How do you deal with depression?
 

Erm, I try to think about everything that has kept me sane in life, but it makes me even more depressed, strangely. Well, I usually get depressed for no reason, not that Im an attention whore. I dunno, chemical imbalance? Hmm..oh I know! I pretend to be hyper and aim/msn my peeps @[email protected]


What video games do you play?
I always play Chrono Cross when I want to get noglastic, but thats off topic huh? xD
Do you get talanol [pain medicine] for your symptoms or does it go away on its own?

I cry, although I hate doing that. Or cuddle with my boyfriend. That helps a lot. Or I try to distract myself with stupid games. That never works long though...

I do the crying thing to,it makes me feel better in the end. I try and go outside more when it is sunny,I sleep more, distract self with internet and best of all, get myself wrapped in a new interesting project to work on,last year was making a keyblade from kingdom hearts.

i dont...i get depressed alot more often than usual because it seems to me that every aspect of my life wants to crush me until i am no more...


i like eating chocolate and listening to music when i am depressed but apart from that i just let it get to me because i have no other choice but to let it because i cant cope with it

i cry most nights if its not my love life mucking up its my social life and school work or even my family which seems to be happening all the time


the thing is they can never be all good at once
my love life sucks when i get depressed about school and family and my family sucks because of love and school

...i cant win can i? :cry:

Well, usually I try draw or listen to nice music..:3
And talk to my friends. :D

anything that keeps me from thinking to much video games, tv, internet, sleeping or daydreaming...occasionally i get away with my friends i read alot also constintlly...it always comes back though

I've had problems with depression since I was a wee girl. I haven't taken medication for a lo~ng time (it was discouraged when I was still small and I never really wanted to once I got older) though, so I have a few constructive things to keep me sane.

I usually write a lot when I'm suffering from depression. Considering that an author is one of my future professions (I hope anyway o_O), it's actually pretty productive and kills two birds with one stone. Other than writing, I usually sleep a lot, play an obscene amount of video games, read entire novels, and/or exercise obsessively when I'm having spells. (Basically, I obsess over one thing!)

It's not that hard to deal with most of the time. Comes and goes in spells. I'm too much of a sissy to ever think of suicide, even in my worst moments. XD

What do you do to cope with depression?
I take medication and try to be around positive people ^^.

Is it generally only for a short time or does it not
come back?
It's always there, there is no way I can get rid of it...Unless they invent a cure.. but that's unlikely.

What are symptoms of your depression?
Sad, closed off, fake cheerfulness, sleep alot or sometimes too little, I'm rarely ever very happy..I feel like crying when I have no reason to, or over the littlest things... It's stupid, but it's like ADHD...There's no chance of getting rid of it. I won't grow out of it either, since there is family history with the whole thing as well.. *sighs* I'm happy lately at certain times, but I feel sad too. It's not normal, but I have to deal with it.

I usually just go around and be really quiet.Ignore everyone around me especially if the try to see what's wrong. To everybody who knows me at school they will know instantly if I'm depressed or pissed of.

Winters are always the worst for me (Seasonal Affective Disorder), so I make sure I have fluorescent lighting in the rooms in which I spend the most time. Since screw-in bulbs have become available this is a LOT easier than it used to be.

I'm also mildly bipolar (it runs rampant in my family and I'm one of the very few who've managed without medication) and one of my coping mechanisms which keeps my moods from swaying is that when I feel one of the swings start to come on, I think of it as a wall and mentally push it away. If I can keep myself from going manic, I can also slow the swing in the other direction.

I've learned to focus on positive things and to stop several times a day and count my blessings. No matter how bad things look at times, there's always something for which I can be thankful. I've also learned how to "box up" my negative feelings and take them out a little bit at a time and deal with them. It's kind of like putting real things into a box that I can't handle at the time. Then when I can handle it, I open the box and take out one piece at a time instead of trying to deal with the whole thing. Sometimes I can't work all the way through that one thing so it has to go back into the box for another time. After a while, though, I do make it through that one thing and mentally throw it out. Then I move on to the next.

Life can be overwhelming at times and severely stressful so I don't invite unnecessary stress into my life. Some things are unavoidable but many things aren't. For example, my kids never went for much in the line of extra-curricular activities with all those hair-pulling schedules I see parents go through with their kids. We keep the environment in our home as stress-free as possible and outside activities are done for pleasure, not hassle. Another example would be like this last summer when we took the kids to the fair. We planned the day in advance as much as we could, and my husband took a vacation day from work so it could be enjoyable for the whole family.

One of the most helpful things we've done over time that has single-handedly done more for my depression than any one other thing is to become as debt-free as possible. We have no unsecured debt (as in no credit card bills, no small loans--our mortgage payment is the only loan we carry). I used to worry all the time about trying to make all the bills and after we managed to pay them all off I realized there's not one single thing in this world that can be as great as the peace of mind one gets from being almost debt-free.

I have some pretty bad shopaholic tendencies, and if I don't have money to spend on things it also affects my depression. I even found a way around that! It doesn't matter how much I have to blow on something unnecessary, just that I get to once in a while (once a month is good). For an example, I may pick up a 12-pack of pop when I get groceries. It actually gets put to good use but is also completely frivolous.

I think one of the most important things in dealing with depression is recognizing what triggers it and to deal with those triggers. Once I figured out how to do that my life became much easier and much, much happier.

I write poetry and/or listen to music. I also like to talk to my friends, usually on the internet.

My depression can last however long it wants to. Depends, really, on why I'm depressed.

When I'm sad, I'm usually moping about. I don't feel like moving, and it takes a lot of effort to make myself do something. I also like things quiet and dark. o-o

well i lock my self in my room dont talk to anyone, talk my self through my problem and write my whole conversation dowm ( my conversation, with myself) then get out of my room and eat myself untill im full ( of junk food OF CORSE) then call my friend and gossip. HE HE! I know it sounds wierd but it works for me.

Hmmn -- well, I consider myself an undiagnosed bipolar. ^^; I'm being serious -- it's really hard when I'm feeling down, because for me, it's really easy to go from feeling on top of the world to the-shit-has-hit-the-fan-and-I'd-be-better-off-dead xD;

I know it never goes away, even when I find my temporary fixes (that's a funny word for it xD; By 'fix' I mean sleep or journaling -- It's how I deal with my depression, and it works on a short-term basis.) I usually know when I'm on the verge of a mental breakdown when even in normal situations, I'm really sensitive and it's easier [than usual] to make me cry. Like, the other night, a parrot bit my hand and I started crying -- not because he bit me and it hurt, but because I thought it was a terribly cruel thing to do since I'd 'trusted' him and I hadn't been mean to him at all. Just silly, irrational things like that. It just means my glass is too full and I'm probably looking at a meltdown in the near future x3;

When I'm actually, like >__>; In the 'throes' of depression, I guess you could say, I basically stop eating xD; I've been going through a stressful time -- it was worse a while ago, because my weight would fluctuate ten or fifteen pounds a week.

As I said -- I cope by over-sleeping or journaling or crying on my cat xP It's not good at all. My anti-depressant is the same person who usually gets me feeling like worthless shit, so that doesn't help much either xD; All my emotions are so extreme and temporary. (I think I went off on a tangent here -- sorry about that xD; )

@rainiy
the temporary fix I completely understand. The two extremes makes sense, I have something similar in the sense that they argue with one another, but one takes over when shit hits the wall.

As for the topic tangent, it makes perfect sense, and i like it.