My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
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My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
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Re: My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
#2I'm like her dad. Reading her story may have altered my path, for the sake of my daughters, for a bit longer, I guess.
I design software, I code, test and deploy. They think my work is good. It doesn't matter. I work until I'm tired and then I sleep. I hide my tears from my family. There's no joy in any of these projects, and I've lost all interest in my past side projects. I work so much I barely see my daughters before they go to sleep. If I stop working we'll be bankrupt within months.
Re: My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
#3I'm like her dad. Reading her story may have altered my path, for the sake of my daughters, for a bit longer, I guess. I design software, I code, test and deploy. They think my work is good. It doesn't matter. I work until I'm tired and then I sleep. I hide my tears from my family. There's no joy in any of these projects, and I've lost all interest in my past side projects. I work so much I barely see my daughters be…
Have you seen a doctor? Called a helpline?
Re: My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
#4I'm like her dad. Reading her story may have altered my path, for the sake of my daughters, for a bit longer, I guess. I design software, I code, test and deploy. They think my work is good. It doesn't matter. I work until I'm tired and then I sleep. I hide my tears from my family. There's no joy in any of these projects, and I've lost all interest in my past side projects. I work so much I barely see my daughters be…
Have you seen a doctor? Called a helpline?
A long time ago. It didn't help.
Re: My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
#5Re: My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
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Have you seen a doctor? Called a helpline?
A long time ago. It didn't help.
The thing about depression is that everybody is different and everybody responds differently to different approaches. Sometimes drugs work, sometimes therapy works, sometimes drugs combined with therapy works, and so on.
Give it another go. Worst case scenario is you waste some time and maybe have some side-effects.
Re: My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
#7Re: My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
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Have you seen a doctor? Called a helpline?
A long time ago. It didn't help.
Try again for your family. You seem to care a lot about them.
Finding medication and a therapist that work for you is really hard. It can take a lot of work. But it's worth it. It won't fix everything, far from it, but it's worth it. Just keep taking it one day at a time.
Re: My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
#9I'm like her dad. Reading her story may have altered my path, for the sake of my daughters, for a bit longer, I guess. I design software, I code, test and deploy. They think my work is good. It doesn't matter. I work until I'm tired and then I sleep. I hide my tears from my family. There's no joy in any of these projects, and I've lost all interest in my past side projects. I work so much I barely see my daughters be…
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Re: My dad hid his depression. I won’t hide mine
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you seen a doctor? Called a helpline?
A long time ago. It didn't help.
Things have come a long way in that time. I shyed away from medicine ~2007 because the side effects were gnarly and I was scared it would change who I was.
I tryed em out about 3 years ago. It remains among the smartest things I've ever done for myself. The field has come a long way. I'm the same guy I always was, with lots less crushing anxiety.
If it's been a long time, give it another go. "I tried a cell phone in 2003 - it was shitty" sounds crazy. It's apples to oranges compared to what's available today. Turns out medicine is the same way sometimes.