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[freelancer]

Hi,
Now I am facing the problem of depression .Diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic for 15 years (Now I am 27) and I also have been suicidal tendencies for many years .My school and college days was so isolated. But now am trying to do change in my life, concentrating my work, practicing yoga etc. Medicated depression in four months. But in certain days going to depression, as per the symptoms.
But i hardly moving forward. Caring my diabetes.

 

[martsnow]

I can empathise with your depression, as I have suffered suicidal depression for over thirty years.

The treatments for depression are wide and varied. The first major choice is medication which over the years have varied from the old tricyclics to the MAOIs and more recently to the latest SSRIs. In addition to this there are the various therapies which come in all shapes and sizes depending on root cause of your depression. A last and final resort is the use of Electric Shock Therapy, or ECT as its known, The idea of this is to reboot the brain and its thinking process

I have had all these and the only one that is working at the moment is heavy doses of combined antidepressant medication.

After all is said and done the only person who can do anything about their depression is the individual themselves, you have to want to get better, and go through each hour of each day at a time.

An ex girlfriend put it this way "Its not life that gets you down, It is just the thoughts and feelings that go with it". If you can change the way you think of events then this will change the way you feel about things.Which will change the way you are.

This is the Idea of CBT therapy or as its called "thinking feeling being".

I know that this is far easy to write than to actually go through. It is a long hard uphill treck, which is often rocky and difficult. It is only through experiencing depression that you can truely appreciate the suffering it involves.

I cannot offer answers just share the various options that are available to you

I wish you good luck, just remember you are not alone in your suffering