I’ve been dealing with depression (and anxiety) for well over 5 years now. I’ve tried so many different medications and treatments with no apparent success. Inevitably, in the course of the treatment, the doctor will ask if I’m starting to feel better to see if it’s worth continuing the treatment, up the dose, or swap to something else. And… I never know what to say. If it’s not going to get dramatically better all of a sudden, I don’t really know how to recognize any incremental progress if it’s happening at all and without being able to do that, I might be passing on treatments that could have helped if I gave it more time.
So if you’ve been in this situation, how did you recognize progress? To the extent that you can put it into words, what did it feel like to slowly get better as you were treated?
Felt like I churned up FoV from 60 to 130 and fps from 15 to 240. I did some drastic changes though, so it wasn’t exactly gradual. Unless you count a year being gradual. A lot of it wasn’t the result of my own merits though, but rather being surrounded by good people. The rest was happenstance.