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<blockquote data-quote="DarkwingPsyduck" data-source="post: 691169" data-attributes="member: 20267"><p>Clinical depression is a crippling experience. It is different than just being sad due to an event or circumstance. It's the inability to feel anything remotely positive. Like humorous, happy, excited, proud, etc. I have suffered from it since my teen years. It only gets worse with addiction, but recovery doesn't actually make it go away. While I have many less bad days since getting clean, I still have some awful ones. Where I cannot find a reason to get out of my bed. Where I am literally looking at the clock and counting down the hours until I can go back to bed. The only thing I look forward to is being unconscious. It is a lonely, helpless feeling. </p><p></p><p>I have also developed mild agoraphobia. Which is not at all like me. I think it comes from cutting off ties with the only friends that I had in order to get clean. I have gotten used to just being alone. When the prospect of interacting with other people arises, I get incredibly anxious. I hide in my room. My aunt always thinks it is personal, but it isn't. I don't interact with anybody, not just her. Then there are times where I feel up and good, and make plans with other people to get out. If it takes any longer than an hour or so before heading out, I fall back into the anxiety about it, and cancel. So I am VERY flaky. Now I just don't try to make plans. I just sorta go when I feel up to it, and hope others are free.</p><p></p><p>Dunno.. Very difficult thing to adequately describe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DarkwingPsyduck, post: 691169, member: 20267"] Clinical depression is a crippling experience. It is different than just being sad due to an event or circumstance. It's the inability to feel anything remotely positive. Like humorous, happy, excited, proud, etc. I have suffered from it since my teen years. It only gets worse with addiction, but recovery doesn't actually make it go away. While I have many less bad days since getting clean, I still have some awful ones. Where I cannot find a reason to get out of my bed. Where I am literally looking at the clock and counting down the hours until I can go back to bed. The only thing I look forward to is being unconscious. It is a lonely, helpless feeling. I have also developed mild agoraphobia. Which is not at all like me. I think it comes from cutting off ties with the only friends that I had in order to get clean. I have gotten used to just being alone. When the prospect of interacting with other people arises, I get incredibly anxious. I hide in my room. My aunt always thinks it is personal, but it isn't. I don't interact with anybody, not just her. Then there are times where I feel up and good, and make plans with other people to get out. If it takes any longer than an hour or so before heading out, I fall back into the anxiety about it, and cancel. So I am VERY flaky. Now I just don't try to make plans. I just sorta go when I feel up to it, and hope others are free. Dunno.. Very difficult thing to adequately describe. [/QUOTE]
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