are you prone to depression?

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do you find that thing that wouldnt depress a neurotypical depress you, or that things the would depress a neurotypical to some extent depress you to no end?

or are you depressed without a reason?

how many people here suffer from clinical depression or mania depression?

Some would say that I'm clinically depressed, but I can usually find a reason for why I feel down.

I also don't classify an absence of feeling "up" as being the same as being depressed.

No idea what would or wouldn't depress an NT.
When younger my moods were linked to my hormones and was usually seriously down around that time of the month. Never accepted it as depression since I would feel fine in the weeks between periods.

What does really depress me is that so many people are nodding dogs when it comes to medical science. Why should you learn to listen to your body? Science and doctors know better cause they have studied these things!
And they said it was all between my ears but I learnt to ignore them.
I also learnt that the right massage at the right time by the right person would alleviate the feeling of doom and despair that wandered around my head every time my body went through it's monthly cycle of hormonal neccesities.

Since menopause my mood changes have levelled out and when I feel down now it is more to do with the state of the world I live in than something that is internally generated so I would say I'm not depressed, more like fed up.

I have literally spent years and years in almost constant sad and deep depression. But things have gotten a lot better that way. The source of a lot of my depression was a lack of self-acceptance - I so hated not being "normal." I now have accepted myself considerably more than I did when I was younger and that made - NOT all - but probably 80% to 90% of the depression go away. I would also say that finding a relaxing place to work and live has also helped. Come to think of it - my 25mg a day of Zoloft kind of helps too.

I think even neurotypical people who lack self-acceptance and live and work in extremely stressful situations are apt to get depressed. However I think someone on the Spectrum might tend to be more sensitive thus depression may hit us harder. Neurotypical people might be more inclined toward getting depressed about what other people think of them. But, maybe not. I think a lot of people with autism can get pretty bummed out about that too. It depends.

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i dont know if by the state of the world you live in you mean planet earth or your own personal world. i'd say both my personal world and planet earth leave something to be desired....

I used to have clinical depression, almost turning into manic depression, until I went on antidepressants, which has made me feel a WHOLE lot better, and I am not exaggerating.

BUT, I'd say I still get depressed easily, not like how I used to be of course, but in other little ways. Like if I don't like my job, I can get easily depressed, but not clinical depression though, because I am on antidepressants. But I get more of an anxiety-based depression, thinking ''oh my God I can't face work'' type of thing, and so have to force myself to go. I'll look forward to every day off I have, but will refuse to do overtime. Days off are a relief to me, even if it means less money. I'm not really a money person. If I can financially get by OK working 3 days a week, then that's all I will do.

I think I've had all three of those.

yeah. I've been depressed by some really trivial things. I've believed some really irrational things and I knew they were irrational and yet I still believed them.

I still don't properly understand how my mind works.

I think I could achieve more if I better knew myself.

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Manic depression diagnosis. Multiple suicide attempts. Suffered with depression all my life. So yes, sadly I am prone to depression.

I've never been dx'd with depression but I'm fairly sure I have a form of it. Not sure if I technically qualify for having mania though - I think I do but that's really a doctor's call. But yes, I definitely get deep bouts of depression and they can get really bad. Usually associated with lack of creative output.

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

I'm prone to depression. Sadly, it gets worse as I age. Sometimes I get into hypomanic mood, never reaching true clinical manic state (have a sibling with bipolar).

"situation based depression, getting depressed easily, but with a reason" (I guess it counts)

I get depressive tendencies. Mostly due to overloaded emotions. I'll get into these states where I don't want to do anything, I'll feel like self-harming, and I just have a general crapiness about me. That's why I had to start taking abilify to help with it. Ever since then, I've had a pretty good outcome about my life. I no longer feel the things I discussed before.

I get bipolar depression.

I can get depressed quite easily. Stuff such as doing something wrong in school or in a relationship can make me down and hopeless. Also hormonal changes right before "the time of month" sometimes make me crying for no reason.

But fortunately there is something in my mind that keeps me up even when I am down. I might think "There is no future for me, I would be better off dead" but a part of me says "The worst that can happen to you is death and you are not even afraid of it so you can do it any time. But is the current experience that painful that you really can't stand it anymore? Do you want to give up now?". And I get back up. I am too proud to give up.
If it isn't enough the guardian part of me reminds me that I already survived worse experiences and I was able to deal with them so I will be able to deal with this one as well just have to stop to worry. It helps.
(No, the "2nd me" is not an hallucination. Its a copy mechanism and I control what it says. It's so called "inner critic". Just my "critic" is my friend, not an enemy as the most common one.)

Add being easily distracted and hyperfocused to the list and you get a girl that is just above it. I might be sad over something but I know it is just a mere emotion and it will go away. I just find something that catches my focus and the depressive thoughts are gone.

I'm definitely clinically depressed. Been depressed for about a decade now.

Maybe I could take antidepressents. They seem to have helped some people here but if they helped me then I'd be bitter that I wasn't already taking them years ago. I have to stop thinking like that. It's not rational.

Hmmm. That's pretty good. Words to live by.

I have dysthymia and have tried all sorts of anti depressants and none of them worked very well. Quite recently I've come off citalopram which I was on for 2 years and I actually feel better for it.