have you ever been truly depressed?

Question

not just a days worth of depression. but really really depressed to the point of giving up on life?
if you have, when and why?

Answer 1

yes..... and i'm so happy it's over.... when i was 13-14 years old and lasted for a few years... i just didn't think life was worth living, gave up on life and school, just didn't want to try anymore. i told my parents i had wanted to die but didn't take me seriously the first time. second time they found out they made me get my own shrink. *sighs* it wasn't that good. it didn't really help me, just gave me a new friend (who i still keep in contact with now even)... i think if i had killed myself back then i would have never come to the realization that maybe, just maybe, if i waited long enough i could escape this hell i call home and live my life... actually breathe for once.... actually have the strength to fly. i finally told myself there was something better for me i just had to wait and keep searching for it and one day i life would be worth it again... and so now i am happy and feel so much better now :) i've found so many good things in life now i just can't give it up. i will keep holding onto it for as long as i can :)

Answer 2

i was suicidal for the first three months of this year. i think that falls under the depressed category, right? I'm alright now, but I've still got that insomnia and have daymares and am kinda freaked that I might be going back into a slump, even though my life is fine. Its just that when I look at how large the world is and yet how pathetic society is and knowing I'm gonna have to live here with almost no chance of relief, I find there is no real point.
Gee, I never got better, did I? Ah well, at least I'm not suicidal again. No one notices, no one ever does or cares....

Answer 3

Antepartum depression when I was pregnant.
- when my family moved for a second time and it took yrs to get over. Hated the new house and school and always wished to die. Never got over it till I moved from home.
- Got sexually assault and my parents blamed me for the attack instead of the Guy (who was a married grown up) I was 12.
- My parent where unstable and moving out and cutting them off at one point

With the antepartum I was put into crisis intervention and had a VON nurse look after me. I had to deal with all my garbage at that point. I did not go on the medication but turned to God. If I was not pregnant I would have turned to God and gone on Medication. It makes a world of difference.

Answer 4

When I was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. I had 4 major surgeries (a 5th coming in Jan 08) chemotherapy and radiation therapy every day for a year.

At the age of 30... beat that.

Answer 5

No, i've got under no circumstances been incredibly depressed. My sister has nonetheless back in intense college. She became continually fending off people, drained, unhappy, comfortable, and damaging. She became searching for attractiveness yet could no longer discover it! She dyed her hair black and that's been that way ever on account that. She's greater effective now, nonetheless. :-)

Answer 6

Ive had times in my life that I did not think things could get lower.Looking back sometimes I wonder how I got to that point.Family and a few friends pulled me up and over time things did get a little better.Looking to see if I can get back to better times.All the best.

Answer 7

i've been depressed to the point of not wanting to get up in the morning, but never suicidal or anything.

it was just a lot of bad things happened at once. this was around July when it actually hit me. i was abused by my step-mother, ignored by my dad, my best friend's brother died, i felt abandoned by most of my friends, etc.

i guess i just started feeling better recently, when i moved in with my mom, got back out there with my friends, started exercising, and got a boyfriend (though i dont have one anymore.)

Answer 8

Yes...about 5 years ago. Not really sure why...just couldn't get out of this funk....stayed on the couch for 2 weeks, cried all the time, didn't go to work. It was awful.

Answer 9

i have been just sad.
that was when i was eleven of course, and losing my sense of childhood. but i wasn't ready to give up on life.

then the other time, it wasn't only sadness, but destroyed self esteem, anger, self-pity, couldn't care less attitude, aches, and so tired all day.
it was like the simplest things overwhelmed me to the point of exhaustion. it was a while back, and sort of on and off again.

but slowly i got over it. and now i'm delighted in who i am and the life i'm living.

Answer 10

YES! I've had two major depressions in my life, the last having been this year, unfortunately. Oh, you know the saying, "What doesn't kill us will make us stronger". I think that applies to me.