Is your depression on and off, or is it constant?

Constant. I can laugh or enjoy something whilst remaining depressed - I'd still put a gun to my head were it reasonably easy to access one. I've got to the point of 'not caring', near-nihilisticly, about how long i go on, so i don't really mind enjoying some things - i'll still remain depressed throughout.

Both... it's constant, but sometimes it's much more severe than others. The range goes from completely miserable to slightly glum, but rarely above that (usually just for brief periods when I'm too distracted by something else to think about it).

On and off but in a weird way I kinda embrace depression when it comes.

That's when my most creative side comes out.

Nah...not weird at all. Sometimes I purposely watch sad movies and sad songs so that I feel depressed thinking of negative things. Then I'll go hum some new tunes and write some lyrics, or even a story. Pain can be addictive. The depression I have is on and off, it's recurrent. I'll be stable for months, then for no obvious reasons, it will come back, like now. Thank goodness I've learned how to manage it so it's not so bad this time.

Yes, it's off and on. I'm generally always depressed, and have a hard time being happy, but there are a lot of factors and triggers that can set me off into a deeper depression. I've almost grown to like the feeling of depression if that makes any sense. And that really scares me. I'm starting to like wallowing in my own self-pity. Along with that physical tightness I feel in my chest. Haha, I'm messed up.

Constant.

my depression is on and off, but my anxiety is constant. when my anxiety goes into a lull is when i find i am the most depressed. maybe my depression is constant, but i don't notice it until my anxiety level goes down enough that i'm not on the verge of panic?

Quite inconsistant.
I feel more secure when I'm sad and uneasy.
Hope feeds despair..

There's a general feeling of depression, almost like an underlying dysthymia, all of the time, but my mood varies greatly. Somedays, I feel quite "chirpy" and "hyper" and then it suddenly stops, just like that. There have been periods where I have felt very depressed for months at a time.

At the moment, I feel better than I have felt in a long time. Hmm..I'm not sure how to describe it. I feel calm and maybe a little indifferent.

Can vary tremendously throughout the day.

oh, it's really on and off, more off lately... though I do feel kinda sad sometimes. but then I listen to Daft Punk or something and start dancing around... lol short attention span

I also love listening to daft punk when I'm feeling down! It's easy to get into a trance when listening to them.

I have an almost constant melancholy, but sometimes I'm incredibly depressed.

I've dealt with it on and off my whole life, but I am not sure it is on and off as much as it always on, but variable. Sometimes its slight enough that I can ignore it(melancholic is a good description), while other times, it can be so bad that I don't even feel like eating.

Mine is on and off. I can be like very high on drugs and I can be like very down, ready to destroy everything. =/

From early November to February it was pretty much constant no matter what. After my week at the psych hospital, it's been pretty bi polar. Although I've been feeling better overall. But when it was constant, it was constantly terrible.

Mine is pretty much on and off. I would say it is constant, but it is usually my "fits" which triggers my melancholy.

It depends on my day, but I usually have fits everyday and possibly multiple times a day. It's so blah...

It's constant but when I see my therapist i feel better because for that little bit she is paying attention to me and seems like she really cares though i know she really doesn't. When people listen to me it's nice but afterwards I just crawl back under my rock.

My therapist now makes me feel comfortable but the social workers in the psych hospital were all fucking ass holes. I hated talking to them.

yeah, some just really don't care. They don't care if you know that they don't care about you or not. It's kind of depressing knowing you're trying to get through to someone when they refuse it.

It's almost pointless to be a "therapist" of any kind if you don't care about your patients. It sounds like it should be illegal or something. x_x

I learned a long time ago that a therapist's job is just that - a job. I'm sure there are exceptions, but they never seem to care about their clients. All the ones I've seen have extremely bureaucratic, robotic mindsets. I'd benefit more by talking to people who care about what I have to say.

The worst part about these people is their unreliability. I've had them tell me they'd call me to set up new appointments with me, yet I'd wait for months without hearing a word.

That's only scratching the surface - I've had many problems with them.

My depression is pretty constant. I am really independent and I depend on my friend Slater, or cheatar1, A LOT. So when I think about how lonely I am and how worthless I am and how no one likes me it really depresses me. I know that people tell me, "Hey! Think of happy things!" But I over analyze things, so the happiest thing in the world can depress me to no end because I thought about it too deeply. I am a negative thinker!

Personally, my depression is on and off. This is because I suffer from Manic-Depressive disorder (aka bipolar disorder) with more of a focus on te depression. I do have weeks where I am so manic I feel like I could take on the world... but that's usually short lived.