Depression Or Just Fed-Up?
They are talking about depression on BBC Breakfast this morning, saying that more anti-depressants are being prescribed.
Over the years, I used to suffer from mild depression, but generally my mother or later my wife, used to pull me out of it.
Since being diagnosed as a coeliac, fifteen years ago, I haven’t seemed to have suffered much, if at all. And it’s not that I haven’t had something to get depressed about, what with the death of my wife and son to cancer and my stroke!
But then due to my gluten-free diet, I’m getting all the vitamins I need, as my gut now works properly.
But I’ve been rather fed up in the last few weeks, as I don’t like the hot weather, the lack of an intelligent lady to take to art galleries, the theatre or the cinema, the non-progress on my building works and no football to watch live or on the television.
It all gets better this weekend with the football season starting for Ipswich at Reading and Stevenage!
All I really need now, is someone, preferably female and intelligent, to share meals and experiences.
I do wonder how many of those prescribed anti-depressants, just need a decent experience or two to give them a lift!
The Anonymous Widower 
There are different sorts of depression. The mild reactive depression you have been feeling due to hot weather, building works etc has an identifiable cause, and as you say, will pass. On the whole you have a very positive approach to life, and take an interest in lots of things. However, for some people the chemistry of their brain is out of balance, not for any identifiable reason such as life events, and not caused by any vitamin deficiency that has been found out about yet. Sometimes the people with that type of depression have everything to live for, lots of good things, but they have this awful overwhelming feeling of deep depression. it is impossible to describe how it feels to someone who has never experienced it. With good psychiatric care some people will only have one episode, but other have them on and off for many years. I was lucky, I only had the one really bad episode, and various medications and therapeutic interventions sorted me out, although I have been told to remain on a very low dose of the medication for the rest of my life.
Comment by Liz from the sewing room | August 3, 2013 |