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Hi @Shine32 . Is this the first time you've found yourself suffering severe depression?

I can relate, yes - you lose all desire to do anything at all. It becomes a matter of just somehow getting through each dreadful day and endless night.

It sounds like a good thing you have a psychiatrist and medication, to help support you at this time.

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Best wishes as you go through this awful thing. A lot of people here can relate.

Thank u @NatureLover

I appreciate the reply

I'm trying to research as much as I can to better understand because I'm hoping it will help me recover

it's been going on for 6 months and it's become debilitating

other then over sleeping not eating not wanting to socialise ect

I can't seem to find much information

my behaviour is unusual and that's why I feel I need to find answers or know someone is having any similar symptoms

I'm concerned because I can't actually think straight most of the time

@Shine32 I found the same, about not being able to think straight - the depression causes a brain fog.

I found something that helped me was taking multi-vitamin tablets, as I wasn't getting enough nutrition through food at that time.

Good luck with your research...

Welcome @Shine32

you are not alone in the way you are feeling...: I can relate to everything you have described.... I have the attention span of a goldfish.... people talk to me and nothing goes in.... I don't feel like me..... I have lost my smile... I have lost my enthusiasm.... I have lost my get up and go..... I have lost me....

If I was to be told I had a brain tumor I wouldn't be surprised.... something is wrong and I can't put my finger on it

i want to sleep... constantly (except at times like now when I should be asleep but I just can't get to sleep)..... I wake up crying and shaking...I have no motivation to get out of bed.... I am happy one second and Niagara' falls the next.... I have severe vertigo almost constantly.... I feel like an insane hyperchondriac

my GP keeps increasing my meds.... I see a psychologist.... but I don't feel like any of it is making a difference.... I feel like no one understands me.... like I am speaking some foreign language

I am hoping now I have quit my toxic job I might be able to find the real me again and move on.... but only time will tell

@Lostandalone you've quit that toxic job? Well done! I know that was a huge battle for you.

I'm sorry though that you are feeling like you described...I really hope the increased meds and the psychologist start to help soon.

@Lostandalone And @NatureLover

@I'm just wondering how long have us been this way

I'm in such desperation to get better and nothing I do helps

I honestly don't know how people suffer like this

Is there anything you have done or tried that has helped

What helped? Multi-vitamins; a new psychiatrist who changed my anti-depressant to a stronger one with a higher dose; starting a long-term sleeping tablet; and talk therapy.

I really hope you get some improvement soon, @Shine32 .

Thank you @NatureLover

@I've changed psychiatrist and changed medication but haven't had any changes I actually feel so numb that I can't express myself or how I feel

I don't recall feeling that way before

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@Shine32 wrote:

I've changed psychiatrist and changed medication but haven't had any changes I actually feel so numb that I can't express myself or how I feel

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That's not a fun place to be in, @Shine32 ... 😞

I hope the new psychiatrist and the changed meds will work soon...how long is it since your psychiatrist changed the meds?