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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...
There is no need to apologise for spelling and grammar. Your spelling and grammar is just fine. Dysthymia runs on my mothers side of the family. My mom wont...
I have been reading all your comments. In some ways it is refreshing to know there are other people out there with similar problems. I find it easy to...
Sheena I normally just read these messages but I want to say that, like myself, you sound as though you experience social phobia/anxiety as well as dysthymia....
Janice Curnow
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Jun 16, 2008 10:04 am
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Hi I notice a number have mentioned your introduction, it does not matter about spelling and grammer. (I don't have too much problem with that, what I do have...
hi looking back on the message i think mental torture is too strong a word its just how it feels for me personally to put it that way. i was diagnosed with...
Hi again Linzi You sound like you certainly have had a bad time. To a point I would use the word's mental torture somewhere in there. Where the words mental...
 have you got social phobia sheena? there might be ways of learning to cope with it, as a part of anxiety, been reading my anxiety book which has been really...
i have felt i've suffered mental torture in a few ways. it might be slightly different tho to dsythymia but over the years at certain points- Â 1) the...
Hi Janice I really appreciate your response to my email - it is rather a coincidence that we are the same age. Like you, I work hard at it. It would be so...
Hi, all, I am Glenn and I am new here. I have been dxed with dysthymia about 3 years ago, just after I recovered from double depression a year earlier. The...
