Hmmm, try and be really kind & forgiving to yourself
-if you can exercise, to take mind of it, do so.

Big Cuddles to to you!!

Life can be so touch sometimes but remember the feeling ant last forever and one day you will wake up feeling brighter.

How about you write a list of all the thins you have ahieved throughout your life, even if in your eyes they seem small and worthless-they are just as important as the bigger things you have accomplished.
It normally cheers me up.

Try not to be so hard on yourself and pamper yourself-you deserve it!

Sorry i cant help ya i'm a lost cause...how long can one endure such crap ?? sorry im very slighty pissed...numb the pain damn it.

well u have lots of friends here, to start with... we care about ur well being, so I'm glad u came here for luv!

((((( big HUGZ )))))

I would suggest checking out the depression community.. around here he all take meds ..well most of us ..I would always suggest pills. They fix everything. Happy pills and therapy ..Do it! :)

i havent been at this long, well three years. but i have yet to hear of a doctor around here that wont try different cocktails until they find one that makes u feel better..
sorry that exactly what u didnt wanna here, but like kristind said, many of us here, take 'em,,, OR else!

lol

Have you tried lamictal? It's not an antidepressant but it is supposed to help with depression. I'm on it, and I would say it helps a little. I'm not even on the "normal dose" of 200 mg yet though, only 150mg.

I like what Lou2 said, be kind and forgiving to yourself. I'm usually in a pretty shitty depressed state myself.

dont forget , that even tho u've lived with some sort of depression a while, when u get older, diff. hormones... diff. stresses change the dynamics completely...
we're always here, like i said :) maybe i should start speaking for myself.. I AM always here :)

I have found little relief from depression thru meds. I know that getting outside helps. So does exercise, like Lou said. Also, try changing up your surroundings at home. Move the couch or rearrange your bedroom. Sometimes changing your physical perspective can alter your mental perspective.

When they put you on antidepressants, did they also give you a mood stabilizer like lithium or epival? Maybe you need to go on one of them as well.

i'm sorry your feeling so bad there is an affirmation i sat to myself all the time to get me through the day my disorder does not own me i own it i say this a least 3 times in the morning and at lunch it useally makes me feel better by the end of the day when i really need it
debbie

hugs to you...
i hope that you can find the right cocktail to help you. its sounds like you need to be on meds. you just have to work with your pdoc. you can work on getting something in your system to help with your depression.

if anit depressants aretrying you manic I would say the dose is way too high...They use to do it too me...

Thanks for all the replies. I am just too afraid to try any more antidepressants given the number of times they put me manic and in the hospital. I was on lithium at the time and the dose was correct. The antidepressants were at 1/2 the lowest recommended dose and still I went manic. Did try Lamictal and within 4 days it made me a raving bitch so bad I could not stand myself. Right now I am trying Provigil because it is supposed to lift mood. I might go back to the DHEA which did lift my mood but it is a steroid.

Thanks again,