Depression Support Group

Hello and good day. I am a twenty year old student with ongoing and worsening depression. I have tried a number of different medications including but not limited to trazodone, prozac, lexapro, effexor and seroquel with no success. I recently have stopped using heroin which helped with my depression and pain for the past two years or so but now at the end of it, I am only worse off than before. Doctors have no idea why I could be "so depressed" especially since I am twenty years old and have normal blood work. I suffer from a number of conditions but pain and depression are my worst symptoms, with no relief from either, except when I take opiates. I burned my hand and was prescribed percocet and oxycodone instant 5mg about two months ago and during that time I was the happiest I have ever felt in years. While I was still using last semester I performed the best in college I have ever done in two years. Now, however, I cannot reasonably continue along that path for many reasons. I just cannot deal with this pain and depression anymore. The solution is so simple... but doctors keep saying that heroin use made me depressed but this is not the case. I just don not have any more patience to deal with this stigmatic culture. My pain is real and the only relief is from opiates. Constant pain equals constant suffering equals chronic depression. Its so simple... I am just ready, some days, to take the ultimate solution and cease all of my suffering. I need a doctor that is willing to help. Not stigmatize/marginalize.
Posted on 11/05/09, 04:11 pm