'When you have depression you feel like you're the only person out there', says Bruce Ross, who lives with depression that hasn't responded to medication - via healthing_ca healthing canada health healthnews depression anxiety
What led to the conversation with your wife, Cheryl, when she told you she thought you might have depression?
But then the Prozac didn’t work, and Cheryl’s doctor did some tests — like testing my thyroid because apparently thyroid issues can mimic symptoms of depression, but my thyroid was fine. Then I was sent to a sleep disorder clinic to see if had trouble sleeping, but that was fine, too. I even had an allergy test to see if there were allergies that were mimicking the depressive feelings I had. But these were fine.
There were no side effects. The technician would give me Tylenol in case I’d get a headache but I never did. At the end of two weeks I went home and I felt better, but it didn’t last, and I couldn’t afford to keep going.That happened in an actual hospital and it was a little bit daunting. I was given anesthesia. There were wires attached to my head — to jolt my brain with electrical current. It’s supposed to jolt the depression out of you.
Bruce Ross’s book chronicles 45 years of living with depression and anxiety. “It’s a message of hope that despite the burden of depression, you can still have a productive life,” he says. SOURCE: Bruce R. RossThat’s a great unknown — I don’t know. I don’t know what kept me motivated to keep trying. Just as I said at the start, I never lost hope. I always thought if I could find the magic, so to speak, I would be OK — but I never did. So I have resigned myself that this is way it is.
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