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Question: Depression a Real Life Game of Snakes & Ladders
Remember playing snakes and ladders when you were a kid? It was a great game -hey?
I feel like i am stuck in a giant game of snakes and ladders at the moment. I am sufferring from depression.
I roll the dice everyday, some days i can actually just move along the board and land on a ladder. it is great to land on a ladder - i get to feel a bit better on those days.
Other days i roll those bloody dice and end up on a snake - those are the worst days - just when you think you are getting somewhere down you go again and there is nothing you can do about it.
Most days though i just seem to go around the board and miss both the ladders and the snakes. The problem with this game is that there doesn't seem to be an end.
When i was a kid it felt great to get to the end and win this game, but now it is just an endless nightmare, there seems to be a lot more snakes in this game than ladders.
Answers: Depression a Real Life Game of Snakes & Ladders
Remember playing snakes and ladders when you were a kid? It was a great game -hey?
I feel like i am stuck in a giant game of snakes and ladders at the moment. I am sufferring from depression.
I roll the dice everyday, some days i can actually just move along the board and land on a ladder. it is great to land on a ladder - i get to feel a bit better on those days.
Other days i roll those bloody dice and end up on a snake - those are the worst days - just when you think you are getting somewhere down you go again and there is nothing you can do about it.
Most days though i just seem to go around the board and miss both the ladders and the snakes. The problem with this game is that there doesn't seem to be an end.
When i was a kid it felt great to get to the end and win this game, but now it is just an endless nightmare, there seems to be a lot more snakes in this game than ladders.
most definitely... i feel the same way..it's like that line in seabiscuit where she says, "i play this game all the time and no matter how hard i try i can't get the damn ball to stay in the hole" and that's exactly how i feel too... sometimes i'll have good days but most of the time i go somewhere and just want people to leave me alone for the most part. and then there are those days where every little thing bugs the living hell out of you and nothing works out right and you can't fix anything... i never thought of it as snakes and ladders but i suppose that's exactly what i'm living too
At least you have some good days! Without antidepressants, I have gone months where everything is just going around the board as you say. This stopped when i was put on Welbutrin, and i feel much more like i did when i was a child.
Visit the doc and see about treatment options - you may be able to find some sort of treatment that restores your normal self. I had to try 3 different antidepressants before finding one that works well.