Hi all,
im chris 25 year old male from Ireland living in Melbourne. for the past year I have had sever depression to the point that I was suiciudal everyday. U will see my story in my previous post depression in Melbourne. I am basically reaching out on here to help other people that are battling the disease and I'm here to tell them that I took control of my life and beat it so u can to, no matter how hard it seems now but belive me things will get better, I know when I was severely sick and I was hearing people saying it would get better soon that I never belived them.
so I started medication on Christmas day after trying every other possible solution including seeing a naturopath for 3 months (waste of money and was never interested in my sickness she was only interested in the money)
of course the first couple of weeks on medication was hard but it was no way harder than the way I had been feeling the last hole year. I totally changed my diet, I cut out all gluten and sugar and went paleo, again this was tuff but noting like what I had been tru. I started dragging my self to the gym every night even when it felt impossible I put the work in. I also got acupuncher every week from a women I found online that deals with depression. As week and week was going by I wasn't really feeling much better to be honest then weeks started to turn into months and the dark cloud was still there day in and day out. But then my sleep started going from 2 hours a night to 5-6 a night and then to 7-8 this was the first healing process because I hadn't slept a full night in over a year. So I pushed on with the diet, the medication, the excersie, and every thing else. Then I was haveing one good day and 3 bad days then 2 good days and 5 bad ones it was up and down every week but I kept the faith and hope, then I started to have 5 good days and only 1 or 2 bad ones. While I still get days where my mood is low and unbalanced I am no where near as sick I was last year. I finally love my life again, me and my girl are great again and I'm back at work full time. I just sit and thank myself for not giving up because I tought I was going to. I pushed on day in and day out not really even feeling alive just feeling like I was trying to break tru glass. I am not saying I am 100% depression free but I'm about %75 and I will keep pushing till I get to that 100%. I done this on my own with no family here or no friends as im from overseas. I had no one and I did it so u can to
