dysthymia

[darkoshi]

I'm not sure I even meet the diagnosis criteria for dysthymia. The only condition I seem to strongly meet is the "hopeless" one. I don't usually have problems with sleeping or eating. I don't think I have a problem with self-esteem. Sometimes I feel fatigued or lacking energy, but not all the time. I don't have a problem concentrating, if I'm motivated to do so. Decision-making can be difficult, but I'm still able to do so; it just takes longer some times.

Another consideration is that the antidepressants I tried did not seem to have any positive effect on me.

There's one state of being, where one is very much lacking in the mental energy/motivation to do anything. Perhaps that is the symptom of depression and dysthymia, which the anti-depressant drugs help to fix.

There's another state of being, where one has mental energy and motivation to do some things, but one feels no joy in doing them. That's what I have. Perhaps the drugs don't help with that. Perhaps this state is a very common one; after all, I read about people searching for joy, happiness, purpose, and the meaning of life, all the time. Is my state the same as all those people? Or do those people already enjoy life, and they're looking for even more?

Anyway, I was discussing my state of being, in these videos.

If the videos seem a bit choppy, it's because I edited out a lot of pauses between words and sentences, to make the videos shorter.

Comments

[darkoshi]

Thanks