I'm pretty depressed. Anyone care to share your depression stories with me? I'd love to hear them.

Same here, but also talk to a doctor, get some medication, makes life nicer.

Where to begin? That time where a bad breakup put me into a depressive spiral that caused me to drop out of college and keep working my dead-end retail job?

When same retail job kept further harming my mental health so I quit and got a warehouse job? (That I managed to turn into an actual career, fancy that)

When, years later and I still feel like shit, causes me to jump from one hobby to the next, ad infinitum, never finishing much of everything but having a million things on my plate? Want to work on my car to keep me busy. Gets to be too much of a hassle, so I jump over to 3D printing to keep me busy. Gets to be too much of a hassle, so I jump over to working on my truck to keep me busy. Then gaming, then homelab shit, then cooking, then retro game console refurbs, then the car again, etc etc etc.

I can go on and on but that more or less sums it up.

It gets better. It may take a while. You may not ever know when it's going to. You may not even know that it IS getting better until you look back and realize how bad things were at one point. But it will get better.

For me, I think it is.

Distract yourself by watching and playing things you enjoy; try to laugh. Trivia: Dementors are depression incarnate. Don't let them get to you!

@XAIXER

The things from Harry Potter?

Yep

I came out in 2015 as a bisexual in 2015, 3 years after that, I struggled with with general biphobia in LGBT community. Also, because I explored my sexuality quite aggressively, it was kinda chaotic because I felt I must make up the lost time. It gave me a depression, to the point I couldn't stand it anymore and told my older sister about this. She recommended me to come to the clinic she worked at, and the head of psychologist gave me a non verbal sandbox therapy which helped me to discover my inner psychology. After some sessions and a breakdown, I actually felt better after the therapy.

I recommend you to visit a psychologist if you can.

I don't really recommend to visit a psychiatrist and ask them to prescribe you some anti-depressant pills. I think it should be considered as a last resort as there is a risk of creating a dependency.

@eriol33 That's a fascinating story. Glad you feel better as a result!

I honestly have a lot of blogs covering my depression and the issues I've had to deal with, so my depressing stories are already public. I still deal with depression but I've been finding means of getting better. Something I've been doing with my life has been learning to take losses and moving forward from them. I learned that I had to cut out some people from my life to get better and I am talking about people who encouraged me to keep drinking or keep doing drugs or my abusive partners. I had to also learn that nothing would get better if I make it happen. I saved my money up and was able to move out of my toxic apartment that kept triggering my depression. I moved in with friends who helped build me up. I kept taking action and control of my life, accepting that losses didn't mean failure and that sacrifices were needed for progress. In short, even though I still deal with depression, I was able to get myself to a better place where my depression has a hard time taking control of me. Even at my worse, I am still more suited now to deal with it than I had been in the past.

Depression stays. We have to live, or at least survive, with it.
But if we have a friend and something to do, it can be kept under control, a bit.
But in this weeks I'm not very good at doing this...

That shit is pretty cool.

I wouldn't call it a depression, but I was really sad over the summer of 2018 because all my friends wanted nothing to do with me anymore. I spent that whole 4 months alone in a dark room.

I'm depressed, cause you're depressed.

I use my comp and PSP games to take me away. And it helps. thought I'm playing shoot 'em ups. LoL

@OldBoi Misery loves company bro.

I wanna talk about how sad I feel, but I just can't put my thoughts into words without sounding like an idiot

My depression seems almost ancillary to an even bigger issue with long term anxiety. I can trace the genesis of it back to being "just shy" as a child.

Heavy drinking was a coping mechanism I used for many years, but it was only exacerbating the problem and I was starting to become unhinged with erratic behavior, especially during the blackouts. Quitting booze didn't necessarily solve the problem, but has made it more manageable and allowed me to better reflect on and accept certain sources of personal suffering.

I'm perhaps more anxious than ever, but also less depressed at the moment.

@Scott_pilgrim and to many others. It's only a problem, when you keep it to yourselves, thus letting it fester to a much larger problem. Talking it out can help quell it, even if for just a moment of peace of mind.

My depression lately has been my brother passing and losing my job in September.

@Jayro hang in there. I lost my job in October,got a new job but it stressed me out really bad, and almost made me lose my confidence. I left that place and have been hunting jobs again. Hopefully the market will bounce back soon

I have not seen my kids since December 2019. It makes me sad. But I don't cry anymore. I can't wait until this pandemic is over and I make a big FUCK YOU to all the haters.

it does make me depressed that some people don't accept me for me. I have a condition that causes me to become two-faced at times, but I can't really help that. that's what I'm on disability for.

@godreborn I've lived with people with bipolar disorder before, and know what that's like, but only from the other side. Though I have snapped at people that didn't deserve it, and it makes me feel like I'm an inch tall when I do.