I’m 29 years old and have been struggling with depression for the past 3-4 years now roughly. I was in denial at first, and just dismissed it as temporary outside factors getting me down. However after the feeling never going away I decided to take it seriously and spoke to my doctor who put me on 50mg of Sertraline. 

This helped at first and for a few months my mood seemed improved, but after a while the pills stopped working, I went back to the doctor and he upped the dose to 100mg, this happened again when the same thing happened a few months later.

I eventually gave up with antidepressants and thought I’d try therapy. My workplace has private healthcare fortunately so I contacted them and discussed how I felt and that I’d like to pursue therapy. They did an initial assessment and then suggested CBT. I did 7 of these one hour sessions and I don’t know if it was CBT, or the therapist but it just felt like a waste of time and I felt like they were quite patronising so I cut this off.

What would people suggest I try next? I picked up some unhealthy coping mechanisms on the way (mainly opiates which I’ve since stopped), and I’m at a loss at what to try and help my depression because it feels like anything I try will be pointless and just end in disappointment. I miss actually having things to look forward to, getting excited for things, making an effort to build a future and just in general having my shit together. I don’t know what happened at around age 25, but my mental health has just been getting worse and worse the past few months to the point if I don’t find something that helps me stop feeling this way, I’m not sure how long I can carry on.

Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance.