Symptoms of Depression That No-one Talk About

[irisblue]

I found this this morning & boy is it true.
https://www.authenticallyemily.uk/blog/symptoms-of-depress

snip-" 1.Complete mental exhaustion from fighting your brain constantly. This can lead to a lack of concentration, forgetfulness, chronic fatigue, missing deadlines, withdrawing from socialising, insomnia and a higher susceptibility to physical illness.


snip-" 3.Just the thought of living seems impossible. It takes a huge amount of physical energy and mental effort to get through each day, so just waking up in the morning and being faced with yet another day feels soul-destroying.


snip-" 4.Engaging in behaviour which isn’t obviously self-destructive but long-term may be. For example, drinking too much too often, putting yourself in unsafe situations, having unprotected sex, spending a lot of money and making impulsive decisions.


snip-" 6.An overwhelming sense of shame. This may be from feeling judged by other people, from not being able to accomplish the things you normally can, from struggling with personal hygiene or keeping your environment tidy, or from feeling like a failure.


There have been days when onlyI got up to feed the cats & clean their litter pans.

Depression sucks.

[onecaliberal]

1. Every day is a struggle. Thank goodness for the fur babies.

[PortTack]

2. It's hard to stay motivated...the current unrest is more than many of us ever thought we would

Have to deal with.

I try to remember those so much worse off than me….like Ukraine

[Karadeniz]

3. I assume you've had a thorough blood check. I complained for years to my doctor that I had no

energy. I even had to change to dry cat food because I couldn't stand and chop up their canned food... this from the person who every day had prepared homemade food for years. My doctor reviewed my charts one day and noticed my wbc's were going up from year to year. She sent me to an oncologist and, sure enough, a slow leukemia. Then the oncologist noticed my rbc's weren't up to snuff. I had a hormone related anemia. I think the anemia has the worst effect. Reduced oxygen to the brain and body. Reduced iron. We can't get it up to normal, but we're trying to keep it from worsening.

Make sure your doctor is checking your bloodwork over the long haul. Don't forget the thyroid! Most doctors just run a baby thyroid check and use normal markers that permit a thyroid irregularity to slip through the cracks. One doctor ran further thyroid tests and diagnosed Hawasaki, I think it's called....not all that uncommon, so doctors should check for it.

I hope you have a good physical doctor!!!

[Best_man23]

4. Get medically checked along with counseling

I began experiencing depressive symptoms at age 12, and they became progressively worse as I got older. When I was in my mid 30s I hit what I refer to today as my "rock bottom". I was experiencing nearly every symptom described in the blog post along with almost daily suicidal ideation. While counseling and antidepressants helped to pull me back from the edge, they were not addressing the root cause.

In 2004, I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. Mrs Best and I had just started dating several months earlier and we had never slept one night together because I snored like Godzilla. She watched me one night and said that I stopped breathing in my sleep several times. I went to see an ENT specialist, who put me through a sleep study which diagnosed me with severe sleep apnea. I elected to have the UP3 surgery as I still had my tonsils and wanted those gone as those had given me issues since childhood. Following the surgery, my therapy became much more effective and I was able to get off the anti-depressants over time. Since then I have gone on to CPAP therapy for the sleep apnea, but I do not experience anything near the dark lows that I went through in my 20s and 30s.

I am always on guard for what I refer to as "my blue demon" (return of any depressive symptoms).

[I_UndergroundPanther]

5. I had up3 surgery

Luckily I'm doing ok without the cpap.Get a sleep test every year.
Hope it stays this way.

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. Hmm... for me, number six is more from defeat.

I don't feel ashamed, I just feel like no one cares if I do those things or not... mainly because no one is ever around to tell me. Why bathe or take care of teeth or clean the room... no one cares and no one is going to see it anyway.

Good article.