@@drottercat yeah dysthymia doesn’t necessarily Make you Suicidal but more it just robs your enthusiasm and energy. Over time it destroys your identity
I got help. Nothing changed. I've had 7 therapists. 4 meds. Gave up alcohol (I was never a big drinker). Gave up refined sugar. Got fit. Surrounded myself with amazing friends. 15 years later I still feel the same. Not sure how much longer I can continue.
Look, I was also diagnosed with Dysthymia and one thing you have to understand is that it doesn’t go away but we can learn to deal with it, what helps is knowing that you can do counseling or go to therapy, we will have to keep on fighting it for the rest of our lives, that’s one thing the psychiatrist said
Keep on looking for help and know that also little activities and sticking to things that interest you will make it bearable, I stick to my Christian faith and understanding this disorder has been also helpful
I think the one hard thing about this disorder is that it keeps you secluded. You don't have a desire to have friend's or be involved in a relationship because you would have to either conceal or explain in great detail why you are the way you are which in turn is extremely exhausting. The disease itself is exhausting but explaining it can be very troublesome.
Yep. I’ve cut friends out of my Life because it’s just exhausting having to be social while also explaining to them why you don’t like doing much . After a point you just don’t have the energy for either so you isolate. I cannot for the life of me imagine going into old age either this disorder - I want no part of that
I was diagnosed with PDD almost a year ago. I'm only 22 and I don't really remember ever not having been depressed. When I was a teenager, I was distinctly aware that I needed professional help but was scared of getting treatment. I can't really explain it but I had already struggled with depression for years and it became...well, everything. I thought it became me. I was scared of how I would change through treatment and even more so of the possibility that I could not change because this was just how I was. I couldn't distinguish between the depression and myself. It's very hard to explain. And although treatment has been a rocky road to say the least, I can honestly say that simply having made the decision to get help has taken a massive weight off of my shoulders and given me hope. Thank you for spreading awareness!
And how did it went? Ive felt really identified by your coment, i mean, im scared of changing and becoming a mediocre happy nodding version of myself...
I was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and truly never thought I had it because I never had that “invincible” feeling. It was more so I felt better on a certain day or tried to compensate for feeling so low and tried masking what I was feeling, momentarily. Thank God I didn’t truly listen to the last psych. He wouldn’t let me speak, didn’t allow me to go into my childhood and kept cutting me off and making assumptions. My psych now was very thorough and let me speak and we spoke about my childhood and my moods and he said I am in anxious distress and have persistent depressive disorder. So glad I found a good psych that cared to be thorough and let me speak, to give a proper diagnosis
I've been diagnosed with disthymia over a year ago and I've I'd for about 4 or 5 years now.. If not longer.. I started crying when you read the symptoms out loud, because it hurt me to see how much I suffer. I often try to think that I'm just overreacting but it's not just in my head. I also am dealing with depression for years now. I like to educate myself on these topics, so I can maybe help myself (I'm also in therapy tho) .. To anyone who struggles with a mental disorder, I wish you the best in the world cause u deserve it. We all deserve happiness.. One day hopefully
I lost my mom at 18, I'm now 57 and still cry when I speak about her. Been twice to see her grave and cried so hysterically I decided to stop going, it was just too painful. When she got buried I kept hearing her screaming let me out. Now at 57 I've given up expecting it to get better, just living with it.
My mom died when I was about 13 and now I am 18 and I am also still struggling. I am going to therapy. I had a breakdown yesterday and was crying a lot. I tend to bottle up my emotions and then I cry to let then out. It is annoying lol
Just wanted to add something as I am an adult that is going through treatment of this and slowly getting better. It is a daunting task to get treatment for this and even more daunting if you are like me and can't ever remember not having had these symptoms. I think my therapist and I traced it back to my mid teens and I am now 40. When getting the treatment you don't only have to "heal" so to speak, but you are actually discovering who you really are which can be a frightening thing. You are putting the person you were behind you to make room for someone you don't really know and this is why it is very easy to slip back into old thought patterns and behaviour. I've been told that it's a "mild form of depression" by many professionals but honestly I think major depressive episodes are much easier to treat and I know they are much more visible. You literally have to treat something that has become a part of the personality rather than an episode that someone goes through.
Thats really intense man... What about if we are actually like this? Sad felas? And the drugs just turns us into politically correct happy citizens? That scares me bro
@@pedroroggla8129 Good. It's going to be a hard road but it is worth it. You will have setbacks and will feel like giving up at points. That's when you have to learn leaning on your loved ones for support. Which isn't easy as it's pretty much drilled into us that we don't want others to take on our personal problems. You have to let them though.
3:56 exaccctlllllyyy It's one thing to have a physical problem that you can deal with, and having a mental disorder that effects the emotional parts in your brain that are responsible for interpreting lots of things in our world; it's like a computational unit.
It's really so relieving to see someone talk so empathically . I ve been on medication n diagnosed with it since 3 years. N it really feels it will never get any better ..
Thanks for the video and the perspective Syl. I agree (as a patient) with your view of PDD - it's easy to downplay it as mild. "Narrower" (versus MDD) sounds a lot more fitting to me!
Trying to learn more about PDD as a family member was recently diagnosed. It made so much sense when you said that it almost becomes their personality (which is why for years we did not notice it) Very informative thank you!
2:11 ohh this is really a big problem for me. Whenever I think of visiting a doctor, I don't know what i want to talk about! Its like I have gone blank, and there is nothing really I can describe.
I’ve been trying to learn more about this because councilors keep telling me that I might have this. I’m only 15 and I feel really numb, irritable, fatigued, hopeless, and just indifferent about life. I also tend to overeat, I have insomnia, and I have frequent headaches. I also socially isolate from others.
thank you so much. just got diagnosed with dysthymia and its been really hard to wrap my head around the diagnosis. but this video really helped calm me down and finding acceptance towards myself so thank you again.
"Get to therapyst"... I'm 37. I was diagnosed less than a week ago with PDD. And discovered, that in my town (a large one) there are just few therapists, who are capable to work with such disorder. And they are EXTREMELY expensive.
If you live in Australia you can ask your GP for a mental health plan so you can access a range of Medicare subsidised therapists. One online service I used last year is called someone.health. It helps to have the support, wishing you all the best
I was diagnosed with PDD last May 2021. My doctor advised me to take medication and attend therapies but unfortunately I can't afford both😔 Currently, I am just self medicating through distracting myself whenever i feel triggered and having episodes. I pray that one day we find the peace and healing we long for. ❤️
all i want in life is to be good enough at my field to be this eloquent. flattery aside, i have my exams in a few days and I'm watching your videos to revise my concepts ...thank you.
Thank you for posting this. I was diagnosed with this when I was probably 14. I’ve been through around 10 therapists (weekly/biweekly meetings), 5 ish psychiatrists, not counting all the different psychiatrists and therapists in all the different psych wards I’ve been in. I’m 26 now. Seeing this video reminded me of this diagnosis which my current therapist and psychiatrist don’t know about. Mental health is an enormous spectrum and the mind can do incredible things and create new neural pathways and in the future new medicine may be available…….., so that’s the hope I’m desperately clinging to everyday damn day.
Therapy is so damn expensive. I know it’s their job and they need to make money, but it feels like I have a price on my head, and that’s the therapists main concern rather than me. I don’t want to go to therapy. I need it but i don’t want to go.
Thanks for commenting Amy. Yea it really can be. In Australia, since cognitive behavioural therapy has such a good evidence base, the government actually pays for some types of therapy!
I’ve been diagnosed with PDD for 3 years now, but have struggled with ongoing chronic depression for over 10 years. Unfortunately, over 16 therapists later, 12 different psychiatric medications, 3 hospitalizations, 2 partial hospitalizations, 4 intensive outpatient programs, 76 treatments of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), and various therapy and support groups and different kinds of therapy, my depression has persisted and slowly gotten worse :(
There are thousands upon thousands of smiling depressives out here! I have a feeling there are even more than ever, thanks to social media and general isolation.
I'm a 46 yo Aussie bloke here. I was diagnosed with Dysthymia about 7 years ago. I am a chronic alcoholic which I have managed to cut back a lot these days. I have been heavily medicated since the age of 9 back in 1986. Medication does not seem to work very well with me as I seem to get more side effects than good outcomes. This has been so debilitating and ruined my life in so many ways it isn't funny. I am a father of two daughters and have been with my wife for 28 years. I am now on Duloxetine 60mg and Seroquel 50mg for sleep. I am a Peer Practitioner and mental health support worker in Melbourne. If you were able to refer me to someone north of Melbourne it would be fantastic. This is a truly debilitating mental health condition that I have had my entire life. I am soooo very tired my friend. Thanks in advance JR
Hello, again! To be honest I think this was the video that made me subscribe to your channel because you talked about the topic with the compassion all doctors should have. I was diagnosed with this some time ago and it sucks, but I also experience anxiety, so, a whole difficult set symptoms to deal with. As you say, you don't really what is part of your personality and what is part of the disorder itself anymore. I totally agree with the comparison between a physical and mental illness, especially with something like cancer. Anyway, if you have any question, feel free to ask me 💜 always looking forward to your videos.
love your driving with the brake on example . i had a big mate once ask me what depression and anxiety felt like .. now im only 5' 8 about 80 kg . but im strong as . my mate was about 6'4 120kg and strong . so i wrapped my arms around him and gripped hard and took a horse stance . i said ok walk to the door . really try and walk to the door . 'about 12 feet away . he couldnt move cos i had him held there . i kept saying . the door come on get to the door . he tried n tried , i held him back . i said come on whats up with you ?. he was getting frustrated and trying even harder . then gave up n said . fuk you . lol .... i said . thats what depression and anxiety feel like .. you want to do something . but you cant . no matter how hard you try ... I THINK I WOKE HIM UP THAT DAY .
Finally made a self referral. Almost didn't. I can't ever remember not feeling this way. When I met the entire checklist you went through...oof. 20+ years of feeling empty, here's hoping the NHS can help.
I really really like your videos. You seems like a truly warm and caring person, one who actually seems to have the will to help people with psychiatric and mental illness. Myself have bipolar 2, ADHD, Social anxiety and ptsd. The psychiatric health care here in Sweden (at least where i go) is not verry helpfull at all. I truly wish you the best of luck in your future and are both jelous and happy for your future patients! 🌹
You do a very awesome job in these vids... Thank you so much! from a person struggling with a lot of what you talk about as well as the professional in this same field.
I finally got diagnosed and I just have this feeling of relief like "phew I'm cured" but then I realize I just know what the problem is now and have to work to treat it dang
Yup PTSD and depression since I was a kid. Can’t remember not feeling like shit. I’m a mom now tho so I’m just living with it. I still feel lost I guess but I just say I’m a nihilist. I do think I’m stuck in my bad luck. Idk that it can ever be fixed but I just gotta do my best until it’s night night time. I don’t see death as scary. I look forward to it bc it’s rest to me. Idk I’m doing my best to smile and be a good mom. All I do is for my kiddo. Yes I’m on meds and yes therapy. I still feel like poop tho.
10 years ago (at 38) I was diagnosed with "double depression" First time I heard that, and is the absolute best way I could ever describe it. Since I'm not a quitter, I still have DD with minor pockets where the major depression levels out. 😏
Felt. As much as i depress the next one i mention this to would say they would off themself but i always have hope no matter even if there is no hope, I don’t know why i just never have thought of ending my life even if it is horrible.
I've been like that since I was 15. I'm 27 now. Some life events make me happy here and there but never for more that a few days. I get chunks of a few months where I'd be extremely depressed or extremely anxious. I had a crule upbringing I had been mistreated abused and disrespected a lot. I moved out on my 17 birthday I tried to put myself through mechanical engineering school but I failed miserably (ran out of money with only a year and a half to go) now I have been work in customer service for the last 4 years. I feel stuck. 80% of my human interactions I feel disrespected and abused by the customers and it has been bringing back old trauma. I feel like a true bottom feeder in society.
A couple of months ago i was diagnosed with PDD and honestly it wasn’t such a surprise to me, but the way my psychiatrist diagnosed me was rlly weird. I had two appointments, one them was me having to talk ab everything and explaining what was happening and the second one was them telling me what they would do next. I remember coming home crying after the second appointment since my psychiatrist said some rlly weird things imo. He told me that they weren’t rlly sure whatever was wrong w me and that they didn’t necessarily see very big problems etc. Than later on I had to go to just my therapist and in our first appointment she asked me whether it was ok for her to send my GP a letter with the things they talked about. She read it out loud so that i could say if i was okay with what so wrote or not. Anyways, she had written down in the letter that I had dysthymia and generalized anxiety disorder. What was weird to me is that she didn’t properly explained the dysthymia part. She told me that it was ‘not rlly depressed but also not not depressed’ and i literally felt horrible and was absolutely convinced that the way i had felt was just who i was. I had to do my own research as to what dysthymia actually is and figured out it was basically high functioning depression. I’m honestly still mad ab how they told me that it wasn’t all that deep and i quit therapy after going like 6 times. But honestly i have no clue what to do. Rn i’m in college but its been really hard for me to actually do my work and focus without crying ab every assignment. This disorder literally ruined my life and i honestly have no idea what to do bc it’s the first time ever that its affecting my school performance etc. Literally feel so helpless rn
The worst thing about my situation is that when I see other people who don't have the challenge of illness in their lives, I compare myself strongly and I feel that all the efforts that I make to get well, every normal person had done, now his performance and life would be very different. I'm still busy and no matter what I try to get better, the change doesn't happen that much. After I got help from the medicine and it didn't work as much as I wanted, I started exercising. And you didn't achieve anything? Why aren't the others like that? Safe from problematic genetics I am really tired of fighting and not getting anything.
Dr Syl. I have been living with what my GP's surgery describes as 'low mood' since my teenage days. I am now 58 years old and have found my doctors less than helpful and at times dismissive. I use exercise and routine to combat my state of mind and to answer the question have i had mood disruption for two weeks or longer .. i have experienced two consecutive days where I didn't feel depressed in four years. GP's can offer anti-depressants and talk therapy but with little effect. Exercise and increasingly longer periods of exercise offer some relief but i have 'disciplined' myself to such an extent that i limit my social options and I am isolated .. i feel like i can only imagine a 'zombie' state might feel. I wish i could receive diagnosis to at least relive me of the constant accusation that i am a weak man .. a recognised diagnosis would allow me to deflect blame from myself .. but .. GP's continue to 'label' me as low mood??
Диагноз действительно очень. И не только для вас. Если вы придёте в психиатру за лечением с "дистимией", вам будет проще подобрать лечение, потому что для определённого диагноза есть свои лекарства. Так например при дистимии высокую эффективность показали трициклические антидепрессанты, сиозс. Если вы придёте на приём вам скорее всего назначат что-то из этого
This on really stuck out to me. Only recently have I started discussing mental illness and admitting to myself that I have some sirious issues, as you said because being a man I felt as though I couldn't talk about these things. Feeling as though it's only honorable to die on your white horse, and disgraceful to fall off it. All my life, minus a few months here and there, I've felt as though everything is a struggle. A constant weight. Not like a laziness, but just always exhausted, just wanting life to end so the weight of every little decision would be lifted. Recently I had about an 8 month to a year, decending depressive episode and according to your description I believe psychotic depression. I was using THC at the time, which I firmly believe sped up and enhanced my symptoms. They where many memorable mental experiences, but one specifically I had smoked and was sitting alone on my bed in the dark, about 3am and was paralyzed with fear as I heard voices of my friends and family saying things like "he's worthless, his house is a mess", very specific things that I had on my conscience. Then I was overwhelmed with fear that my friend and roomate was upstairs and had taken his life, images of him hanging flashed in my head and I quickly ran upstairs to see. They had just got home from a party and thankfully his girlfriend sat and helped calm me down. I was also experiencing deep seclusion and sirious, dehabilitating social anxiety. Mental illness is real, and it's not to be taken lightly. I hope to start therapy again, but for now I cant afford it and want more proffesional opinions before trying any medication. Thankfully I have been going uphill, and have made very good progress from what I was. I new I was deep, but looking back it's amazing I'm even still here. I never want to go back there again I'll tell you that. I still have a long ways to go though. Good luck to anyone else struggling. Hang in there and reach out for help, dont talk yourself out of it.
Thanks for sharing. You can definitely get major depressive episodes on top of dysthymia. Called double depression. Talk to your primary doctor for help.
I've been dealing with double depression - Dysthymia and Major depressive episodes - for most of my life, over twenty years now. It's such a complicated struggle, and I think mental health services don't really know how to handle it.
No dr has ever been helpful. It never gets better for me, i feel numb and in agony all the time, tired and unmotivated, wanna get better but dont feel the point of trying at the same time. Cant focus, cant remember, meds dont work, and no matter how much im cognitively aware it just always comes over me. Feeling sad, angry, unloved, unlovable, unwanted... always over attach to woman because i cant feel internal happiness and i always scare them away by being instantly clingy then feel sadder when they leave. I dont wanna die but id be okay if i didnt exist at the same time... wish i could find a program or something that would help me with an expert psychiatrist and electromagnetic bran stimulation or whatever its called to try and help me. I just wish someone could help me out of this hell that no matter what i do my brain wont overcome...
I have double depression. I've been working with a psychotherapist for 10 months (on a weekly basis). My emotional state stablized, I can cope with my everyday life, but I still feel my life is completely pointless and it's on autopilot. I asked my therapist if she could give me some feedback on where am I in the process of getting better, and she thought about it and said, I don't know. I can maintain my life on my own, I am skilled in CBT, I am not suicidal, but I don't have any motivation to live. I am not sure therapy works (I don't think it's my therapist, I think it's me, perhaps being too broken to fix). What would you advise? Should I continue therapy? Should I quit and spend that money on something else? Can really everyone get better?
@@filmach7501 Well, I tend to spend a lot of time sitting and staring at my phone, mostly playing mobile puzzle games. Going out tends to make me feel better but stars have to align to get me to do it. Cooking requires a similar level of effort but it needs to happen so I've sorted out a few low effort meals. That's the kind of thing I'm wondering about but I didn't really want to lead you. I tend to think I'm decent at CBT too but maybe it can do more than just help you hold it together or come off looking like you are
i think i have this disorder and it feels like its gonna go on forever , and im just bored with this feelings and i really want to end it i really want it to stop
Ask for help, ok. But get information about medication and if you think you are out of other options, take them consciously. NOT just because the doctor tells you to. (In my country they say other forms of treatment don’t work without meds. It’s not true, and an immense obstacle to overcome when you need help, but don’t want drug dependency.) Informative for you might be what dr. Robert Sapolsky writes about depression and medication in his book ‘Why Zebras don’t get Ulcers’. His lectures also to be found on YT.
Love the channel but as i learn i cant help thinking that … its nice to have categorised all the different types of mental illnesses but i get the feeling that the prescriptions are very similar from one to the next. Say i want to know how you call my type of depression but i can tell what you will prescribe, anyways. Hopefully im wrong and this is not the case ! Mental illnesses are terrible and i suffer from mine as well as empathise with others. Bless you all.
An oversleeping, over-eater doesn't seem necessarily clinical so I am concerned about that as being all that is required for this. A person who needs 9.5 hours of sleep might not be over-sleeping at all, but the whole "8 hour is correct" attitude could give someone the perception there is something wrong with them.
I feel like this this describes me perfectly like everything it say's.....the emptiness too aslong as i can remember at this point ni energy like no point in anything why my life is shit rn i know i need help but eveytime I think of getting it i get scared im 25 i have just learned to say f it and. Try to love my life but it honestly is getting harder to do so
I've been sick with depression everyday for almot two years now and my dooctor isn't doing anything to try and help me. Only reason why I'm stuck with her is because I'm on ativan and have to taper off while I have her before I go to another doc because they may snatch me completely off or lower my dose way lower than what I'm on so wish me luck getting myself down so I won't run into that issue.
Oo I'll look into it - thanks for the comment! Really appreciate it. I love that feeling when you read a book and you go on a mission to try make everyone you know read it. My book that I recommend to everyone is Why We Sleep by matthew walker. So good but you could just watch some youtube videos about it and get the important points if you didn't want to buy it!
Thank you for this video but i really wish that just getting help was the answer. In my adult child the meds are as bad as the treatment and they dont work for him. I am a medical professional and i have always said that mental health problems are almost worse than phycial problems. If only surgery woild fix this...
This is such a huge problem in the world! A major barrier to getting the right treatment is barriers to accessing it (which cost is a big factor here). In the perfect world, governments would cover necessary mental health therapies. But that's a really complicated area. Some free stuff you can do that might help includes: Free Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Apps, Using TH-cam for education and learning about mental health issues, meditation, keeping physically healthy with a good diet, exercise and sleep, and finding supportive friends who you can talk with about your concerns. I hope that helps!
I’m 58 PDD, I’ve been everywhere on every scale that was “available at the time”. And I still hear someone say “what’s she gotta be depressed about”!! Just keep inching forward…
I’ve been to so many therapists now for 5 years and im still not being diagnosed? Ive been diagnosed with medium high depression, compulsions and socisl anxiety, socisl anxiety has lowered after years of work but my depression is weird? Its become a part of my personality and thats more than just regular depression right? I just want to be properly diagnosed, im always empty. Do i need to go higher in help? Like a psychiatrist? Because now im just seeing a regular therapist. Idk what to do.
kinda serious question: If you think that you have something going on similar to this, what should you do? Is there a specific type of mental health expert you should go to first. I don't know the first thing about this. I just want to know where I should start.
Best place to start is a GP or family doctor and ask them to direct you in the right direction. Dysthymia has many effective therapies and might not even need medications!
I have been in and out since I was 7 with depression I am 100% sure the system is broken and doesn't work I'm 34 and scared dimension anything else to anyone just wait to die so I can get some sort of relief from it
My psychiatrist diagnosed me with Dysthymia apart from ssr and tricyclic antidepressants but he has put me on Lithium carbonate 500mg day and night can you tell me why??
I know what's Dysthymia BUT what's going on in the brain? 7 years without no mental experts in my town making me feel better. Sometimes I Have slept for 2 consecutive days and no, it's not hypersomnia per se. Help!
Ive had it since 7 according my records. Life is shit and there isnt anything you can say in the english language i either have already heard before or is just filler to make yourself feel better. Some of us were born human. The rest of us, we spend a lifetime getting there.
Listen no one is 100% mentally healthy but have somehow contained their illness to to be a part of society. I challenge you, you will write prescription to every person you meet. What ever you say or more you talk list of medicines goes up making you living zombie like state. Therapy along with complete change of lifestyle with counselling can help. Drugs should be used in initial stages, later therapy, counselling and other should takes its place. They should identify themselves and their needs and should have enough knowledge about their particular disease so that when it comes on. They will be ready this time. They should have mental strength build up to a point where they are in control of their mind not the disease.
The crazy part is that you believe thats just your personality, and if i get treatment, will i change for the worst? I love how i am but is just ubereable to live like this
Hey, I know it's 2 years too late but just wanted to let you know that I feel exactly the same way as you. When not struggling with this horrible feeling, I'm actually a very happy person. I like laughing, being goofy and just being happy and positive in general. I recently got diagnosed though, and am about to start my meds soon. But I'm afraid if my personality will somehow change for the worse. I don't want to change. Like yourself, I also like certain things about myself. But it's also getting pretty difficult to manage it all without the meds. So yeah, I completely understand where you're coming from.
@@backyardintheforestoo2955 well my friend... after a self destruction spiral that almost got me killed ive started taking meds and let me tell you i feel much better.... its like im the same dude but i dont have recurrent dark thoughts, i feel more positive and i have morr willpower to do stuff... i thought the change would be more drastical but i guess its for the better... also i go to ny shrink once a week.... i recomend that as well
Thanks for the comment - unfortunately I have no idea! I’ll look into it but I strongly recommend you talk to your doctor first - if you take too much serotonin you can get serotonin syndrome which is super dangerous so a Dr needs to review what medicines you’re on before advising about complimentary medicines :)
@@DrSyl No problem! And yes I have a clear memory ok when it started. At first I was diagnosed with major depression which last for a couple of years. My life since I was 12 has been rough. And I’m been depressed since I was 12 so now I’m 23 with dysthymia. My father was killed last year. Or at least I think it not even certain... People being very insensitive to such tragedy that has kinda left me feeling just over people and life itself sometimes. On top of a few other past experiences. But what has helped me lot is meditating and inner child healing. I must admit though even after doing all the self help I still feel just over people..
@@TerriJoe4638 Hi there hope you are well , if i were to go to a primary doctor what would i have to be saying to show my concerns that i might have PDD also i would be confused what to say if she isn't aware of this condition, im very certain i have it for more then 3 years and counting now and it was most likely caused by chronic stress and anxiety disorders wich i didn't treat earlier and it gave me another debilitating condition. Yay me! Sorry for your experiences and i share similar stuff only 2 people i mostly trusted to open up (wich i very regret) saying insensitive things like "DO know you know you are hurting ur mother like this" - "You just don't wanna grow up" and lots of offensive and straight up horrible things said to me when i was at my darkest times wich i don't wanna get into! cool stuff right! it i safe to say i was getting an outstanding support im so privileged!
It’s not always a GP that can help, my dr was SHIT he could not provide me with psychologists who bulk bill in my area ...so that I could get on a mental health care plan so he pushed me off to another dr as I pointed out that you are slack ....he didn’t like that....it’s not that easy this dr had no experience in mental health
The best thing I've heard about dysthymia is that is "steals your life". It did mine.
Can you have Dysthymia as well as bipolar 2 with hypomania?
@@richardholt5361 I have no idea. My experience is dysthymia with excursions into plain depression and anxiety "only".
@@drottercat yeah dysthymia doesn’t necessarily
Make you Suicidal but more it just robs your enthusiasm and energy. Over time it destroys your identity
I got help. Nothing changed. I've had 7 therapists. 4 meds. Gave up alcohol (I was never a big drinker). Gave up refined sugar. Got fit. Surrounded myself with amazing friends. 15 years later I still feel the same. Not sure how much longer I can continue.
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Look, I was also diagnosed with Dysthymia and one thing you have to understand is that it doesn’t go away but we can learn to deal with it, what helps is knowing that you can do counseling or go to therapy, we will have to keep on fighting it for the rest of our lives, that’s one thing the psychiatrist said
Keep on looking for help and know that also little activities and sticking to things that interest you will make it bearable, I stick to my Christian faith and understanding this disorder has been also helpful
@@felicitas.c. bearable isn't good enough
@@felicitas.c. there has to be some incentive to deal with it. It needs to be worth the effort of dealing with it.
I think the one hard thing about this disorder is that it keeps you secluded. You don't have a desire to have friend's or be involved in a relationship because you would have to either conceal or explain in great detail why you are the way you are which in turn is extremely exhausting. The disease itself is exhausting but explaining it can be very troublesome.
Yep. I’ve cut friends out of my
Life because it’s just exhausting having to be social while also explaining to them why you don’t like doing much . After a point you just don’t have the energy for either so you isolate. I cannot for the life of me imagine going into old age either this disorder - I want no part of that
I was diagnosed with PDD almost a year ago. I'm only 22 and I don't really remember ever not having been depressed. When I was a teenager, I was distinctly aware that I needed professional help but was scared of getting treatment. I can't really explain it but I had already struggled with depression for years and it became...well, everything. I thought it became me. I was scared of how I would change through treatment and even more so of the possibility that I could not change because this was just how I was. I couldn't distinguish between the depression and myself. It's very hard to explain. And although treatment has been a rocky road to say the least, I can honestly say that simply having made the decision to get help has taken a massive weight off of my shoulders and given me hope.
Thank you for spreading awareness!
And how did it went? Ive felt really identified by your coment, i mean, im scared of changing and becoming a mediocre happy nodding version of myself...
I hope you are better now ❤
I was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and truly never thought I had it because I never had that “invincible” feeling. It was more so I felt better on a certain day or tried to compensate for feeling so low and tried masking what I was feeling, momentarily. Thank God I didn’t truly listen to the last psych. He wouldn’t let me speak, didn’t allow me to go into my childhood and kept cutting me off and making assumptions. My psych now was very thorough and let me speak and we spoke about my childhood and my moods and he said I am in anxious distress and have persistent depressive disorder. So glad I found a good psych that cared to be thorough and let me speak, to give a proper diagnosis
This is absolutely me. I’m so tired from fighting and pushing through. Thank you for this. ❤️
You don’t have a diagnosis?
I've been diagnosed with disthymia over a year ago and I've I'd for about 4 or 5 years now.. If not longer..
I started crying when you read the symptoms out loud, because it hurt me to see how much I suffer.
I often try to think that I'm just overreacting but it's not just in my head.
I also am dealing with depression for years now. I like to educate myself on these topics, so I can maybe help myself (I'm also in therapy tho) ..
To anyone who struggles with a mental disorder, I wish you the best in the world cause u deserve it. We all deserve happiness.. One day hopefully
Thank you for your kind words and encouragement, just diagnosed with persistent depressive disorder last week, and educating myself more about it.
That’s absolutely wonderful that you are up skilling and self educating! Good on you!
What was the cause of it
“It’s just a feeling. You are not your mental illness.” Thank you so much, Dr ! :)
I lost my mom at 18, I'm now 57 and still cry when I speak about her. Been twice to see her grave and cried so hysterically I decided to stop going, it was just too painful. When she got buried I kept hearing her screaming let me out. Now at 57 I've given up expecting it to get better, just living with it.
My mom died when I was about 13 and now I am 18 and I am also still struggling. I am going to therapy. I had a breakdown yesterday and was crying a lot. I tend to bottle up my emotions and then I cry to let then out. It is annoying lol
I really hope You can get through it
Sending You hugs from distance
As someone with PDD I'm glad there are more folks like you making content to expand on this topic from a medical perspective. Keep it up, dude :-)
Thanks for the comment mate, all the best!!
Just wanted to add something as I am an adult that is going through treatment of this and slowly getting better.
It is a daunting task to get treatment for this and even more daunting if you are like me and can't ever remember not having had these symptoms.
I think my therapist and I traced it back to my mid teens and I am now 40.
When getting the treatment you don't only have to "heal" so to speak, but you are actually discovering who you really are which can be a frightening thing.
You are putting the person you were behind you to make room for someone you don't really know and this is why it is very easy to slip back into old thought patterns and behaviour.
I've been told that it's a "mild form of depression" by many professionals but honestly I think major depressive episodes are much easier to treat and I know they are much more visible.
You literally have to treat something that has become a part of the personality rather than an episode that someone goes through.
Thats really intense man... What about if we are actually like this? Sad felas? And the drugs just turns us into politically correct happy citizens? That scares me bro
@@pedroroggla8129
Well I am on my meds and defo NOT politically correct.
So I wouldnt worry about that 🤣
@@gangr3l that gives hope, i think im gonna start s treatment, im sick of this and my family to
@@pedroroggla8129
Good.
It's going to be a hard road but it is worth it.
You will have setbacks and will feel like giving up at points.
That's when you have to learn leaning on your loved ones for support.
Which isn't easy as it's pretty much drilled into us that we don't want others to take on our personal problems.
You have to let them though.
3:56 exaccctlllllyyy
It's one thing to have a physical problem that you can deal with, and having a mental disorder that effects the emotional parts in your brain that are responsible for interpreting lots of things in our world; it's like a computational unit.
It's really so relieving to see someone talk so empathically . I ve been on medication n diagnosed with it since 3 years. N it really feels it will never get any better ..
Thanks for the video and the perspective Syl. I agree (as a patient) with your view of PDD - it's easy to downplay it as mild. "Narrower" (versus MDD) sounds a lot more fitting to me!
Trying to learn more about PDD as a family member was recently diagnosed. It made so much sense when you said that it almost becomes their personality (which is why for years we did not notice it) Very informative thank you!
You are amazing for doing research about it for your family member!! They are lucky to have you ❤
Thank you so much. I was just recently diagnosed with dysthymia and you explained everything so well on what I've been going through. From the UK 🇬🇧
You are so welcome! Wishing you the best
2:11 ohh this is really a big problem for me. Whenever I think of visiting a doctor, I don't know what i want to talk about! Its like I have gone blank, and there is nothing really I can describe.
I’ve been trying to learn more about this because councilors keep telling me that I might have this. I’m only 15 and I feel really numb, irritable, fatigued, hopeless, and just indifferent about life. I also tend to overeat, I have insomnia, and I have frequent headaches. I also socially isolate from others.
thank you so much. just got diagnosed with dysthymia and its been really hard to wrap my head around the diagnosis. but this video really helped calm me down and finding acceptance towards myself so thank you again.
Wow that’s so nice to hear! Wishing you the best with your journey. Please let me know if there are any other video topics that could help!
"Get to therapyst"...
I'm 37. I was diagnosed less than a week ago with PDD. And discovered, that in my town (a large one) there are just few therapists, who are capable to work with such disorder. And they are EXTREMELY expensive.
If you live in Australia you can ask your GP for a mental health plan so you can access a range of Medicare subsidised therapists. One online service I used last year is called someone.health. It helps to have the support, wishing you all the best
I was diagnosed with PDD last May 2021. My doctor advised me to take medication and attend therapies but unfortunately I can't afford both😔 Currently, I am just self medicating through distracting myself whenever i feel triggered and having episodes. I pray that one day we find the peace and healing we long for. ❤️
all i want in life is to be good enough at my field to be this eloquent.
flattery aside, i have my exams in a few days and I'm watching your videos to revise my concepts ...thank you.
I struggle with my dysthymia and thank you for giving another video to this. I just dont know how to feel about life anymore
Thank you for posting this. I was diagnosed with this when I was probably 14. I’ve been through around 10 therapists (weekly/biweekly meetings), 5 ish psychiatrists, not counting all the different psychiatrists and therapists in all the different psych wards I’ve been in. I’m 26 now. Seeing this video reminded me of this diagnosis which my current therapist and psychiatrist don’t know about. Mental health is an enormous spectrum and the mind can do incredible things and create new neural pathways and in the future new medicine may be available…….., so that’s the hope I’m desperately clinging to everyday damn day.
Therapy is so damn expensive. I know it’s their job and they need to make money, but it feels like I have a price on my head, and that’s the therapists main concern rather than me. I don’t want to go to therapy. I need it but i don’t want to go.
Thanks for commenting Amy. Yea it really can be. In Australia, since cognitive behavioural therapy has such a good evidence base, the government actually pays for some types of therapy!
I’ve been diagnosed with PDD for 3 years now, but have struggled with ongoing chronic depression for over 10 years. Unfortunately, over 16 therapists later, 12 different psychiatric medications, 3 hospitalizations, 2 partial hospitalizations, 4 intensive outpatient programs, 76 treatments of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), and various therapy and support groups and different kinds of therapy, my depression has persisted and slowly gotten worse :(
There are thousands upon thousands of smiling depressives out here! I have a feeling there are even more than ever, thanks to social media and general isolation.
I'm a 46 yo Aussie bloke here. I was diagnosed with Dysthymia about 7 years ago. I am a chronic alcoholic which I have managed to cut back a lot these days. I have been heavily medicated since the age of 9 back in 1986. Medication does not seem to work very well with me as I seem to get more side effects than good outcomes. This has been so debilitating and ruined my life in so many ways it isn't funny. I am a father of two daughters and have been with my wife for 28 years. I am now on Duloxetine 60mg and Seroquel 50mg for sleep. I am a Peer Practitioner and mental health support worker in Melbourne.
If you were able to refer me to someone north of Melbourne it would be fantastic. This is a truly debilitating mental health condition that I have had my entire life. I am soooo very tired my friend.
Thanks in advance JR
Hello, again! To be honest I think this was the video that made me subscribe to your channel because you talked about the topic with the compassion all doctors should have. I was diagnosed with this some time ago and it sucks, but I also experience anxiety, so, a whole difficult set symptoms to deal with. As you say, you don't really what is part of your personality and what is part of the disorder itself anymore. I totally agree with the comparison between a physical and mental illness, especially with something like cancer. Anyway, if you have any question, feel free to ask me 💜 always looking forward to your videos.
Thank you so much for the comment!!
love your driving with the brake on example . i had a big mate once ask me what depression and anxiety felt like .. now im only 5' 8 about 80 kg . but im strong as . my mate was about 6'4 120kg and strong . so i wrapped my arms around him and gripped hard and took a horse stance . i said ok walk to the door . really try and walk to the door . 'about 12 feet away . he couldnt move cos i had him held there . i kept saying . the door come on get to the door . he tried n tried , i held him back . i said come on whats up with you ?. he was getting frustrated and trying even harder . then gave up n said . fuk you . lol .... i said . thats what depression and anxiety feel like .. you want to do something . but you cant . no matter how hard you try ...
I THINK I WOKE HIM UP THAT DAY .
Finally made a self referral. Almost didn't. I can't ever remember not feeling this way. When I met the entire checklist you went through...oof. 20+ years of feeling empty, here's hoping the NHS can help.
I really really like your videos. You seems like a truly warm and caring person, one who actually seems to have the will to help people with psychiatric and mental illness.
Myself have bipolar 2, ADHD, Social anxiety and ptsd. The psychiatric health care here in Sweden (at least where i go) is not verry helpfull at all.
I truly wish you the best of luck in your future and are both jelous and happy for your future patients! 🌹
You do a very awesome job in these vids... Thank you so much! from a person struggling with a lot of what you talk about as well as the professional in this same field.
You're so lovely
Love your supportive and kind attitude.
I finally got diagnosed and I just have this feeling of relief like "phew I'm cured" but then I realize I just know what the problem is now and have to work to treat it dang
I have dd...suffered for years ...medicine helps me.
3 different antidepressants. After years of a wide range of medicine I'm finally stable .I am 64.
Sometimes you’re the only one that can help yourself
Yup PTSD and depression since I was a kid. Can’t remember not feeling like shit.
I’m a mom now tho so I’m just living with it. I still feel lost I guess but I just say I’m a nihilist. I do think I’m stuck in my bad luck. Idk that it can ever be fixed but I just gotta do my best until it’s night night time.
I don’t see death as scary. I look forward to it bc it’s rest to me. Idk I’m doing my best to smile and be a good mom. All I do is for my kiddo. Yes I’m on meds and yes therapy. I still feel like poop tho.
10 years ago (at 38) I was diagnosed with "double depression" First time I heard that, and is the absolute best way I could ever describe it. Since I'm not a quitter, I still have DD with minor pockets where the major depression levels out. 😏
Felt. As much as i depress the next one i mention this to would say they would off themself but i always have hope no matter even if there is no hope, I don’t know why i just never have thought of ending my life even if it is horrible.
I've been like that since I was 15. I'm 27 now. Some life events make me happy here and there but never for more that a few days. I get chunks of a few months where I'd be extremely depressed or extremely anxious. I had a crule upbringing I had been mistreated abused and disrespected a lot. I moved out on my 17 birthday I tried to put myself through mechanical engineering school but I failed miserably (ran out of money with only a year and a half to go) now I have been work in customer service for the last 4 years. I feel stuck. 80% of my human interactions I feel disrespected and abused by the customers and it has been bringing back old trauma. I feel like a true bottom feeder in society.
A couple of months ago i was diagnosed with PDD and honestly it wasn’t such a surprise to me, but the way my psychiatrist diagnosed me was rlly weird. I had two appointments, one them was me having to talk ab everything and explaining what was happening and the second one was them telling me what they would do next. I remember coming home crying after the second appointment since my psychiatrist said some rlly weird things imo. He told me that they weren’t rlly sure whatever was wrong w me and that they didn’t necessarily see very big problems etc. Than later on I had to go to just my therapist and in our first appointment she asked me whether it was ok for her to send my GP a letter with the things they talked about. She read it out loud so that i could say if i was okay with what so wrote or not. Anyways, she had written down in the letter that I had dysthymia and generalized anxiety disorder. What was weird to me is that she didn’t properly explained the dysthymia part. She told me that it was ‘not rlly depressed but also not not depressed’ and i literally felt horrible and was absolutely convinced that the way i had felt was just who i was. I had to do my own research as to what dysthymia actually is and figured out it was basically high functioning depression. I’m honestly still mad ab how they told me that it wasn’t all that deep and i quit therapy after going like 6 times. But honestly i have no clue what to do. Rn i’m in college but its been really hard for me to actually do my work and focus without crying ab every assignment. This disorder literally ruined my life and i honestly have no idea what to do bc it’s the first time ever that its affecting my school performance etc. Literally feel so helpless rn
The worst thing about my situation is that when I see other people who don't have the challenge of illness in their lives, I compare myself strongly and I feel that all the efforts that I make to get well, every normal person had done, now his performance and life would be very different.
I'm still busy and no matter what I try to get better, the change doesn't happen that much. After I got help from the medicine and it didn't work as much as I wanted, I started exercising. And you didn't achieve anything? Why aren't the others like that?
Safe from problematic genetics
I am really tired of fighting and not getting anything.
Such an educational video. Thank you!
Thank you for the comment!
We’re all screwed up. 😂🤣. Enjoyed your video..
30 years I’ve had this
I cant think of an analogy lol besides emotional eczema
Dr Syl. I have been living with what my GP's surgery describes as 'low mood' since my teenage days. I am now 58 years old and have found my doctors less than helpful and at times dismissive. I use exercise and routine to combat my state of mind and to answer the question have i had mood disruption for two weeks or longer .. i have experienced two consecutive days where I didn't feel depressed in four years. GP's can offer anti-depressants and talk therapy but with little effect. Exercise and increasingly longer periods of exercise offer some relief but i have 'disciplined' myself to such an extent that i limit my social options and I am isolated .. i feel like i can only imagine a 'zombie' state might feel. I wish i could receive diagnosis to at least relive me of the constant accusation that i am a weak man .. a recognised diagnosis would allow me to deflect blame from myself .. but .. GP's continue to 'label' me as low mood??
Диагноз действительно очень. И не только для вас. Если вы придёте в психиатру за лечением с "дистимией", вам будет проще подобрать лечение, потому что для определённого диагноза есть свои лекарства. Так например при дистимии высокую эффективность показали трициклические антидепрессанты, сиозс. Если вы придёте на приём вам скорее всего назначат что-то из этого
This on really stuck out to me. Only recently have I started discussing mental illness and admitting to myself that I have some sirious issues, as you said because being a man I felt as though I couldn't talk about these things. Feeling as though it's only honorable to die on your white horse, and disgraceful to fall off it. All my life, minus a few months here and there, I've felt as though everything is a struggle. A constant weight. Not like a laziness, but just always exhausted, just wanting life to end so the weight of every little decision would be lifted. Recently I had about an 8 month to a year, decending depressive episode and according to your description I believe psychotic depression. I was using THC at the time, which I firmly believe sped up and enhanced my symptoms. They where many memorable mental experiences, but one specifically I had smoked and was sitting alone on my bed in the dark, about 3am and was paralyzed with fear as I heard voices of my friends and family saying things like "he's worthless, his house is a mess", very specific things that I had on my conscience. Then I was overwhelmed with fear that my friend and roomate was upstairs and had taken his life, images of him hanging flashed in my head and I quickly ran upstairs to see. They had just got home from a party and thankfully his girlfriend sat and helped calm me down. I was also experiencing deep seclusion and sirious, dehabilitating social anxiety. Mental illness is real, and it's not to be taken lightly. I hope to start therapy again, but for now I cant afford it and want more proffesional opinions before trying any medication. Thankfully I have been going uphill, and have made very good progress from what I was. I new I was deep, but looking back it's amazing I'm even still here. I never want to go back there again I'll tell you that. I still have a long ways to go though. Good luck to anyone else struggling. Hang in there and reach out for help, dont talk yourself out of it.
I hope you're doing much better now
I feel like I've had this for years, but recently it has got a lot worse.
Thanks for sharing. You can definitely get major depressive episodes on top of dysthymia. Called double depression. Talk to your primary doctor for help.
@@DrSyl Exactly🎯
I've been dealing with double depression - Dysthymia and Major depressive episodes - for most of my life, over twenty years now.
It's such a complicated struggle, and I think mental health services don't really know how to handle it.
No dr has ever been helpful. It never gets better for me, i feel numb and in agony all the time, tired and unmotivated, wanna get better but dont feel the point of trying at the same time. Cant focus, cant remember, meds dont work, and no matter how much im cognitively aware it just always comes over me. Feeling sad, angry, unloved, unlovable, unwanted... always over attach to woman because i cant feel internal happiness and i always scare them away by being instantly clingy then feel sadder when they leave. I dont wanna die but id be okay if i didnt exist at the same time... wish i could find a program or something that would help me with an expert psychiatrist and electromagnetic bran stimulation or whatever its called to try and help me. I just wish someone could help me out of this hell that no matter what i do my brain wont overcome...
I have double depression. I've been working with a psychotherapist for 10 months (on a weekly basis). My emotional state stablized, I can cope with my everyday life, but I still feel my life is completely pointless and it's on autopilot. I asked my therapist if she could give me some feedback on where am I in the process of getting better, and she thought about it and said, I don't know. I can maintain my life on my own, I am skilled in CBT, I am not suicidal, but I don't have any motivation to live. I am not sure therapy works (I don't think it's my therapist, I think it's me, perhaps being too broken to fix). What would you advise? Should I continue therapy? Should I quit and spend that money on something else? Can really everyone get better?
May I ask what your everyday life entails? I might be feeling very similar to you
@@terranovarubacha5473 hi, what would you like to know?
Самое основное это медикаментозное терапия. Дистимия - эндогенное заболевание!
@@filmach7501 Well, I tend to spend a lot of time sitting and staring at my phone, mostly playing mobile puzzle games. Going out tends to make me feel better but stars have to align to get me to do it. Cooking requires a similar level of effort but it needs to happen so I've sorted out a few low effort meals.
That's the kind of thing I'm wondering about but I didn't really want to lead you. I tend to think I'm decent at CBT too but maybe it can do more than just help you hold it together or come off looking like you are
I describe mine as wading through waist-deep ice water. What emotions I did feel were very dull. People found me hard to approach.
Have Autism, ADHD, PTSD and more. These criteria fit me. I dont eat most days, etc.
Can you have pdd and struggle with suicidal thoughts or tendencies bc I struggle with thoughts but not rlly actions
Will try to make a video on this!
@@DrSyl Tysm it means so so much to me!♥️
I'm in year 15 of depression, tried all the drugs, therapy etc😢
It can be but isn’t necessarily less severe. I think that’s way too oversimplified.
Thank you for making this I just got diagnosed with this
Wow this I exactly how I feel.
i think i have this disorder and it feels like its gonna go on forever , and im just bored with this feelings and i really want to end it i really want it to stop
Ask for help, ok. But get information about medication and if you think you are out of other options, take them consciously. NOT just because the doctor tells you to. (In my country they say other forms of treatment don’t work without meds. It’s not true, and an immense obstacle to overcome when you need help, but don’t want drug dependency.)
Informative for you might be what dr. Robert Sapolsky writes about depression and medication in his book ‘Why Zebras don’t get Ulcers’.
His lectures also to be found on YT.
Love the channel but as i learn i cant help thinking that … its nice to have categorised all the different types of mental illnesses but i get the feeling that the prescriptions are very similar from one to the next. Say i want to know how you call my type of depression but i can tell what you will prescribe, anyways. Hopefully im wrong and this is not the case ! Mental illnesses are terrible and i suffer from mine as well as empathise with others. Bless you all.
An oversleeping, over-eater doesn't seem necessarily clinical so I am concerned about that as being all that is required for this. A person who needs 9.5 hours of sleep might not be over-sleeping at all, but the whole "8 hour is correct" attitude could give someone the perception there is something wrong with them.
I have 5 of the 6 symptoms you mentioned would that mean it's more than persistent depressive disorder
I feel like this this describes me perfectly like everything it say's.....the emptiness too aslong as i can remember at this point ni energy like no point in anything why my life is shit rn i know i need help but eveytime I think of getting it i get scared im 25 i have just learned to say f it and. Try to love my life but it honestly is getting harder to do so
I've been sick with depression everyday for almot two years now and my dooctor isn't doing anything to try and help me. Only reason why I'm stuck with her is because I'm on ativan and have to taper off while I have her before I go to another doc because they may snatch me completely off or lower my dose way lower than what I'm on so wish me luck getting myself down so I won't run into that issue.
Like riding a bike with flat tires in a sand dune
Suffering from PDD for about 7 years
I don't know how i made it to this moment after my MDE s without medications or Medical help 🤔🤔🤔
GPs in the UK won't even see you if you are dying, nowadays, never mind suffering from MH issues, sadly.
The book "30 Days to Reduce Depression" by Harper Daniels does a great job addressing depression.
Oo I'll look into it - thanks for the comment! Really appreciate it. I love that feeling when you read a book and you go on a mission to try make everyone you know read it. My book that I recommend to everyone is Why We Sleep by matthew walker. So good but you could just watch some youtube videos about it and get the important points if you didn't want to buy it!
It's just a burden and it's always there. Feels like there's no point. Which really there isn't.
Thank you for this video but i really wish that just getting help was the answer. In my adult child the meds are as bad as the treatment and they dont work for him. I am a medical professional and i have always said that mental health problems are almost worse than phycial problems. If only surgery woild fix this...
Docs can't help me. I've been taking different medications for well over a year and all anything ever did was make it worse.
what if i cant afford help?
This is such a huge problem in the world! A major barrier to getting the right treatment is barriers to accessing it (which cost is a big factor here). In the perfect world, governments would cover necessary mental health therapies. But that's a really complicated area. Some free stuff you can do that might help includes: Free Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Apps, Using TH-cam for education and learning about mental health issues, meditation, keeping physically healthy with a good diet, exercise and sleep, and finding supportive friends who you can talk with about your concerns. I hope that helps!
What causes it
How do I determine a symptom is from my ADHD or if it's this?
I've been diagnosed with dysthymia. I often want to sleep. I develop resistance to medications every two to three years and they have to be changed...
treatment can be by medication alone? I can't afford therapy and I met all the criteria, wasn't only 2 of those, was all of them.
I’m 58 PDD, I’ve been everywhere on every scale that was “available at the time”. And I still hear someone say “what’s she gotta be depressed about”!!
Just keep inching forward…
I’ve been to so many therapists now for 5 years and im still not being diagnosed? Ive been diagnosed with medium high depression, compulsions and socisl anxiety, socisl anxiety has lowered after years of work but my depression is weird? Its become a part of my personality and thats more than just regular depression right? I just want to be properly diagnosed, im always empty. Do i need to go higher in help? Like a psychiatrist? Because now im just seeing a regular therapist. Idk what to do.
kinda serious question: If you think that you have something going on similar to this, what should you do? Is there a specific type of mental health expert you should go to first.
I don't know the first thing about this. I just want to know where I should start.
Best place to start is a GP or family doctor and ask them to direct you in the right direction. Dysthymia has many effective therapies and might not even need medications!
@@DrSyl thank you
I have been in and out since I was 7 with depression I am 100% sure the system is broken and doesn't work I'm 34 and scared dimension anything else to anyone just wait to die so I can get some sort of relief from it
Iam also suffering dysthymia please choose best antidepressant
You just described me
My psychiatrist diagnosed me with Dysthymia apart from ssr and tricyclic antidepressants but he has put me on Lithium carbonate 500mg day and night can you tell me why??
I know what's Dysthymia BUT what's going on in the brain? 7 years without no mental experts in my town making me feel better. Sometimes I Have slept for 2 consecutive days and no, it's not hypersomnia per se. Help!
I was diagnosed with this as a teen by mistake
Ive had it since 7 according my records. Life is shit and there isnt anything you can say in the english language i either have already heard before or is just filler to make yourself feel better.
Some of us were born human. The rest of us, we spend a lifetime getting there.
Listen no one is 100% mentally healthy but have somehow contained their illness to to be a part of society. I challenge you, you will write prescription to every person you meet. What ever you say or more you talk list of medicines goes up making you living zombie like state. Therapy along with complete change of lifestyle with counselling can help. Drugs should be used in initial stages, later therapy, counselling and other should takes its place. They should identify themselves and their needs and should have enough knowledge about their particular disease so that when it comes on. They will be ready this time. They should have mental strength build up to a point where they are in control of their mind not the disease.
The crazy part is that you believe thats just your personality, and if i get treatment, will i change for the worst? I love how i am but is just ubereable to live like this
Hey, I know it's 2 years too late but just wanted to let you know that I feel exactly the same way as you. When not struggling with this horrible feeling, I'm actually a very happy person. I like laughing, being goofy and just being happy and positive in general. I recently got diagnosed though, and am about to start my meds soon. But I'm afraid if my personality will somehow change for the worse. I don't want to change. Like yourself, I also like certain things about myself. But it's also getting pretty difficult to manage it all without the meds. So yeah, I completely understand where you're coming from.
@@backyardintheforestoo2955 well my friend... after a self destruction spiral that almost got me killed ive started taking meds and let me tell you i feel much better.... its like im the same dude but i dont have recurrent dark thoughts, i feel more positive and i have morr willpower to do stuff... i thought the change would be more drastical but i guess its for the better... also i go to ny shrink once a week.... i recomend that as well
Could vegetal serotonine help?????????????? Thanks!
Thanks for the comment - unfortunately I have no idea! I’ll look into it but I strongly recommend you talk to your doctor first - if you take too much serotonin you can get serotonin syndrome which is super dangerous so a Dr needs to review what medicines you’re on before advising about complimentary medicines :)
Hey elizabeta how did the vegetal serotonine went? I was thinking about trying that before doing any drug
Nice video 🤭also Me with adhd .. oh pretty plant 🪴
I’ve been diagnosed with this, ask me anything..
Thanks for being so open to discussing it!
Here’s my question: did you have a clear memory of when it started or was the onset insidious?
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No problem! And yes I have a clear memory ok when it started. At first I was diagnosed with major depression which last for a couple of years. My life since I was 12 has been rough. And I’m been depressed since I was 12 so now I’m 23 with dysthymia. My father was killed last year. Or at least I think it not even certain... People being very insensitive to such tragedy that has kinda left me feeling just over people and life itself sometimes. On top of a few other past experiences. But what has helped me lot is meditating and inner child healing. I must admit though even after doing all the self help I still feel just over people..
@@TerriJoe4638 Hi there hope you are well , if i were to go to a primary doctor what would i have to be saying to show my concerns that i might have PDD also i would be confused what to say if she isn't aware of this condition, im very certain i have it for more then 3 years and counting now and it was most likely caused by chronic stress and anxiety disorders wich i didn't treat earlier and it gave me another debilitating condition. Yay me! Sorry for your experiences and i share similar stuff only 2 people i mostly trusted to open up (wich i very regret) saying insensitive things like "DO know you know you are hurting ur mother like this" - "You just don't wanna grow up" and lots of offensive and straight up horrible things said to me when i was at my darkest times wich i don't wanna get into! cool stuff right! it i safe to say i was getting an outstanding support im so privileged!
I'm just passing time till my kids grow up, then I can just die with a clear conscience
Please wait to see your grandkids too, they’ll love to have a grandparent around.
You can get help and please contact those who can help.
I am getting help with my depression from a Psychologist from a suicide prevention hotline.
Can it be caused all of sudden
Thanks for the comment! Usually it has an insidious onset but the way it starts isn’t a criteria for diagnosis so the answer is yes it could possibly.
What is it's first Symptom
It’s not always a GP that can help, my dr was SHIT he could not provide me with psychologists who bulk bill in my area ...so that I could get on a mental health care plan so he pushed me off to another dr as I pointed out that you are slack ....he didn’t like that....it’s not that easy this dr had no experience in mental health
🌺Can we be Friends
Less hand movements.