CF and severe depression...

[Sweetness81]

Thank you all so much for your responses. They have helped me alot. I look forward to more suggestions in the future. I have been in therapy and seeing a psychiatrist for the last 8 years. It has helped. but I feel that I need more than what I already have. Having everything that I do, has put me in a situation where I apparently require more specific care. I am wanting to get to a place again where the dr.s will be able to help me. Thanks, I look forward to hearing more suggestions, and advice.

Mary

 

[Sweetness81]

Thank you all so much for your responses. They have helped me alot. I look forward to more suggestions in the future. I have been in therapy and seeing a psychiatrist for the last 8 years. It has helped. but I feel that I need more than what I already have. Having everything that I do, has put me in a situation where I apparently require more specific care. I am wanting to get to a place again where the dr.s will be able to help me. Thanks, I look forward to hearing more suggestions, and advice.

Mary

 

[Sweetness81]

Thank you all so much for your responses. They have helped me alot. I look forward to more suggestions in the future. I have been in therapy and seeing a psychiatrist for the last 8 years. It has helped. but I feel that I need more than what I already have. Having everything that I do, has put me in a situation where I apparently require more specific care. I am wanting to get to a place again where the dr.s will be able to help me. Thanks, I look forward to hearing more suggestions, and advice.

Mary

 

[Sweetness81]

Thank you all so much for your responses. They have helped me alot. I look forward to more suggestions in the future. I have been in therapy and seeing a psychiatrist for the last 8 years. It has helped. but I feel that I need more than what I already have. Having everything that I do, has put me in a situation where I apparently require more specific care. I am wanting to get to a place again where the dr.s will be able to help me. Thanks, I look forward to hearing more suggestions, and advice.

Mary

 

[Sweetness81]

Thank you all so much for your responses. They have helped me alot. I look forward to more suggestions in the future. I have been in therapy and seeing a psychiatrist for the last 8 years. It has helped. but I feel that I need more than what I already have. Having everything that I do, has put me in a situation where I apparently require more specific care. I am wanting to get to a place again where the dr.s will be able to help me. Thanks, I look forward to hearing more suggestions, and advice.
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<br />Mary

 

[cfsucks]

i just read something about "st. john's wort" being used as a natural remedy for treatment of depression. takes about a month to kick in they said. i think you can pick it up at any vitamin/pharmacy store.

 

[cfsucks]

i just read something about "st. john's wort" being used as a natural remedy for treatment of depression. takes about a month to kick in they said. i think you can pick it up at any vitamin/pharmacy store.

 

[cfsucks]

i just read something about "st. john's wort" being used as a natural remedy for treatment of depression. takes about a month to kick in they said. i think you can pick it up at any vitamin/pharmacy store.

 

[cfsucks]

i just read something about "st. john's wort" being used as a natural remedy for treatment of depression. takes about a month to kick in they said. i think you can pick it up at any vitamin/pharmacy store.

 

[cfsucks]

i just read something about "st. john's wort" being used as a natural remedy for treatment of depression. takes about a month to kick in they said. i think you can pick it up at any vitamin/pharmacy store.

 

[blackchameleon]

g'day Mary. i feel your pain. i was exactly where you are now 8 years ago. i was basically stunned into a stuper. i wrote that bullets of fear were being fired into me out of a weapon called defeat. anti-depresants just did not work, none of them truly "fixed" me. i used marijuana cookies to help ease my aches and chest pain, cause me to eat and best of all play with my two boys and laugh just a little even. in time though i realised i had two choices that no chemicals could perform for me. to fight and accept death when it came or to give up and live my death a thousand times a day in my mind. there was a root cause for my depression and i had to get to that root as opposed to just trying to continually treat a wilting plant.finding someone who i felt truly grasped my aching hearts sorrow was my key. i felt i could be honest with them and not fear negative judgement. and rapidly i felt colour seeping back into my life. i gained enough energy to do a very little exercise too. ans i steeled myself to do thorough physio and treatment for two weeks. the difference was remarkable. when i receive critisism and am made feel i can do better i seem to try even less. when i feel genuine respect from someone due to my ability to endure thus far i am greatly encouraged to perform even harder. i eventually found that special encourager. my pft's of 30-35% when i was 29 are now 50-55% and steady. i turn 38 in two weeks. i walk up to 10km a day or swim 2km. i did not think this was possible all those years ago. just believe and understand you only have to get through one day at a time. i could always believe i could do everything properly for just one day even if i woke up feeling terrible. if i started to drift down that path of i need to do this for the rest of my life it seemed too great an effort with no reward to me. cliqued i know but one day at a time and a good listener/encourager are my tips. you can obviously endure tough times because you are still here and seeking solutions, and i think that is extraordinarily gutsy. its that attitude that will see you succeed i reckon. cheers Blacky

 

[blackchameleon]

g'day Mary. i feel your pain. i was exactly where you are now 8 years ago. i was basically stunned into a stuper. i wrote that bullets of fear were being fired into me out of a weapon called defeat. anti-depresants just did not work, none of them truly "fixed" me. i used marijuana cookies to help ease my aches and chest pain, cause me to eat and best of all play with my two boys and laugh just a little even. in time though i realised i had two choices that no chemicals could perform for me. to fight and accept death when it came or to give up and live my death a thousand times a day in my mind. there was a root cause for my depression and i had to get to that root as opposed to just trying to continually treat a wilting plant.finding someone who i felt truly grasped my aching hearts sorrow was my key. i felt i could be honest with them and not fear negative judgement. and rapidly i felt colour seeping back into my life. i gained enough energy to do a very little exercise too. ans i steeled myself to do thorough physio and treatment for two weeks. the difference was remarkable. when i receive critisism and am made feel i can do better i seem to try even less. when i feel genuine respect from someone due to my ability to endure thus far i am greatly encouraged to perform even harder. i eventually found that special encourager. my pft's of 30-35% when i was 29 are now 50-55% and steady. i turn 38 in two weeks. i walk up to 10km a day or swim 2km. i did not think this was possible all those years ago. just believe and understand you only have to get through one day at a time. i could always believe i could do everything properly for just one day even if i woke up feeling terrible. if i started to drift down that path of i need to do this for the rest of my life it seemed too great an effort with no reward to me. cliqued i know but one day at a time and a good listener/encourager are my tips. you can obviously endure tough times because you are still here and seeking solutions, and i think that is extraordinarily gutsy. its that attitude that will see you succeed i reckon. cheers Blacky

 

[blackchameleon]

g'day Mary. i feel your pain. i was exactly where you are now 8 years ago. i was basically stunned into a stuper. i wrote that bullets of fear were being fired into me out of a weapon called defeat. anti-depresants just did not work, none of them truly "fixed" me. i used marijuana cookies to help ease my aches and chest pain, cause me to eat and best of all play with my two boys and laugh just a little even. in time though i realised i had two choices that no chemicals could perform for me. to fight and accept death when it came or to give up and live my death a thousand times a day in my mind. there was a root cause for my depression and i had to get to that root as opposed to just trying to continually treat a wilting plant.finding someone who i felt truly grasped my aching hearts sorrow was my key. i felt i could be honest with them and not fear negative judgement. and rapidly i felt colour seeping back into my life. i gained enough energy to do a very little exercise too. ans i steeled myself to do thorough physio and treatment for two weeks. the difference was remarkable. when i receive critisism and am made feel i can do better i seem to try even less. when i feel genuine respect from someone due to my ability to endure thus far i am greatly encouraged to perform even harder. i eventually found that special encourager. my pft's of 30-35% when i was 29 are now 50-55% and steady. i turn 38 in two weeks. i walk up to 10km a day or swim 2km. i did not think this was possible all those years ago. just believe and understand you only have to get through one day at a time. i could always believe i could do everything properly for just one day even if i woke up feeling terrible. if i started to drift down that path of i need to do this for the rest of my life it seemed too great an effort with no reward to me. cliqued i know but one day at a time and a good listener/encourager are my tips. you can obviously endure tough times because you are still here and seeking solutions, and i think that is extraordinarily gutsy. its that attitude that will see you succeed i reckon. cheers Blacky

 

[blackchameleon]

g'day Mary. i feel your pain. i was exactly where you are now 8 years ago. i was basically stunned into a stuper. i wrote that bullets of fear were being fired into me out of a weapon called defeat. anti-depresants just did not work, none of them truly "fixed" me. i used marijuana cookies to help ease my aches and chest pain, cause me to eat and best of all play with my two boys and laugh just a little even. in time though i realised i had two choices that no chemicals could perform for me. to fight and accept death when it came or to give up and live my death a thousand times a day in my mind. there was a root cause for my depression and i had to get to that root as opposed to just trying to continually treat a wilting plant.finding someone who i felt truly grasped my aching hearts sorrow was my key. i felt i could be honest with them and not fear negative judgement. and rapidly i felt colour seeping back into my life. i gained enough energy to do a very little exercise too. ans i steeled myself to do thorough physio and treatment for two weeks. the difference was remarkable. when i receive critisism and am made feel i can do better i seem to try even less. when i feel genuine respect from someone due to my ability to endure thus far i am greatly encouraged to perform even harder. i eventually found that special encourager. my pft's of 30-35% when i was 29 are now 50-55% and steady. i turn 38 in two weeks. i walk up to 10km a day or swim 2km. i did not think this was possible all those years ago. just believe and understand you only have to get through one day at a time. i could always believe i could do everything properly for just one day even if i woke up feeling terrible. if i started to drift down that path of i need to do this for the rest of my life it seemed too great an effort with no reward to me. cliqued i know but one day at a time and a good listener/encourager are my tips. you can obviously endure tough times because you are still here and seeking solutions, and i think that is extraordinarily gutsy. its that attitude that will see you succeed i reckon. cheers Blacky

 

[blackchameleon]

g'day Mary. i feel your pain. i was exactly where you are now 8 years ago. i was basically stunned into a stuper. i wrote that bullets of fear were being fired into me out of a weapon called defeat. anti-depresants just did not work, none of them truly "fixed" me. i used marijuana cookies to help ease my aches and chest pain, cause me to eat and best of all play with my two boys and laugh just a little even. in time though i realised i had two choices that no chemicals could perform for me. to fight and accept death when it came or to give up and live my death a thousand times a day in my mind. there was a root cause for my depression and i had to get to that root as opposed to just trying to continually treat a wilting plant.finding someone who i felt truly grasped my aching hearts sorrow was my key. i felt i could be honest with them and not fear negative judgement. and rapidly i felt colour seeping back into my life. i gained enough energy to do a very little exercise too. ans i steeled myself to do thorough physio and treatment for two weeks. the difference was remarkable. when i receive critisism and am made feel i can do better i seem to try even less. when i feel genuine respect from someone due to my ability to endure thus far i am greatly encouraged to perform even harder. i eventually found that special encourager. my pft's of 30-35% when i was 29 are now 50-55% and steady. i turn 38 in two weeks. i walk up to 10km a day or swim 2km. i did not think this was possible all those years ago. just believe and understand you only have to get through one day at a time. i could always believe i could do everything properly for just one day even if i woke up feeling terrible. if i started to drift down that path of i need to do this for the rest of my life it seemed too great an effort with no reward to me. cliqued i know but one day at a time and a good listener/encourager are my tips. you can obviously endure tough times because you are still here and seeking solutions, and i think that is extraordinarily gutsy. its that attitude that will see you succeed i reckon. cheers Blacky

 

[dasjsmum]

Hi Mary

I can relate to your experience of depression, althoug I have been fortunate enough to get some medication that works for me. I believe that there is a place for herbal remedies etc. but somethimes they just cant do the job.

It sounds like Blacky was able to pull himself through his depression, which was and is fantastic, well done! My thought on that is that when you're depressed its extremely difficult to do anything (I'm sure Blacky can relate to that), and medication is what you really need because of the chemical inbalances in your brain.

When I started on the anti depressents I am on I was extremely sick for a week. I dropped the dose back (Doc's advice), and that worked, no more nausea and tummy upsets. I was told it might get worse before it got better. I'm guessing you have perseved with your meds? Otherwise, keep trying to find something that works for you. I hope someone replys to this that might be able to help more. You are not alone anyhow, even thoug you probably feel that way right now.

 

[dasjsmum]

Hi Mary

I can relate to your experience of depression, althoug I have been fortunate enough to get some medication that works for me. I believe that there is a place for herbal remedies etc. but somethimes they just cant do the job.

It sounds like Blacky was able to pull himself through his depression, which was and is fantastic, well done! My thought on that is that when you're depressed its extremely difficult to do anything (I'm sure Blacky can relate to that), and medication is what you really need because of the chemical inbalances in your brain.

When I started on the anti depressents I am on I was extremely sick for a week. I dropped the dose back (Doc's advice), and that worked, no more nausea and tummy upsets. I was told it might get worse before it got better. I'm guessing you have perseved with your meds? Otherwise, keep trying to find something that works for you. I hope someone replys to this that might be able to help more. You are not alone anyhow, even thoug you probably feel that way right now.

 

[dasjsmum]

Hi Mary

I can relate to your experience of depression, althoug I have been fortunate enough to get some medication that works for me. I believe that there is a place for herbal remedies etc. but somethimes they just cant do the job.

It sounds like Blacky was able to pull himself through his depression, which was and is fantastic, well done! My thought on that is that when you're depressed its extremely difficult to do anything (I'm sure Blacky can relate to that), and medication is what you really need because of the chemical inbalances in your brain.

When I started on the anti depressents I am on I was extremely sick for a week. I dropped the dose back (Doc's advice), and that worked, no more nausea and tummy upsets. I was told it might get worse before it got better. I'm guessing you have perseved with your meds? Otherwise, keep trying to find something that works for you. I hope someone replys to this that might be able to help more. You are not alone anyhow, even thoug you probably feel that way right now.

 

[dasjsmum]

Hi Mary

I can relate to your experience of depression, althoug I have been fortunate enough to get some medication that works for me. I believe that there is a place for herbal remedies etc. but somethimes they just cant do the job.

It sounds like Blacky was able to pull himself through his depression, which was and is fantastic, well done! My thought on that is that when you're depressed its extremely difficult to do anything (I'm sure Blacky can relate to that), and medication is what you really need because of the chemical inbalances in your brain.

When I started on the anti depressents I am on I was extremely sick for a week. I dropped the dose back (Doc's advice), and that worked, no more nausea and tummy upsets. I was told it might get worse before it got better. I'm guessing you have perseved with your meds? Otherwise, keep trying to find something that works for you. I hope someone replys to this that might be able to help more. You are not alone anyhow, even thoug you probably feel that way right now.

 

[dasjsmum]

Hi Mary
<br />
<br />I can relate to your experience of depression, althoug I have been fortunate enough to get some medication that works for me. I believe that there is a place for herbal remedies etc. but somethimes they just cant do the job.
<br />
<br />It sounds like Blacky was able to pull himself through his depression, which was and is fantastic, well done! My thought on that is that when you're depressed its extremely difficult to do anything (I'm sure Blacky can relate to that), and medication is what you really need because of the chemical inbalances in your brain.
<br />
<br />When I started on the anti depressents I am on I was extremely sick for a week. I dropped the dose back (Doc's advice), and that worked, no more nausea and tummy upsets. I was told it might get worse before it got better. I'm guessing you have perseved with your meds? Otherwise, keep trying to find something that works for you. I hope someone replys to this that might be able to help more. You are not alone anyhow, even thoug you probably feel that way right now.