Depression Understood Forums

Hi App.

In my experience, depression is not a logical thing. Just because the evidence of your situation is that you should not be depressed, it does not automatically make you happy. If you depressed, you are depressed.

It's good to have you here and I look forward to hearing more from you.

Hi Beautiful. I have 5 children and depression too. I live with my wife and all 5 children, but we both work and I feel like a single parent much of the time with the added pressure of having to try and meet someone else's unattainably high standards. I totally understand your loneliness. My idea of...

Hi Green "I screw up every day and I have not one good excuse or reason... Or a purpose" sounds like a normal day for me. Not sure why I am here or what I am trying to achieve. Don't even know what I would change in my life now if I had the chance, although I am desperately unhappy. You ar...

Hi Silent. Sorry you are in a bad spot but glad it brought you here. Terying to make sense of depression is hopeless - if we could all pinpoint the cause we could do something about it. I sometimes have days where I feel terrible and can't find any reason why I should. I think that part of the answe...

Hi Mint, thanks for posting. You are very young to be facing this with noone to talk to or share with, but unfortunately the isolation is something that many of us face, myself included. You have taken a positive step in coming here where there are people who understand how you feel. There is nothin...

Hi Tami I understand exactly what you mean. For me, the person I have always wanted around to help me through my low times has been my wife. Unfortunately, while she has helped me she has never really understood or coped very well with my depression and is now leaving me, principally because of it, ...

Hi Emmy. I'm not qualified to diagnose depression either, but I have it and I recognise a lot of your feelings. You have certainly been through an awful lot recently. You say "I just feel like I should be able to cope better." The world today tries to make us all feel like we should cope b...

Thank you for posting. I love your handle! You are not alone - others are here listening and caring. I am afraid that I don't have any easy answers to your problems, but I can relate to many of them. You did not ask for any of this and you do not deserve to be treated like this. All I feel able to d...

Hi James. You are making perfect sense. From my own experiences and reading this forum, feeling different and apart from the world is very much a part of depression. I can totally relate to what you say about talking to people and the battle inside your head - I feel those things too. Just because y...

Hi Airstream

I'm new here too and finding it very helpful to know how others share my experiences, because it sure doesn't feel like it a lot of the time!

Please tell us more about where you are coming from. I am listening too.

Hi Candy. Thanks for posting and sharing. You are not the only one who feels like that. I spend much of my life indifferent to most things, as nothing much seems to make a difference to anything and I feel largely irrelevant. Make time for yourself and. if you can, try to find something to do that y...

Hello. Glad you are giving uni another go. Keep trying to get up again when you get knocked down. Unfortunately, other people, often including those we are closest to, can be awful to us sometimes. I can certainly relate to feeling different from those around me - I even wonder if I am on the right ...

I'm in a similar position regarding my marriage. My wife has got fed up with me, thinks depression is just a made up excuse and has found someone else. It is so painful to be treated like this by someone you thought for years was your biggest supporter and best friend. I dread to think the impact th...

Hi Holly. Very sorry to read your story. I spent most of my childhood and teen years being mocked and bullied in various ways, I know how painful it is. I don't have any easy answers I'm afraid. We live in a society where there is a very specific accepted norm and if you are not like that, you are i...

Perhaps you need rest. For me, one of the worst aspects of depression is the near permanent exhaustion. Everyday things that other people seem to manage without noticing wear me out. Obviously never getting up is not an option and you should try and eat properly (though I don't always manage it eith...