Medications? Therapy? Confusion about where to turn for help

Hi Jane, welcome aboard!
Please take a look at this.

:roll: If your depression has made you feel suicidal then you certainly do need more help/medication. Can you talk to your GP about medication, it can be a bit trial and error finding something that works for you. But you shouldn't have to suffer like this, there are things you can do. As far as the therapist is concerned I have had the exact same problem, they have said 'there isn't much wrong' , then a few weeks later I was told I should be hospitalised because I was so ill. I found the problem was that therapists need you to communicate how you really feel, but when I'm depressed I stop communicating, they then conclude that if I don't tell all my problems then they can't be really there. Good Luck.

I was lucky i tried counselling last year, i've never been one for communicating and she noticed this right away, therefore she set me some exercises so i could write what was going on instead. last year it really helped but this year when i've become depressed after finding out on the learning path how dangerous this type of counselling could be for depression i decided not to go ahead with it.

also i took medication for the depression, i thought that there was no other way out and my doctor was only too quick to prescribe me with them. i understood after that this wasnt the answer to my situation in particular and stopped taking them.

when things are really low and you've reached the suicide point which i did i knew that things could only get better from there and with the support of some very close and understanding friends i am now starting to climb out of the pit of depression i had been in for the last year or so. i still get days where i'll get a problem and i just cannot think about it clearly / understand what i can do about it but then i will speak to my partner, explain what is going on and we'll work through it together. i know that at the end of the day you can only sort yourself out but the love and support of others makes it easier

so no matter how much you want to push someone away which i have a tendency to do when i'm down (i just close myself off from the world) this is not the answer, you dont have to go through this alone

as for your counsellor/therapist if they could not tell that you were finding it difficult to speak from your state when you see them then they're probably not going to do a lot of good, my counsellor would allow me to sit there for ages sometimes without talking until i could perhaps find the courage or words to say what i was feeling, so dont despair

talk to your doctor but think very carefully before starting to take medication, i found it wasnt the answer for me and good luck!!!!

so should i try for a different councelor? if so, does it make a difference whether i am seeing a psychiatric social worker, psychologist, psychiatrist, etc? i guess im not really quite clear on which is which and who does what.

thanks

Hi Jane

Here's a link that might help you with some of those definitions.

To overcome the way you're feeling it may be best to find a forward looking therapist, perhaps try CBT (with a touch of hypnosis is always good ). Understanding why you have a problem won't necessarily help, it's far better to find ways to overcome this for good so that it won't return.

In terms of inheritance, a predisposition may be inherited either through nature or nurture, but remember it is possible to overcome this and make it a thing of the past.

andy.