Black Dog of Depression - can we help each other?

jennihen

Cheers willa - I googled it while I was eating my dinner!!
BTW I don't think anyone here is a malingerer, I know many people now whose lifes are wrecked by CFS, ME, depression etc. I'm just not sure that depression is the root of my problems.
JH x

willa

jennihen wrote: »

Cheers willa - I googled it while I was eating my dinner!!
BTW I don't think anyone here is a malingerer, I know many people now whose lifes are wrecked by CFS, ME, depression etc. I'm just not sure that depression is the root of my problems.
JH x

I know ya don't. It's really hard to get proper diagnoses a lot of the time - frustrating. xx

jennihen

Since I've been on this thread I've really been questioning my whole depression thing. It must be obvious from a lot of my posts that I'm not really depressed. its only when my Lupus gives me grief and I'm not suffering anywhere near what some of you guys are going through - and my heart goes out to you all.
I was beginning to feel a bit of a fraud to be honest!!!

Unity

jennihen wrote: »

Cheers willa - I googled it while I was eating my dinner!!
BTW I don't think anyone here is a malingerer, I know many people now whose lifes are wrecked by CFS, ME, depression etc. I'm just not sure that depression is the root of my problems.
JH x

Hi Jennihen and Willa - I totally agree and it is so difficult to get a concrete diagnosis these days. A lot of doctors seem to categorise any symptoms that they can't easily identify - as either depression or by saying something like: "It's all in your head":rolleyes:.

The answer I found was to call their bluff and ask to see a psychoterrorist :D. I still have a copy of the letter he sent to my GP, stating that my problems were decidedly physiological rather than psychological and that until the physical problems could be cured he did not hold out much hope of a cure for the depression since he felt it was a product rather than a cause of my problems.

LadyMorticia

Hello lovelies. :wave:

Thank you for all the kind words on my situation. I'm going to go back to see a different doctor soon about it all. I really wasn't happy with the way I was treated by the consultant and didn't like that I was made to feel like a deluded lunatic.

Went to the Festive Night we have in our village on Friday. Despite all the crowds, I had fun. OH bought me a cuddly toy.:D Bless him.

OH is showing me "Lost" straight from season 1 as he's a big fan of the show and I had never seen it before. We just finished the dvd boxset of season 1 today and I'm hooked!
Starting season 2 tomorrow.

absolutebounder

willa wrote: »

:rolleyes:

No doubt you think M.E. is malingering too and can be cured with NLP and CBT.

So you think ME is depression. Carry on and you will be the same this time next year.:rolleyes:

Unity

absolutebounder wrote: »

So you think ME is depression. Carry on and you will be the same this time next year.:rolleyes:

I must be mistaken, I thought this thread was to support those with depression, not to attempt to push them over the edge:mad:. Telling someone - because they disagree with you, that they will be exactly the same next year is hardly beneficial - is it? :rolleyes:

I certainly did not think that this forum or this thread was for the personal advancement of posters wishing to peddle their alternative therapies either!

It would appear you have absolutely no experience of ME, or you would know it is not even the same from one day to the next, let alone from year to year.

Perhaps you share the misguided view of even some qualified (though not necessarily well read) physicians and believe it is "All in the mind :rolleyes:" and doesn't really exist? If that is the case, then perhaps NLP can cure it - together presumably with a course of sugar coated pills :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

willa

Thanks Unity. He's managed to deduce the exact opposite of my view on M.E. well.

LameWolf

Hi all, just checkin' in.

I have neither the energy nor the inclination to enter into a pointless discussion, so I will just wish my fellow Black Dog owners the best that today can offer.

willa

Unity wrote: »

Hi Jennihen and Willa - I totally agree and it is so difficult to get a concrete diagnosis these days. A lot of doctors seem to categorise any symptoms that they can't easily identify - as either depression or by saying something like: "It's all in your head":rolleyes:.

The answer I found was to call their bluff and ask to see a psychoterrorist :D. I still have a copy of the letter he sent to my GP, stating that my problems were decidedly physiological rather than psychological and that until the physical problems could be cured he did not hold out much hope of a cure for the depression since he felt it was a product rather than a cause of my problems.

:rotfl:Love it.