withrespect
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Does anyone have any advice for someone dealing with severe depression? Any doctors you recommend?
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nobody really
I need a nap
is it because of the quote at the bottom of your siggy
withrespect
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No, it is because of a sibling who is an addict and suicidal...making everyone in my family, including me, severely depressed.
kwillia
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Then you don't want just any ole doctor... you want one that specializes in helping families deal with what you are dealing with... Call the Walden counseling center in California, MD and ask for references as to where your family can go to get help dealing with it.
withrespect
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kwillia
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Please just keep in mind you have no control in being able to fix your addicted family member.... but you and your family CAN work on yourselves... Good luck and don't delay!
mamatutu
mama to two
I have/am going through the same type of situation (my son). I have not been to a doc or take depression meds, but have thought about it. Have you tried going to Al Anon meetings? It can help alot to hear other peoples' stories, and, for them to listen to yours; to know you are not alone in what you are going through, and they are free. Hope your situation improves.
withrespect
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I have/am going through the same type of situation (my son). I have not been to a doc or take depression meds, but have thought about it. Have you tried going to Al Anon meetings? It can help alot to hear other peoples' stories, and, for them to listen to yours; to know you are not alone in what you are going through, and they are free. Hope your situation improves.
If it were only alcohol. She is an IV drug user... she "shoots up"...
I am just so sad
libertytyranny
Dream Stealer
I have/am going through the same type of situation (my son). I have not been to a doc or take depression meds, but have thought about it. Have you tried going to Al Anon meetings? It can help alot to hear other peoples' stories, and, for them to listen to yours; to know you are not alone in what you are going through, and they are free. Hope your situation improves.
Please do not subject yourself to medication because of someone else's actions/issues. Medication is no panecea, and frankly it will not change the situation. the only thing that will change yourself is to dissasociate your own mental health from someone else's. Family counseling helps people understand that they cannot tie their own happiness to someone else, no matter what the relationship.
and to be upset about an upsetting event/situation, is not grounds for diagnosing yourself with clinical depression, which is a disorder within its self and has criteria that must be met. Drugs are not the answer to life's struggles, neither is a "diagnosis."
its a horrible situation, I know this alllll too well. All too well. People very, very close to me have given their life over to drugs and all kinds of horrid things, but I refuse to dignose myself as being ill, because someone else's life has gone downhill. I refuse to medicate myself because someone ELSE needs help. Its backwards thinking. Only removing your mental health's attachment to another person can make you better.
mamatutu
mama to two
If it were only alcohol. She is an IV drug user... she "shoots up"...
I am just so sad
I am so sorry. I know you are beside yourself. Al Anon is not just for alcohol, it is for hard drugs, too. Addiction is addiction, no matter what the substance, so all the stories are the same; the only difference being the drug of choice. Maybe you could try out a meeting, and see what you think. If you think she might go to rehab, Warwick Manor is excellent. (it is on the Eastern shore just past Cambridge, in Secretary MD) Hang in there!
withrespect
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Thanks ... she has been to 3 different rehabs in 3 different states in the past 9 months.
nobody really
I need a nap
sorry to hear that, best of luck to you.
Katelin
one day the dark will end
Sounds like she is not ready or wants to get clean yet. Not enough reasons or consequences to get clean. Perhaps there are a few too many who enable her behavior.
Al Anon helps you understand that "you did not cause it, cannot control it, can not cure it, but can learn to cope with it." The "it" being the loved one and their addiction.
Try some Al Anon, find someone to sit down and share your story with.
If you cant get to an Al Anon mtg, just go to an AA mtg and listen and talk to some of the folks. It is a place to start!
I wish you the best and know that there are good folk around here to listen and to help. God bless.
SoMD_Fun_Guy
Do you like apples?
WR,
best of luck to you, your family and your struggling family member. Prayers out to you and them.
best of luck to you, your family and your struggling family member. Prayers out to you and them.