美国抑郁症患者自述（1）

美国抑郁症患者自述（1）

“我过去总是乐观向上 ，我热爱生活。我喜欢踢球，我喜欢体育。我喜欢动起来。 但是当我忧郁症发作的时候，我的家人可以告诉你，他们甚至无法让我离开沙发。 而且，我一点劲也没有；我对性生活也没有兴趣。”

“我没有食欲，对任何事情没有兴趣，只是想躺在那里。”

“我开始吃药了。我开始每天照镜子，我能看见自己正在回来。我能发现我自己 ，我能感觉到我自己。我在生病以前就在那里。”

“就在那面镜子里面，我一点一点在好起来。最后，我终于完全走出来了。”

“现在我回过头来看看，感觉到所经历的教给我的东西太丰富了。首先是家庭，我 多么感激我的家人，相比之下金钱是多么的微不足道。还有帮助别人而不仅仅是让 别人帮自己是多么的重要。 这正是我现在每天竭力去做的。我每天都试图去发现 那些需要帮助的人。 忧郁症让我了解了大多数人都不知道的东西。我知道忧郁症是怎么回事，在忧郁世界里是什么样子，出来以后又是什么。我把这叫做旅程，它通 向另一边。”

“我需要做的就是弄明白我到底发生了什么事情?然后对自己说，嘿，我可能是得了心脏病或癌症或是别的什么病，这个忧郁症就是属于别的什么病。帮帮我。这就是发生在我身上的事情。”

“当我走出忧郁，我才意识到我失落了太多的东西，现在一切正常了，做好准备归 队吧。走出忧郁，感觉真好，真是太好了。”

"I was always upbeat. I loved -- I mean loved -- life. I played college ball. I loved sports. I loved to be active. But when I went into depression, and my family will tell you, they couldn't even get me off the sofa. And…I didn't have any energy; I didn't care about sex."

"…It's just, you lose all your appetite; you don't care about doing anything. You just want to just lie there, you know."

"And I took my medicine. And I'd go to that mirror every day and I'd look in that mirror and I could see myself coming back. I could find myself. I could feel myself, you know, the Stuart Perry that was there before he got sick."

"And in that mirror every day, I got better and better and better. And finally, I came completely out of it."

"But then I look back on it now, and I think about (how) what I went through has taught me a tremendous amount about life. And it's taught me about family, and it's taught me about how much I love my family and that money doesn't mean anything. And…how much it is important to help somebody instead of me looking for somebody to do something for me. And that's what I try to do every day. I try to find somebody every day to help. After I came out of my depression, I knew something that most folks didn't know. I knew about depression. I knew what it was like to be in a different world and what it was like to come back out. And I call it my journey -- journey to the other side."

"What you have to do is be able to understand what's going on with you and to say, 'Hey, I've got something like heart disease or cancer or you know anything else. This is just like anything else. Help me.' And you'd be back up and kicking. That's what happened to me."

"…When I first came out of depression I (realized that I) had missed out on so much. And you have all this energy; you're just ready to go again. It's a wonderful feeling (being recovered from depression)…it's great."

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