dear Mon, I want to thank you for coming to this site and offer you a warm welcome.
I can't tell you how sorry I am to read your comment, and just a quick answer to one of your questions is that you do seem to have depression, because what you have mentioned are certainly indicators that you do have this illness, as far as I am concerned.
It changes our personality from being an outgoing type person to then suddenly being someone who's livelihood and all our interests just fade away and are blocked from wanting to participate in.
I have always said that no one can possibly overcome depression by themselves, however what it can do for you is to make you feel a little better, but the trouble with this is that you are just putting a bandaid over these these problems, but it doesn't make you get to the core of the problems, which are unrecognised or you are too frightened to deal with them by yourself.
You also have the tendency to procrastinate and procrastination as always been a huge problem in regards to depression, we simply can't keep putting things off, and I know that there are different parts of depression that cause this, so it's a huge problem, and with my own depression it was always something that I did, and possibly still happens today, although I know that the sooner it's done the better it is, because if I don't it will be there again tomorrow, and the longer I leave it the worse it becomes.
Procrastination happens even when you see a psych, but the point is that if we don't see a psychologist then maybe none of these thoughts would have been brought to our attention, but these could be the underlying problems that we have, so no I don't believe you can in a proper way.
There seems to be so many hidden points that you have haven't mentioned, so I hope that you can get back to us. Geoff.
