are you prone to depression?

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I'm clearly manic depressive and I know it reflects itself in some of my posts (they might be grandious or crazy)
sorry for that.

Been depressed my entire life, don't even know why I'm still alive.

I'm just waiting for that stress-induced heart attack...any moment now...I'm going to clutch my chest and that will be that...ayup...any moment now.

I wasn't sure whether to vote for being situationally or clinically depressed at first, so I ended voting for "clinically," since my depression issues have responded well to the right anti-depressants in the past.

I am prone to situation-based depression and PMS related depression.

I've been clinically depressed for years. Doctors always prescribe me SSRI's but I won't take them. I throw the script out.

I have clinical depression, I mean it always effects me sometimes its just in the back of my mind making things a bit harder to enjoy and just generally not a great feeling but it also gets to the point I am considering suicide though I am sure the depression is not the only thing that contributes to that. But yeah I've been living with that for quite a while can't remember not having it.

I've been clinical depressed since I was 13 yrs. old. I have been given many anti depressants and none of them have worked. I just wish I was not so odd. Example: Today when I was driving to get Lunch at work I seen a seagull flying with a flock of Mallard ducks. He was leading the flock to a small water pond. I told my co workers when I returned from work and no one seemed to be a bit interested in what I seen. I was so confused by it that it distracted me for the rest of the day. I wish I was not like this. It is so depressing to me.

I've had depression for some time and for some reason I feel like I had nothing to live for. I don't have a career I'd like to pursue, I don't have anything else to live up for. I'm so miserable! I can't take it any longer. I have no idea what to do, what to make of it. There's no point in living my life doing nothing. I don't know what else to do. I'm Just so sad sometimes. I feel like my life's not worth it if I'm in the middle of nowhere or if I'm not doing anything at all.

With me it's more melancholy than depression.

Been depressed on and off since 15 or 16. Just started St. John's wort a month ago and it seems to be really helping. I have tried rx meds and can't stand the way they make my brain feel. The St. John's wort has not done that, just a gentle easing on the depression.

"situation based depression, getting depressed easily, but with a reason"

Same here. I started to have depressive episodes since age 13. I found it harder to control my emotions as I grow up and the depression is getting worse. And from some point of my life I notice that I have developed hypomanic symptoms too. All my emotions, whether positive or negative, tend to come up stronger and last longer. It seems that my mood can only switch between depression and hypomania. I'm not sure whether the depression have ever met clinical state yet but even if it haven't, it will just be a matter of time. I have a bad feeling about my future mental health condition.

Every single bad thing on my day can trigger the "depression mode" and make me feel absurdly bad/demotivated for days. It's sad.

I have clinical depression which I take Prozac and Wellbutrin for. I hate when my mood sinks low to the point when I want to fly off a bridge. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

Well, I found that story interesting. That's like the time I was playing with my friend's cousin in the garden and we found a really pretty leaf. The cousin was really excited so we took the leaf inside to show her aunt and her aunt didn't see the beauty in it and told her: "take that outside, it's dirty!" I was so shocked at her response. She was visibly disgusted by a tiny harmless leaf. That was 20 years ago, but I still remember it. People don't appreciate nature sometimes.

I'm prone to getting depressed by situations easily & it turned into psychotic depression when I was about 21. I spent 5 years on antidepressants & other psych meds & felt better after I weaned myself off them than I did the entire time I was on em. I sense realized that my anxiety & OCD were contributed alot to it & got on meds to treat em. I started taking Trazodone like 5/6 months ago when I had things going on in my life that made me depressed & caused problems sleeping. I'm over those things now but I think I'm alittle better on Trazodone so I'm still on it.