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shutterbug · 08-05-2007, 05:51 PM

caraway....don't let yourself believe you can control it. it's not just you that struggles like that.

I NEVER got headaches before depression came into my life...now all the time.

I like the way you describe the weighty-ness of depression on a body "like gravity has been turned up.'

I tried to describe that to my excellent pdoc a couple years ago by saying "it's like wearing a cement coat. my whole body feels heavy and takes so much effort just to lift an arm to scratch my head."

His idiotic response???!!!! Something having to do with me needing to lose weight. I wanted to scream at him, but of course he said it more diplomatic than i just put it and of course i just didn't have the energy to scream at him...and of course i knew he was only human. but still...he's such a good doc that i wish i could have truely explained it to him.

having trouble getting out of the chair when dealing with depression has NOTHING to do with laziness....just as having trouble getting out of a chair when you have 2 broken legs isn't laziness.....IT'S TRUELY DIFFICULT! Don't let your brain make you believe for a second that it's your fault or lack of whatever.

08-05-2007, 05:51 PM	#5 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,947 Blog Entries: 5	caraway....don't let yourself believe you can control it. it's not just you that struggles like that. I NEVER got headaches before depression came into my life...now all the time. I like the way you describe the weighty-ness of depression on a body "like gravity has been turned up.' I tried to describe that to my excellent pdoc a couple years ago by saying "it's like wearing a cement coat. my whole body feels heavy and takes so much effort just to lift an arm to scratch my head." His idiotic response???!!!! Something having to do with me needing to lose weight. I wanted to scream at him, but of course he said it more diplomatic than i just put it and of course i just didn't have the energy to scream at him...and of course i knew he was only human. but still...he's such a good doc that i wish i could have truely explained it to him. having trouble getting out of the chair when dealing with depression has NOTHING to do with laziness....just as having trouble getting out of a chair when you have 2 broken legs isn't laziness.....IT'S TRUELY DIFFICULT! Don't let your brain make you believe for a second that it's your fault or lack of whatever. __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).