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Jcat

476d

Hi, I’m new on here now. I know a lot of people have depression and it comes in many different ways but does anybody else have I don’t know a pacific name to call it but you overthink so much you end up having a argument with your own brain my brain don’t switch off I automatically think the worst of things I automatically think negative. I don’t want to think negative it just happens and I don’t mean to sound rude, but I really hate it when people say it to. Someone like myself is depressed. Oh come on let’s think positive you need to stop overthinking, if I could do that, I would put it in a bottle and sell it over this Christmas period was the first time I spend it alone and I was ill as well. I have never felt so low in such a long time and I get frustrated with myself, so don’t know why I’m feeling so low, and then my brain just starts having a dig all the things that happened to me in my life so please if anyone feels like depressed talk out on here to help to help each other. I just want the conversations in my head to stop. I’ve been waiting for counselling for two years I’m on sertraline I stopped it for a couple of weeks cause I had that chest infection and SARS thing is going round. Sorry people

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    • chihiro.sen

      476d

      yeah that sounds a lot like my internal depressive dialouge. The "just think positive" or "try yoga" always pissed me off, if there was a quick fix i wouldve done it already!! you're not alone. Im better now but trying to get better felt like training myself like a dog sometimes. When i realized i was doing "it" id just interrupt myself like "no, bad, stop" and distracted myself until the thoughts wouldnt resumed as soon as i stopped doing the distraction. I had to do that all the time and just had to wait until i got faster at it, and now i can shut those thoughts down almost right away, but theyve never truly stopped, so dont ever feel crappy or defeated bc you keep having them. I think of my brain like a garden, theres always gonna be weeds, and i just have worse weeds than a normal garden, so i have to put a lot of work in, but my garden will eventually be kickass bc ill have become super good at weeding.

    • chihiro.sen

      476d

      yeah that sounds a lot like my internal depressive dialouge. The "just think positive" or "try yoga" always pissed me off, if there was a quick fix i wouldve done it already!! you're not alone. Im better now but trying to get better felt like training myself like a dog sometimes. When i realized i was doing "it" id just interrupt myself like "no, bad, stop" and distracted myself until the thoughts wouldnt resumed as soon as i stopped doing the distraction. I had to do that all the time and just had to wait until i got faster at it, and now i can shut those thoughts down almost right away, but theyve never truly stopped, so dont ever feel crappy or defeated bc you keep having them. I think of my brain like a garden, theres always gonna be weeds, and i just have worse weeds than a normal garden, so i have to put a lot of work in, but my garden will eventually be kickass bc ill have become super good at weeding.

    • SimplyB

      476d

      For me the only thing that I know helps me is to help someone else. I volunteer one day a week in my neighborhood and I attend support groups to share my story and benefit from other members. Some times the commitment overloads my anxiety, but when I'm engaged helping someone else, I don't have the ability to sink farther into my depression. I ALWAYS feel better after helping someone else. Sometimes that feeling can last moments. Sometimes days.

      • Jcat

        476d

        @SimplyB good morning. Yes on the same are used to be in auxiliary nurse. Unfortunately Health I can’t do that anymore. I understand I do get a lot of satisfaction. From helping people, but when you come home when you’re on your own or even if you’re sick of public transport or driving, that’s when it all starts you can probably tell I’m not asleep I can’t sleep properly

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