Depression

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I also struggle with depression. I'm also very artistic as well. I'm also a very sensitive person. I try to forget about it, but it's hard.

It sounds like you have quite a healthy approach to facing pain and difficulty. I'm gonna try to keep in mind the things you've said.

I'm glad you're finding this site useful and feeling connected already

Maybe what was missing in my life was this sense of belonging here. It´s comforting and I know all the time now that it´s there. I don´t need to see or point it out, it´s becoming internalized. With time this will make the whole difference.

Thank you, good people, for allowing me to be here.

That's very odd that a doctor would recommend God. I'm observing who is blessed in life and trying to see what they are doing right, and what I'm doing wrong.

I have to say since becoming Christian I have not been depressed. I was before , but that was situational , you said yours is clinical.

Most people say I have everything: I am my own boss, I have a nice house and healthy children. I should be happy about myself but I am not. I know I take everything too serious, everybody tells me this. this is part of my personality and I am ok with this. My partner often makes comments that are funny to him that I perceive as abusive (and other people too and they tell him). He is a good person in general, specially to strangers, but he does have a serious problem with hurting his closest ones: his mother, his daughter and putting them down in public, for example and other things. He does not respect my emotional boundaries and I have to spend lots of energy in a daily basis explaining obvious things to him and setting limits to him, that he usually only follows, if I treat him like a 7 year old boy. It´s hard to explain, but afterall it seems I am mothering my husband and I am exausted. Too exausted.

The situational sometimes leads people who actually managed their lives pretty well to once more get pretty bad. No wonder.

I have developed a bunch of coping mechanisms and rotated them to function well and went into remission. It required quite a bit of discipline. But everybody needs a break. Very often another depression episode comes to force a person to rest.

I left a bad marriage but then ended up living with other blokes in a shared house who are just as bad.
I don't know why.

I assume your depression might be situational because you are in a bad situation?

I wouldn't say you 'have it all' because in my opinion peace and tranquility at home are the most important things.

I lived by myself recently, for four days. It was bliss. You might be spoilt by this time alone