How do you deal with depression?

[depressedforever]

i dont know how you do it. when i am severly depressed i just give in to the depression. first when it all started i use to do college work or soemthing to keep my mind of it but now i have nothing to do. i just turn my light off, draw my curtains and let thet feeling of depression override me. i know i shouldnt be doing that but thats the only thing that i can do.

i try to get through the day only to come to another day, so its much the same everyday. just given up already.

[georgiapeach]

boy, the way i deal with depression isnt good. so now im trying to find positive ways for coping. its not easy. lately i've been bottling up so many different emotions. seem right now the best thing i'm doing is coming to the forums reading them and being in the chat. also im crocheting a blanket atm and been just finding things to occupy my mind which there are many of them just need to find the proper things to not trigger anymore bad emotions.

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

This is nice, start a thread and it continues growing. Thank you all for answering.

Think my plan of evasion has change here of late. Life constantly changes, new roads to travel, and sometimes alone.

Keeping busy is going to be the route for me.

((((((((((((((((( solarsea, depressedforever, Peachy ))))))))))))) thank you for replying and may use your suggestions/ways of dealing.

Thank you all.

Warmie/Jeanie

[georgiapeach]

((((((((((((((((((( jeanie! )))))))))))))))))))))))))) <3

[depressedforever]

depression is reallly hard it takes over ones life. depression for different pepole means different things, but what ever it is it is not easy.

the feelings of sadness engulf you, you feel a deep pain in the chest area, you feel like you have a headach... all the physical symptoms to a psychological problem. its very hard.

sometimes you dont knwo what it is that you are feeling sad about you just feel sad and like there is no purpose to lliving. its very sad.like they say that sometimes depression is triggered by things taht happen to you and i think to my self things have happened to me but they were not bad enough to warrent depression so why am i depressed? there are no answers to endless questions that i have. i dont knwo its hard to live with depression, it might be hard for peopel around you too but it is most hard for the person suffering because they are aware of the impact that they are having on the people around them.

i just sometimes wish that i could wake up and have a purpose to my day, sometimes i just wish that i could feel like i want to live, like ive got something to live for but i havent. cant find anythiig to keep me going. i know i am just sitting here feeling sorry for my self but i dont knwo how to help myself,. i sometimes think that my situation cannot be helped. i am so fed up. i dont knwo if i am makeing any sense to anybody else. i am just so confused.

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

((((((((((((((((((((( depressedforever )))))))))))))))

Yes, you are making sense, honest. So many confused feelings all running at the same time, and you wish you could shut at least one down for just a day.

Do you see a doctor, on medications? Just wondering.

Wanted to let you know you aren't alone.

Warmie

[depressedforever]

yeh i see a doctor, i am on mediaction., anti depressents and anti psychotics.

the mediaction helps but only to some extent, it does not take the problem away though.

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Some medication does take some time to work. Please keep that in mind and don't give up.

[depressedforever]

my doctor put me on mood stabiliser aswell. that should help. but i am having paranoid thpoughts and i think that the doctros are involved with spying on my so i cant really go to them for help. i don know it is so confusing.

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Why do you feel you are being spied on? Sorry, don't understand. Please find someone you can trust, a family member, a teacher, if in school, a minister.

Warmie

[depressedforever]

i think the doctors and some other people that i knwo from my childhood and the police, x-friends are all spying on me. i dont know what to do about it and i think telling my family would not be a good idea because they are going to think that my problems just dont go away, first depression and now this. and i dont think they are going to believe me bacuse my mum doesnt believe me about other things that i have told her that are true.

and also they might think that i am doing it for attention. my brother once said that to me and a nurse at the hospital also said that to me about my self harm.

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

((((((((((((((( depressedforever )))))))))))))))

Please find someone in your real life to express your thoughts and fears. Wish there was something more i could say, just don't know what.

Perhaps venting and getting support from the chat room would be of a benefit for you. Just a thought.

Warmie

[depressedforever]

i have fuond someone to talk to in real life only they dont believe me and they dont take me seriously. i am engaging with a whole team of psychitrists but they just dont seem to understand or take me seriously.

like the last time i wnat to see the doctor it was last week and i told him about my paranoid idea's and what i was feeling like about people reading my thoughts, i didnt say that i think you guys are involved in this but i mentioned it and he didnt respond.

i mean if he tock me seriously then he would have prescribed me some medication for it. thats all it takes, give me some medication and the sitution will be solved and if he cant give me the mediaction then that just reafirms that they are invlved and so they are not going to do anything about it and nor are they going to try and reassure me that that is not happening. i mean a little reasurence would do me the world of good. but i meed reasurence form the people that i suspect, because there is no point for soemone else to convince me that it is not happening while it is. and if it is the peopel that i suspect then if they are spying on me they will know that i know and that might cause them to backoff.

i dont know. i am due to see my care-coordinator this week and i will mention it to him and see what he has to say about it.

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

((((((((((((((((( depressedforever))))))))))))))))

Good plan, please do talk to your care-coordinator, that is a start.

Warime

[aim]

Why do you hate her? What do you see wrong?

I think we all hate ourselves sometimes, but if we don't love ourselves, who will, right?

Thoughts are with you, Jeanie. I'm sorry you are so down...