Ever Feel Like you're about to Get Depressed?

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Crimson_Phantom
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30 Sep 2007, 8:43 pm

"Do you ever Feel like you're about one step away from getting Depressed?"

I pretty much feel like this all the time, there's about two or three things keeping me from falling to Depression. Luckily they're strong points. Ever since about a year ago when my dad took away my computer because of bad grades, after of which I went into a serious case of Withdrawl, afterwards pretty much I started thinking more openly, my mind went rampant (Not with Withdrawl) and my Imagination Pulsed, Every other morning I'd wake up with a New Idea that I would think about for the rest of the day, no matter how much tormet I'd receive from my peers. Of course, this 'high' feeling weakenend over time, now I feel like my computer is a luxury (Not A Necessity) and if the effect worn off, I'd get depressed, Argh. Well, at least the effect is still on me now, and I'm recording the thoughts in multiple Short Stories and Full Length Stories, At least I'll be able to look back at them and Grin. For now, I need to put up with whatever S*** my peers load onto me, I want school to be out of my life SO DARN MUCH!

Second of all there's my Family, they're cheery disposition always cheers myself up whenever I feel like I've been put down. Even my Has-Anger-Issues Brother Helps me out. Of course sometimes even they put me down, just now after we got back from a Restraunt, I commented on a nearby complete shopping center, Father starts chuckling, then everyone starts bursting out laughing, I have absoloutely no clue what I said, but I felt completely ashamed.

Well, I haven't really been depressed before, nor do I have a complete knowledge of the subject, so I dont want to be exaggerating the image to anyone that has been/is Depressed. No Offense, Sorry in advance :| . I just feel the need to vent out these opinions somewhere.

I Feel WAY out of my Age Group Here... I'm only 14 1/2..

It took me 30 Minutes to finally stomach up to posting this, It's my first 'Serious' Post. Even now I think my heart's skipping beats concerning the opinions I may receive from others here. Please don't be too negative.



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30 Sep 2007, 10:23 pm

depression is different things to different people.

Depression is a serious medical illness that involves the brain. It's more than just a feeling of being "down in the dumps" or "blue" for a few days. If you are one of the more than 20 million people in the United States who have depression, the feelings do not go away. They persist and interfere with your everyday life. Symptoms can include

Sadness
Loss of interest or pleasure in activities you used to enjoy
Change in weight
Difficulty sleeping or oversleeping
Energy loss
Feelings of worthlessness
Thoughts of death or suicide
Depression can run in families, and usually starts between the ages of 15 and 30. It is much more common in women. Women can also get postpartum depression after the birth of a baby. Some people get seasonal affective disorder in the winter. Depression is one part of bipolar disorder.

There are effective treatments for depression, including antidepressants and talk therapy. Most people do best by using both.



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30 Sep 2007, 11:55 pm

dont worry/feel bad, I feel the same way. I dont really get the clinical depression per se, but I get into these extremly acute dysphoric/depressed phases, lasting about two or three days, or sometimes only a few hours. But in the time I have the full scale depression/dyshoria symptoms plus suicidal thoughts.

But there's always a trigger, a stupid one at that. Like getting bad grades, or losing a game, or not playing a soccer game well, or just failure in general. But sometimes when I actually get major depression there are no triggers it just happens.

Like two summers ago, the people I babsit for got me a personally autographed Manny Legace shirt. I was estatic, I thought I would have no reason to be depressed ever again. But in the back of my mind I could feel it comming, slowley but surely I could feel myself sliding down that slippery slope.

I always feel like Im running away from being depressed, because something will happen to me that will make me snap, and I will fall into the whole again.

I hope nobody comments negatively on you, because Im willingly to bet that you have been actually depressed before. There are many different types of depression. Such as dysthmia, a chronic down in the dumps mood, not severe downs like depression but it lasts ALOT longer.


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02 Oct 2007, 2:32 am

I don't feel like I am "about to get depressed"...I am depressed already.
But I can usually tell when my depression is going to get worse.


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06 Oct 2007, 10:47 am

Brittany2907 wrote:
I don't feel like I am "about to get depressed"...I am depressed already.
But I can usually tell when my depression is going to get worse.



Im exactly the same. its as bad as the depression itself when you can feel urself slidin backwards and know there isnt a damn thing you can do about it. so i smoke weed :( everythin doesnt seem so bad for a lil while at least. The problem is, when i come down i h8 myself even more for havin a drug problem.



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09 Oct 2007, 7:02 pm

I feel like I might get more depressed than I already am, and that makes me pnic and get very depressed!