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19. LIVING WITH DEPRESSION #6: SOMETIMES IT'S PLAIN SAILING
By flip on Dec 18, 2008 | In My Story, Helpful Hints, Medical Information | Send feedback »
...and sometimes it's not!
It took me a long time to learn this lesson. I expected that the more I worked at managing my depression, the easier it would get - it didn't!
Taking medication kind of smoothes out the mood swings associated with depression, but it does not take it away. Sometimes you feel quite OK, sometimes under the weather, sometimes depressed, sometimes in deepest darkness, and that's just the way it is. I learned to manage my lifestyle, my habits, my thought patterns, but every now and then I still take a big dive.
