Posted by stargazer2 on May 21, 2007, at 23:31:03
In reply to Re: Returning to the Universe » Sigismund, posted by Phillipa on May 21, 2007, at 22:26:40
That thought comes up from time to time because depression causes thoughts of "why bother" or "what's the meaning of life", all those existential issues that most people don't think about at all. A depressed mind really goes into an area of thought(or non-thought), that the average non-depressed mind doesn't have. It is almost like the depressed mind has a whole other region of thought processing that doesn't exist in so called "normal" brains. It is a very dangerous place that if you are in for a long time will inevitably lead you, as you have suggested, to thinking ending it would make sense rather than carrying on in limbo wihout any improvement in your situation. I have been there many times but luckily a med has tweaked something just enough to take me out of that mindset, but more often than not, not enough to extricate me from a bad depression. It's unfortunate so many meds are so ineffective with restoring normal brain functioning, that the return to this dark place is episodic, not isolated.
Seroquel has helped pull me out of a really dark place once and i would recommend it to others as a way to return and try some more, if you have the strength to continue the "universal" fight.
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