Hard day

[April2024]

I am having a bad day. I have no energy no motivation. Don't want to talk to anybody on the phone. I just want to take pills and sleep. I have been doing so well and now I feel horrible. I am anxious about this being my new norm. I have tried so many things and it works for a while and then quits. Am I just overreacting?

[BlueAgave]

Hi April2024. I can understand how you feel. I too have good times and then back to my anxiousness. Feels like a roller coaster. I can say that with my therapy and continued practice of meditation and walking, the times I feel good are getting a bit longer. I still have days like you that all I want to do is hide in bed, but I try to force myself to get up and do something. Little things at a time. It will get better. Sending hugs 🫂

[April2024 in reply to BlueAgave]

I haven't exercised in a week. My health coach quit and I am eating all sorts of junk food. Usually I count calories and do pretty good. I guess it has been a slow spiral downward and I just didn't notice until it got this b a d

[BlueAgave in reply to April2024]

It's easy to do. Have to say I've been doing the same. Not feeling great so far. Going on a little getaway today, but my anxiety is in full swing.

[April2024]

Travel always gets me nervous until I am actually doing something

[Cookie2217]

No your not overreacting at all. When you're depressed all you want to do is sleep so you are definitely depressed at this time. Do you take medication for depression? If so what do you take? Maybe it has stopped working? I just switched my medication to Prozac which is the depression medication that has been on the market the longest last Wednesday it's been about a week and I feel a lot better. I say to the radio when I'm in the car now I haven't done that in so long. I'm now alert and awake all the time until I go to bed I hang out with my husband all the time now where before I would just sleep in the Darkness and he would beg me to get up and I wouldn't not even for him which made me so sad it had nothing to do with our love it just had to do with depression I didn't have energy to do anything. Please do yourself a favor make an appointment with the doctor and if you're not on medication for depression get on some I recommend Prozac wholeheartedly because it's a great drug. It's cheap too because it's been on the market the longest. I have a chemical imbalance in my brain and maybe you do too we don't have enough serotonin and dopamine in my brain and my wires get crossed so that's what drives the depression. I am diagnosed with major depressive disorder this last bout of depression I went through lasted four long years since before covid and I just started to feel better 2 and 1/2 weeks ago. Believe me you just have to get up the street to go to the doctor and put yourself on medication you need it. Wishing you peace and well-being.

[April2024 in reply to Cookie2217]

I have been on about 15 antidepressants and antipsychotics. They work a month or so then slowly quit. It is so upsetting. Little to look forward to. Now I have a low sodium problem which is just making it worse. I had the Gene study done. I will check and see if prozac was listed as a good one for me. Ty for your reply

[Cookie2217]

Yes try Prozac if you haven't already. It's been a Godsend for me so far. I hope you find the right medication to ease your suffering. I've had depression most of my life and been through three baths so far in my lifetime with the most recent one of four years being the most debilitating and heart-wrenching. I couldn't get out of bed at all and couldn't go to work for a week and a half I almost lost the job I have now. Depression takes everything from you including your will to do anything, your happiness and your energy is just completely zapped.