♦::♦:: THINGS ARE LOOKING UP -- Who's New Here? ::♦::♦

[ParamedFlorena]

Welcome to the Depression Community!  We are pleased to have you here, and we value your input as you give or get the support you are looking for. Don't ever hesitate to reply when you feel you can share your experience to help someone else. By working together we can help each other.

With so many new members, it would be great if you all responded to this post so that all our members (new and old) can get the chance to welcome you and {{ wave }} hello!

We hope that you enjoy being part of this MedHelp community and look forward to see your posts!

As your community leaders we - Hensley258 and ParamedFlorena - appreciate you contact either of us (via private message) or MedHelp directly (by using the dropdown menu underneath the report this key) regarding any issues with posts, and we'll try the best we can to keep the comfort-level high as we build our community together.


Your CL's,
Hensley258
ParamedFlorena

[lonewolf07]

Hi - Seh:go

Am Métis (Native/white) and grew up in Native culture.  This website has helped a lot.   It's a safe, non-judgemental place.  I'm an "oldbie" who has been here since the end of March 2008.  I come to both the Depression and Anxiety Forums.  Have suffered from both ever since I can remember.  I was suicidal when I found this website and despite my fears of being judged, the people I communicated and hopefully still communicate, have been caring and supportive.

Thank you - Megwich

lonewolf

[Hensley258]

Glad to see some new faces! Sorry I haven't posted much in the last few days.
I am going thru another one of my relapses. I get them about every year or two.
I think my meds pooped out again. Gonna make some changes with the cocktail, but could be a bit before my head is back to 100%.

[Emma_08]

Hello everyone!
I wanted to start off by saying that I love MedHelp and am thankful for all of the support!  I have been dealing with depression for years and lately my anxiety has been much worse.  I have tried counseling countless times - some of it was very helpful, but I felt my depression was never taken very seriously.  I have recently started Effexor XR and am seeing a new therapist, whom I feel comfortable with.  For the first time in a long time, I see some hope for the future.  
I look forward to joining this community and getting to know everybody!
~Emma  

[Sar30]

Hi my name is Sarah I have clinical depression, just Looking for some support and to support others.

[(Not so) Spunky]

Add me to the club!! I'm not new to this website, but I am new to this particular forum.. I've had depression on and off for 7 years- starting with a severe case of post partum psychosis. I got better after a year, and was able to do without meds. These last 2 years tho have been VERY trying for me, and I go in for surgery on the 20th of May. The chronic pain and inability to be "me" has begun to take it's toll. I look forward to meeting everyone here, and together we can hopefully live a little more!!

Tish

[SHAS88]

Hi all, I'm new here, I've been on this site for a few days. I guess I'm here because things in life are getting a little bit hopeless. I've been depressed for more than half my life, and it's just really hard to keep managing. Just looking for some support somewhere, thanks.

[JKJ]

Hi...I'm a newbie here as well.  I have severe PTSD and chronic major depression.  I'm a 100% disabled veteran of the US Air Force.  I've been on countless ADs (which haven't worked) and am now unmedicated.  I was mis-dx as having bi-polar by the VA and was wrongly medicated for that for a few years with many different mood stabilizers.
PTSD is often mis-dx as BP.

You might hear me talk alot on here about the sad state of the VA...it's a system I've been fighting for years.

Thanks for this forum...I hope I can offer some feedback to others as well.

[ParamedFlorena]

Thank you for your introductions! There is one thing I know for sure, and that is that there are answers for us all no matter what we've gone through in life!

Don't give up the search!

~Florena

[Zoegiri]

Hello everyone, I am new to this group and the site, today is my first day to both.  I have suffered from depression since 2004, I suffer from several chronic, degenerative and debilitating conditions, which got to the point in 2004, that I could no longer continue to work and I had to apply for, and now living on disability.  From that point on, my life has been on it's ear, I feel so lost without the ability to work, I have always worked, since I was 16 y/o, raising two children as a single parent, without any help from their father or anyone else.  I feel as if my wings have been clipped. Add to that, the horrible high levels of pain that I live in everyday, waking up in the morning is so depressing, it takes everything I have to force me to get up out of bed.  I don't feel as if I have any reason to get out of bed, my self-esteem, self-worth and value have plummeted.  I am a single woman, and it's even more depressing when I think about the idea of condeming a man to this life with me, I could never to that to someone, besides who in their right mind would walk willingly into my life, knowing what I live with?  
I look forward to getting to know everyone here, and helping you as well.
Blessings, Lise

[karen608]

Hi Everyone: I joined this week, and am in the process of getting medicine right for major depression that I have had perhaps 18 years. It took a while to get very severe and than longer for me to realize what it was so I would go in to doctor for help.  Waiting on this medicine, to see if I improve.

My biggest step was last night. I slept eight hours and woke up on my own without an alarm clock. After months & months of sleeping only four hours, or 14 (!) at a time,  I am celebrating even one night that was normal.

This might be called a depression community, but if we all stick together, it will help anyone that comes here.  And hopefully it will encourage everyone.

BTW in about a week I may be offline for two weeks, so notifying everyone/anyone, that I am away from computer, which is sort of like dropping out of life for me! But time to be with husband & so many odd relatives (not a pun there) which doesn't happen every day. Hope I meet more of you online as time goes on.