Good evening comrades and welcome to your weekly mental health thread. This is the last week of the year, how is everyone doing? How was your year? How was your Christmas?
Good evening comrades and welcome to your weekly mental health thread. This is the last week of the year, how is everyone doing? How was your year? How was your Christmas?
A bad depression episode threw me off track with my sleep schedule and exercise, and I haven’t had the energy to get back on it, which is a huge bummer.
I’ve managed two days in a row with zero suicidal thoughts, which is cool. Just wish my “good days” were consistent enough for me to accomplish anything, though.
All of my days where I’m not suicidal, I’m still recovering from the depressive episode I just went through. It’s extremely discouraging and this fact makes me feel like I’ll never break out of this cycle or have it at a manageable level. That might not be true, but I can’t help but feel that way.
This is exactly where I've been for years. As you saw, I'm just starting to experiment with antidepressant medications and have yet to find one that works for me. You're not alone in going through this.
I find that therapy helps a lot, not to fix or eliminate those thoughts, but at least to cope with them. And getting outside.