I’m depressed for no reason

[Verklempt]

My family is constantly asking me why I am depressed and I can't give them a answer because I don't know. I feel dumb for feeling this way, I don't even know what's wrong with me.
Is anyone else dealing the same thing as me?

 

[Squiddy]

Don't feel bad. It's a chemical imbalance. I've been depressed for no reason at one point, but now, I have a reason.

 

[Verklempt]

Don't feel bad. It's a chemical imbalance. I've been depressed for no reason at one point, but now, I have a reason.

What's your reason? If you don't mind me asking

 

[Polly]

That's really classic depression.

I myself prefer not to dismiss it as a chemical imbalance because very often there are deep emotional issues as the cause.

that said, there is chemical help fir it, and coupling meds with good therapy can have remarkable results.

 

[Squiddy]

What's your reason? If you don't mind me asking

I feel incompetent (so many things I don't know how to do that I should know) and the fact that I have a hard time articulating myself (might be a learning disability)

 

[Verklempt]

I'm going to my first therapy session tomorrow. Does medication help? Or does only therapy help?

That's really classic depression.

I myself prefer not to dismiss it as a chemical imbalance because very often there are deep emotional issues as the cause.

that said, there is chemical help fir it, and coupling meds with good therapy can have remarkable results.

 

[TowerUpright]

I also have had chemical imbalances since I was 12. It has been in the family, and I'm afraid I passed it on to my children.

Meds help, for a while.

You aren't alone.

 

[Verklempt]

Yes, this is one of the reason why I don't want to have children. Do you just ask your therapist for some medication?

I also have had chemical imbalances since I was 12. It has been in the family, and I'm afraid I passed it on to my children.

Meds help, for a while.

You aren't alone.

 

[Squiddy]

I'm going to my first therapy session tomorrow. Does medication help? Or does only therapy help?

Meds can help, but watch out for side effects. Good luck at therapy tomorrow

 

[TowerUpright]

No, my Doctor prescribed me my first pills at 18. ODed a couple of months later. On purpose. After a while, I found a good med that worked for a while. Now I'm on additional ones.

 

[Verklempt]

No, my Doctor prescribed me my first pills at 18. ODed a couple of months later. On purpose. After a while, I found a good med that worked for a while. Now I'm on additional ones.

So it's possible that the med won't work after some time. But why is that? Is it because our body rejects it?

Meds can help, but watch out for side effects. Good luck at therapy tomorrow

Thank you.

 

[WhyIsLife56]

Depression isn't chemical imbalance. That's a myth. It's caused by life or existential crisis etc.

 

[Merith]

I feel incompetent (so many things I don't know how to do that I should know) and the fact that I have a hard time articulating myself (might be a learning disability)

I opened this thread with the same issue as OP, I have everything and can make a down payment on a house at 18 years old, I shouldn't be feeling bad at all - and you've spelled out exactly some of my reasoning for being here. I used to be intelligent, but now I'm just debatably smart without the intelligence. I feel like I haven't learned anything new in over two years; two years ago were my prime years; making consistent releases for my software, going good in school, etc. But now I just feel like I'm getting dumber progressively, and I have a speech impediment as well, making verbal communication pretty hellish. The last part was a lifelong thing, technically
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Also yes, pushing it off as a "chemical imbalance" bothers me. We don't know ourselves as much as we think, as evidenced by my first paragraph; the hard parts are learning what the issues are and how to mitigate them.

 

[WhyIsLife56]

Also yes, pushing it off as a "chemical imbalance" bothers me. We don't know ourselves as much as we think, as evidenced by my first paragraph; the hard parts are learning what the issues are and how to mitigate them.

Yeah calling a mental illness as a chemical imbalance is just being ignorant. People should be questioning things than just accepting what society tells you.
Accepting something as it is can be pretty dangerous.

 

[TowerUpright]

So it's possible that the med won't work after some time. But why is that? Is it because our body rejects it?

Thank you. ❤

I think your body compensates for the meds overtime. Your body has a 'normal' that it struggles to get back to, I think. At least with your body chemistry. Kinda how type 2 diabetics don't respond as well to insulin.

My $0.02

 

[Deleted member 1465]

I'm going to my first therapy session tomorrow. Does medication help? Or does only therapy help?

Imo depression is really complex. I may try and elaborate when I'm not on my phone cus it'll take typing skillz.

Meanwhile, I'm reposting this from elsewhere re medication...

My experience of antidepressants. ..
Two weeks of side effects, always constipation, which gradually subside, four or five weeks to start feeling any benefit, IF you feel any benefit at all. Then they increase dosage and you get side effects again.
Now you are stuck on the medication. But eventually they either take you off it, after many months, or it poops out due to tolerance effects. Your brain will do its best to re establish what it thinks is the status quo, it won't produce these chemicals as much now on its own cus it's getting provided with them artificially. But tolerance effects tend to stop the drug working over time.
Then you have to withdraw and they may not advise you properly on how to do that. They'll start you on another drug, with new side effects, sometimes whilst you are still withdrawing from the old one. Double whammy.
And it goes round in circles.

However, when I first took prosac it changed my life. Everything became easy. No ocd no depression no anxiety. But that stopped after a few months and I was back how I was.

 

[BPD Barbie]

There doesn't have to be a reason for depression, there really doesn't have to be a reason for anything. We feel what we feel, in fact it's probably more frustrating for you not knowing why you're depressed than for the people asking you. But it's OK, you don't need to explain yourself to anyone, especially not about such personal things. Sending love