I Battle Depression

first of all,

Get established with a professional counselor, psychiatrist, or spiritual counselor. I mention spirital counselor in concert with the others because sometimes a moral or generational orientation is required to relate to your age and upbringing.

I say getting established because it may take a few tries to find someone you are comfortable with. When I say comfortable, a warning, you may be comfortable at first, but then the rigors of counseling will be intense at times.

In the long run, it will a relationship that will require counseling and medication, which has to be monitored by the psychiatrist.

Commit to the process. I started out ok, took my meds and then started feeling better, so I quit my meds and delayed counseling because I thought I was cured. Well I wasn't !!! I crashed and rebounded several times.

Finally my cousin, who also had battled with depression, advised me to get with the long term cure. She told me to start journaling not only how I felt, but how I was doing as to dealing with people. There are subtle changes often in your behavior that you don't notice, and they most often have to do with how you relate to people each day.

I've been seeing the same psychiatriast now for fiifteen years. The important thing now is that he knows me, which presents the next question. Are you honest enough with yourself and your prospective conselor to share you life.

In time, I finally confessed that I had a lot of issues coming from living with an abusive father. In time, we sorted these things out and I was able to deal with them, or at least confront them and resolve to not let them shadow my life.

please mail me if you have specific questions you don't want to discuss here ..