Depression?

[Moneyman]

Hey guys, have you had any serious depression before? If not, why don't you tell us a little bit about it?

I've been facing multiple depression times, and honestly, I don't know why. Maybe it's the same old teenager depression time?

I don't know how I can sort of "cure" this. It's just that I feel so lonely having no friends at all in life, and staring 12 hours each day on my computer to spend my day on forums or gaming. :S

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[Gizmo]

I had major depression problems last year which almost got me locked up in the 'mental hospital' here.

I usually get depression when I'm stressed and that is what I am diagnosed with. Although no one seems to be able to help me with it.

 

[Black Angel]

When I was 7 or 8, my school wanted to send me to therapy for depression because when the teachers wanted our class to imagine what life would be like in the year 2000, (this was back in 1989) and what we wanted to be when we grew up.

I was the only one in my class who didn't draw unicorns or bootleg pics of space cars from the Jetsons, and I said that, everything will be more expensive, there will be more war and hatred and no shortage of morons anywhere and there won't be any flying cars or unicorns either. Aside from that, things won't be much different except that I'd be 19 by then.

When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said "alive."

After a few months of "evaluations" they concluded that I wasn't depressed, but that I was very intelligent. My therapist advised me that sometimes you have to play dumb and tell people what they want to hear to make those who aren't as smart feel better about themselves. He said, the next time someone asks me what I want to be when I grow up, just say a "pretty princess."

 

[Venom]

Wow, thought I was the only one here who got this. Also suffer from anxiety. 🙁

If anyone wants to chat send me a pm.

 

[Justin]

I have. The way I overcame any severe anxiety was to figure out what was causing it, and keep my mind off that specific thing. It was hard but it helps.

 

[Venom]

I know whats causing It but can't take my mind of it. 🙁

It also Interferes with things I do aswell. 🙁

 

[tippie]

At some point in life I was like what am I doing,I'm just here without a real goal but then I kept on being positive and I never gave up and I met some true friends online. It takes time though and I've been scammed a lot before but that made me stronger in the end and now I barely trust anyone from the start, people have to win your trust.

 

[Fergal]

staring 12 hours each day on my computer to spend my day on forums or gaming.

Moneyman the first advice I would give you is not to be afraid to ask for professional help. Everyone deserves to be happy, if you are not happy you should do something about it.

My second piece of advice would be to start doing some form of exercise that you enjoy and preferably something that gets you outside. A team sport would be great, but even going out for walks on your own would be a great start. Try to participate in a sport or exercise that you enjoy and you should see improvements in your life.

 

[Fergal]

My therapist advised me that sometimes you have to play dumb and tell people what they want to hear to make those who aren't as smart feel better about themselves. He said, the next time someone asks me what I want to be when I grow up, just say a "pretty princess."

I wonder would we have ever heard of people like Gandhi, Einstein, Beyonce, etc if they had followed advice like that.

 

[Bizarrio]

Yes, I have been suffering from depression for quite a while.

What I try to do is, I do breathing exercises and keep myself busy as much as possible.

 

[Exel]

I had major depression problems last year which almost got me locked up in the 'mental hospital' here.

I usually get depression when I'm stressed and that is what I am diagnosed with. Although no one seems to be able to help me with it.

Same. ^

 

[Black Angel]

My therapist advised me that sometimes you have to play dumb and tell people what they want to hear to make those who aren't as smart feel better about themselves. He said, the next time someone asks me what I want to be when I grow up, just say a "pretty princess."

I wonder would we have ever heard of people like Gandhi, Einstein, Beyonce, etc if they had followed advice like that.

He wasn't telling me to aspire to be that myself, but that sometimes people don't want to know what you really think, rather than, what they want to hear.

Which was obviously the case, since my idiotic teachers thought that I was depressed just because I didn't draw space cars and unicorns and answered their questions truthfully.

It is right up there with how some guys tell the women they're with that they are the most beautiful woman in the world, or that a certain dress doesn't make them look fat.. or how some women tell guys that "size doesn't matter."

It was sound advice, and it has been very useful to me to this day.

 

[Fergal]

Thanks for the clarification Black Angel, I'm delighted that it helped and that the advice worked for you.

He said, the next time someone asks me what I want to be when I grow up, just say a "pretty princess."

I'd be interested to know if you thought that advice was in any way sexist? Do you think the same advice would have been given to a boy?

 

[Black Angel]

No.. I am pretty sure that it was first thing that came to mind.. I mean he was talking to a kid who clearly wasn't your average kid.

He might have had to clarify his point even further by spelling it out that he wasn't being sexist for the teachers that sent me there, but I understood where he was coming from and im sure that he would've said the equivalent if I were a boy.

He was basically telling me to tell them anything just to move it along since they obviously weren't really interested in what I was thinking.. then again, that wasn't too surprising since they just "knew" that it my "depression" had to do with my mom being a divorced mother of 2.

My mother had always told the school "my child isn't depressed, she's just smarter than some of your teachers" whenever these or similar situations arose. Hell, they even concluded the same regarding anything else that happened to me, like when i was out with chicken pox, or was on vacation. So she was more than happy to give my school a doctor's note from someone who was both Harvard and Oxford educated, saying the same.. she was vindicated.

 

[JHS905]

I have Asperger Syndrome, a dash of Autism and mood disorders, and I sometimes get depressed. For example, my parents passed away in two separate years. I miss them and I still miss them to this day. I get so depressed whenever I think about them.

 

[R44]

I have Asperger Syndrome, a dash of Autism and mood disorders, and I sometimes get depressed.

People with Asperger's get depressed for no real reason at all... It's one of those things that just happens as a dirivitave of the condition.

Yeah, I have Asperger's too -> Moves on

 

[Fullmoon]

Suffered with it since I was 15, I am now 25.

Have really bad times where I don't want to talk to anyone, shut myself off from the world, don't eat much, drink lots, carve symbols into my arms - got tattoos with those symbols now though 🙂 . Then I have times where I'm not so bad. Attempted suicide twice when I was younger.

Always distanced myself from people, I know alot of people but have serious trust/paranoia issues, Have 2 best friends but I don't talk to them about my problems, they don't actually know I have depression. Neither does my mum for that matter, but then since she told me as a kid if I don't quit this behaviour I'll get you locked up in a mental home, i've never spoken to her about anything.

I know the main reason why I have it and it will never go away. The only way I have dealt with it was on my own, in my own way, every day is a struggle for me so I just take every day as it comes. One thing I do know is that I welcome death when that day comes.