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for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 910

Hey Daisy!

Welcome to the forums! Feel free to chat, vent or anything with us! We are all here for you!

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 1693

Daisy,

Welcome to our wonderful support community, you have come to a great place

We are here to help, support and encourage you in whatever you need. You will find that there are many members who have or who are going through the exact same thing as you. Please take the time to read through the program and to explore the tools and resources that are available to you through this site.

We're here for you 24/7 if you have questions or need some feedback. Hang in there, and post often

Breanne, Bilingual Health Educator

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 456

hi daisy,

Welcome!!!!

i will attempt an into response with scaring you away

. Yes food has a major impact on your mood! Fats and cards - like in chocolates are comforts foods that stimulate insuline production in the body and a whole bunch of brain functions! THat is why we are supposed to do exercise, to stimulate the body and the brain is other "good" ways.

Also I was reading the montreal Gazette and studies are finding that the simple carbs are part of an addition -like nicotine- so the body gives you signals when it wants more! cravings and symptomes??? So we really need to read Nutrition lables and look for quality foods that do not replace fats with carbs.

Finally, chocolate like colas, energy drinks, and tea and coffee have caffine. The goddess of sleepless nights and overworked parents quick fix exiler of the immortals. And it interacts with our medications. Somedays it will be fine and on the stressful days it will wreck havoc on the nerves.

Daisy,

Because of the blip in your mood I would see the doctor. Try to keep track of how you feel in the morning and evening in a notepad or a mood chart (like the bipolars -me

use) and mention it to the doctor. you know your illness well! and often a change is something to get checked. I do not think you need to run to the emergency room ... but maybe a bit of tweeking is in order???

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 2

Hello,

I am a 61 year old woman who has suffered from depression all my life as best I can figure out. I was diagnosed with depression in 1982 and first started on medication then. After the initial few weeks, I discovered how it felt to have energy, to not feel paranoid, and to believe something not under my control was causing my day to day struggle with life. I also have an underactive thyroid which was diagnosed in 1988. Since then I've been through every type of medication until Prozac became my first "miracle" drug. I now use full spectrum light for an hour first thing in the morning and then ride my exercise bike for 35 minutes. I lead a strength and flexibility exercise class twice a week for people over 40. I'm one of the youngest! I've deliberately lost the extra weight I had been carrying around since I had my son 34 years ago. Right now I've regained 10 pounds starting in November when the light started to decrease and I let my craving for chocolate take over.

When I'm out of depression I thoroughly enjoy my life with the energy and optimism I had never had before. But it's the recurrence of it that drains me. Despite using the light for the first time since Sept. 1 and continuing a healthy life style, I had the worst episode of depression ever right after Christmas. There is an issue my husband and I are working on which would definitely contribute to it but I've know about that since the first part of August. But I felt everything I have felt before and to the nth degree. I was working out suicide scenarios in my mind but have never acted on them in all the years of this struggle. I felt totally bereft of hope which hasn't happened before. Usually I can believe that the time will come when I feel good again. I sobbed immediately at any attempt to talk about any issues. I wanted to go somewhere and rest until it went away. I felt stuck in the bottom of a mud hole spinning my tires with no hope of getting out. My Beck scores were in the high severe range consistently.

Then over a period of two days, miraculously, my mood did a 180 degree shift. I felt the way I love to feel and all my self esteem returned along with hope and physical energy to do things. This has NEVER happened before. Today I'm sinking back into it and am going to use whatever resources I can to stop it.

By joining this support group, I'm hoping to get support and maybe other people's experiences to allow me to accept the cycle of depression and avoid my pitfalls. I believe that bingeing on chocolate is a significant contributor in the fall/winter but not the whole story. Has anyone out there found chocolate and simple carbohydrates a contributor to their episodes of depression?

Thank you to anyone who has persisted through my introduction.

Daisy

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