimes 10 hours a day, but to me it's fine and not mindless.