True Champions Depression: Erin's Treatment

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Trying to fix your life is a lot like
trying to undo a huge knot in

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a big ball of twine.

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You have to go backwards, tracing your way
through your mistakes and

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your traumas, looping upside down and
inside out.

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You get through a clump and sit back and
think, there.

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And suddenly you realize that you have
unraveled only one knot of 1,000 knots.

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I don't think I really got real help for

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my depression until I was admitted to
hospital.

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My first treatment for my depression was
an antidepressant.

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I was scared to death, but in the hospital
I got assigned to a psychiatrist and

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I had someone to talk to about my
feelings.

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And that was the real beginning of my
treatment.

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Right now I'm on medication for my
depression.

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It's taken probably over ten years to find
the right combination of

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medications that help me function.

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And I also see a therapist.

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I see her twice a week and I've seen her
for many years now and I really trust her.

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And I think psychotherapy has been the
biggest help for

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me in coping with my depression.

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I find a lot of support through my family,
my parents and

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my pets [LAUGH], and my sister, she's
close to my age.

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We have a lot in common, obviously.

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She knows me, [LAUGH].

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She's known me her whole life.

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So, we're on our way to go meet Allie
who's my sister.

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And it's, it's funny when we buy stuff
together because we're told

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to say please and thank you at all the
right times.

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So we just end up saying the same thing at
the same time, and

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then laughing, and then saying sorry all
at the same time.

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And it's embarrassing, but awesome.

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[LAUGH].

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Do you wanna go to the Locomotive with us
for lunch and coffee maybe?

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Yeah, I love coffee.

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Cool.

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She helps me see things in myself that
I've lost sight of,

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and she doesn't judge me for it.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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I don't normally miss it at all but I'm
gonna get that new CD.

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It's like, it sounds like old jazz.

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I think you'll like it.

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Nice.

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I think she considers me one of her
best friends.

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And, and so we have a lot of good times
together and

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even when I'm having a bad day she can
make me laugh.

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Or, remind me of things that I like to do
or

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just get me out of my head for a little
while and that's hugely helpful.

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So it's really important to have a friend
like that.

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I don't think that my depression can be
cured.

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I don't think they're gonna come up with a
vaccine against depression.

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I think my, my cure for my pain is, yes,

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seeing my therapist and taking
medications.

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But it's also knowing who I am as a
person.

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And what I like, and what gives me
meaning, and

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try to do more of those things.

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