RE: How do you deal with depression when you're out of touch with your emotions?
July 18, 2020 at 7:55 pm
(July 18, 2020 at 5:23 pm)Porcupine Wrote: How do you go about dealing with depression when you're out of touch with your emotions?
When medication doesn't work?
When therapy doesn't help?
When you don't know what it means to feel depressed. When you're alexithymic. When you have anhedonia and emptiness and a very intense intellectual sense that there is a 'a deep hole in your soul' that saps you of all motivation for almost everything in life and makes you unfit to do almost anything besides eat and sleep (and you also have too much or not enough of both of them)?
What do you do when you seem to have all the symptoms of depression besides suicidality, self harm and an intense feeling of sadness or frustration? What do you do when you are simply just sapped of all get-up-and-go for life, just an intense lack of mental and physical energy ... that is extremely debilitating and nothing seems to help?
And what do you do when you seem to have also lost the ability to feel pleasure? And when you keep seeking pleasure and entertainment but can't remember the last time when you found any by yourself---and you are stuck being alone?
And what do you do when your GP doesn't have anything to offer either?
Having been a depression sufferer in the past, I can tell you for certain that the path out is as individual as you are. No two paths are the same, but you can find yours. You just have to want to. And that is the problem. People with depression cling to it as an expression of their own person. I did. Every fellow suffer I am aware of did. Now you are, like all before you.
I have been there as many I know also have. We all got out, so can you.
But you have to want it. It is not enough to SAY you want it, because right now you don't, you want to BE it. It defines you.
Except it doesn't. YOU define you however you want to define yourself. Ya just have to decide to do it. Of course the depression means that you are not able to decide anything, that is common. I had that crap.
I am willing to discuss such mental travails, I do not like to see some other stuck with similar crap to me. But you better be genuine.
