Over several years I have been diagnosed ocd/chronic depression. I have been seeing a therapist for a year and a half. I have seen a couple of psychologists who have prescribed different meds. I have had a serious injury in April that really challenged me, not so much the injury, but all of the thinking while having to be off my feet for 5 mos.. I feel I've come a ways in my thinking, but seem to have come to a road block. I have been taking 40mg prozac daily, reading many self help books on getting past the depression. I seem to have lost the desire to participate in life. I don't beat myself up like I used to, but can't seem to find ANY enjoyment and desire to do anything. I saw ads for the progarm on several occasions and have seriously been considering getting it. I'm not sure what advice I'm looking for, but if anybody has been in a similar situation or felt an extreme loss of energy and desire, I could use some help. Has Lucinda's program helped??? I really want to move on and could use some help. Thanks so very much!

Hi Brian - If you work the program it works. You may need medication and the program. Fine, if that's what it takes to feel better then do that. I didn't have depression but I had major panic attack disorder. The program works and the same tools are used for depression.

I encourage you to purchase the program. Everything you try to help yourself with (that's healthy) is a step in the right direction.

Ask the MWC for a demo tape so you will get a good idea of what the program is all about. It has something for you.

My best to you.

Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping to get a few more responses but I always seem to equate how serious or meaningful something is based on the input(or lack thereof) of others. I am going to order the program. Therapy only seems to have made me feel a little more screwed up. I've always been driven by "have to's" and others opinions of me. I feel guilt for just about everything I haven't done, haven't done right, or just being the way I am. I see others smile and laugh and wonder where that comes from. Why can't I feel that. Mostly feel like I don't deserve to. My wife and others tell me great things about my self, my daughter loves me, but I feel like I'm just fooling them or faking it. They just don't know the real me. Therapy's taught me that it's my decision. I feel like it's just another thing I can't do right. How do you stop believing the crap and maybe consider that some of the good things you're told may actually be true? God, I feel so stuck!

Brian you have done the right thing in ordering the program. It addresses exactly the problem you are having. And don't feel bad if you post and don't get a lot of answers, there are so many posts on here a day and we are all busy people so posts tend to get lost in the shuffle. We are here for you any time you need us.

Hi bbrian35. Have you read "Feeling Good, the New Mood Therapy" by Dr. David Burns? In chapter two there is a self diagnosis test for discovering how depressed you are which can give you some insight as to what may be causing you to be depressed, if it is your thinking. The book also covers the no energy or motivation problem.

More than likely there are thoughts which are causing the lack of motivation. The Midwest Center program can help you get in touch with those thoughts. There is considerable work involved, but it is definitely worth it. I didn't work for 7 years due to a sleep disorder associated with depression, but I was also mostly bed ridden for a couple of years. What I didn't realize until starting the MWC program was that I had fallen into a state of "learned helplessness." I wanted out of the trap I was in but had no clue how until working with the MWC program. I got back into the workforce two years ago and have been working full time since. About three years ago I was also able to go completely off of anti-anxiety meds I had been taking for about 27 years and my depression meds fell very dramatically, all due to the work I had done with the MWC program.

Wishing you success in your efforst to recover.