Nathan

5/9/97

Essay

Being Depressed

As I was growing up, I noticed that I was more "stressed out" than the normal children. It became a major problem after a while, and I was becoming nervous over events like going over my friends house, or going to even a small party.

When I became nervouse, i started fealing nauceus, and allready having a weak stomach I would throw up. Sometimes I would actually get nerveus over getting nevous, or fealing sick so i would eaventally get sick (throw up). This sord of cycle became a habit and accured on almost a dayly bases.

The nervousness turned into stress, and came down on me ofton and hard. Being overloaded with stress is not a very helpfull thing in your childhood. After time I became very moody, and noticed a loss on interest in people and life. I wasn't sure at the time if this type of behavoir was normall, so I figured "just hang in there".

At the age of 12 I made it clear that I needed help. I had heard of a medicine called "Zoloft", an anti depressent. When I told my Mom about the idea, she didn't understand, and would'nt help me out. Both my Mom, and Dad knew about my problem, but didn't know about my depression.

I had heard of a medicine called "Zoloft" , which is an anti depressant. After considering it, my Mom told me that she called the pchicologist, and that I had an apointment.

Later on that month, I went to my first apointment. I had to fill out a sheet relating to how I felt in the last weak. Once I went in Dr. Ambroseni's office, and talked to him about my problem, I felt upset and started crying. This was my first time that I talked about my problems in detaile with anyone but my closest friends.

At the end of the apointment Dr. Ambroseni decided to start me off on 50 ml. of Zoloft, and said that i needed to come back speratically. While i was starting off on Zoloft, the side effects were causing me to shake, and get a tickling fealing in my neck. But ater I got over the side effects, i noticed the Zoloft starting to work. To this day I am much better off than before, and have less stress day to day. If i would of known that seeing a pcycologist would havin me this much help, I would of done that before. Getting help is the best thing that you can do when depressed.

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