NO ONE IS LISTENING OR UNDERSTANDING ME

[Moomoo65]

Hi all

For the past 7 + years I have been having long periods of sleeping for 16 hours a day . I physically cannot get out of bed. Sometimes my eyelids feel like they have their own agenda as I cannot keep them open. I have dreams and nightmares. My last stint was 25th Dec until 7th Jan. I don't wash I barely eat I definitely don't go outside I barely function. I smell from lack of showering . I don't care . I just want to sleep. I have had chronic depression all my life. Am on pristiq100mg OD.

When I was an inpatient on the psychiatric unit 2 years ago it was them who noticed it. They arranged for sleep studies after discharge but like everything I couldn't get there. I was asleep.

I don't know what to do . I feel like I am slowly dying and I have no quality of life.

I live in Australia I have no family here and no real close friends.

Can someone please help me ?

Vanessa

[Catsamaze]

Hi Vanessa. It sounds like you would benefit from a doctor who might recommend meds at least for a short time and a therapist as well. Otherwise, you can do very small things that gradually add up to big progress. For example, on Day 1 gather all of your strength to take a shower and then go straight back to bed. On Day 2 just get up to have something reasonably healthy and then go straight back to bed. Maybe on Day 3 you can do both things before going back to bed. You get the idea. Get small things done each day (even though they don’t feel small and you don’t want to do them). Know that you can ALWAYS go back to bed, but you will have accomplished something that day. I hope that idea helps even a little. You are not helpless against the tide of depression, though it really wants you to think that you are.

[MITCHMATCH]

OH MAN I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY DEPRESSION IS SUCH A ASSHOLE I CAN TRY TALKING TO YOU ABOUT ANYTHING ANYTIME YOU WANT TO WE LIKELY HAVE A LOT IN COMMON I KNOW MYSELF I AM EXTREMELY DEPRESSED AND ALWAYS ALONE I AM SO TIRED OF BEING ALONE SO VERY MUCH HAS CHANGED IN MY LIFE AND EVERY THING I WAS IS BEEN DISAPPEARING FOR YEARS