Hi David,
Welcome to the site.
Thanks for sharing your introduction here with all of us.
The core of the Depression Center is our Depression Program which is an interactive, 16-session cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)course. When using cognitive behavioral therapy, each person has unique goals in their treatment.
Whatever your motivation, cognitive behavioral therapy is a very effective treatment for depression.
We hope that you find the online program helpful and look forward to continuing to share in your experiences and progress.
Take care,
Casey
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The Depression Center Support Team
Hi David,
you are so inspiring!
I admire you for being so brave and being able to talk so openly. I've been here for almost 3 weeks and I haven't managed to say anything at all.
take care
glad you are here
Depression is something I have lived with for a long time; I just got out of the hospital. I do look at it as divine intervention.
For the past 45+ days (I lost count) I have been committed. I sort of had to lie to the doctors just to get out.
The medications I am on have truly curbed my mood and thoughts.
Novo Bupropion(Welbutrin) 300mg twice daily
Lithium 900mg at night
Seroquel 300 mg at night
These medications are working so well that I have the inability to cry, which at times is a little frustrating; its like a false sense of well being but I am unable to act on my darkest thoughts. Its like I have an internal war going on and I have no idea who will win.
So in the mean time I know that Cognitive Therapy can be good and will help where medication cannot. I will give this program a try
Why so depressed? Well there has been a lot of really bad things that have happened to me starting at the age of 3 and for the past 2 years I have been completely alone in this world, all my family has passed parents brother grandparents you name it all gone and I am not that old, only 37. There will be no more remember whens for me, no more family Christmas, Easter or Thanksgiving get togethers. The only person I have to live for is me. The rose color glasses just don't exist for me.
I'm not making any promises but I will try.
