Support for people with Depression

Tulip

I am off now everyone.

I will chat tomorrow

Night! Night!

love and light,

Katie xxx

Indie_Kid

I'm not sure how much of this I can mention on here; but could really do with some help:

I had an argument with a friend of mine earlier which led me to saying something I shouldn't have done and he ended up calling the police.

They came around, talked to me, checked I was ok and took some details. What do they do with these details?

And what do I do now about the friend? I do want to stay friends; but don't know how I can face him now.:(

shazrobo

losingpatience, good luck with your first day back, hope it goes ok
sh1305, i guess the friend rang the police cos he was worried about you
not sure wat the police do with the details, depends wat they asked i suppose
shaz xxx

beachbeth

Its lovely what you did for your mum, losingpatience. How kind. Im sure you will be fine once you are at work today. Usually its the thought of being there that can make you anxious. I used to get quite tearful on my way to work and there was no reason for it, so I know how you must feel.

Im not sure what the police do, sh1305. It depends what the situation is and I understand you not wanting to give details. Hope it works out ok.

beachbeth

My DD2 is quite upset. I won't bore you with all the details but she had a boyfriend she was really keen on who wanted to call it a day, which they did and it stayed amicable. I think she was hoping they would end up back together though and so is more upset on finding out this weekend he has been out with another girl. There is a bit more to it than this, but, as I say, I won't bore you.

Im worried about her because she is tired all the time and doesn't go out anywhere much. We try to encourage her to think of a hobby or pastime but she's not interested. Im taking her to the docs today. She's had a blood test but when we rang up last week it had come back all negative. We were sort of hoping it would show something up so that we could say "thats whats causing the tiredness!." I hope he doesn't think its depression. Even though I suffer with it now, I was very social at her age and went out a lot.

beachbeth

For anyone thats interested - Sherry Hewson is on This Morning at the moment talking about pet bereavement. Something a lot of us have suffered with. Im sure it can be watched later on their website for anyone that misses it too.

beachbeth

Oops. Shouldn't have watched it! Its made me cry now!:( Im thinking of my own dear girl that died last year.

losingpatience

Beth do you know if she's sleeping ok? ( asking the obvious I know ) I know whenever I worry or am stressed I can't sleep so maybe with what's gone on with her ex she's having trouble sleeping at the moment?

It could be that she's feeling down at the moment, it would be understandable but hopefully will just be a short term thing and doesn't necessarily mean it's depression. I was 19 when I split up with my first serious boyfriend and I thought my world had come to an end. I also at the time was hoping we'd get back together, even though with hindsight I realised he was sooo wrong for me. I didn't go out much, he was my world as far as I was concerned and I didn't know how I'd live without him so I didn't go out, see friends etc for a while. I lost weight and I know my parents at the time were really worried. But gradually I pulled myself together, started going out more and met my new BF who I am really happy with so she will get through it. You just need to be her shoulder to cry on when she needs it and be there for her if she wants to talk about it, although I know I didn't really talk to my mam much about it at the time, I thought there was no way she could possibly understand the pain I was going through lol

If she's having trouble talking to someone maybe you could suggest she writes it down? I've done this in the past, getting it out really helped me. Although I'm not sure how open she would be to this idea, I think if I suggested something like this to my sister ( who's 20 ) she'd think I was mad lol

beachbeth

Thanks, losingpatience. I have suggested that some sort of therapy might work (they have counsellors at college). Might discuss this with the doctor later.

I don't she is is sleeping well but she has been spending a lot of time in bed even before she met this lad so it isn't all related just to him. I will suggest she perhaps writes her feelings down as you said.

Kayteehee

Hello All,

Just wanted to say Hi, i'm a massive MSE fan and been suffering depression/anxiety badly for the past year and a half, and also had anxiety on and off since I was ten and had depression for two years at school as well due to horrible bullies grr. I've also suffered with eating disorders since I was 13 and badly in the last two years.

I'm almost 22 now, and had a year off uni last year as I was unable to cope,had a nervous breakdown, moved back in with my parents, and now i'm back in the second semester of my final year. Finding everything extremely stressful, struggling to control my finances and having huge panics about going to uni. I'm also suffering from being scared of the telephone for some reason it's having a huge effect on me.

I'm so glad I found this thread though I have recently started entering loads of competitions and it's been a nice distraction when I have breaks in between doing my uni work. It's also really exciting when I win something

Hope everyone is doing ok today and look forward to getting to know you better

Kay