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I saw my psychiatrist yesterday, and we talked about the same old stuff. It really drove home to me something that I do my best to forget: that my depression IS treatment-resistant and intractable. I'm on five different medications for it right now (seven if you count the "spot" medications for breakthrough emotional pain), and I'm still getting only partial relief. My psychiatrist has stated that we've come to the end of standard pharmaceutical treatments, in his opinion: what's left is experimental drugs, increasing the amount of exercise I get... and although it's a distant possibility at this point, electroshock therapy.
Sitting on the bus coming home, I almost burst into tears. I can barely exercise 30 minutes a day as it is; in the last two weeks I've missed a total of five days when I should have been working out, simply due to exhaustion and lack of motivation. It all seems so pointless, even though I KNOW that exercise has helped me in the past. I'm having trouble using the DBT skills I learned, and I can't seem to get off my ass and start looking around for community peer support resources.
I need help, but I have no idea where I'm going to get it or even if any help is possible.
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Okay... just so this post isn't a total waste of space:
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There. I actually feel a little bit better now.
Sitting on the bus coming home, I almost burst into tears. I can barely exercise 30 minutes a day as it is; in the last two weeks I've missed a total of five days when I should have been working out, simply due to exhaustion and lack of motivation. It all seems so pointless, even though I KNOW that exercise has helped me in the past. I'm having trouble using the DBT skills I learned, and I can't seem to get off my ass and start looking around for community peer support resources.
I need help, but I have no idea where I'm going to get it or even if any help is possible.
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Okay... just so this post isn't a total waste of space:
Click a link, feed the animals!
The Animal Rescue Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need — providing food for some of the 27 million unwanted animals given to shelters in the U.S. every year. Over 10 million animals are put to death every year in the U.S. alone because they are abandoned and unwanted.
Each click on the purple "Fund Food for Animals" button at The Animal Rescue Site provides food and care for a rescued animal living in a shelter or sanctuary. Funding for food and care is paid by site sponsors and distributed to animals in need at the Fund for Animals' renowned animal sanctuaries (including Cleveland Amory Black Beauty Ranch in Texas and the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in California), pet shelters supported by the Petfinder Foundation, North Shore Animal League, and other worthy animal care facilities supported by the GreaterGood.org foundation.
100% of sponsor advertising fees goes to our charitable partners.
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There. I actually feel a little bit better now.
