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Watch this postUnderstandably there are many people who are feeling low and depressed, grief, the lockdown, finance, family situations and lack of social contact all have taken their toll. It is hard to stay strong in body and mind when we are feeling worried, but it is important to try before depression really takes hold.
We need to find the inner strength just to achieve a little goal each day, something at the end of the day you can look back and say I did do something today I can do something else tomorrow.
Let's share some of our success, I find personal chats on Silversurfers helpful not actually knowing who you are talking to stops barriers that are in place with other friends and family as you can always delete them.
Can't do that face to face. Letting everybody share a piece of good news would raise the spirits of many and maybe provide hope for the future that things will improve
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Over a three year period, I spiralled into a deep depression. Everything was grey, I lost my will to live and let everything around me spiral out of control. couldn’t be bothered to cook or wash properly.
One day when things were really black, I phoned the doctor for help.I asked her for mood lifting drugs and something for anxiety.
She prescribed a blood test first and it was found that my thyroid was underactive, Folic levels were low and Vitamin D was low.
She prescribed the necessary tablets which I have been taking. She also asked a therapist to phone me.
After speaking to the therapist, ( who recommended I re- join Silver Surfers,) I felt less hopeless and set myself some goals, like doing the filing that I had left for ages and doing chores that I had put off.
I have to say that over the past 3 weeks, my mood has lifted, my humour is back and my energy levels seemed to have improved. I am cooking proper meals again, made a lovely egg curry today.
My doctor did not resort to the “medical cosh” route of psychotropic drugs thank goodness and thanks to her I am on the up and up. She is keeping track of the results with more blood tests...treatment is ongoing!
Please you are feeling better
I also have an under active thyroid which initially was debilitating .However I also in the past have had depression .I just wanted to say they are not necessarily linked.
Maybe an earlier visit to the G.P. for a blood test would have alliviated the depression sooner
Yes, the three are not linked but the lack of all three do affect moods. I wish I had seen a doctor earlier, these things seem to creep up on you until you are standing on the edge of a black hole. Glad I had the presence of mind to reach out eventually.
But as I said before, feeling on the up and up, hopefully reach my old jolly self soon. 🙂
Whether that is 'well, I enjoyed watching an old film on daytime telly' (great, but not every day!), or 'well, I finally sorted out that cupboard I've been meanign to sort for ten years', the point is to 'achieve' something each day.
I would draw up a 'To Do' list, whether it is paying bills, or sorting cupboards, or washing floors, or reading a particular book etc.
Try not to 'veg' too much - impose a structure on the day, and every morning at breakfast run through what you want to get done by the end of the day, etc.
Mix up work (eg, routine housework) with longer term things (sorting old cupboards, starting a family history write up) and also with 'fun' things, whether baking cakes, or gardening, or whatever.
The weather has not helped at all, being such a cold spring after a long winter, but finally I think the good weather is arriving, so for anyone with a garden of any size, that's a blessing, plus just getting out and about more that lockdown is easing.
I've found the last couple of months hard as the end of lockdown was in sight, but never seemed to be getting any closer, and I was fed up with winter, and I was sinking into depression (the dreadful 'why bother getting up or doing anythign at all'), but I know from experience that 'forcing' yourself to 'do something' that you don't want to do but which is necessary or useful (that unsorted cupboard, washing the kitchen floor, whatever!) can break the chain between depression and inertia (that dreadful sitting in a chair staring at day time TV and hoping for the evening to arrive to legitimise one's idleness....deadly!)