WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH ME???

You are so right Jay. I have been diagnosed with that too. Damn, I am a walking mental case. I do have an appointment tomorrow with my doc. Hope she changes something. I think I need to start thinking about relocating to some place that has no winter. I NEED the sun yet I am not a sun worshipper at all. My therapist told me that 20 minutes in the sun, without dark glasses would benefit my depression. Try finding the sun like that in the winter!! Thanks for the help Hon. Joanne

You can. Its called a photo-therapy booth. As I understand it, the temperature of the light (a way of measuring the wave-length) is important. When talking with your doc, ask about the potential therapeutic value for photo-therapy. Remember, most of us are walking mental cases. The rest of are stationery mental cases. Nowhere Man/PH/Jay

I'll ask her tomorrow. I haven't heard of this. I will look it up online. Do you know if this is covered by insurance? Joanne

Hi Joanne, What you describe is me to a T before I got on the right meds for depression. I didn't even know it was depression (since there were many symptoms that I didn't relate to being "depressed"****il the doc finally convinced me. Maybe talk to the doc about getting your meds changed? SSRIs like prozac or celexa never did a thing for me, just made me more sleepy. I do very well on Wellbutrin. BTW, maybe stay away frmo the cereal in the morning as well? If I eat even healthy whole grain cereal in the morning it makes me sleepy and unmotivated. I have to do the protein instead. It's amazing all the ways we use food, huh? I think the least common way is to actually nourish our bodies! Linda

I take wellbutrin too but I still get jittery, anxious, etc. Seems I take meds for everything. Depression, anxiety, ADD, etc. Even Trazadone because sometimes I just can't sleep at night. I don't sleep all day, I just wish I could. I am going to talk to her tomorrow about all of this. I think I am going to make an appointment with my endocrinologist too. I take levoxl for my thyroid. I really need the whole grains though to keep regular. TMI, I know. Prunes help too Joanne

I replied to this in an e-mail to you. Good luck.