So you had your 40. Birthday not presented. But just on the day it came to escalation – to eight-week training in psychiatry. Diagnosis: moderately severe Depression. “Life to me is lost,” says Lisa Zogg* today, 13 years later. And referring to your time of suffering, which has already started in 1993.
Also in the case of Rico Nil it was a good 15 years ago this Moment, in the “everything like a house of cards collapsed”: he worked for years at a pharmaceutical company in a higher Position, know that he was free for three months and get a Coaching in stress management.
Since it was clear to him: He had developed as a neuro-scientist, medicines for depression, was himself affected by the disease.
exchange without fear
Today, retired the Nile, and President of the Association Equilibrium. This has support for 25 years, the goal of depression sick. The around 30 self-help groups in German-speaking Switzerland. The only one in the lake Zurich region is for Zogg since discharge from the clinic, “a fixed point”.
“Everyone in the group is allowed to show his feelings and Fears,” she explains, “without having to worry about, his words would be misinterpreted.” To exchange experiences and encourage yourself to shock each other. To experience “that is similar to others, is a big help,” she says. The group also speak about dealing with medications and their side effects.
“An often-difficult Chapter for the people Affected,” says Nile, had antidepressants but wrong in a bad Image. “Most patients want to take up as few drugs as possible.” He sees this in a pragmatic way, three he owe them a largely normal life.
a Variety of symptoms
for Zogg has stabilized back to life. This is not only thanks to the self-help group and medication. A range of physical and creative activities, as well as in the clinic learned mindfulness training to help her. “The self-help groups do not understand in General, but as a substitute for professional talk therapy,” says Nile.
are as different As the Concerned, so varied the disease manifests itself, however. You did a lot of crying, says Zogg, and the previously beloved music no longer listen to endure. The smallest of efforts were gone with a racing heart and shortness of breath.
Severe cough and panic attacks had plagued them – and to false diagnoses and therapies. At all she was always accompanied by the feeling that the tasks in family and work also with the greatest effort no longer grown.
Stigmatised Suffering
Nevertheless, you have to want to continue to work. Not have increased the workload, in order to be considered as unreliable and not resilient. Even if the self-fallen-esteem to the Ground – for example, through the comparison with other people. “Create it, to manage their everyday life,” she had thought. And so you’ve avoided it, to talk about their loads.
There was about as traumatic experienced the early birth of her twins in 1993 – for Zogg is the trigger of Depression. Then the beginning of a difficult daily life with the newborn, the death of her own mother. “It is always more.”
And to the Outside all add to the comments, you should pull himself together. “Depression is still stigmatized as low-Performance,” says Nile, “when last time the awareness for the disease has improved.”
Take note
his Depression is made of a Burn-out out. He was cynical, unpunctual, and forgetful, become, have closed and interviews are denied. “I was in the business under enormous pressure of work and had to prepare a lecture at the ETH,” he explains. Such as in a Tunnel, he was on a black wall in the night – the point at which he had been for his staff portable.
“After my break, I had to put professionally back strong,” he says, “and many of the same tasks.” However, he says that one could overcome Depression, if you’ve accepted it and am – with all the consequences. “This first step is the hardest.” Therefore, the Association is focusing on this, too. “We want to increasingly previously Concerned as a liaison between patients, Doctors, and therapists, and work with family members,” he says.
* Name known to the editors. For more information about the club www.depressionen.ch. (Zurich newspaper)
Created: 08.05.2019, 19:21 PM
