What's the point of the drugs?

[DadIsSad]

It's all very predictable. Yesterday I was unhappy because I'd upset my son. Today I'm even more unhappy because I've just come back from a Relate session where DW pretty much said she isn't really all that interested in our relationship (and that she's pretty happy with the non-relationship we have provided I pull my weight). The latter is even more gutting because the previous sessions we've had I've left feeling optimistic and we've happily walked together, was hoping for the same today, but we couldn't wait to get away from each other.

The drugs aren't ever going to stop me feeling unhappy about this stuff are they? Is it that I'd be feeling worse without them (I suppose I am just feeling empty, rather than deeply miserable).

Are the drugs you refer to antidepressants?
If so they don't solve your problems but lighten your mood to allow you to find solutions.
They make things a little less black IYSWIM?

Not sure what help I can give, other than to agree, the drugs will just take the edge off, but in the end sometimes things in life just are sad, whether you are on drugs or not.

I hope things get better for you soon.

Yep - antidepressants. I suppose I've only been on this particular one for 4 weeks, so by all accounts it might not even have kicked in properly yet.

Maybe it is a little less black than it might have been - it's just so hard to tell if they're doing anything for me though, as in general life has been better than it's been for a while, and it's quite easy to put my lack of total despair down to that. Certainly I've got just the same complete loss of motivation I've had when feeling down before.

The trouble is I'm not sure things are likely to get better for me soon - or ever if I don't take some drastic decisions.

You may need to wait for them to kick in, but it does sounds like changes are afoot. What sort of drastic changes were you thinking?