Cognitive Behavioural Therapy,Counselling, Psychotherapy I have been though all of this therapy. i even had 12mounths away from my family and i still get depressed and have very bad mood swings. I had to talk and talk about every peice of my life with a fine tooth comb. To be told thats not the reson i am ill. Now they say i have a Chemical in balance . which is not dew to my past histroy. They say i have a depresstion illness . I need to have a diagnoses. As i can't claim any benifits.
i don't know where else to go from here. Am so so angry after they say it was for my best intrest and thing will get better.
I feel that i been passed from piller to post from therapist to psychotherapist from theraputic comuntinty back to where i started.
i am geting fed up with all of this and i can never get a strate answer from any one or doctors.

echo xxx

This post has been edited by echo78: Dec 12 2007, 11:22 AM

I see where you are. I also struggle to come to to terms with mi depression. And here I am again after few months away from this board. The only way that i can see to move forward is trying to improve little by little. Try to keep a journal where you write down your thought and actions. Try to improve your thoughts challenging the negative ones and try to spend your time doing things that make you feel better. I hope that doing this, thing could improve. I am trying this approach.
Best wishes

I partially understand NHS and can empathise with your frustration not being treated properly. Starting from scratch is so aggravating. Have you tried anti-depressants since you have been told you have a chemical imbalance? For many, AD's can lift your mood suffientially for you to function better. AD's are not a cure-all and they do take a time to work. Sometimes it's also trial and error to find an AD that will work for you.

You can start with your GP and then he/she can possibly refer you to a psychiatrist for further evaluation which will also give you an accurate diagnosis as to what is wrong with your mental health problems. Psychotherapy is a great help for many, but working on yourself is a key issue in getting well. It's a lot of work for you and it does help with depression. A therapist is there to give you feedack and guidance only: they usually don't give you answers on what is wrong and how you can correct your issues. You have to do most of the work. Are you willing to start therapy again and work hard on yourself to make positive changes?
Sheepwoman

i completely agree with mask. really focus on changing those negative thoughts. and realize that you are in control of depression (i've been there, they've medicated me, hospitalized me, and i could reach only one conclusion: only i could get rid of my depression, not the pills, not the doctors, just me). work, little by little, to change the way you see yourself, the way you see others, the way you interpret events.

this website has helped me in the past, and continues to help me whenever i feel a little down:

Please pm member for Link

This post has been edited by Trace82: Dec 13 2007, 04:14 AM

Hey brightlights, why don't you go out to the middle of nowhere or deep inside someplace where no one can hear and SCREAM AND SCREAM? There's no law against it! Sometimes letting it out can make you feel a lot better.

Thanks you all
.

john_v_r,
"go out to the middle of nowhere or deep inside someplace where no one can hear and SCREAM AND SCREAM?"
yep i did this and now i lost my voice lol husband thinks it great not beeing able to talk.lol


brightlights87
i will check out that site thanks

mask
"Try to keep a journal where you write down your thought and actions."
i do do a journal already for my voices and my moods. thanks

Sheepwoman,
"Have you tried anti-depressants since you have been told you have a chemical imbalance?
Are you willing to start therapy again "

I am on AD called mirtazapine 45mg they are starting to work.

hmmmm i did work hard the last time and yes i would do it again.


thanks again all
Echoxxx

((((Echo))))

Keep going, don't give up. When there are people that are letting us down, there will always be someone out there that will come along and help. I am glad the AD's are starting to work. I watched Oprah last night, okay we are very behind in episodes heres, but it was all about depression. If it is a chemical imbalance, AD's will help, they take time, so you need to be patient. Oprah and a doc explained it so well.


Trace