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Can severe depression kill you?

mikail
mikail
For two years most of my waking hours I either sit at the end of the bed or lay in bed watching tv. At the end of my bed to the right of the bed is my computer and key board. Last winter from laying all winter I developed a foot long blood clot. My doctor did not find it til june. If I would have gone manic last summer a clot could have broken free entering my Lung causing a pulmonary embolism which would kill you. Now I`m on blood thinners which a decent cut of your skin can cause excessive blood loss causing death. I have 7 teeth break apart and no money to fix my teeth. Medicare does not cover oral surgery or dental.They say poor rotting teeth increase your odds of a heart attack. My brothers told me I probably will die in 2 to 3 years if I don`t get out of bed. Maybe I`ll live til 12/21/12 and the world will end and set my soul free from this mortal pain racked body. The truth is I really don`t believe the world will end 12/21/12. But my conspiracy nut bother who owes me $6500 in back rent and bills from the past 2 years. I thing most of the conspiracy crap is from Pchyzo land. Disney`s latest amusement park. Where stargates are real. The US military has faster than light spaceships are real. The USA has colonies on the moon and mars. The russian detonated an undetground nuke to cause the Haiti earth quake. Not only am I severely depressed I have to my brothers pchizo babble. I need break. The hospital would be like a tropical vacation from the cluttered mess I live in.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Depression drives 1000's every year to killing themselves. So i guess the answer to your title is yes.

Im sorry things have been so awful. Im here if you want to talk x
deleted_user
deleted_user
Maybe a little different take. A very expensive therapist showed me how I do not HAVE depression, I DO depression. That is, I, me, myself, have been using the ability to depress to cover up even worse things for over 45 years. What I was led to see underneath my depressive shield, was a bunch of trivial childhood hurts and fears that somehow were not processed into memory correctly. EMDR got me to the roots, and medication, ds, al-anon, and fellowhip of all kinds broke the back of my dis-ease. It is down there someplace trying to heal up and come for me again. It will find me ready if and when it ever tries to reassert.

By the way, "it"? Just my shadow self. Someone we all could learn to love in ourselves.
mikail
mikail
In the past 2 years I devloped a blood clot 1 foot long in my left leg. Without the blood thinners a clot could have broken away and caused a pulmonary embolism,heart attack or stroke. That is one way severe depression can kill you by laying in bed for a year or 2. I have 7 teeth that have rotted and broken off. Major dental problems can cause bacteria that can lead to heart disease or stroke. Without help I guess that I will find out how long it takes to die from severe depression without committing suicide. Right now it feels like a long painful death.
deleted_user
deleted_user
How about starting with baby steps and forcing yourself to go and walk around the block, next month around 2 blocks and so on and so forth. You need to get up and out.
I suffered from depression, and I HATED to leave the house, but my mom forced me too, I used to cry every time, but after a walk, every single time, I felt better.
I know how it feels not to want to do anything, even brushing your teeth is too much to ask. But how hard it may be, this is the time to pick yourself up and start with little things at a time.
I really hope you will be okay, my thoughts go out to you.
slrow
slrow
The worl is not going to end on 12-21-2012. That is what the Myans prdict and from my last look they are not God and he is the only one who knows when that will happen. Have you tried getting a sun lamp and sitting under it for 20 minutes a day. they are suppose to help with depression in the fall and winter . It is calles SAD when you get it during these seasons Seasonal something another.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'm sorry that you're going thru this . I've been depressed to the point of staying in bed for days . But I have fibromyalgia so staying in bed for long peroids of time causes the fibro pain to increase tenfold So I end up haveing to creep out of bed . I agree with the walking but maybe you could do a very tiny baby step
Get up out of bed get dressed and go out of your roon and into the living room and sit down and watch say 30 minutes of tv find a show you like and then each day do all of the above then when you find you are doing ok with that maybe you could go out and make a meal or a cup of tea or coffiee . These little things can seem to be huge things when you're severely depressed . But they do add up and they will get you out of bed and then you'll begin to feel better .
deleted_user
deleted_user
Oh yeah, severe depression can kill people. Severe depression is a very sad thing, it hurts very much, and that pain with time starts doing damage to the entire system.