What's on your mind?

[Conia]

A bit on the subject, I believe that I have cured my own depression Definitions for "cure" and "depression" are probably needed to establish it on an accurate level, but I can just shrug off those bad thoughts that some years ago tormented me into believing that nothing in life was worth it

[mangaluva]

I think I've made a lot of progress since high school, since I no longer spend the majority or indeed any of my day working on suicide plans, but I still get depressive episodes of feeling emotionally numb, having no appetite and only really wanting to sleep all day because getting up and doing ANYTHING just doesn't seem worth it. I can handle those, enough to get myself to get up and do what I need to do, but they still come around. Mainly, it's just comforting to know that they'll end and I'll feel better soon.

Depression manifests differently for everyone, though. Congrats to Conia for getting out

[Iwamoto Yuri]

I once again just realised how awesome my mum can be.

[mangaluva]

Aquahorse, I'm sure you're trying to be cheery, but one of the thought cycles I had to get myself out of was telling myself that I was getting worked up over nothing and I had no reason to feel as down as I did and that I was just being a self-pitying overdramatic emo bitch who didn't deserve to be wasting air. Thinking that way just sends me into a massive spiral of self-hate. Hearing a counsellor describe the way I was feeling as a "depressive episode" was actually very uplifting after all the times I'd been told by a high school counsellor that I was getting worked up over nothing. Depressive episodes are something that I can and have learned to handle.

OMM: Hot water bottles make everything in the universe feel better.

[PT]

I think I've made a lot of progress since high school, since I no longer spend the majority or indeed any of my day working on suicide plans, but I still get depressive episodes of feeling emotionally numb, having no appetite and only really wanting to sleep all day because getting up and doing ANYTHING just doesn't seem worth it. I can handle those, enough to get myself to get up and do what I need to do, but they still come around. Mainly, it's just comforting to know that they'll end and I'll feel better soon.

This is basically how I am, too. Though it's more frequent that I have days where I feel completely useless and worthless. That, to me, is even worse than just days where I feel numb and just want to stay in bed all day and not move.

[mangaluva]

I think I've made a lot of progress since high school, since I no longer spend the majority or indeed any of my day working on suicide plans, but I still get depressive episodes of feeling emotionally numb, having no appetite and only really wanting to sleep all day because getting up and doing ANYTHING just doesn't seem worth it. I can handle those, enough to get myself to get up and do what I need to do, but they still come around. Mainly, it's just comforting to know that they'll end and I'll feel better soon.

This is basically how I am, too. Though it's more frequent that I have days where I feel completely useless and worthless. That, to me, is even worse than just days where I feel numb and just want to stay in bed all day and not move.

For me the feeling of being useless and worthless is more just kinda constant background radiation to my life >_> I can get a little emotionally dependent on fanfic reviews just to tell me that there is something that I can do well and brings a little bit of joy into somebody's life. (Conversely, if I'm having a bad writing day or write something really badly, I go DOWN. REALLY down.)

But yeah. The feelings suck. All I can offer is to say that I don't think you're useless or worthless. It might not always feel true for you, but I mean it.

[kkslider5552000]

I have those feelings sometimes, but thankfully I rarely get stuck with that for too long a period of time. I just move on or watch an anime or something and it's fine-ish.

[kholoudsafir]

My GP said that I have a chemical depression, because my back aches while I am really upset, also my hormones are messed up. Thank God I didn't reach to suicide thoughts, the worse thing I thought was just leaving everything behind me and just walk away! but my voice of reason didn't leave me . Don't remind me how many times I think of how useless I am in all aspects and I still do most of the time. But all is under control, I just watch videos non stop to escape reality, as I can't curl and sleep.

[Kamite]

...Such a cold turn this thread became to be...Welcome to DCTP: Depression Control Treament Project. ummm I was sad when my ice cream drop. I cried ...

(Runs away)

[Stopwatch]

My mum keeps insisting I have to do my bedroom and she knows it's Results Day. I know I've been dead slow at doing it so far, but my school releases the results for AS students at 12:30 so I'm just a wee bit stressed about it and would appreciate not having to do anything this morning and then being left alone for the rest of the day.

[Memesu]

Rewatching "Tale of the rose" over and over because I never get tired of how the spg's voice goes from high to low while it cuts to Akio and Anthy.

[Kor]

lol I used to know the person who voiced Gary in the Hebrew dub of Pokemon.

The said person also voiced young Simba in the Lion King.

[Kleene Onigiri]

I feel like "cured" implies "finally, permanently fixed", and as such can't really be applied to most psychological disorders, since most of them are a mix of negative psychology and actual neurological dysfunction (depression, for example, has a notable physical presence in how it affects they amygdala (sp? thing? the emotion bit I think? disclaimer I am not a psychology student I'm just friends with some) and in damaged serotonin receptors in the brain). You can get drugs to combat this aspect of it, and for some people that really works and makes a difference. You can fix the negative psychological patterns that you've developed, but it's just as important to recognize and understand the neurological side and have a plan to combat it. Some people can handle it with positive thinking or happy place strategies, others need medical help.

For the record, I don't think there's anything wrong with taking drugs (medical ones) if you need them and people need to stop stigmatizing that. Mental illness is real illness. It has discernible neurological effects. It's like shaming a diabetic for taking insulin.

I encountered people that were shaming me for taking insulin indirectly, saying I should try to use foods like cucumbers or cinnamon to regulate my blood sugar...
Or they are judging me when I eat something sweet, asking "WHaaat?! You can eat sugar-stuff?!"

A medical condition. Problems with your thyroid, nutrient deficiencies, or chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, or cancer may cause depression.

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[Nemomon]

Weeding today!

[Hime-Chan]

My mum keeps insisting I have to do my bedroom and she knows it's Results Day. I know I've been dead slow at doing it so far, but my school releases the results for AS students at 12:30 so I'm just a wee bit stressed about it and would appreciate not having to do anything this morning and then being left alone for the rest of the day.

I hope you got everything you wanted, Stoppy!