Depression is just plain nasty

Alison":1ap237ts said:

I can better that only joking, but I've been sectioned twice and voluntary once, but you got intense work, I just got left to rot in my room, I try to be a rounded, socially acceptable individual, but basically I don't leave the house and I never socialise with anyone, not even my neighbours, Retrobike is the only time I talk to people mainly because I can fool you lot into thinking I'm a kind and generous soul when really I'm a right nasty piece of work I think it's horrid when there is nothing you can do it just hits you and no one seams to comprehend why you can't just stop feeling bad (which is basically what my oldest once said to me) But I look at my children and know I've done something right

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CassidyAce":2fnxsc9j said:

Alison":2fnxsc9j said:

I can better that only joking, but I've been sectioned twice and voluntary once, but you got intense work, I just got left to rot in my room, I try to be a rounded, socially acceptable individual, but basically I don't leave the house and I never socialise with anyone, not even my neighbours, Retrobike is the only time I talk to people mainly because I can fool you lot into thinking I'm a kind and generous soul when really I'm a right nasty piece of work I think it's horrid when there is nothing you can do it just hits you and no one seams to comprehend why you can't just stop feeling bad (which is basically what my oldest once said to me) But I look at my children and know I've done something right

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This is awful! I hope that you, and everyone else here suffering with depression, have heard about the flurry of work in the last few years linking depression to inflammation and the body's immune system. Essentially, the work indicates that you can't snap out of it, etc. because the depression is a side-effect of something else: inflammation in the brain caused by your body's immune system (which might be chronically malfunctioning, e.g. if you have an underlying thyroid problem). This article gets to the point and sums things up clearly: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/201 ... lammatory/

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Exercise — Depression can result from chronic ongoing stress and exercise acts like a biological insurance plan against the bodily effects of stress. 20 minutes, three times a week or more of anything that gets you sweaty is all that’s needed.

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torqueless":erjyndeq said:

I try not to use the 'D' word. The way I see it, anyone who has given half a thought to their existential situation is going to be miserable. There is only one reason to medicalise it- because miserable people cannot perform their socio-economic roles. So they get a new socio-economic role: "Patient in need of therapy", perfectly complimentary to the socio-economic role: "Dispenser of therapy"

The therapies change over time, each as barbaric as the last. Remember ect? that was the enlightened new approach once.

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Alison":3oi54nta said:

I imagine PTSD is terrible, I could not cope with reliving traumatic experiences. I would love to get back into riding but I've let myself go badly :facepalm:

There are quite a few it seams on here in difficulties. I hope bikes help all on here. I'm pleased to say I've just finished my daughter's Orange C16R after a year and it looks awesome

Alison

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kermitgreenkona88":1voulp6l said:

Alison":1voulp6l said:

I imagine PTSD is terrible, I could not cope with reliving traumatic experiences. I would love to get back into riding but I've let myself go badly :facepalm:

There are quite a few it seams on here in difficulties. I hope bikes help all on here. I'm pleased to say I've just finished my daughter's Orange C16R after a year and it looks awesome

Alison

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Baby steps Alison, just start with very short rides until it becomes fun again. I am just beginning the process again myself.......

I am a fine one to talk though, as I have just spent the last hour :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: Enough struggling with the D word, lost my Mum to cancer in early February. I have been her primary carer for the last 10 years (since we lost Dad to cancer too)..... I miss them both so much.....

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