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Discussion & help on depression & mental health related issues

Just starting to get back to my Serbian Orthodox faith the Greek church on princes road is the closest church to me. I've given up my faith but my Serbian religion is the only thing keeping me alive sometimes. The pravoslava lifestyle put me off but it kept me off the ale. Sometimes you need to connect with your culture every weekend. Sve delije od Srbije.
 
monty said:
The very fact that you have asked for help and advice means you're a good dad because you don't want to fail at a crucial time some would simply go down the pub. Congratulations on your recent addition by the way.
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Groucho said:
I’ve two myself.

A wonderful but mighty stressful time at the best of times.
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Turfman said:
Congratulations!

Feeling overwhelmed goes away as you ramp-up to your growing family duties and the joys that will follow
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Thanks for the kind words everyone. Had a few hours sleep and I'm feeling more relaxed than I was last night.
 
Finally decided to do CB therapy today and looking for opitions in my city. I will have to choose the therapist wisely I guess.

Also ever heard of EMDR therapy guys? A friend of mine who suffered Generalized Anxiety Disorder like me, told me that it did wonders for her. A best way to treat GAD some says, read some good view about it on internet. Maybe I will go for CBT+EMDR if it is possible.

Best wishes to all of you folks, I absolutely love the energy and friendly air in this thread. I check as often as possible and I read every message posted here.
 
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Finally decided to do CB therapy today and looking for opitions in my city. I will have to choose the therapist wisely I guess.

Also ever heard of EMDR therapy guys? A friend of mine who suffered Generalized Anxiety Disorder like me, told me that it did wonders for her. A best way to treat GAD some says, read some good view about it on internet. Maybe I will go for CBT+EMDR if it is possible.

Best wishes to all of you folks, I absolutely love the energy and friendly air in this thread. I check as often as possible and I read every message posted here.
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im going EMDR now mate . It’s only early stages into it probably done 8 sessions with 15 or so to go .
 

COYBL25 said:
What's it like mate, never heard of it before now ?
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It’s weird mate , you pick a
Particular memory from the past and using these 2 devices you hold in your hands that vibrate you try and flush any bad feeling you have of the memory out of your mind . It’s stop and start
All session .
 
FC sexy xxx said:
I come out of thinking it doesn’t but then usually I get home and end up in bed drained mentally so it must have an impact . Also certain days after it I feel like Very bad mentally and it comes out of nowhere. But as the fella says to get better you’ve got to go through that .
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I see. They take out those bad, nasty memories so at first it is awful because you are put to 'live' that moment again, but the final aim is to reprocess that moment and make it irrelevant for you. Desensitization. I guess. She also said similar things, that she had to confront first and it was hard, but at the end it is over. If you are interested, have look at EMDR article on wikipedia. It's really an interesting therapy.
 

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I see. They take out those bad, nasty memories so at first it is awful because you are put to 'live' that moment again, but the final aim is to reprocess that moment and make it irrelevant for you. Desensitization. I guess. She also said similar things, that she had to confront first and it was hard, but at the end it is over. If you are interested, have look at EMDR article on wikipedia. It's really an interesting therapy.
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cheers mate and good luck with yours
 
efcforever said:
Hi everyone. I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but don't really have anywhere else to turn at the moment.

My wife have birth to our 2nd child on Wednesday night, it was a difficult birth as she has the flu at the time. It was all made slightly more complicated by the fact that my daughter (2 years old) has has been unwell aswell.

Any way everyone is back at home now and I just feel completely overwhelmed. I'm doing everything I need to do, night time feeds, caring for wife and daughter and bits around the house but I can't get my head straight.

I feel as though I should be overcome with joy and the fact that I'm not makes me a bad dad. I was just wondering if anyone else had similar feelings after the birth of a child.
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Congratulations. You're not a bad Dad. You're a normal human being who has had a pretty chaotic stressful time just recently.It will settle down once you get into a routine. @COYBL25 is right - food, drink, milk, nappies, cuddles for all who need it. The rest can wait. Welcome little new blue person x
 
anjelikaferrett said:
Congratulations. You're not a bad Dad. You're a normal human being who has had a pretty chaotic stressful time just recently.It will settle down once you get into a routine. @COYBL25 is right - food, drink, milk, nappies, cuddles for all who need it. The rest can wait. Welcome little new blue person x
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Thanks for the kind words.

I've started to relax a bit over the last 2 days. My daughter is over her virus so having her back to her happy self has made things alot easier.
 
I've hit the skids again a bit lately.. Started a new job only this week so Maybe that has just brought it on a bit . Very early starts too so maybe tiredness is a factor. But I can't seem to get happy if that makes since. Or can't really bring myself to do much socially either. I'm lonely then as I live alone but I don't feel like goin out either if thay makes sense
 
blue to the bone said:
I've hit the skids again a bit lately.. Started a new job only this week so Maybe that has just brought it on a bit . Very early starts too so maybe tiredness is a factor. But I can't seem to get happy if that makes since. Or can't really bring myself to do much socially either. I'm lonely then as I live alone but I don't feel like goin out either if thay makes sense
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Have you suffered with depression in the past mate ?

What you`re describing there ticks a lot of the boxes.
 

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