Depression Support Thread

slowlyfading

^^ You can email the Samaritans if you need to.

Tulip

slowlyfading wrote: »

Thanks Katie, I am feeling a lot better now thanks how are you this evening? xx

I am ok thanks SF,just waiting for Big Brother to start,wont be long now


Katie

Tulip

I am off now everyone,

chat tomorrow

Night! Night!

:hello: Feelinggood,hope you feel well again soon


love and light,

Katie xxx

slowlyfading

Bye Katie, enjoy BB xx

LadyMorticia

Night everyone.

xx

alba37

slowlyfading wrote: »

Bye Katie, enjoy BB xx

Night night.

Sleep well.

A x x x

petunia100

Tiff wrote: »

Hi pet!:hello:
Thanks for posting back hunnie.;)
I can completely empathise with you. I've been on the other end of it from my family too with the only difference being I'm the eldest of the three of us.:o

My sister had a minor depression and imho, that made it worse because after about 4 months, she was back to normal and she can't get it into her head that it's different for each person. My brother's just patronising. I don't know which is worse, tbh - but they know when they've crossed the line with the Tiffster now!:rolleyes:

Well angel, there's a thread here full of lovely peeps who will more than understand what you're going through and who will listen. You're always welcome hun.
Much Love,
Tiff xxx

Thanks.
Sometimes it helps just talking to people.

septemberblues

gillette147 wrote: »

I'm so glad I am so memorable........MALE here!!!

However I have suffered from PMT.
I have gone out with women who had it......and believe me I suffered too.

:A
xxx

Haha, I thought you were a woman! Sorry! Mind you, I think the gillette147 is a man's razor isn't it? Wow, a man with feelings, good to meet you

top_drawer_2

hi all,

I had no idea the thread had changed again ... i lost track a bit and then the reading up got so huge that I just couldnt face it all - if anyone has said anything to me, sorry I'm not ignoring you ...

I had a haircut and colour on Saturday and found out something interesting from the hairdresser - apparently your body considers your hair expendable so when you stop eating its the first thing it stops providing nutrients too and so it falls out ... I just thought it might be interesting for other people who also suffer with hair loss.

Jen

Horasio

I can't sleep at the moment and had some thoughts I wanted to write down.

I feel my family are trying to control me and not let me grow into the person I want to be.

When I was younger I wanted to live alone but couldn't afford to. Now I can-ish, I am worried I won't be able to support myself financially due to not working for so long, being mid 40s and female. I might have been OK at 30 but my son was young and couldn't cope with a young child alone with my health problems.

My mother is OK when I feel OK but feel undermined by her sometimes. I can't trust people, I have been so hurt by so called friends and family. I wish there was someone I could feel happy with who didn't bring me down or let me down.

I am scared to work in case I get bullied, I was bullied at school due to lack of confidence and not being able to take the banter/rough and tumble of kids, then my first proper job I was too because I was unhappy and felt a lack of progress in the place but the money was good, so couldn't afford to look for another or be unemployed.

Once I left the place, after nearly going insane, I found it hard to find work and be married but work didn't pay enough, so chose to stay married and try and better myself with courses and whatever work I could get. The thing that really killed it for me was being 22, well qualified, looked good, had no kids but married, I got rejected over and over, which with my PMS and other problems really depressed me.

I had my son and felt a sense of purpose until the PMS kicked in again, then I felt rubbish and a bad mother. My OH was earning good money, so thought it made sense to stay with him. My mother nearby helped with the babysitting but she undermined our authority with our son and he was very hyper, so needed breaks and found the cost and availability of decent childcare a joke.

I wish there had been one person I could have relied on to help me. Instead, I feel I have to be everyone's mother, be the cheerful strong one. If I wasn't I get dropped or in the neck when I needed someone else to take over sometimes. My OH is useless when I need him to take over, so I keep away from him instead. I feel the world 'gets me' when I feel bad, so feel really scared on any off days.

I used to be quite meek and take any aggression but when I left school I was really mouthy and took no c*ap but I was still vulnerable at times. Nowadays, I rarely feel that vulnerable but did with the dentist. I paid a hell of a lot of money for those fillings and one dropped out in 2 hours and the other isn't great. I am going to the dentist on Thursday and she had better not charge me!!