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Have you ever had depression?
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Ginja Ninja wrote: »it's good you're telling someone how you're feeling.
how important you're problems are is a matter of perspective,Failing his exams killed my brother,whereas most people sren't too phased by it.Don't ever feel like your problems aren't important,it's as important as you make it.
wow sorry for your loss
depression is a huge underlying issue! and i hope that is this thread has helped someone then i have done a good thing 
thanks to everyone for being so honest and open!
Now for people in distresse please ring 1life which are a sucide helpline which are free on 1800 247 100 or text help to 51444 or teenline on 1800 833 634 thanks0 -
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Man I feel like crap these days,
Cry at least once a day over how crappy things are and they never seem to look up
Know how you feel mate.....sometimes it's hard to see the good in the world....recessions, earthquakes, rip of politicians, cheating french footballers (I'm being polite)........but things will turn around i promise.....the darkest part of the night is just before the dawn......hey and if you feel like getting stuff off your chest...go for it...I'm all ears.0 -
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I had mild depression for about 4-5 years but have been at the severe end of the scales for the last 5-6 months. I'm on St. John's Wort at the moment which I want to try before any prescribed anti-depressants. I can ramble on for ages but the conclusion is the same: Depression is ****. You wonder is there ever any end to it - it's often hard to envisage a future without feeling like this.In the last 4 years I've suffered from TWO (you think one'd be enough) eating disorders, periods of self-harm and mild to severe depression.
There's a million other things I could say here but none of it is coming out coherently
That's my experience anyway!0 -
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RandomUserName! wrote: »I voted I dont know - I probably did but compared to some other people in this thread I probably got off pretty lightly.
+1 on the love for this thread and the honesty. It helps a huge amount to have some place to vent. I think its great that celebrities like Cameron Diaz and Jim Carrey are so open about suffering with it in the past, it makes you realize that literally anyone can have it. No matter how perfect you think peoples lives are and how happy they may seem from the outside, most of the time you can never really know whats going on in their heads. Owen Wilson's suicide attempt came as a shock considering how he always came off so happy.
It's definitely made me stop thinking "God, they have the perfect life, wish I could be more like them" about certain people, because you really just never know.
That is so so true. In my Leaving Cert, I got 8 A1s, becoming a somewhat minor celebrity in my town. Everyone would tell me how lucky I was, how I could do anything I wanted, how they wished they could've done half aswell as me, could I donate them some points etc. etc. It was like that everytime I went anywhere for months afterwards. Now don't get me wrong, I am grateful for those results and I'm by no means blowing my own trumpet here, but I just want to emphasis the point that RandomUserName! made above. I know that people thought I had it all but in reality it was far from it. I had an eating disorder and was self-harming in the years prior to the Leaving Cert, and since then I've had another eating disorder and severe depression. There's often alot more going on in a person's life than meets the eye.
But yes, this thread is great and kudos to everyone who's posted so far
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That is so so true. In my Leaving Cert, I got 8 A1s, becoming a somewhat minor celebrity in my town. Everyone would tell me how lucky I was, how I could do anything I wanted, how they wished they could've done half aswell as me, could I donate them some points etc. etc. It was like that everytime I went anywhere for months afterwards. Now don't get me wrong, I am grateful for those results and I'm by no means blowing my own trumpet here, but I just want to emphasis the point that RandomUserName! made above. I know that people thought I had it all but in reality it was far from it. I had an eating disorder and was self-harming in the years prior to the Leaving Cert, and since then I've had another eating disorder and severe depression. There's often alot more going on in a person's life than meets the eye.
But yes, this thread is great and kudos to everyone who's posted so far
Yeah, thats what I meant actually. I got 600 too and people thinking I "had it all" was so ridiculous to me, things like that mean absolutely nothing when it comes to depression. I also had a few eating disorder tendencies, they tend to correlate quite a bit with overachieving. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040614074620.htm0 -
I had mild depression for about 4-5 years but have been at the severe end of the scales for the last 5-6 months. I'm on St. John's Wort at the moment which I want to try before any prescribed anti-depressants. I can ramble on for ages but the conclusion is the same: Depression is ****. You wonder is there ever any end to it - it's often hard to envisage a future without feeling like this.In the last 4 years I've suffered from TWO (you think one'd be enough) eating disorders, periods of self-harm and mild to severe depression.
There's a million other things I could say here but none of it is coming out coherently
That's my experience anyway!
Thanks for sharing....Lots of people reading this can't even bring themselves to open up about depression so fair play to you.Could be the start of something.Sounds like your going through it at the moment.
Depression like a fecking computer virus it convinces you that you will never get rid of or get over ,it robs you of hope , but you can get over it, i promise.....The darkest hour is often just before the dawn
Have you gone down the professional route ie. counseling ect.Deifinitly helped for me..When i started my brain felt like a big ball of string ,all knoted.Memories, emotions, fears ,urges all caught up together.But slowly things improved.Things put in there right place.
Don't get me wrong I'm not all rainbows and sunshine and i still have bad days...but mostly good days and when i do have bad day(or a bad week) i know it will pass and things will look brighter again....
Don't be afraid to look for help....as the shampoo add says...because your worth it (even when the virus is trying to convince you your not)0 -
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Thanks for sharing....Lots of people reading this can't even bring themselves to open up about depression so fair play to you.Could be the start of something.Sounds like your going through it at the moment.
Depression like a fecking computer virus it convinces you that you will never get rid of or get over ,it robs you of hope , but you can get over it, i promise.....The darkest hour is often just before the dawn
Have you gone down the professional route ie. counseling ect.Deifinitly helped for me..When i started my brain felt like a big ball of string ,all knoted.Memories, emotions, fears ,urges all caught up together.But slowly things improved.Things put in there right place.
Don't get me wrong I'm not all rainbows and sunshine and i still have bad days...but mostly good days and when i do have bad day(or a bad week) i know it will pass and things will look brighter again....
Don't be afraid to look for help....as the shampoo add says...because your worth it (even when the virus is trying to convince you your not)
Thank you for the kind words, I'm always looking out for inspiring stories to encourage me to get through this. I've been attending a counseller for 2 months now. She's amazing and I'm finding it really helpful. Things are still pretty bad atm but I'm learning an awful lot of things that will help me through life in the future. I understand now that I never learned to deal with pain, hurt and discomfort in my life so I turned to coping mechanisms such as eating disorders and self harming. I'm also a bit of a perfectionist but I'm learning how to chill out a bit more and accept that everyone makes mistakes. Life it'd be boring if we were all perfect. 0 -
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Thank you for the kind words, I'm always looking out for inspiring stories to encourage me to get through this. I've been attending a counseller for 2 months now. She's amazing and I'm finding it really helpful. Things are still pretty bad atm but I'm learning an awful lot of things that will help me through life in the future. I understand now that I never learned to deal with pain, hurt and discomfort in my life so I turned to coping mechanisms such as eating disorders and self harming. I'm also a bit of a perfectionist but I'm learning how to chill out a bit more and accept that everyone makes mistakes. Life it'd be boring if we were all perfect.
I like the saying "progress not perfection"...ye your right if we were all perfect it would be a boring world.... Again fair play for sharing and give the counselor time....the ball of string can be a fecker to try and loosen at times......but it will tease apart in time.0 -
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I think just talking and being someone's friend can make so much difference to someone. I think everyone being so supportive here helps more than just the people who reply. My friends are why I would never(hopefully) do anything too serious. I don't want my awesome friends to go through anymore crap in their lives.
'Happiness is offering what you have to the world and knowing it is enough' We are all human and can be no more
Haha this was so made more sense in my head0 -
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Aaarrgh, I had a really long post written out, but then my internet disconnected Here we go again...
Anyway, I was diagnosed with depression just over a month ago (as some of you might already know, seeing as I seem to mention it a lot on here
). I'd been feeling really bad for a good while so I decided to go to the doctor at college. She referred me on to the psychiatrist and he put me on medication after a few visits. The medication has really helped, but it isn't a magic solution. Before I started taking them I thought "oh wow, now it's all going to go back to normal!", but it doesn't. Not straight away anyway. Sometimes I do feel on top of the world, but other times it's just as if I never took them at all. I've only been on them about a month though, so that could be it.
If anyone does feel really down, you should talk to someone about it. I didn't when I was doing my leaving cert, and that time was probably one of the hardest of my life. Talking really does help. Tell your friends and family, I know it's hard, but you could be surprised at the support you get. I know I was, especially because I was petrified of telling my parents due to some stuff that had happened in the past, they've been great though Talk to people in college/school too, there's no point in struggling on by yourself if you feel like crap. There's so many supports there to help you, things that you mightn't even realise. I didn't know of even half the stuff that was available beforehand.
I know how daunting it is to try and tell people what's going through your head when you can't even make any sense of it yourself. It seems like nobody will ever understand what's happening. I still feel like that, but hopefully it'll get better it's weird how much has changed since I posted last on this thread!
*hugs* to everyone who's written stuff in this thread, and everyone reading it. It's good to get people talking about mental health issues.0 -
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