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Question:
I'm 24 years old. Just moved to a new state after a divorce. I'm sharing custody with my ex, no problems. In a new relationship, new job, new everything. Not even the furniture in my home is the same. But still everything is going great. I've moved around all my life. I'm used to it. However, since I've made this major change, I'm moody like never before. I've got crying spells. I'm extremely fatigued. It won't stop. It's like I can see the dark cloud coming over me and I can't stop it and the mood may last a week or so where I'm just malevolent in every way and that is not me at all. I have everything going for me. I look forward to the future. I'm not suicidal during these moods but incredibly uncaring and uninterested in life. It is effecting my new relationship. My poor boyfriend is confused as hell and so am I. I've never been this way before.
Answer:
I'm not a doctor, but it sounds like you probably are depressed, and with good reason: divorce is taxing. Medication is a whole 'nuther ballgame, though, and I would recommend you see a therapist. Perhaps you should be a second opinion from someone you trust, or even someone you don't necessarily trust - just as long as you get a second opinion. Perhaps a psychiatrist would be helpful. But its good that you went to GYN because it sometimes happens (I know from experience) that a doctor of one area of specialty will give you a pill for something whereas your real problem is something else. But I would encourage you to see a psychiatrist as well. I can not believe your OBGYN said there is no situational cause for your depression. What garbage!!! You just experience two or three of life's most stressful experiences!! How can the end of what was once your life-long planned relationship not be stressfull, even if it was healthy to get out it? Even if you wanted all of these changes, they are still stressful. Positive change is just as stressfull as negative or unwanted change, but a bigger problem because we keep telling ourselves it shouldn't be stressfull. My suggestion is two-fold. Use CBT techniques to talk to yourself about accepting the feelings, subliminal though they are, about the changes in your life. Second, it would not hurt to try the prozac as it can provide a steady base from which to work the CBT on yourself. This will pass in time, as it appears 100% situationally induced.
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