Re: [TMIC] Why Depression with TM?

[Stacy Harim]

I agree with you.  I have gone through a couple of bouts of depression.  On top of going through the ADEM, I now have permanent injury on my spinal cord leaving me paraplegic.   I have had a non healing wound on my ishiam just about a year now.  When I was in school, moving forward, I was fine and now since I haven't been in a year, and a year further from graduating, I feel useless.   I cant feel much except for the pain and it's debilitating in it's own way.  I did finally decided to get a surgery that will close it but will put me in bed for a month.  It will be depressing but I will get it over with, but I do agree with you about the depression.  You lose a part of yourself, it feels like, when you deal with pain every day and you aren't your old self.   Stacy ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TMIC-LIST@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 1:29 PM Subject: [TMIC] Why Depression with TM? My question is this---why does cord insult itslf cause depression regardless of degree of disability?   Don't you think that the root of the depression comes from the basic loss of our "selves" as we used to describe our  existence and place in our world?   Everything changes.  We are no longer the vital human beings, contributing in all ways to society, and it it loss piled upon loss, upon loss that causes the depression.   In my humble opinion, Jude