What is the difference between depression or bouts of sadness?
I keep getting hit with feeling down....it comes over my like a dark cloud and it can lift just as quickly. The lady I've been working with at the compound pharmacy recommended I start estrogen. She has worked with my for close to three years now and has held off on the estrogen. I'm at the latter end of my cycle when estrogen starts to drop so I don't know if that is causing it.

We moved this year and I'm having a really hard time accepting where we live.....I don't like it at all and the thought of staying here really gets me down. We are renting and there is something about being a woman and having a home to call your own......we still have our house (it hasn't sold....yeah!) that makes it harder knowing its still there. We hope to move back in June.....but the winter makes this place seem even darker. I also feel so guilty feeling this way.....I've been so blessed! I have a great husband who takes care of me.....kids 20,18,17 and 14 (all living at home....and I wonder why I have depression!LOL) and yet I want to go home and am not content here and feel down.

Sorry for rambling........this depression is just a "new" symptom for me.....I don't like it!

I'm sorry to hear that you have been feeling do down lately! It sounds like the "situation" is what has you feeling depressed, which is different than just having clinical depression. You are depressed for a reason, the whole thing is frustrating to you and you feel unhappy about it.

Sounds like you are stuck for now and will have to deal with this set of circumstances. I feel for you and I know it has to be very hard on you to stick with this. But, it also sounds like you have a great family and much to be thankful for, so I would try and focus on that, find a way to be happy within this situation if possible.

I have a difficult situation too, and I have tried to make the best of it, each part of our lives is a "season" and the season will end and things will change eventually, so don't waste any part of your life, live it fully if you can. This is what I tell myself, as I find myself in those pity parties all to often.

I hope you can find a way, to smile again and feel motivation to move forward and be yourself again!

Juliann

Sorry you feeling down. the difference between feeling down and depression is when your feeling down your sad or emotional for a bit and it goes away after awhile. Depression is a deep darknes among you. You will lose feelings of pleasure and want to stay in bed and away from others and can even get worse. Hope this helps feel better. Terry

It's official I am depressed....ughhh... I'm on an AD Lexapro and I don't think it is completely working. Anyways Oars, I'm sorry you are having a bout with the blues. It is hard to leave a place you consider home. At least you have a goal in place to go back in June so try and keep your spirits up until then. We all feel like that at times, don't feel bad about it. Right now, the place you live in now is "home" because it holds what you hold dear.... your husband and your kids and where ever they and you are is home. That said, hang in there, you will get through this fork in the road.

Take care,
Mich

Thank you so much for your replies.....so much wisdom. I really do need to focus on the "here and now" don't I.....I feel so much better today....that just shows you in this peri journey what a difference a day makes!