When recovering from depression and anxiety do you have good days and bad days?!


Question: When recovering from depression and anxiety do you have good days and bad days!?
I have major recurrent depression and I have been going through a bout of it since March!. I just 6 weeks ago started taking Zoloft!. I also take Wellbutrin!. Some days I really feel like I am pulling out of it and then other days I feel nervous, anxious, and disinterested in everything!. Does anybody else have this happen to them too!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Good days and bad days!? yes! all the time!
I've been 'recovering' from anxiety and depression 9 months now, and it has been a rollercoaster!. Since the first diagnosis, I have had two major 'crashes' (and some less major too)!. Both happened when I did too much and ignored the warning signs my body was giving me!.
For the last three months I have taken things much much slower, and I think I may actually be really recovering now, rather than just learning to live with depression!. I still have good days and bad days, and expect that will continue!.
Hang in there!. I'll just give you the advice that people have given me - depression is hard, but don't be too hard on yourself!. Build up a support system of people you can talk to; see a counsellor, talk to supportive friends and/or family (if you are having a bad day, who will you call!?)!. It's too hard for you to bear on your own!.
Ignore the people who tell you to 'pull yourself together' and 'just cheer up'!. There is a chemical imbalance in your brain!. You have a disease that is invisible!. If you had a broken leg, you'd expect to have to change how you live until it's healed!. It's the same with your brain!.
Make sure you do things that you're good at or enjoy!. I've found that exercise helps, even just a short walk!.
You will have good days and bad days, but take it easy!. The world doesn't stop turning when you say 'no'!Www@Answer-Health@Com

Absolutely---six weeks isn't long enough yet to evaluate whether your drugs are helping you!. You will have both good and bad days as a NORMAL person, so it's not much of a stretch to think you'll have them even while taking anti-depressants!.

Still, after two months, if you aren't feeling significantly better, please tell your doctor!. The combination of drugs you are taking may not be helping you--this happens sometimes!.

Your doctor will switch out one or both of your meds for other kinds--but I warn you, he/she may not do this frequently--it takes at least 2-3 months to evaluate the efficacy of any anti-depressant drugs!. It could be a long process to find one that works!.

Be patient, dear--it's hard, but eventually one of them will work!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

if you have clinical depression and anxiety, its not recovering from it as much as it is treating it!. If you are thinking of it as recovering from it you are thinking along the lines of you wont have to deal with it anymore!. Thats not the case!. Its more like allergies then maybe a cold!. Its there, it will continute to be there, but meds will help, and knowing adjustments you have to make to help as well!.

So yes there will still be bad days!.!.!.!.!.!.but as long as your worst days are not too bad, and definitly a lot better then your worst days used to be before treatment, then you arnt doing too bad!. If they are frequent and as bad as before, then it is definitly time to revaluate treatment!.

If you arnt seeing a therapist it would be a good idea!. Also just being aware of things that may trigger those bad days and learning ways to cope with them and maybe eleviate some of the symptoms!. The meds cant do everything on their own!. It does take some effortWww@Answer-Health@Com

I have depression and anxiety, it's a relapse from when I recovered last year!. I didn't use pills, so I can't say that my experience of recovery the first time was the same, but I did get good and bad days!. On the good days, I felt normal, like I was completely free of it, but on the bad days it felt like I would never get through it! I think it's normal to have good and bad days, but don't worry, you will get through it! At the moment I'm having all bad days because I haven't started treatment, but I have an appointment, wish me luck :)Www@Answer-Health@Com

you are going to have setbacks sometimes but you have to realize that they are just temporary and they will pass!. dont get me wrong it scares the thell out of me but i still focus and try to recover from it as soon as i canWww@Answer-Health@Com





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