Good Morning all.
Living with a chronic illness as you all know has many ramifications and presents a whole set of problems within a daily living context.
Lupus I understand can have, commonly as part of its list of symptoms' 'depression as a condition.
Depression can also be a side effect.
There are from my own experience many layers .
and ups and downs within my illness.
On the whole I do not feel clinically depressed . I do know what that feels like as experenced that many years ago.
There have been many posts here on how people including myself struggle with keeping some perspective and emotional stability whilst dealing with a chronic illness.
On a really positive note I have read that some have moved forward with some sort of counselling.
For some they have tried anti depressant medications.
For some it could be the support within a family friends context.
For some it could be a mixture of all the above.
Having counselling in any instance is a good thing but being lucky enough to find somebody who specialises in 'livng with a chronic illness' would in my opinion be the only best effective method.
Although I think Im dealing with my illness in 'doing the best I can' I do struggle and sometimes question what is going on internally because things I say and do at times mean 'Im forced to question ' How well am I really dealing with this illness and is there anything
I can do for instance perhaps some counselling to just move life on and make things even better,.
What are peoples experiences, how do you cope?.
Just to reiterate Im not clincially depressed, Im generally a happy person who stuggles and of course and can also feel overwhelmed from time to time daily which is normal is it not.
I do see unhealthy episodes which Im sure are because Im still coming to terms in some way or not with this illness.
Nicky
Living with a chronic illness as you all know has many ramifications and presents a whole set of problems within a daily living context.
Lupus I understand can have, commonly as part of its list of symptoms' 'depression as a condition.
Depression can also be a side effect.
There are from my own experience many layers .
and ups and downs within my illness.
On the whole I do not feel clinically depressed . I do know what that feels like as experenced that many years ago.
There have been many posts here on how people including myself struggle with keeping some perspective and emotional stability whilst dealing with a chronic illness.
On a really positive note I have read that some have moved forward with some sort of counselling.
For some they have tried anti depressant medications.
For some it could be the support within a family friends context.
For some it could be a mixture of all the above.
Having counselling in any instance is a good thing but being lucky enough to find somebody who specialises in 'livng with a chronic illness' would in my opinion be the only best effective method.
Although I think Im dealing with my illness in 'doing the best I can' I do struggle and sometimes question what is going on internally because things I say and do at times mean 'Im forced to question ' How well am I really dealing with this illness and is there anything
I can do for instance perhaps some counselling to just move life on and make things even better,.
What are peoples experiences, how do you cope?.
Just to reiterate Im not clincially depressed, Im generally a happy person who stuggles and of course and can also feel overwhelmed from time to time daily which is normal is it not.
I do see unhealthy episodes which Im sure are because Im still coming to terms in some way or not with this illness.
Nicky