Depression--Pam-spending 95% of the time in the bedroom?

April 25, 2002

I think there is a big difference between clinical depression and reactive

depression. Clinical depression is the usual depression and reactive

depression is the feeling I get after going to the doctor and the doctor

tells me I need to see a psychiatrist or the feeling you get when you have

been in bed forever with the FMS/CFS, and are depressed that you will never

get better! I wouldn't have anything to talk to a psychiatrist

about...except the doctors that have belittled me time and again, I have a

good life except I spend most of it in the bedroom!

I've spent much of the last year in bed, my husband is 38, and i'm

younger....and we've been married for about 18 years, we will watch TV

together (the kids get the good TV)--or a video tape...The kids (7 & 13)

will bring their homework into the bedroom or we'll play a board game. I

find ways to be part of their life even if I can't get out of bed somedays.

I also have a drop spindle and will spin or knit (when my hands aren't

feeling too bad). Sometimes reading or writing...a laptop computer is

great, you don't have to get out of bed-and can keep your mind busy forever

with it (wish i had one), I have a cat that doesn't leave my side very

often, and she is alot of company. There's lots of things you can do even

if you feel to lousy to get out of bed, email me if you need more

suggestions....I also occasionally feel that i'm a burden to my family--my

family has grown up living with my FMS, we all adjust to it, I feel bad for

my kids that I can't play ball or go on field trips with them, but I try to

make up for it in other ways, and they rarely complain.

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kmnewberry@...

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