Anybody With Anxiety Depression Ever Wake Expecting It To Be Gone Yet Get Depressed When They Find It Has Not?

Question

You ever feel really good .and you have anxiety and depression..feeling really good on a particular day and go to sleep that night expecting to wake not depressed and anxious the next day because you know that you are better only to have depression kick in the first thing and make you so sad to realize it hasnt gone and you are back at square on only worse?Lately I have been dealing with both and doing a great job staying busy and doing things that needed to be done and i wanted to do ,but for the last few days I keep waking to find its not going anywhere soon.Its a bizarre feeling to know you have something you don't know if anything is ever going to help and cant escape from and go to sleep at peace and find it only to reappear the next day.Is there no escaping this?I am suppose to be better yet the mornings bring doubt and depression from false hope.I am seeing a therapist and taking meds and doing all the right things.Will there ever be an escape?

Answer 1

I know exactly how you feel. I've been this way since my early teens and I'll be 58 this year. Until they find the cause of this hellish disease there's only drugs and therapy. I am a fighter but sometimes it gets me good. No one can know the pain and suffering. Please, please keep fighting. God bless and keep you.

Answer 2

There is no magical solution for the way you're feeling. You sound as though you are becoming agoraphobic. You have to fight that with all you have in you. ( I am agoraphobic ) panic or no panic get outside of that room. go outside and take some deep slow breaths for at least 10 minutes a day, every day. Stopping the medication you were given is not a good idea, you will have withdrawal symptoms. You need to tell your doctor that the medication is not working for you and making you feel worse. There are many other medications you can take and for most of us it takes a few tries before we find the one that works with our bodies. Take a multivitamin everyday and also fish oil because both of these are good for brain function also drink milk because this has a calming effect on the body. The more your body moves the less fatigue you will feel, our bodies are not meant to sit and lay around all day, I understand how hard this is to do but, force yourself even if you are just moving around your house. I have had anxiety for over 15 years, I've had really good times and I've had relapse. You have to be really, really honest with your doctor about the side effects, about how you are feeling even the suicidal thoughts, you won't be put in the hospital for having thoughts. You might need a medication change. There really is a "cure" and a good relationship with your doctor is a start. Remember a panic attack can only last for so long.

Answer 3

Yes I know exactly what you mean. I usually have weeks where I stay on top of everything and feel like I am finally kicking it, only to wake up one day and be back at the bottom again. I feel like it's a spiral.

I don't know about seeing a therapist and taking meds. By all means take the advice of your therapist, not me or someone on a website who doesn't know you. But for me, I've found that staying up to date on chores and work, staying active physically, spending a lot of time outdoors, keeping my house clean, hanging out with friends and eating healthy homecooked foods and not drinking at all makes me feel better than any drugs or medication. The problem is that if I lose control or fall behind or get off my schedule, the depression comes and I fall into a slump and eventually give into it totally (and end up spending three or four days on the web or watching TV, ugggh). Like right now because the weather here was so bad we weren't able to leave the house for three days, and I feel into a slump. Otherwise, I can control it naturally just as well or as poorly as with meds. I've never had meds that worked 100% and my natural attempts don't work 100% either, but at least I feel better about not being on meds.

But that is just ME and just an idea for you to MAYBE discuss with your therapist if you are interested. Find out what triggers your depression and see if you can control it most of the time and try to be healthy and productive and active. But DON'T go get off your meds and give this a try without talking to your doc first! lol

Answer 4

I have read about many people with the same symptoms. You are not alone. I did research to find out how Paxil and Zoloft work. Our brain releases a chemical, serotonin. Our nerve receptors do not receive it efficiently, who knows why. These drugs apparently allow the chemical to wait until we are ready to accept it and not destroy it before we are ready. I was on Paxil for 2 years. I felt better but felt drugged. One of the side effects was I could not climax sexually. I decided to stop taking Paxil. Sure enough the feelings came back. Now I can identify the feelings. It is not me, just a chemical imbalance. I still get feeling bad, but It is not my fault. Dealing with depression is a b****. I read a great description to describe depression to someone that doesn't get it. When you are "homesick" but you are home.

Answer 5

for the first thing you keep saying escape, you should see it as getting over it, or getting better, by saying escape you sit yourself up for what is going on, you have a fear that it will be there in the morning and so it is, and so you feel you will never get better, or escape this, well you do not escape it, you work through it, and you try to keep an more positive attuidute, cause you are letting your attuidute run your life, by doubting that you will get well, or better, and by thinking you have to escape, when you should see it as getting better, remember too,you will have times that you will be slipping backwards sometimes, but if you keep pushing forward you will end up going forward. And you will have less and less slipping backwards has time goes on, but you need to remember that this is normal, when you are working towards welliness.

Answer 6

each moment by moment, expectation will bring stress when things don't work out the way you wanted... endeavour to eliminate your craving to be rid of this 'problem' ... your body/mind are telling you something .. more balance, more centredness ... some of us do need additional help from medications but learn to be kind to yourself and not be p'd off cause you feel depressed/anxious. it is the way some of us are ... personally I found things like yoga, tai chi are by far the best as you are actually doing something while trying to meditate meant hard work keeping those thoughts moving past instead of lodging and insisting on conscious acknowledgement.

I hope this makes sense. I have dealt with this stuff since childhood and now in mid 50s ... as life changes your ways of adapting have to change also ... what worked for me 10 years ago isn't what works for me now

the important thing I think is to be kind to yourself, don't be mad cause you feel depressed/anxious and so on

Answer 7

Hi there, I just laugh about my past 3 years of panic now. I was not able to go anywhere without carrying xanax. Fear of having another attack was the most important subject of my days.When i first found joe barry's web site i started to cry because of my happiness.

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Answer 8

I know what you mean--getting depressed about being depressed. Quite a vicious circle.

Be sure to let your therapist know what's going on; s/he may adjust your meds.

There is light at the end of the tunnel, and no, it's not a train.

Answer 9

I have no idea what your talking about.......HOWEVER if you go to bed thinking tomorrow will be the shittiest day ever, how good will it be to wake up not fealing so bad???? You will start the day on a positive note........just think to yourself.....things could be worse...i could be a pom!

Answer 10

I am going through the same f*cked up thing. Mine is only anxiety though. I HATE IT