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Severe long-term depression-Treatments and ways to cope

Postby Unknown_1 » Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:26 pm

I have been diagnosed with severe long-term depression (along with Avoidant PD and GAD) and I've been on numerous medications (antidepressants, mood stabilisers, antipsychotics, benzos) and had therapy for a number of years. I'm just wondering what treatments you guys have tried and any successes you have had? Also, how you've learned to cope with the unremitting symptoms?
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Re: Severe long-term depression-Treatments and ways to cope

Postby Jeff Spicoli » Thu Nov 06, 2014 4:32 pm

What problems are you experiencing in life?

Relationships?
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Re: Severe long-term depression-Treatments and ways to cope

Postby Unknown_1 » Thu Nov 06, 2014 5:15 pm

Given my Avoidant PD, I'm always going to have difficulty with relationships. But even with this, a number of professionals have diagnosed me with endogenous depression as separate to the PD (I was diagnosed with depression in childhood with a query of bipolar). I also have a strong familial loading for both severe (at times catatonic) depression and Bipolar type ii. I know external things can trigger it sometimes, but other times it is unpredictable, and I'm just wondering others experiences of this type of depression and how they cope with/manage it.
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