Question:
First of all, I only seem to have one very strong symptom that is
causing me trouble (more and more actually) which is that I sleep way
too much; I usually sleep between 9 and 15 hours. Like just today, I
slept a little more than 8 hours, forced me to get up breakfast, but I
was so slow and sleepy that I decided to go back to sleep and slept
another 6 hours, now I feel a bit better.
I've started a thread in alt.support.sleep-disorder that you can
read, the title (since the URL for google would take 5 lines!) is
"Sleep too much, always sleepy" from "xm".
It was suggested there that I may be suffering an unipolar depression
and I searched and found a diagnosis page on the internet where it
seems I would answer yes to most of the first questions, and rule out
any other special disorders, making the disorder to be pretty well
diagnosed as unipolar depression.
Now, I don't like much to see doctors, I'll probably do that this
week and I have to say that I really do not want to take any kind of
medication, unless some physical sickness is found.
I love to read and I read much about psychology, I'd like to read
more about unipolar depression, it treatments, etc... Maybe I can try
a few things myself, alone and observe a change. I'm "autodidacte"
which means I learn by myself in books or on the internet (compared to
learning with a teacher). So if you can provide any help, links, URLs,
documents... anything would be very much appreciated to help me fight
this disorder that is currently ruining my social, professionnal and
personnal life.
Answer:
have you had your thyroid levels checked? low thyroid can
mimic depression.
Are thyroid-related disorders are more common in an individual that has
familly members with such disorders?
Btw, I'll probaby try to see a doctor this week.
imo, i would definitely see a doc to rule other things out first.
as far as url's go, just google depression and you'll get more info than you
could ever read.
I've been looking but as you have pointed out, there just tons of pages,
which one would you suggest?
Any of you may already have read a dozen of those pages and maybe you
like very much one of them, can you suggest me those pages?
i've been told that they often run in families, sometimes also
in fmailies with autoimmune diseases.
Well, if I have such disease it would break the harmony in our familly.
See my sister and mother both have tyroidal disorders and me, my
brother and father, we're all color blind!
Anyway, 2moro I'll see a doc and will tell you the results when I get
them...
sure thing. here are several that i really like...
http://www.psycom.net/depression.central.html
http://home.blarg.net/~charlatn/Depression.html
http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/depression/...
