Depression tx

[Redt2go]

Is anyone in here severely depressed, being treated for depression (medicine and or therapy) and still suicidal?

 

[Hopeless_soul]

Five years ago I started therapy and was prescribed escitalopram. I also tried different types of sleeping pills and anxiolytics. I took it for three years and stopped cold turkey because I wanted to be 100% lucid for doing some work. I was still suicidal. It did help though at the beginning, maybe because I was a bit optimistic with the fact I was going to get better.

 

[DeadlyLiving]

I am currently not in therapy but I was until a couple of months ago. I used to take paroxetine which didn't help me at all, it just numbed my feelings a little, but it didn't stop me from having thoughts about suicide and depressiv thought in generell.
I had three therapist and all of them advised me to go into a psych ward, but no way in hell do I want to go there and in the end I still don't think it would have helped me at all. My foremost reason for suicide is, that all the bad stuff in my life already happened and no therapy could give me all the years back I missed out to live like I should have at that age. I am just way too stained from my past to ever be happy.

But there are definietly people out there who benefit from a therapy and maybe see the light again. It really depends on each individual human.

 

[Hopeless_soul]

But there are definietly people out there who benefit from a therapy and maybe see the light again

Yeah. In my case, the antidepressant did help a bit, but it was the stuff I took for anxiety that really didn't help me at all. If I kept trying, I would have probably found the right anxiolytic for me.

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

Yes I am diagnosed as major depressive but the meds only serve to make me feel unfazed. Therapy never worked for me, I got too tangential with it and am too complex to be able to talk through all my problems in any kind of reasonable time frame. In the end I realized it all came down to me and that it's either sink or swim. There's no suitable help out there for someone like me, because my problems are multi layered with no good solutions. It's a case of do the best I can with what I have.

 

[Anima]

Yeah I suffer from what they call a treatment- refractory depression. Neither medication nor therapy seem to have any significant effect and this is something I can't live with. I have tried and am stilk trying to get better but no matter what I do it does not seem to get any better. And honestly, I think it does depend on what one has experienced and gone through in life and their resilience. It is always worth trying to get better, but sometimes all of that just isn't enough to keep going. At least that's how I feel.

 

[Smilla]

Yeah I suffer from what they call a treatment- refractory depression. Neither medication nor therapy seem to have any significant effect and this is something I can't live with. I have tried and am stilk trying to get better but no matter what I do it does not seem to get any better. And honestly, I think it does depend on what one has experienced and gone through in life and their resilience. It is always worth trying to get better, but sometimes all of that just isn't enough to keep going. At least that's how I feel.

I have this also. I tried therapy (twice) and meds off and on and nothing helped; in fact my first therapist made me worse because he was abusive.

To anyone contemplating treatment please please do your research first, especially with regard to therapist misconduct and red flags to look out for at the beginning of treatment. We choose our therapists far too casually imo and there are many out there who are either predatory, careless, or just plain assholic. We tend to overgeneralize that those in the helping professions, esp therapists, are all good people and this isn't the case.

 

[Anima]

I have this also. I tried therapy (twice) and meds off and on and nothing helped; in fact my first therapist made me worse because he was abusive.

To anyone contemplating treatment please please do your research first, especially with regard to therapist misconduct and red flags to look out for at the beginning of treatment. We choose our therapists far too casually imo and there are many out there who are either predatory, careless, or just plain assholic. We tend to overgeneralize that those in the helping professions, esp therapists, are all good people and this isn't the case.

So sorry you have made such a bad experience. ): I'd say there are more bad than good therapists oberall. Especially psychiatrists ...! If you don't feel some kind of connection, don't continue. And ues, be cautious who you trust.