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Depression is a real and debilitating condition that is often misunderstood by family and friends. Its meaning can range from a prolonged period of sadness to an actual mental illness with specific symptoms. Find and share experiences with others who are going through the same struggles.

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TC40 01/15/2013

i am having a very bad time with depression and i feel like i am getting NOTHING from my therapy. My therapist handed me another BS HANDOUT ON "you feel how you think"...cbt bull$#@* um yeah...let's see...i THINK I AM DEPRESSED SO THEREFORE I AM? excuse me, but if i could think "MY LIFE IS SO WONDERFUL BLAH BLAH BLAH"....DON'T YOU THINK I WOULD? WHAT A FREAKING JOKE!!! I have to go see him tomorrow and tell him this cbt bull#$%! Isn't doing the trick for me. I mwlean seriously if it were THAT EASY, we would all be walking around singing and dancing....am i alone in feeling this way?? I just think it is a load of BS?

muskrattiger 01/15/2013

you got it right on i have been through 3 phicatrists the first one use to youn durin our sesions and didnt belive a lot of the things i was telling him but i wanted to get better and by then i had learned enough to know that if you want to get better everything has to come out everything from childhood up everything the second one stayed awake and didnt have an opinion on what i had to say eather way as to if it was truth ...............the one i have now i great he telles it like he sees it even if i wont like it and he belives some of what i tell him because he has seen it for his self ..................and the same with this one everything had to come up again the more you talk the more it helps so sometimes it is better just to use some doctors and just tell them your hole storie from the bigining and help your self thats what they are there for is to help you .................tell him what you think see what happenes i wish you good luck with the doctor .................god bless

deleted_user 01/15/2013

No one said CBT was easy. Give it some time and a lot of effort. CBT takes years. But, you have to start somewhere. Stick with it. One day, something will click.

TC40 01/15/2013

I spent 6 months in dbt and got maybe a few things out of it, but cbt is sooo weird to me.

deleted_user 01/15/2013

I have really never gotten anything out of a therapist. They have just listened and that is about it. After a while I ran out of things to talk about and they didn't really have any questions for me so I quit going.

heretic 01/15/2013

I know my thoughts dictate my feelings. I've always known this, it's controlling my thoughts that is the hard part. So I guess I don't think it's bullshit, it's just hard to "fix". But I work on controlling my thoughts every day. Some days I win, some days I lose.

darkenedheart 01/17/2013

I agree that CBT is shit.

If it were so easy to reprogram our minds to think positive, don't you think we would all do that.

Sometimes life is shit.

Levicah 01/17/2013

Might as well write in your DS journal...lot cheaper. The responses are often better than what you write. Hell, I used to let everyone read my entries. Very therapeutic, helps with transparency and self honesty. Oh yeah, you might actually encourage someone too. I would still do it but other privacy settings suffer. So it's friends only lately.

deleted_user 01/17/2013

Yeah I am in CBT too. I don't know if it is helping me either. Sometimes I still feel confused about my life so far. I feel like I am waiting on some sign from God, but I am not sure what that sign is.

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