Why am I so pathetic?

[Tobin S.]

3. It's okay, that's what this place is here for and I'm glad you're here.

I think you might have a deeper issue that's been overlooked by or not discussed with your mental health care providers. You may benefit from a different class of drugs than anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds.

From what I can gather, you've been on the med roulette game for at least ten years, but you've just tried different kinds of anti-depressants and not mood stabilizers or (don't get scared) anti-psychotics. Are you sure you're telling your doctors everything they need to know?

There is a small percentage of people who have depression who are unresponsive to medication. You're probably not one of them, but this idea should be discussed with your physician.

What leads me to believe that you might have a problem that is being overlooked is because it happens quite a bit in the mental health field, and for the period of time that you've been suffering after trying a certain class of medications...maybe it adds up to misdiagnosis. It happened to me. I was misdiagnosed as having clinical depression when I was 24, then suffered until I was 30 when I got the right diagnosis and the right meds. I have bipolar disorder.

Whatever the problem might be, your treatment so far has not helped you a great deal and it's been a long time. That's not right and something must be done about it.