Posted by janejj on March 15, 2002, at 9:55:54
Hello,
my doctor says he's pretty sure that I have dysthymia and looking at the symtoms i realise that I have been depressed for a very long time and i didn't even know it, until i slipped into a major depression. Why don't they screen people for this disorder ? How are you supposed to even know otherwise ? i always thought that I just had a kind of depressive nature and i really couldn;t pin down what it was that I was depressed about. I've had some major things happen to me in my life, so i always attributed my feelngs to those things.
Now i look back and realise I have been depressed since I was 16, 6 years. I'm just angry that i couldn't have sorted this out earlier and not slipped into a double depression, I wish that they had screened me. I used to cry when i went to see the careers advisor at school, she must have thought i was a little strange, but i had all these emotions and I just wanted to let them out. I wish that i had seen a mental healthcare proffessional instead, at least they might have realised what was wrong with me.
I can't believe that I have been living this way for so long and thinking that it was normal! Now i am on prozac I feel happy, i can't remember ever feeling like this for a long period of time. So now I know that i wasted so much of my teenage years being depressed.What a waste, I'm feeling very bitter.
janejj
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