I was diagnosed with it in 6th grade and I got over it after I met my husband. I had my own apartment and I was settled in my new life and I liked where I was living and I had a partner. So I had nothing to be depressed about anymore.

No.

Nope. Life still sucks, and will continue to suck. Most of the time life just sucks more and more, if never doesn't suck. Life is such a whore. lol

Apparently my type of depression isn't the kind I can just "get over". I think I'm seriously fucked chemically. I've been trying to find the right antidepressant for many years but haven't really succeeded.

Life itself doesn't suck too bad at the moment, it just feels meaningless. Boredom, apathy, anhedonia, and tiredness. Most days it's really hard to even get out of bed because it feels like there's absolutely no point in facing the world at all. These symptoms only seem to go away in brief spurts. Every once in a while I'll have a little spurt of excitement where I feel like life is once again worth living, but then it's over.

Sometimes I wish I was more or less mentally retarded. Then I would probably be more easily amused and lead a happier life. I envy the life of my dog who's just happy as a lark going on the same walk and eating the same food every day. I think existential depression is a curse of intelligence. That and possible having too cushy a life. Probably if I was a hunter-gatherer or cave man I wouldn't be depressed at all. I'd be too busy just trying to survive. However, there's this sense that depression is a road that once taken you can never fully go back. Life may get better again at some point but I don't believe I'll ever be as energetic and spirited as I was before I reached puberty. Happiness is just kind of transient / insubstantial for me.

I used to be depressed, not having to deal with people so much helped alleviate much of it, eventually. At first I felt just as bad, but for different reasons. The stress and anxiety was replaced with a sense of worthlessness and the perception that I had 'failed'.

Nowadays I feel more numb. Not the best state, but it's preferable, I think.

Yes. But I can still feel some effects of it.

nope & i won't until I change my lifestyle, so.

I was put on a med about 2 1/2 years ago, & for about a year, or close to a year after starting it, I was completely depression free.

Same.

If I possessed the seemingly unattainable (a girlfriend and a job), I could fully get over my depression. The problem is that hardly any jobs seem worthwhile/attainable, and I've much difficulty approaching females, let alone able to meet them (I live in a small village). Even if I had courage to change my life, I feel like I wouldn't be able to since I live in a small village with absolutely no jobs, no resources, or much of anything else.

I'm rather easy to please, but always feel a slight degree of depression since I feel I'm not able to change my life, though I really want to. I often think that if I lived in a bigger place, I'd never have entered a reclusive state, but I can't be sure.

having a girlfriend never really helped with my depression. having a job was ok for awhile, but i've never been able to stick with a job. i get extremely tired from working & it makes my depression worse because I would never want to go to work. the only thing that does help are drugs.

also another thing that I think will help a lot with my depression is finding a place of my own to live. my dream life right now is being in a place of my own working some shit reclusive job (over night grocery stocking) & enjoying my drugs when I come home.

Considering the fact that the only person who ever made me truly happy is now out of my life and I don't know why, I have not gotten over my depression. Ever since he left I've been getting worse and worse. I shouldn't be dependent of him, but I was and I still kind of am. So I was already depressed before and now I'm just getting worse and worse every day. I just want him to talk to me again.

I'm close to getting over it now more than ever since I am comfortable with a few realizations I have had for this past year. I actually like being alone most of the time while still maintaining a balance of being social and friendly. This helps only by making sure I have plenty of time reserved for myself to just clear my head and relax. If I felt comfortable being alone in the first place I would probably not be depressed from the experiences I had with family, ex-friends, and people who are just out to use and abuse others for fun or some sort of personal gain.

From my past experience having a girlfriend accentuates the problems in my life so until some of my major goals are completed I will not be looking for someone for the next several years unless I know someone is truly interested in me and is genuine. This is something that I can truly live with since I have a drive and focus to actually do something good for myself and myself only. I know it sounds a bit selfish, but its the only thing that is going to work for me to live a decent life. I still try to help others and I like to listen and talk to people sometimes.

Exercising has helped my mind as well. I mostly run an do a little resistance training.

Clinical depression yes, chronic depression (dysthymia) no.

No. I probably never will.

Yep. I just got over it last week.

Tell us how, Jester!

Not really. It's been like this as long as I can remember. I can put on a mask and tolerate doing the same things everyone else does for a few years before I have a breakdown and need to recuperate for a year or so, then I usually get guilted back into the grind and the cycle begins again.

I briefly overcome it by convincing myself I'm a knight displaced by time and NOT a useless shit. Then I have epic adventures in my head.



Talking out of my ass, but I like to think that finding a purpose may help or even fix my depression.

Well. I just gave up on people and gave in to my hatred of them. My depression was mainly caused by repeatedly being disappointed in myself and others, but now I know what to expect and not to make the same mistakes again. The mistake of feeling any sort of compassion for another human. That may sound depressing, but for me.. it presents a whole new world.

Yup, I'm not depressed at this very moment. However, since I have been depressed to varying degrees for most of my life, it feels as though it has left some kind of dark mark or bruise and this makes me much more susceptible to attacks of depression.

Maybe this means that I've never really gotten over it? Pfft, I dunno. There's always a lingering background white noise of day to day sadness with me, and when I feel absolutely euphoric, I've simply become unaware of it for the time being. That's what I think.

That's how I feel too. It never seems to really go away. Always lingering in the shadows. Like, the moment you have time to yourself, that's when it creeps up for me.

Yeah, during the time I was studying graphic design, I wasn't depressed, it helps tremendously when I know half of the things they teach and got pretty good marks, except that knowing those really doesn't help me land a job, and that what they taught were really quite useless, that anyone could learn from reading a tutorial, being aware of that really destroyed my confidence.

it was after that I couldn't find anything I could do, being stuck at home all the time, and anxiety took over.

HI I don't know if I'm a true hiki or not but for the longest time I was really depressed and anxious in public, I hated the way people would look at me and judge me, and so on.

I've got a job now but I kind of suck at it and I'm thinking of quitting.
I'm half japanese living in Australia, so socialisation is really problematic for me. At the moment I would say that I don't really have any friends at all.

What changed things a bit for me was a prayer I said once followed by a really intense dream. I never really believed in anything much before, and if there was a God I certainly hated him for giving me the shithouse life that I lead.

I'm still not sure whether I would go so far as to say that I am a true believer or not, but I definitely think that there is something to all the spirituality mumbo jumbo- just read between the lines in any good piece of music that you might like, it's all there if you're awake to it.

I hope this helps someone, I mean my life isn't great now and I'm still really trying to sort things out, but it got a bit better.

By the way I really liked the bladerunner movie.

My parents think i did, but i don't feel like i have ever gotten over it, nor i feel i'll ever will, i guess i'll just have to live with it.

I used to be depress all the time and in couple of occasions it got extremely bad... but I have finally found the answer, we all have bad days and moments in witch we feel down, but your mind is capable of overcoming whatever you wish


The meaning of life is to have LOVE in your hearts... and to develop your consciousness

thoughts are energy.. and they affect us physically


focus on positive emotions and feelings.. and clean your mind from all negativity..
listen to your hearth



I wish you all lots of LIGHT and LOVE