Dear Ian, I am new to the internet and this is the first group I have attempted to join. Have I missed something? It appears that there has not been any ...
Dear Annie, Hi there! I joined this group a few months ago but like you I have found little activity on it. I felt it would be nice to contact people in the...
To all my fellow dysthymia sufferers, a question. I know dysthimia often takes robs us of any enjoyment we have had in hobbies or interests. I'd like to know...
Hi Annie & Ian Welcome to the group. I have noticed a lull in messages in the past few weeks. The group has been very active fo nearly 2 years now there was a...
Hi, John, I am interested in art and am fond of painting - especially in watercolours. I even sold some pictures to friends and acquaintances. My illness...
My hobbies/interests; Astronomy. I have a very nice telescope and hundreds of dollars of accessories that have been gathering dust for the last couple of...
My hobbies/interests; Astronomy. I have a very nice telescope and hundreds of dollars of accessories that have been gathering dust for the last couple of...
to group, yeah it has been really quiet, thought something was missing from my inbox recently, its usually so chatty, personally have been really busy with not...
John, I've never been one for collecting but three years ago I was walking through an antique shop and found two cabinet cards I had to have. In a short period...
i can relate to some of what u said, feeling like uv always had life problems, like theres always something going wrong. and also iv been an insomniac for 7...
Are you dysthymic and if you are can you differentiat the dysthymic thoughts and feeling from healthy ones? Thanks! ed... Hi Ed. Yes I'm dysthymic. And I...
Clair and John, It went on for 40 years because I didn't know exactly what I was up against. Had I known it was dysthymia years ago I at least would have been...
well i have recently been told that i have anxiety, of which insomnia and depression stem from. i can pin point when it all started. well i have always been...
The origins of my affliction? I think it must be hereditary, My mother has suffered from it all her life and with a few episodes of major depression. As for...
Hi, not posted since ages ago! I think my 'psyche' stems from my disruptive childhood. Dad in army, us moving every 2yrs, always odd one out at school-mainly...
I would be interested to know whether anyone has notice traits of Dysthymia in either their parents or children. Members may be aware that Dysthymia only...
Hi Liz I meant by extension Families. There would have almost certainly have been depression involved quite heavily in your Father's mothers live and untimely...
Hi everyone Not doing too well at the moment. Does anyone feel a sense of inadequacy and underachievement? I feel as if I can just about cope with the day,...
Hi Sheena It is lovely to here from you again. I'm sorry yu are not feeling right. I certainaly recognise your feelings, although I am not like that at the...
Ian,   My mother went into a depression six months after the birth of her tenth child so it's in the genes.  She was hospitalized for 18 months while...
hi all. apologise for spelling and grammer up front never did well at school. going through very bad time at the moment but had to just say my father had a...
My father was the youngest in his family - he had 3 older siblings- and I believe he never really 'processed' his mother's death. It was more like a desertion...
Inadequacy/underachievement are symptoms of the disease. I find it helps, before embarking on a project, to decide what is to be accomplished. What would...
my mother is manic deppresive, my dad was never happy. i think things are inherrited, and also learnt, and upbringing, and life events, just everything...
i have been feeling like iv underachieved academicly, cant even spell, cos i had depression through gcses. am gonna retake some of them. every day is difficult...
 can i just say that everyone on here sounds extremely intelligent and are some of the cleverest people i speak to or read of in their emails. so i think...
Hi Sheena. Yes I have had those thoughts. My dysthymia got so bad that I would not leave my bedroom for anything except to use the bathroom and take a...
