The highs and lows of depression

hitandmiss — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:26:01 GMT

I became diagnosed earlier this year with depression and anxiety and started to take medication for it. I have felt much better on the medication but my family thinks they can see extreme 'highs' and 'lows' in my behaviour. I don't feel these highs and lows I just think my behaviour is normal. I don't know how to change my behaviour to make them worry less about my emotional state.

The highs and lows of depression

Neil_1 — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:06:43 GMT

Hi there hitandmiss

Welcome to Beyond Blue and thank you for providing your post. It’s an interesting post you raise as you’ve already sought out assistance and are taking medication for it, which you feel is making you ‘ok’ or normal – which is great.

On the other hand, your family think slightly different. Now in terms of changing behavior, well that’s a biggie and quite often can be referred to as the $64K question – ok, maybe it’s not, maybe I just made that up, but I hope you get my gist. Changing of behavior is huge.

May I ask, what other avenues of support for your depression and anxiety have you got happening? You’ve mentioned meds, which is great, but they are not the absolute sole thing you can do – they are great, but they work so much better in conjunction with other things that are put into action. Such as, regular doctor visits – and then this leads to obtaining referrals for psychologists or psychiatrists, for the counselling aspect.

And then there’s other options that are designed to help with your own body. Diet, intake of water (one that I try to promote a lot – as depressive feelings will get greater the more dehydrated a person gets), physical activity, adequate sleep – I could go on, but I’ll stop at this stage and will send this off to you now.

Again, thanx for coming to Beyond Blue and I do look forward to hearing from you again.

Neil

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