depression

[junglejim46]

Is non being able to concentrate on something, or not being able to retain what you read part of depression?
junglejim46

[junglejim46]

You know, I'm noticing more and more, that either my depression is keeping me down, or Fibro is giving me hell(excuss the expression, but that's the way it is), or a combination of both.  Then when my painc attacks act up, well, I can say I'm out of it.
From what I'm learning on my own, it's an ongoing fight, from all ends.  
I get SO tired physically.
I wonder what it would be like to feel just "blue or down" for a short time.  That's got to be easier to deal with than this, I would think.
Anyway, I have jumped in to learn all I can about all of it and see where it takes me.  People have got to be aware of it all and help us out.
junglejim46

[cez6]

Everyone occasionally feels blue or sad, but these feelings are usually fleeting and pass within a couple of days. When a person has a depressive disorder, it interferes with daily life, normal functioning, and causes pain for both the person with the disorder and those who care about him or her. Depression is a common but serious illness, and most who experience it need treatment to get better.

Many people with a depressive illness never seek treatment. But the vast majority, even those with the most severe depression, can get better with treatment. Intensive research into the illness has resulted in the development of medications, psychotherapies, and other methods to treat people with this disabling disorder.

[Medizinprodukt|http://www.mechatronic.de/02medical/de/medical_index_d.html]  

[junglejim46]

Thank you for the encouraging note.  It's been a year since my drama and everything in me started falling apart.  It seems like a life time.  I can read but can't retain it.
Unfortunely, that drama end of things are still to vivid Like you, my therpist says time. Do you understand when I say, I don't want to wait.  Some of my life has been stolen from me as it is and I'm so angry about it. That's what has brought everything full blown. Will I ever be together again. I have no work experinece and that's really complicating the issue, even though my therpist says I'm pusing to hard. Is he really right.
junglejim46

[dippy1]

Yes my friend, not being able to focus the brain onto a subject and no memory retention whatsoever was a major part of my symptom list when I was at my worst. I couldn't read at all...my eyes would follow the lines of words but my brain couldn't process them. I've taken to keeping a diary with everything in and have a board in the kitchen to write messages/jobs/important things...these things have helped on a practical level but time and meds and therapy have slowly (oh so slowly) got me to a better place. Gradually my thinking and focussing and memory has improved...I have completely "lost" some previously learnt things from around the time I became ill (returning to the job I'd started 18m earlier I found a lot of the process-related things and many of the staff's names were "gone") but now am learning and remembering better again...I still drift down into the slow fugginess when over-tired but it's far better than it was.  Hang in there.

[junglejim46]

Thanks for that
junglejim46

[Hensley258]

That is one of many symptoms, but alone is not an indicator or disagnosis of major depression.