Brief Answer:
Please, get evaluated!

Detailed Answer:
Hi and thank you so much for this query.

I am so sorry to hear about this terrible feeling that you have reported. I am considering a few reasons why you may be feeling this way. This could be due to a problem with your body's system or related to the social context.

Feelings similar to what you have described could be related to a low functioning thyroid gland. It would be best to evaluate this gland by doing a TSH level. This will provide objective information as to whether this is the cause of your problem. Depending on the findings, management and/or further investigations would be planned accordingly.

Besides an organic cause, other possible causes(more common than organic causes) could be related to your social conditions. Living away from the family can be difficult. This can in itself cause terrible feelings. If you were so close to your family growing up and you actually miss them so much, it may be a possible cause. This may be causing you to feel lonely and detached from the society leading to depression. If this be the case, I will strongly recommend that you consider going home for vacation when chanced. Also, try to communicate as much as possible with them. It could be very helpful to get someone close to you to come and visit from home if you are unable to make a trip back home for work reasons.

I only use medications as the last option to address symptoms of depression. I believe in identifying the exact cause of this feeling and addressing it rather than mitigating the symptoms by giving medications that can make you feel happier though not addressing the exact cause. I will only advise that you use them should no possible explanation be identified. That not withstanding, we have several anti depressant medications that you could potentially benefit from if needed.

Are you married? Do you have a girlfriend in Canada or is she in India? For real you need someone close and of the family around you to add human meaning and sense of purpose and fulfillment in addition to this already achieved success in the professional world. Should you continue to feel this way, it would soon affect your professional performance and can cause crisis in your professional career. It would be great to act earlier than later.

In all, get evaluated for possible causes like hormonal imbalance. Take an honest evaluation of yourself and see if you being away from your family and home is a possible cause. If this is the case, try some of the above measures to get closer to your family and feel their love. It is very important to feel loved and surrounded by loved ones and family.

I hope you find this helpful. I wish you well and thanks so much for using our service. Please, feel free to request for more information and clarification should need be.
Dr. Ditah, MD.

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Brief Answer:
How did you feel when you were home?

Detailed Answer:
Hi and thanks for this follow up question. I understand how bad you are feeling right now. I honestly hope we get to come up with a tangible solution for you.

I will like to know how you felt while in your home country? Did you feel a happy person? Did you feel like life was just as good the way you would have loved it to be?
The paradox with live is that we rarely get all the things we want in one place. It is always compromising one thing for the other. However, what I will not advice that you compromise for the other is your happiness. If you honestly felt very happy at hoe during your last tip and it is not the case now, then we would need to do something to make sure you feel some home presence while away if being away cannot be compromised.

You question what you are doing in Canada. Something seems to be more at the core of these bad feelings. Make of summary of your life evaluating what it would look like being back home and being in Canada. Where you think you would have an over all better quality of live should take precedence. May be there is so much more that I have not understood about living in both countries but you would be able to enlighten me on this so that we can together make a sensible plan.

Hope to hear from you. I wish you well and thank you so much for using our services.
Dr. Ditah, MD.

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Brief Answer:
Thanks for following up!

Detailed Answer:
You are not a loser. Do not let that feeling to catch up on you. You are who you declare and I will like you to say it would be better.

In the western world, social life is almost absent. I understand you on this as an African who has lived in both settings.

My best advice is to get a close friend. This would be best if you could find a loving and caring person who can always be there for you. Unless you have some reasons not to want a girlfriend or get married at this time, I believe a good person in that capacity would be able to share your feelings, talk with you, and add great value to your life. Give it a try(a girlfriend) if you can and of course you can pull out if you don't like it.

Now that you know what is lacking, drugs would not be the best solution. Let's treat /tackle our problems and not suppress them with drugs.

I hope this helps. I wish you well. Feel free to ask for more related information if need be.
Dr. Ditah, MD.

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Brief Answer:
Thanks, too!

Detailed Answer:
Thank you so much for your humbling words.

I wish you the best of health. Feel free to direct future queries to me if need be.
Dr. Ditah, MD.

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