PLEASE HELP?!?! nothing makes sense?

Question

A year ago I was diagnosed with depression and started taking meds. However I feel a deep emptiness. I quit my job and feel like nothing makes sense. I am not attracted or encouraged by anything. I do not feel like studying. I do not feel like having a boyfriend, nor getting married nor having kids. Do you feel like your life has any sense? Please help.

Answer 1

You may need to take some different medications. Just don't give up and when you find what is right for you then you will feel better. Sometimes it is difficult to find the right one for you so just keep trying. Things will make sense once again for you just don't give up hope.

Answer 2

When I was on meds for depression and anxiety, I slowly but surely lost interest in boys, friends, hobbies, movies, ...basically life. It made me sad every now and again that I didn't go out and have fun like I use to but then I would forget why I felt sad or whatever. That happens with meds. You don't really feel anything because you are being "balanced." It's hard to cope with and sometimes even think about. I know that it doesn't make sense and plenty of people will tell you that meds don't work. Well they do and they are. They are doing what they are suppose to be doing, but are you bettering from them? Maybe you should talk to your doctor about this and request for a new med or a lighter dosage.

Answer 3

I agree with Jill.. meds affect different people differently. If one isn't working try a different one (under Dr. supervision of course). At first I thought mine was working, but now I am realizing that all i did was go from 'pathetic' to 'apathetic' - now instead of crying about everything - i dont give a sh#$ about ANYthing. That is not good either - so just try to keep in mind that it is just a chemical imbalance - and you will feel much better when you find the right meds. Nothing is as bad as it seems.
Kat

Answer 4

While I have never taken medication for depression, although I was severely depressed for 7 years. There were many legitimate causes for my depression, I was working my way through grief.

I learned a year ago the Hypothyroidism contributes to depression. I had mine tested and learned that was my problem.In one month of being on the one Synthroid a day, I was totally back to normal.

I have been back to work again, feeling mentally quite well. It has done wonders.

Have your Thyroid tested. It is a simple blood test and could help solve your problem.

Answer 5

are you taking prozac? i ask because i was perscribed that for postpartum depression. i wasn't suicidal until about a month after i started and i ceased to care about anything. i didnt' care if i showered, i didn't care if my house was clean, i didnt care if my husband bitched at me, i didnt care if the kids ran around the hosue naked and screaming. i fantasized about not stopping at busy intersections and swallowing toxic chemicals to see what would happen. i finally quit my very stressful job and quit taking the prozac and within a month my mood shifted again and i began to care. I wasn't apathetic any longer. i would go with the suggestion of seeing your doctor and maybe switching meds, if not coming off them altogether. sometimes the meds hurt more then they help and you just need to talk to someone when you're depressed.

Answer 6

I have been there, you might need to change meds, I had to go through at least 6 different kinds until I found one right for me. Life is good, we are all lucky to have a life and we have control over our happiness. Change meds, and talk to your doctor.

Answer 7

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.

With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.

Answer 8

Find some things in life that matter to you and get out and do more things.perhaps try a new med or therapy.

Answer 9

Watch fight club and actually GRASP what they're trying to say.

Answer 10

i feel ya, your in a downward spiral please call and make a visit to a doctor