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27-08-2016 04:36 AM
27-08-2016 04:36 AM
Living alone with depression
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27-08-2016 08:11 AM
27-08-2016 08:11 AM
Re: Living alone with depression
Hi @Yellowbright,
reading your post, I am remined a lot of what I went through with depression. My bad days were very bad indeed. I lived alone throughout most of my treatment.
Yes, it might be worth asking you doctor about your medication... perhaps there is something 'extra' you could take if you are having a bad day? I lot of people here on Sane mention that they have extra medication that they can take 'just in case'.
Can you go and stay with a reletive or friend on the days where you feel at your worst? I think having company can help a lot. It seems to ground us and take us out of ourselves.
When I had severe depression, I lived 2 and a half hours from my family, so going over to stay with them was not an option while I continued to work. (in hindsight, I was so unwell that I should not have continued to work- but that is another story.)
Also, my family could make me feel even worse, if that's possible- depending on what was going on with them at the time. There was always a lot of conflict between my parents, which made my head swim.
If you have a calm, understanding friend, then I would approach them to see if it's possible to stay with them when you really need too.
Are you having ongoing counselling and does this help you?
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27-08-2016 08:25 AM
27-08-2016 08:25 AM
Re: Living alone with depression
Thank you for your quick reply, it's so good to know someone else has gone through the same thing in the past, I really like the idea of staying with a friend when I feel this way, I think it would take the focus off how I was feeling and like you said, it would ground me - thanks for the good advice 🙂 I am in therapy at the moment but mostly we have talked about past issues, which has helped me make progress but I think I need to bring the topic to how I am currently dealing with things and see if they could help me with some strategies for coping on the bad days.
I am sorry that staying with family was troubling for you, I know what that can be like and it doesn't help at all - I so hope your in a happier place now - thanks again!
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28-08-2016 12:05 PM - edited 28-08-2016 02:18 PM
28-08-2016 12:05 PM - edited 28-08-2016 02:18 PM
Re: Living alone with depression
I have walked your road. Sometimes it took all the power away from me - I found physical work/activity was good for interupting the power of the "down". I set myself goals and really focused on delivery - again the down power was interupted. The more I set off for my activity the more power was lost by "down".
I have been seeing my psychatrist for some 15 years and been on lots of medication - but I still had to take responsibility for my own depression and, with help, deal with it. Nearly80.