Getting My Mind Right
The onslaught of birthdays has past and I can get my mind right once again. I just want to say happy birthday to my wife.
I mentioned before that I suffer from depression. Like many, I take medication to control my depressive bouts. After losing 20 pounds I began having problems with my depression. I don’t know if the problems were do to the weight loss or what I was eating, but it got pretty out of hand. I went to see the doc and he prescribed some different medication and hopefully this will help.
I mention my depression openly here because I think there are many people that suffer from clinical depression that fail to get it treated. My own depression went without treatment for years because I thought I should be strong enough to overcome the sadness and apparent laziness that are symptoms of the depression. Once I finally went to see the psychiatrist and began a regiment of antidepressants life became better for me and everyone that cared about me. I was more stable and could begin to live more. It took a tremendous amount of humility for me to go see that doctor.
If the depression is caused by my weight or my weight is a product of the depression I don’t know. My eating and my weight may not have anything to do with each other. What I do know is that people severely overweight tend to be depressed. Do yourself and those you love a favor, talk to your doctor about your depression, your dark moods. You may not be able to successfully work on losing your weight until you get your depression under control. I know I can’t.
