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You are young and presumably healthy. But you've been feeling badly for a long time now. Please make an appointment to see your doctor and get a thorough checkup with blood work. Make sure that there isn't something physically amiss.
Ask for a referral to a psychiatrist for an equally thorough evaluation of your mental health. Be open to the idea that anti-depressants may do the trick in lifting your depression and getting you started down the road to recovering your joy in life.
You say in another post that you work because you need to help your parents. Don't get trapped into living ONLY to be of service to other. You also need to identify your own life goals and needs.
I've been feeling stuck. I will take your advice though to schedule an appointment. I haven't been consistent in checking in on my health.
Thank you again
We all need help sometimes when life gets hard. I myself did in 2000 and I waited too long to call my doctor, causing myself too much pain and anguish unnecessarily. Once I was prescribed an antidepressant, it was as if a switch was flipped inside me and the dark cloud started to lift rather quickly, thank God. I was able to wean off of the meds eventually too, so that was good, and everything worked out well. Medications serve a useful purpose for us when they're used as prescribed.
Wishing you the best of luck.
It is great that you have found a good job! Do what you can to keep it. Have you gotten any grief counseling, that might help. Hospice organization offer free group therapy and most it doesn't matter whether you used their hospice services or not.
Complicated grief is when emotions are so long lasting and severe that you have trouble recovering from the loss and resuming your own life. This could be 3 to 5 years after your loss. If that happens, and even before if you choose, grief counseling by a professional can help.
Anyway thank you for reaching out. it shows you care about yourself and that’s good that you’re not so numb as not to care. Your acknowledgment that something isn’t right is healthy. It’s love you have for yourself, like you would have for a friend if you saw them in this way. Good for you. Now step out some more. Keep reaching out and little by little it will get better. please. Big hugs.
Yes, the way you feel sounds more like depression. That's normal, but needs to be addressed. My psych doc found out mom had passed and he had me come in a little early for my 6 month checkup. He spent over an hour with me and I felt better after talking with him than I thought I would.
Grief will linger and it's always hardest around the holidays. I look forward to a new year of 'new hope' and taking care of myself.
You are young yet--please get some help. A year is too long to experience raw grief. There's phases of grieving and it's important that we go through each one, and not get stuck in any one of them.
((Hugs to you))
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