Anyone else just feel really down at the moment?

[winelover82]

I have been on anti depressants for 3 years now. It’s always around this time of the year that I feel depressed / anxious / overwhelmed with life.

I don’t think I have SAD, but maybe the dark nights don’t help.

Anyone else feel the same? I’ve considered increasing my medication dosage but I felt so awful when I first started taking them I don’t know if I can put myself through that again.

I'm coming back to this thread because something quite odd happened.

I have a very close colleague in an office in another country that I speak to multiple times a day who suddenly, over one of our regular teams, just blurted out: "Do you feel STRANGE these days?!" This was a couple of weeks ago.

I realise this isn't exactly down in the dumps but my down in the dumps went with this just odd feeling of, as I said above, fight or flight. Panicky feelings like something terrible was about to happen.

Neither one of us could totally articulate what was wrong - we also weren't actively winding each other up. The projects we have together were going well and we also enjoy the chit chat, which is relaxing.

We were both thinking about how to address the weird feeling - she went home and cooked a complicated recipe from her home country and I did some exercise and meditation. We joked about it being the full moon!

It sort of passed for both of us. Not totally but neither of us was feeling odd and low in a spooky physical sort of way.

Well - there's been a big event our company. Effects her more than me for various reasons - she's fine but it's unsettling.

It's hard to know if we were subliminally picking up on something. You know?

Me too. Don't want to do anything but lie around. Then I comfort eat usually Xmas sweets , then hate myself and know being overweight makes me feel worse. No amount of telling me to get out, go walking will overcome these feelings .