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I've had severe depressions in about the past four years. I've been having mood swings about as long, with the depressed part looking like this: my alarm clock wakes me up, I oversleep or wake up feeling anxious and nervous and tired. During the day I can hardly concentrate on anything, most of the time I just stare at the floor or outside or whatever happens to be around, I have headaches or other aches I can't explain, and I feel sick, I eat more than normally, feel worthless and hopeless and unmotivated, and I either cry myself to sleep or barely sleep at all until morning, and I'm scared of what I might see in my dreams.
7:36 pm September 11, 2008
Liz
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When I'm up, I'm energetic, need very little sleep, feel like drunk or high, or in some kind of strange haze. It's wild and feels like my life was on fast forward.
The depression usually starts when something goes wrong. I'm down for a while, but I can't seem to get out. I can sense when I'm not down because of that whatever any more, but down in general, and I feel caged and out of my element. And I don't know what to do. I haven't attempted suicide, but sometimes I wish I was dead, even though the act of dieing scares the hell out of me, since it would be final.
I know I will be normal again, but until then its plain hell. And
I don't think it has anything to do with PMS. I have never noticed any
mood swings or different behavior caused by my menstrual cycle.
I think I described the 'down' part more precisely because that's
what I am now. I haven't gone to a doctor because they scare the hell
out of me and I hate opening myself up. So I don't know if I'm bipolar,
simply depressed or something else, but from what I've read, it looks
like bipolar. Please help me out in this