When Depression Hits

Alyssa · Apr 28, 2009

My son is experiencing what we assume is a pretty nasty bout with depression and/or an OCD flair?

We have never seen this before and have been in contact with many professionals and have been told we are "doing all the right things" and "it will take some time to recover" It came on so suddenly and he is so confused by it that I am compelled to ask the question of those who have experienced it...

A little back ground info first.... my son is on the autism spectrum with developmental delay and some OCD tendencies. He started having prolonged panic and anxiety attacks earlier this month. The panic seems to be subsiding but it looks more like anxiety & depression now.

He is so confused as to what is happening to him and feels powerless to change it. He says things like "I don't understand what is wrong with me" and "how can I get better if I don't know what caused this" and "I know something is wrong but I cannot figure out what it is"

So my question is - Does everyone feel this way with depression or is he having a harder time understanding what is happening because of the autistic brain & developmental delay issues?

We have ruled out physical problems with blood tests - looking for thyroid problems, blood sugars, kidney & liver function etc... anything the CF doc could think of. I thought about seizures, but that doesn't really fit either... all of his sypmtoms seem to add up to anxiety disorder & possibly depression although I haven't yet discussed what the doctors have put down as a dx yet - I suspect just anxiety.

How confused does a person with depression feel?

Alyssa · Apr 28, 2009

My son is experiencing what we assume is a pretty nasty bout with depression and/or an OCD flair?

We have never seen this before and have been in contact with many professionals and have been told we are "doing all the right things" and "it will take some time to recover" It came on so suddenly and he is so confused by it that I am compelled to ask the question of those who have experienced it...

A little back ground info first.... my son is on the autism spectrum with developmental delay and some OCD tendencies. He started having prolonged panic and anxiety attacks earlier this month. The panic seems to be subsiding but it looks more like anxiety & depression now.

He is so confused as to what is happening to him and feels powerless to change it. He says things like "I don't understand what is wrong with me" and "how can I get better if I don't know what caused this" and "I know something is wrong but I cannot figure out what it is"

So my question is - Does everyone feel this way with depression or is he having a harder time understanding what is happening because of the autistic brain & developmental delay issues?

We have ruled out physical problems with blood tests - looking for thyroid problems, blood sugars, kidney & liver function etc... anything the CF doc could think of. I thought about seizures, but that doesn't really fit either... all of his sypmtoms seem to add up to anxiety disorder & possibly depression although I haven't yet discussed what the doctors have put down as a dx yet - I suspect just anxiety.

How confused does a person with depression feel?

Alyssa · Apr 28, 2009

My son is experiencing what we assume is a pretty nasty bout with depression and/or an OCD flair?

We have never seen this before and have been in contact with many professionals and have been told we are "doing all the right things" and "it will take some time to recover" It came on so suddenly and he is so confused by it that I am compelled to ask the question of those who have experienced it...

A little back ground info first.... my son is on the autism spectrum with developmental delay and some OCD tendencies. He started having prolonged panic and anxiety attacks earlier this month. The panic seems to be subsiding but it looks more like anxiety & depression now.

He is so confused as to what is happening to him and feels powerless to change it. He says things like "I don't understand what is wrong with me" and "how can I get better if I don't know what caused this" and "I know something is wrong but I cannot figure out what it is"

So my question is - Does everyone feel this way with depression or is he having a harder time understanding what is happening because of the autistic brain & developmental delay issues?

We have ruled out physical problems with blood tests - looking for thyroid problems, blood sugars, kidney & liver function etc... anything the CF doc could think of. I thought about seizures, but that doesn't really fit either... all of his sypmtoms seem to add up to anxiety disorder & possibly depression although I haven't yet discussed what the doctors have put down as a dx yet - I suspect just anxiety.

How confused does a person with depression feel?

Alyssa · Apr 28, 2009

My son is experiencing what we assume is a pretty nasty bout with depression and/or an OCD flair?

We have never seen this before and have been in contact with many professionals and have been told we are "doing all the right things" and "it will take some time to recover" It came on so suddenly and he is so confused by it that I am compelled to ask the question of those who have experienced it...

A little back ground info first.... my son is on the autism spectrum with developmental delay and some OCD tendencies. He started having prolonged panic and anxiety attacks earlier this month. The panic seems to be subsiding but it looks more like anxiety & depression now.

He is so confused as to what is happening to him and feels powerless to change it. He says things like "I don't understand what is wrong with me" and "how can I get better if I don't know what caused this" and "I know something is wrong but I cannot figure out what it is"

So my question is - Does everyone feel this way with depression or is he having a harder time understanding what is happening because of the autistic brain & developmental delay issues?

We have ruled out physical problems with blood tests - looking for thyroid problems, blood sugars, kidney & liver function etc... anything the CF doc could think of. I thought about seizures, but that doesn't really fit either... all of his sypmtoms seem to add up to anxiety disorder & possibly depression although I haven't yet discussed what the doctors have put down as a dx yet - I suspect just anxiety.

How confused does a person with depression feel?

Alyssa · Apr 28, 2009

My son is experiencing what we assume is a pretty nasty bout with depression and/or an OCD flair?
 
 We have never seen this before and have been in contact with many professionals and have been told we are "doing all the right things" and "it will take some time to recover" It came on so suddenly and he is so confused by it that I am compelled to ask the question of those who have experienced it...
 
 A little back ground info first.... my son is on the autism spectrum with developmental delay and some OCD tendencies. He started having prolonged panic and anxiety attacks earlier this month. The panic seems to be subsiding but it looks more like anxiety & depression now.
 
 He is so confused as to what is happening to him and feels powerless to change it. He says things like "I don't understand what is wrong with me" and "how can I get better if I don't know what caused this" and "I know something is wrong but I cannot figure out what it is"
 
 So my question is - Does everyone feel this way with depression or is he having a harder time understanding what is happening because of the autistic brain & developmental delay issues?
 
 We have ruled out physical problems with blood tests - looking for thyroid problems, blood sugars, kidney & liver function etc... anything the CF doc could think of. I thought about seizures, but that doesn't really fit either... all of his sypmtoms seem to add up to anxiety disorder & possibly depression although I haven't yet discussed what the doctors have put down as a dx yet - I suspect just anxiety.
 
 How confused does a person with depression feel?

LouLou · Apr 29, 2009

This past year has been difficult healthwise for me. On top of that I became a first time mother 22 months ago and with that a greater sense of one's mortality is gained. I was saying for a long time that something just wasn't right, like life didn't settle right. I dealt with unexplainable saddness. Now granted I had a lot of things thrown my way in a period of 18 months incl. the diagnosis of my son's cf despite carrier testing and what felt like the loss of a career. Anyway, I won't get into my story more than necessary just to say I understand what he is feeling and I don't think it's necessarily anything more than anxiety and/or depression. I am now on Lexapro which treats both so I don't really know if I have one or the other or both but the medicine works very well for me. But the more I learn about anxiety the more I think that's what I had.

I think a lot of us cfers like to control things and when too many things don't go as planned it knocks us off our rocker. I managed things for years by staying overly booked, organized and scheduled to the minute. Things started to "crack" shortly after my son's birth.

Writing this out, I now remember a comment that my doctor made when my health was beginning to fail because I was not letting my life shift as it needed to. I wish I'd realized his point then like I do now but I was so caught up in the negativity of the tone that I couldn't process it as sound advice. He told me, with a smile after I'd just lost it emotionally to the team for the first time something to the effect of "You like to control all your little worlds and it's no longer as simple as writing a list."

LouLou · Apr 29, 2009

This past year has been difficult healthwise for me. On top of that I became a first time mother 22 months ago and with that a greater sense of one's mortality is gained. I was saying for a long time that something just wasn't right, like life didn't settle right. I dealt with unexplainable saddness. Now granted I had a lot of things thrown my way in a period of 18 months incl. the diagnosis of my son's cf despite carrier testing and what felt like the loss of a career. Anyway, I won't get into my story more than necessary just to say I understand what he is feeling and I don't think it's necessarily anything more than anxiety and/or depression. I am now on Lexapro which treats both so I don't really know if I have one or the other or both but the medicine works very well for me. But the more I learn about anxiety the more I think that's what I had.

I think a lot of us cfers like to control things and when too many things don't go as planned it knocks us off our rocker. I managed things for years by staying overly booked, organized and scheduled to the minute. Things started to "crack" shortly after my son's birth.

Writing this out, I now remember a comment that my doctor made when my health was beginning to fail because I was not letting my life shift as it needed to. I wish I'd realized his point then like I do now but I was so caught up in the negativity of the tone that I couldn't process it as sound advice. He told me, with a smile after I'd just lost it emotionally to the team for the first time something to the effect of "You like to control all your little worlds and it's no longer as simple as writing a list."

LouLou · Apr 29, 2009

This past year has been difficult healthwise for me. On top of that I became a first time mother 22 months ago and with that a greater sense of one's mortality is gained. I was saying for a long time that something just wasn't right, like life didn't settle right. I dealt with unexplainable saddness. Now granted I had a lot of things thrown my way in a period of 18 months incl. the diagnosis of my son's cf despite carrier testing and what felt like the loss of a career. Anyway, I won't get into my story more than necessary just to say I understand what he is feeling and I don't think it's necessarily anything more than anxiety and/or depression. I am now on Lexapro which treats both so I don't really know if I have one or the other or both but the medicine works very well for me. But the more I learn about anxiety the more I think that's what I had.

I think a lot of us cfers like to control things and when too many things don't go as planned it knocks us off our rocker. I managed things for years by staying overly booked, organized and scheduled to the minute. Things started to "crack" shortly after my son's birth.

Writing this out, I now remember a comment that my doctor made when my health was beginning to fail because I was not letting my life shift as it needed to. I wish I'd realized his point then like I do now but I was so caught up in the negativity of the tone that I couldn't process it as sound advice. He told me, with a smile after I'd just lost it emotionally to the team for the first time something to the effect of "You like to control all your little worlds and it's no longer as simple as writing a list."

LouLou · Apr 29, 2009

This past year has been difficult healthwise for me. On top of that I became a first time mother 22 months ago and with that a greater sense of one's mortality is gained. I was saying for a long time that something just wasn't right, like life didn't settle right. I dealt with unexplainable saddness. Now granted I had a lot of things thrown my way in a period of 18 months incl. the diagnosis of my son's cf despite carrier testing and what felt like the loss of a career. Anyway, I won't get into my story more than necessary just to say I understand what he is feeling and I don't think it's necessarily anything more than anxiety and/or depression. I am now on Lexapro which treats both so I don't really know if I have one or the other or both but the medicine works very well for me. But the more I learn about anxiety the more I think that's what I had.

I think a lot of us cfers like to control things and when too many things don't go as planned it knocks us off our rocker. I managed things for years by staying overly booked, organized and scheduled to the minute. Things started to "crack" shortly after my son's birth.

Writing this out, I now remember a comment that my doctor made when my health was beginning to fail because I was not letting my life shift as it needed to. I wish I'd realized his point then like I do now but I was so caught up in the negativity of the tone that I couldn't process it as sound advice. He told me, with a smile after I'd just lost it emotionally to the team for the first time something to the effect of "You like to control all your little worlds and it's no longer as simple as writing a list."

LouLou · Apr 29, 2009

This past year has been difficult healthwise for me. On top of that I became a first time mother 22 months ago and with that a greater sense of one's mortality is gained. I was saying for a long time that something just wasn't right, like life didn't settle right. I dealt with unexplainable saddness. Now granted I had a lot of things thrown my way in a period of 18 months incl. the diagnosis of my son's cf despite carrier testing and what felt like the loss of a career. Anyway, I won't get into my story more than necessary just to say I understand what he is feeling and I don't think it's necessarily anything more than anxiety and/or depression. I am now on Lexapro which treats both so I don't really know if I have one or the other or both but the medicine works very well for me. But the more I learn about anxiety the more I think that's what I had.
 
 I think a lot of us cfers like to control things and when too many things don't go as planned it knocks us off our rocker. I managed things for years by staying overly booked, organized and scheduled to the minute. Things started to "crack" shortly after my son's birth.
 
 Writing this out, I now remember a comment that my doctor made when my health was beginning to fail because I was not letting my life shift as it needed to. I wish I'd realized his point then like I do now but I was so caught up in the negativity of the tone that I couldn't process it as sound advice. He told me, with a smile after I'd just lost it emotionally to the team for the first time something to the effect of "You like to control all your little worlds and it's no longer as simple as writing a list."

hopesiris · Apr 29, 2009

I have a touch of Aspergers (no dev delays) and my CF is super mild. There was one time in my adult life when I had a couple of panic attacks. I had a difficult project at work and a close friend of mine went away suddenly and I didn't find out where she was for a week. Maybe there were just too many unknowns (a missing friend, a computer system that operated unpredictably) at one time. I was completely unaware of what was causing the panic attacks until I talked about it with someone and really thought about what was happening in my life.

Have there been any routine or life changes recently that coincide with when this started?

hopesiris · Apr 29, 2009

I have a touch of Aspergers (no dev delays) and my CF is super mild. There was one time in my adult life when I had a couple of panic attacks. I had a difficult project at work and a close friend of mine went away suddenly and I didn't find out where she was for a week. Maybe there were just too many unknowns (a missing friend, a computer system that operated unpredictably) at one time. I was completely unaware of what was causing the panic attacks until I talked about it with someone and really thought about what was happening in my life.

Have there been any routine or life changes recently that coincide with when this started?

hopesiris · Apr 29, 2009

I have a touch of Aspergers (no dev delays) and my CF is super mild. There was one time in my adult life when I had a couple of panic attacks. I had a difficult project at work and a close friend of mine went away suddenly and I didn't find out where she was for a week. Maybe there were just too many unknowns (a missing friend, a computer system that operated unpredictably) at one time. I was completely unaware of what was causing the panic attacks until I talked about it with someone and really thought about what was happening in my life.

Have there been any routine or life changes recently that coincide with when this started?

hopesiris · Apr 29, 2009

I have a touch of Aspergers (no dev delays) and my CF is super mild. There was one time in my adult life when I had a couple of panic attacks. I had a difficult project at work and a close friend of mine went away suddenly and I didn't find out where she was for a week. Maybe there were just too many unknowns (a missing friend, a computer system that operated unpredictably) at one time. I was completely unaware of what was causing the panic attacks until I talked about it with someone and really thought about what was happening in my life.

Have there been any routine or life changes recently that coincide with when this started?

hopesiris · Apr 29, 2009

I have a touch of Aspergers (no dev delays) and my CF is super mild. There was one time in my adult life when I had a couple of panic attacks. I had a difficult project at work and a close friend of mine went away suddenly and I didn't find out where she was for a week. Maybe there were just too many unknowns (a missing friend, a computer system that operated unpredictably) at one time. I was completely unaware of what was causing the panic attacks until I talked about it with someone and really thought about what was happening in my life.
 
 Have there been any routine or life changes recently that coincide with when this started?

JORDYSMOM · Apr 29, 2009

An anxiety disorder does cause confusion. Usually, our bodies experience anxiety or panick because there is a reason. It's a normal reaction to trauma or danger. When you have an anxiety disorder, you feel that anxiety or panick for no APPARENT reason.

I have an anxiety disorder, and just the other evening, I was telling my husband, during an "attack", that I just don't understand why I feel this way. Nothing is wrong, yet I feel this impending doom or that I just want to cry, and I'm scared.

I am one of the most logical people I know. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> I educate myself as much as possible, and I know my body pretty well. However, during an anxiety or panick attack (and they are two very different animals) I just don't know why I feel the way I do. They come out of the blue. I do have some OCD issues too, and being anxious makes you feel so out of control!

When the anxiety starts, I try very hard to distract myself from it. I call my husband if I'm not with him, or I get up and do something. I try and trick my mind into concentrating on something else. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't, and I go into a full blown panick attack.

I'm so sorry your son is going through this. I hope you can find something that helps him.

Stacey

JORDYSMOM · Apr 29, 2009

An anxiety disorder does cause confusion. Usually, our bodies experience anxiety or panick because there is a reason. It's a normal reaction to trauma or danger. When you have an anxiety disorder, you feel that anxiety or panick for no APPARENT reason.

I have an anxiety disorder, and just the other evening, I was telling my husband, during an "attack", that I just don't understand why I feel this way. Nothing is wrong, yet I feel this impending doom or that I just want to cry, and I'm scared.

I am one of the most logical people I know. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> I educate myself as much as possible, and I know my body pretty well. However, during an anxiety or panick attack (and they are two very different animals) I just don't know why I feel the way I do. They come out of the blue. I do have some OCD issues too, and being anxious makes you feel so out of control!

When the anxiety starts, I try very hard to distract myself from it. I call my husband if I'm not with him, or I get up and do something. I try and trick my mind into concentrating on something else. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't, and I go into a full blown panick attack.

I'm so sorry your son is going through this. I hope you can find something that helps him.

Stacey

JORDYSMOM · Apr 29, 2009

An anxiety disorder does cause confusion. Usually, our bodies experience anxiety or panick because there is a reason. It's a normal reaction to trauma or danger. When you have an anxiety disorder, you feel that anxiety or panick for no APPARENT reason.

I have an anxiety disorder, and just the other evening, I was telling my husband, during an "attack", that I just don't understand why I feel this way. Nothing is wrong, yet I feel this impending doom or that I just want to cry, and I'm scared.

I am one of the most logical people I know. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> I educate myself as much as possible, and I know my body pretty well. However, during an anxiety or panick attack (and they are two very different animals) I just don't know why I feel the way I do. They come out of the blue. I do have some OCD issues too, and being anxious makes you feel so out of control!

When the anxiety starts, I try very hard to distract myself from it. I call my husband if I'm not with him, or I get up and do something. I try and trick my mind into concentrating on something else. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't, and I go into a full blown panick attack.

I'm so sorry your son is going through this. I hope you can find something that helps him.

Stacey

JORDYSMOM · Apr 29, 2009

An anxiety disorder does cause confusion. Usually, our bodies experience anxiety or panick because there is a reason. It's a normal reaction to trauma or danger. When you have an anxiety disorder, you feel that anxiety or panick for no APPARENT reason.

I have an anxiety disorder, and just the other evening, I was telling my husband, during an "attack", that I just don't understand why I feel this way. Nothing is wrong, yet I feel this impending doom or that I just want to cry, and I'm scared.

I am one of the most logical people I know. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> I educate myself as much as possible, and I know my body pretty well. However, during an anxiety or panick attack (and they are two very different animals) I just don't know why I feel the way I do. They come out of the blue. I do have some OCD issues too, and being anxious makes you feel so out of control!

When the anxiety starts, I try very hard to distract myself from it. I call my husband if I'm not with him, or I get up and do something. I try and trick my mind into concentrating on something else. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't, and I go into a full blown panick attack.

I'm so sorry your son is going through this. I hope you can find something that helps him.

Stacey

JORDYSMOM · Apr 29, 2009

An anxiety disorder does cause confusion. Usually, our bodies experience anxiety or panick because there is a reason. It's a normal reaction to trauma or danger. When you have an anxiety disorder, you feel that anxiety or panick for no APPARENT reason.
 
 I have an anxiety disorder, and just the other evening, I was telling my husband, during an "attack", that I just don't understand why I feel this way. Nothing is wrong, yet I feel this impending doom or that I just want to cry, and I'm scared.
 
 I am one of the most logical people I know. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> I educate myself as much as possible, and I know my body pretty well. However, during an anxiety or panick attack (and they are two very different animals) I just don't know why I feel the way I do. They come out of the blue. I do have some OCD issues too, and being anxious makes you feel so out of control!
 
 When the anxiety starts, I try very hard to distract myself from it. I call my husband if I'm not with him, or I get up and do something. I try and trick my mind into concentrating on something else. Sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't, and I go into a full blown panick attack.
 
 I'm so sorry your son is going through this. I hope you can find something that helps him.
 
 Stacey

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