stress

[westphalian]

None of us can give you accurate tailor made advice for you personally based on your post. I am not an arborist but was a mentor for people in my profession. If you think you may be depressed why not confirm it by seeing your GP. Google PHQ9, an assessment tool for depression.

I would recommend in ascending order

Self help books

Mentoring

Mindfulness

Counselling/psychological therapy

Medication

 

As you can already see antidepressants have an unfair stigma (myself included until they worked for me)

They are just a drug. If one had pneumonia one wouldn’t quibble about taking an antibiotic. Antidepressants are definitely overused just like antibiotics are but if they work you are laughing

 

 

[topchippyles]

15 hours ago, deezyboy said:

Just starting to come to terms with this. 

Its quite unsettling as I am only 25 and been running my business  since I was a school leaver. 

The stress and worry to grow the business and succeed, earn a profit, pay the rent etc all off my own back in an industry where people are undercutting and haggling for scraps of work is unsettling.

ive been battling anxiety and depression for about 2 years, pains in my stomach for weeks on end, loss of appetite (no doubt related) constant being wound up, stressed, unmotivated and tired. I used to love work and climbing and now it is for most days a chore, I no longer climb as too busy sending emails and dealing with clients on the ground.

my business has grown and for that I am proud of myself, no hand outs or anything, just pumping every penny I earn back into, hopefully what is to be my future. But this has come at the cost of my social life, family relationship, romantic relationships, overall health and well-being. 

When you do everything that you can to provide for your other half, when they are the reason you get up and pull those 12hr days followed by an hour in front of a laptop at night, and then those relationships fall down due to the stresses that your mild depression over 2 years has caused... it all starts to get a bit much!

i am only 25 and consider myself lucky compared to some of the stories shared by the posters on here, but as much as I enjoy running my own ship and the flexibility it brings, I can’t help thinking if it is worth it. 

I am in talks to starts some counselling sessions, so fingers crossed this is the beginning of the end ?? 

Its a hard thing to deal with stress,I have had 2 break downs and fought off alcohol which i enjoy very much,Make an appointment with your doctor asap and talk things through is my advise before things get to much.All the best les

[Haironyourchest]

If you're working 12 hour days, you might be suffering from burnout. How many hours of proper sleep do you get each night? Are you properly hydrated and nutrified? We all have different capacities for handling workload, my limit is about four hours a day, day in day out yearly average. If I push for more than this for too long I feel the same way you describe. Your capacity might be Eight hours or ten. Some people seem to have an unlimited capacity, but drop dead at fifty. I agree with whoever said avoid the pills. Small practical steps to address whatever the problem is works for me, but first I have to identify the problem, and councelling can help achieve that. 

[tree-fancier123]

14 hours ago, westphalian said:

Antidepressants are definitely overused just like antibiotics are but if they work you are laughing

laughing all the time?

[forestboy1978]

Try SAMe supplements! 

[westphalian]

why not try something with an evidence base?

[forestboy1978]

14 minutes ago, westphalian said:

why not try something with an evidence base?

I have. This works!

[westphalian]

I apologise forestboy. Found this on a medical evidence site. Looks to be as good as evening primrose oil when injected ie similar efficiency to old fashioned tricyclics which are now no longer prescribed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19909689/

 

[forestboy1978]

4 hours ago, westphalian said:

I apologise forestboy. Found this on a medical evidence site. Looks to be as good as evening primrose oil when injected ie similar efficiency to old fashioned tricyclics which are now no longer prescribed

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19909689/

 

No problem! Despite being a sexy mother fucker, a highly intelligent comedy genius, with a massive dong and a hot Mrs, I still suffer mild to moderate depression. 

 

Shit works! 

[westphalian]

it obviously doesnt work for delusion though