Feeling depressed

[JynxGirl]

Does anyone else ever just feel really down?
I can't shake this feeling of being just utterly useless right now. Probably to do with this flare up I'm in, but I just feel so damn useless :grumpy:
Anyway, what are your "tricks" to cheer yourself up?

 

[spingirl]

It sucks sometimes for sure...

 

[BEWELL*SWEETIE]

as we say food makes the mood....

 

[BLM]

Yes, I feel down a lot. I feel terrible bc I feel like Im a burden to my family, my husband and I are very distant from one another. There are certain things I cant do bc I need a bathroom close at all times. I cant get a job....and the list goes on and on....hang in there. I started on some depression meds last time I was admitted into the hospital, and it seems to be helping

 

[clearwell]

I felt exactly the same and didnt want to go on with this thing they call crohns and I asked for some advice on here cause my docs did suggest anti depressants which I was a bit reluctant to try.I am so glad I did,I am dealing with things much better now.I face thing head on rather than trying to hide from it and pretend it isnt happening.The diorrhea is constant and I cant leave the house at times for days but I cope now.Think about the anti depressants.They even help me cope with my selfish husband.Good luck.

 

[JynxGirl]

I am currently on anti-depressants for PTSD and social anxiety disorder.
I think yesterday just hit me hard because it was my friend's little girl's birthday, and I realized that right now, I may never have another baby. All of my friends are having kiddos left right and center. I have my daughter, and she's the love of my life, don't get me wrong. I just always wanted a huge family.

 

[spingirl]

One thing that does make me feel better is a nice big cry once in a while...a little pity party for one...sometimes its in the shower...always when I am alone...I just cry like a baby...and then I will try to think about how I have to be here for my kids and what it would do to my kids if I were not around for them...I want to see my son at least graduate (he's 13) and off to college...I can't give up...I just can't...so I shake it off...until the next cry. Its ok to cry. You have a damn good reason to. And a damn good reason to keep fighting too! I am fighting tears right now...just writing this. I wish I could meet some of you in person. Don't you just feel like sometimes we could use a group hug?

 

[spcwife23]

yeah sometimes a hug goes a long way.. i was depress, angry, just alot of emotions the beginning of this week.. i dont no what happen to make it went away but for right now im ok... i do cry and its the same with spingirl, i do it when no ones around and it feels good after...

 

[Rebecca85]

My moods are very up and down at the moment. I can be really cheerful but then something happens (like the baby thing) that makes me down in the dumps for a day or two. I try to think of it as 'just another Crohn's symptom', it's not really me, and just like my other symptoms are worse on some days than others, so are my moods.

I also enjoy a good self pitying cry now and again, then when I've finished I'll do something positive to put a 'full stop' to it. Like I might walk the dog, or have a shower.

 

[spingirl]

I talk to myself too...when I am at my pity party for one. I will tell myself, sometimes, that I should be grateful to not have cancer...that I am checked so closely that some people have their first colonoscopy at 50 and find stage 4 cancer...normal people...that don't have what I (we) have...its so easy to be swallowed up in the negative...I am a negative person by nature to begin with...I talk to my dad a lot...who passed away last year...ok...here go the tears again...I think I will have to stop looking at this post for a bit...sorry...can't go there today...I have to go out and once this big nose of mine gets red...I'm stuck with it for at least an hour!!!

 

[spcwife23]

@spingirl. You are so right.. I have to thank god everyday that the caught it before it got any worst.. And when I get depress I feel like I have no right because things aren't all that bad for me.. Gotta remind myself god showed me mercy by making my doctor finally discovering this the first day she saw me.. It's hard sometimes tho to keep that in mind..

 

[littlemissh]

A good DVD with a gorgeous bloke in it. Had my Colin Firth fix last week when I was feeling pee'ed off and it made me feel much better. Ringing my big sis and having a non illness discussion always helps me as well.

 

[CrohnsNYC]

I have some good days and definitely some bad days. My doctors are great, but I don't think they are really tuned into the emotional aspect of this. I do try to remind myself that it could be worse and be thankful for what is good.