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Should I tackle my son over drinking so much diet soda?
Diet soda and mental illness – any link I should really worry about as the father of a depressed adolescent young man who drinks more than a quart of diet soda a day. He’s been through enough so I want to pick my battles appropriately. I don’t want to nag at every little thing.
Read answer →I'm stuck and want to know how to snap out of it?
I feel really hopeless right now. All I do is go to work 6 days a week and I hate my job but at least it gives me something to do because on Sundays, and this is really sad, there is nothing that I even want to do. I have no money for expensive outings or vacations and everything I could do, I have done a thousand times and can’t really get excited about doing again. I have honestly tried doing new things, like I actually went and got my old roller blades out of my parents garage to try that again because I used to like doing it, but now it just feels so stupid and I also feel kind of ridiculous. I can’t remember the last time I was excited about doing something rather than just going through the motions. I just don’t know how to snap out of this.
Read answer →Will my depression go away now I'm free of the situation that caused it?
I have depression but I don’t feel better even though I am no longer in a difficult situation that caused my depression. I was in a work situation where I was systematically belittled, undermined, gossiped about and bullied for 18 months by a group of workers who were related and that were resentful that I got a higher job than they had. They got everyone in the company to sabotage and torpedo everything I tried to do so I would look incompetent. The harassment got so bad that I went to my employer but he wasn’t interested in helping and he told me that if I couldn’t do the management part of the job I would get demoted. I started feeling sick a lot from IBS and I had to take time off quite often which meant I couldn’t meet my objectives and my contract was not renewed. It was a horrible experience but it ended 2 months ago and I still don’t feel any better. I thought my depression would go away on its own after I was no longer faced with daily harassment. Will it?
Read answer →Would a lightbox help me working nightshifts?
I started working the overnight shift about 3 months ago and after about a month I started to feel a lot more fatigued and sad than I normally am. It obviously has something to do with my change in routine, since nothing else in my life has really changed and nothing bad has happened. I sleep Ok in the daytime but I never wake up feeling refreshed. Do you think one of those really strong lights people use for winter depression might help me, since I never really see much daylight? I think it might fix my problem but I do not want to buy one since they are expensive unless it is likely to work.
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