Anxiety & Depression Hell..*TRIGGERS*

[SA89]

My children once asked me how often I get depressed. I told them I'm always depressed, it's just sometimes I manage it better. That applies to me, I hasten to add, and not to everybody but I hope it's a good illustration that looking after yourself, watching for signs of a slip and adjusting your lifestyle when needed can help keep a crisis at bay. It doesn't always work, I'm not going to pretend otherwise, but it does work enough to make it worth the effort of trying. I feel like I'm rambling so I'm sorry if I don't make sense

Paula when u say watch for signs & adjust how is that possible when u have to face that trigger on a weekly basis. My workplace & its peer group triggers my depression really bad. I can be relatively fine all week then as soon as I'm around those people & girls that mess with my head it sends my self esteem plumeting. I'm uncomfortable with the majority 'clique' there & the girls keep givin me mixed signals (flirt with me thn some1 else straight after). Its so frustration especially when u've never had a gf.. And now I'm gonna drink the night away now in town & feel 10X more depressed & anxious ..

[Paula]

I think somehow you have to find the mental strength to stop these being triggers. I wonder if these girls really are flirting with you. I wonder if they're just being nice and pleasant and you're seeing it a different way - that particularly seems more likely when you say they constantly move on to others and flirting. Most women don't do that, I promise. Most women will be kind and pleasant to the people they work with and have daily contact with because it makes life easier and often because they're genuinely nice.