Sparkle
Gold Member
My moods are swinging like crazy. One minute (okay for a while) I'm feeling really low, unmotivated, thinking I'm never going to be able to achieve my goals or be happy. The next (only for a little while) I'm filled with optimism, motivation and looking towards the future.
I live with my parents, and I've just woken my mum up to tell her I think I might be depressed again. She asked why, and I said because I'm feeling low a lot of the time - said I might make an appointment with the doctor. But I'm worried she's not going to listen as when I went about being unable to sleep, she said that she doesn't think I'm depressed because I was explaining it so well. So I couldn't really think how to explain it better to my mum, so I went to bed and cried... for a couple of minutes. Then I started being hopeful and thinking I might not be depressed - because this is nothing like the last time I was.
Maybe I'm not eating the right foods and getting the right vitamins. I've strictly been on a diet now since the beginning of the year. Not particuarly well balanced if I'm honest, but a diet and have lost nearly a stone (over 4 stone in total).
I've been feeling pretty low since the new year, with everything going on at work and all... and then have been struggling to sleep recently, and getting panicky. I'm wondering if it's low serotonin levels, and if there's anything I can do to help this - anything other then going on anti-depressents, because right now I'm panicking about going back on them. I don't want to.
Oh, and I'm really lonely, and don't have any real close friends (IRL) that I can trust with anything, and never really have. Which is making me feel even more lonely.
I know you're going to tell me to see the doctor - but to be quite honest, I'm fed up of going backwards and forwards and can't actually afford another prescription right now. (Two prescriptions in as many weeks, one for anxiety tablets, and the other for sleeping tablets).
Anyway, sometimes you can treat low serotonin levels with exercise, supplements, and certain foods.
My moods are changing so much, and so quickly. What's wrong with me?
I live with my parents, and I've just woken my mum up to tell her I think I might be depressed again. She asked why, and I said because I'm feeling low a lot of the time - said I might make an appointment with the doctor. But I'm worried she's not going to listen as when I went about being unable to sleep, she said that she doesn't think I'm depressed because I was explaining it so well. So I couldn't really think how to explain it better to my mum, so I went to bed and cried... for a couple of minutes. Then I started being hopeful and thinking I might not be depressed - because this is nothing like the last time I was.
Maybe I'm not eating the right foods and getting the right vitamins. I've strictly been on a diet now since the beginning of the year. Not particuarly well balanced if I'm honest, but a diet and have lost nearly a stone (over 4 stone in total).
I've been feeling pretty low since the new year, with everything going on at work and all... and then have been struggling to sleep recently, and getting panicky. I'm wondering if it's low serotonin levels, and if there's anything I can do to help this - anything other then going on anti-depressents, because right now I'm panicking about going back on them. I don't want to.
Oh, and I'm really lonely, and don't have any real close friends (IRL) that I can trust with anything, and never really have. Which is making me feel even more lonely.
I know you're going to tell me to see the doctor - but to be quite honest, I'm fed up of going backwards and forwards and can't actually afford another prescription right now. (Two prescriptions in as many weeks, one for anxiety tablets, and the other for sleeping tablets).
Anyway, sometimes you can treat low serotonin levels with exercise, supplements, and certain foods.
My moods are changing so much, and so quickly. What's wrong with me?