Originally Posted by
johnst_nhb
“ Feeling low after your dog dies is not abnormal or a medical condition.”
That in and of itself is true. But it seems like you should know that one shouldn’t flippantly dismiss “feeling low” outright.
What if you are not getting over it? What if you are just not shaking it like you KNOW you should be? Like, you unexpectedly don’t feel like you have the tools to cope, even though your daily life is fine...and you used to have those tools.
What if you read that nightmare poem, ”The Rainbow Bridge????”
I’m no doctor and I’ve never been clinically depressed. But after a major trauma (not my dog, but that will be worse) I was “severely situationally depressed.” I simply could not shake it for almost 4 years. I went to the edge but it was not for me. But in the words of the great David Lee Roth, I stood and looked down. I had no time to mess around.
I functioned just fine, maintained my career (albeit not at the very top of my game, but successful) but I could not understand why the “me” I always was, was not the “me” I currently was. I was sad as hell and felt like I was in a tar pit.
I finally went to a doc, got test checked a few times and I was far <200. Given my athletic background, my doc said, “how in the hell do you lift 4x per week?” (I hired Jim Steel a while back and still use his program).
Long-winded point being, physically I was doing well. Mentally I was not.
A clinical dose of test cyp., after about 6 weeks, changed my fucking life (yes n=1, but n=1 is all that matters to me.) It can’t be ignored. There’s no benefit physically (physique) at my dose (a mere standard 100mg/week), nor does there need to be, but holy mother of god did getting my levels in normal range allow me to be myself.
For some men, this is the answer.
Jfsully, please forgive me for this but I am not aware of your credentials. Please understand I am not asking in order to slag on them, I literally just don’t know.
I find your posts valuable and interesting,
Are you an endocrinologist? Psychiatrist? GP?