Posted by SLS on October 14, 2011, at 6:28:59
In reply to Urgent: In a crisis, situational 'bombs', posted by zonked on October 14, 2011, at 2:52:54
What you are now having to deal with in life usually evokes what most people call "depression". If you were to break it down, you might find that sadness and fear are now prominent emotions. Most people would be overwhelmed by this. Why not you?
Yes, the psychosocial stress that you find yourself subject to can cause medication breakthrough or relapse of MDD. However, if you were to evaluate the presence of the vegetative features of MDD, you might find that they have not reappeared. Have your thoughts slowed? Do you have difficulties with concentration when reading. Short term memory? Libido? GI symptoms? Situational depression feels somewhat like MDD, but usually without the extreme anergia or psychomotor retardation. Heaviness in your limbs (leaden paralysis)?
I guess the bottom line is, does the depression that you are experiencing now match exactly that which you have experienced in the past with MDD?
You should expect to experience the same type of depression that an otherwise healthy person would experience given your situation.
I have no advice for you other than to accept your situational depression as being normal, and to eat and sleep as regularly as possible.
I am very, very sorry to learn of your mother's illness. When I lost my father last year, I made a conscious effort to compartmentalize my thoughts and feelings in reaction to my loss when I needed to focus my attention on other critical matters. Don't expect to be able to do this right away. Grieving takes time and is a cognitive and emotional process. Allow it to happen.
I hope you find in Psycho-Babble comfort and support during this most difficult time.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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