DEPRESSION
Posted by Depressed Chick in Alone on Feb 14th, 2011 | 4 commentsI struggle with depression, my friends and family don’t even kow it. I don’t let them know, alot of the time when it gets really bad I tell my friends that i’m in a funk and blame it on a boy or some crap. If you met me in person you wouldn’t believe that I was struggling with depression, i laugh the most out of life and stress the life part the most out of all of us. I do love life and wouldn’t throw it away even though I have thought of it before. Then my friends joke around about depression or say they want to jump out of a window and are joking and it stings becuase when i joke about those things it’s not usually a joke. I have no idea why i’m depressed, i just am and i feel like there is nothing i can do about it. I want to tell my friends but i dont ****** want their sympathy, which is all i would get, that and i might be put on some wierd monotoring system by them.
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At least you are aware of it. I numbed out on antidepressants for years and recently stopped taking them and am managing it on my own now that I can recognize it for what it is. Some of us are just wired differently. I have a great life and no one would suspect it either. The only friends I can talk about it with are the ones I recognized were suffering with it as well. You aren’t alone.
i have depression too, cause of trauma (head injury)…when it hit me i had no idea what to do…so i saw a doctor, he put me on antidepressants…i dont have much depression anymore, and rarely want to kill myself..i tell the shrink and my paster EVeRYTHING..it helps a lot. talk to someone right away, seek help, you can have a life again…i hope this helps!
I found that people with depression can often hide it very well. The ones that are able to so easily hide it, usually turn out to be the most self destructive ones.
Something you should be careful about is getting help with it. It is true that you can get help and that it works. However, you need to be careful because of the situation. When you are diagnosed with depression and mention that you’ve thought about killing yourself, even if you clearly know that you wont do it, you lose a lot of control you have over your treatment which can be harmful to you. But that doesn’t mean you want to not say it. It is important that you tell them everything. The best thing you can do, is have a friend or family member who you are really close with watch your back. let them be your voice, they can protect you from terrible treatment options that some doctors will force on you.
I’ve seen this happen multiple times. It is horrible. Drugs can help, but you need to be very careful on how zealous your doctor is with them. They can say you need 2 or 3 different pills and an additional 2 or 3 for bullshit like side effects or what ever they come up with.
Before you consider medical treatment, i would suggest just talking with someone. Either a friend, family member, or a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist can be so helpful, more so than you might realize. If it comes to medicine, then it is extremely important that you get at least 3 different opinions from separate institutions (if possible). Even when you are taking medicine, i would suggest that you never stop talking to a psychiatrist. Even if it’s only once every two weeks.
You said you struggle with depression; that means it can also be causing stress which is not a combination that you want.
a couple “home remedies” (not really remedies but things you can do on your own to help a little):
Exercise. Cardio is pretty helpful for clearing your mind and increasing your mood.
If you live in a warm sunny area then going to the beach and just relaxing can make you feel a little better.
With depression you may feel like you don’t want to go out or do any activities. When you feel like that, and you can force your self to actually do something, it (sometimes) can cause a feeling of relief or self satisfaction. I don’t know if you have these kind of feelings but forcing a change can help you push past those negative feelings.
most important of all: Do not turn to alcohol for any reason. If you find your self thinking “I can use a drink” or “I need a drink” then you are setting your self up for disaster. Alcohol + depression = *fml*. I’m not saying that you should totally not drink, but it is important that you watch yourself similar to how a diabetic watches what they eat.
Can I recommend you read a very short book that helped me understand why I acted like I did due to depression? I’m pretty sure it’s available where you live (I’m in the UK. It’s called ‘I had a black dog’ and it’s a wonderfully illustrated story about depression. It really opened my eyes and made me realise that depression wasn’t my fault. Google it.