Tell me your stories about coping and living with depression.

[mamaroni]

Hi this is my first post here although I lurk!

I hope it's OK to just come out and ask for some info -- I was just diagnosed with major depressive disorder in partial remission. I need more info! Does anyone have experience with this? I am off to google it now, but I'm just kind of freaking out here!

ETA: OK, a google search was very helpful so now I know what it is. Does anyone have experience? Treatment experience? THANK YOU.

ANOTHER EDIT: I guess I'm really looking for your stories. How do you live with it? Treat it? what caused it for you? how long have you suffered? Do those around you IRL know you suffer? how does your partner cope? I'm actually pretty happy (how ironic) to have this diagnosis so that now I have a reason why I feel so crappy all the time, and more importantly now I can head down the road to recovery.

I really look forward to hearing your stories, mamas.

[kaydee]

What kind of info, specifically, are you looking for?

I have had several rounds of anxiety-induced major depression. SSRIs have always helped put it in remission. Not everyone is as responsive to meds, though, and other factors in a person's life have a lot to do with their prognosis and recovery.

Partial remission, IIRC, means that many but not all of the symptoms have abated, and/or that not long enough a period of time has passed without symptoms for the disease to be categorized as being in full remission.

[mamaroni]

Originally Posted by kaydee

What kind of info, specifically, are you looking for?

gosh, kaydee, I'm not even sure! I just have no experience with any type of mental illness, or treatment or anything. and I guess I was just kinda shocked. the clinical name can be overwhelming. and it's actually ME, not "someone very close to me."