Mental Health depressive personality disorder - what's next

[DanielVonCalabrese]

What happens to people with depressive personality disorder? Is there any cure?

All my life I have had low mood, low energy, low self-esteem and etc. My father is same like me. I am 28 now. I take medications from three and a half years with no improvement. So what's next?

 

[weekend addiction]

Most peoples condition improve at least somewhat with finding the right medication or an alternative solution (yoga, special diets, etc). Some people give up on the process or are just unlucky and have treatment-resistant depression. And a small percentage commit suicide. Maybe the treatment-resistant depression thread might be useful for you.

 

[herbavore]

In the modern world, community is often lacking, diets are poor, expectations for productivity and success are so unnaturally high, and connection to nature is so minimal that it does not surprise me that there is an epidemic of depression and lack of self-worth. I urge you to look beyond a diagnosis which feeds the very symptoms that it purports to treat and to examine ways in which you can first have these basic needs met. We all need healthy nutritious food, good sleep, exercise. Beyond that we need good nutrition for the soul: a way to connect with nature, to step outside the world of humans and feel our place as a being among many other kinds of beings; to see a bigger picture of our lives than the small and narrow one we are urged to live in by a society that is simply interested in how much we consume. You are not at all alone in these feelings.