>been suffering w depression for about three years, since i was 16
>been getting worse
>talked with girlfriend the other night, she made me promise to talk to my mum about it
>i did
>she was happy that i shared it with her, and we're going to get me help
>feel mildly positive for first time in a while
feels good
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Good for you OP. Stay positive.
>Gf
>So depressed you need help.
Kys
yeah I love my girlfriend more than anything, bar my mum, but my depression was then causing her issues, because of my dependance, thats why i need help, you can have nice things and a 'good life' but if you have depression you'll still be unhappy as fuck
Hate to bring it to you Sup Forumsro, but you're going to have that shit forever.
Think about it, i have had it since i was 15, that is 10 whole years. It is like once you become depressed, you open a void where you see all the bad in the world and educate yourself. You see disease, lack of purpose, humanity with its greed and selfishness with no way out.
Even with perfect health, a well paid job and youre laughing at the bar about to get laid... you will soon remember that everything is so meaningless where nothing you do even matters and that happiness is bot even really a thing, its just biochemistry designed to make you reproduce and protect you from danger.
Sorry Sup Forumsro, but life is going to suck.
just do some exercise, no need for a bloody intervention
nah i'm not going to have that attitude, I don't really have negative thoughts about the world that much because I don't really care, more just negativity about myself.
I know the world is fucked, but oh well it's all we have.
I'm going to get better.
we love you OP
Yep, even someone with seemingly everything can have depression. It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are, or how successful your love-life is. It really is a mental illness, just like any other.
The best thing you can do OP, besides getting help, is to try and recognize that the negative thoughts you have, aren't 'real', in the sense that they're caused by the illness its-self. If you can recognize that, then you can perhaps make an effort to ignore them, and try to overcome them from within your mind.
Gym 3 times a week, running in between, do multiple marathons. Still depressed.
Good work op. I've been bottling this up for 40 fucking years.
thankyou, means a lot, lots of love
yeah i often get paranoid about my girlfriend as she's currently at uni without me, but then i think about it and realise its not actually likely at all.
>has gf
>knows what depression is
pick one
I'm starting to go the gym everytime it all gets too much too, I know it doesn't mean much from a random stranger, and obviously I dont
't know any details of either your depression or your relationship with your mum, but you probably wouldn't regret telling her. also this song really heavily made me think, especially the lyric 'better to let them know, sooner than later'
...
>implying cant be depressed if you have gf
just kys pathetic sadcunts
> three years
Attention seeking faggot. Ten years over here and still counting. Including one failed suicide attempt.
glad to hear that buddy,get better soon and enjoy life man,dont listen to the Sup Forums negatfags,your awsome and deserve happiness
thankyou
that really sucks man, hope something changes for the better for you
Jokes away (I’m the ten years guy), I know what you are struggling with and hope your shit works out someday. You have big luck to have people around you who try to understand and love you.
Thankyou man, I know I know nothing about your situation, but I hope it works out for you too.
I know I'm lucky, i truly appreciate that
>has gf
>depressed
They've got the point. In my case it was caused by lack of purpose.
You can go to gym or do what I do and work hard af, not to get more money, but to distract yourself from the lack of meaning in our lives.
Why do people think that having gf neutralize depression? No gf depressed fag here.
>has depression
>has gf
bullshit
thats very brave cheers man
>Be me.
>Addicted to porn.
>Has autism and social anxiety.
>Masturbates to Sup Forums's cheating ex's.
>Sad, pathetic existence.
>Does nothing all day but polish my small dagger.
>Kill me, please.
Not true for everyone.
Best of luck Sup Forumsrother. All btard shit aside, I hope you find peace.
Seems like you've got a perfectly polished dagger ready to do the job.
But for real though, mental illness is becoming less of a stigma every day and there is no shame in getting help
depression isn't really something to joke about but these edgelords will say otherwise. Stay positive Sup Forumsro, you're only 19. You got a lot of time to get shit going your way.
>polish your small dagger
Hehehe, too bad it's not a claymore like mine. Really impresses the fair maidens of this land
You can get over it user, you just have to recognize it for what it is; an illness, and learn to overcome it, or seek out treatment.
Everyone has negative thoughts, but the problem with those that suffer from depression is that they focus solely on the negative, and allow it to consume them.
It almost becomes a constant cycle of thought, where they're focused on only the negative, and it becomes a downward spiral that can be very hard to get out of.
It sounds simple, but you really just have to try and recognize negative thoughts for what they are, again; 'an illness', and ignore them, and replace them with more positive thoughts.
user what do you mean by this? My "depressing thoughts" aren't real? I'm honestly depressed and gonna off myself BECAUSE these thoughts are literally who I am, and how I think...
Btw I'm not OP, js
kek
They're not real in the sense that they're unnatural and irrational thoughts, that you're creating solely within your own mind. They're not really based on any real logic or reason.
Don't get me wrong, you can have reasons for being 'upset', but depression isn't simply a state of being sad. It's a paralyzing illness, where you're simply unable to focus on anything but negativity. And that just isn't normal behavior.
It's similar in a way to how a schizophrenic hears voices. Although the voices may seem real to the suffer of schizophrenia, they're irrational thoughts that are being created solely within their own mind. A sufferer of depression is very similar, but instead of voices, they're negative thoughts. Constant negativity that becomes debilitating.
F A G
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is JUST as effective as medications for reducing or eliminating depression and anxiety - without any side effects. Plus, the skills and techniques you develop last your whole life.
yeah i'm definitely going to go for cbt rather than a biological treatment, wary of medicine don't want dependance
It's okay, George. Society is more broken than you are. You just have to know how you want to be, without worrying about the rest of the world.
Oh then I'm probably not depressed, I just find no interest in life, and the thought of dying makes me lose my mind, whenever I feel "alive". I'm pretty sure what I'm experiencing is a defence mechanism applied by my brain, so that I don't go crazy. The result is a false sense of reality, which ironically will lead me to killing myself. My only fear is that when I'll be looking down from the bridge, my brain will "come back to reality", and rather than killing myself, I'll panic...
Human behaviour sure is interesting... ;)
Not to sound like a fag, but you're lucky you have a gf.
Every morning I wake up alone with a gun to my head and a cup of coffee in my hand.
The girl I thought I had feelings for turns out to have taken a liking to a technician in the lab who is in this mid-thirties... and she is a year younger than I am, at 23. There is something like a 13 year difference between them.
She apparently called me Machiavellian, despite being your average "good" friend. I would help out with things she needed, the same way I do for all my friends. Then she goes and evicts me from my desk in the office and calls me Machiavellian. I have no idea where that came from since I haven't acted in, or manipulated anyone out of "self-interest". I just don't get it...
It is disappointing because in my line of work there are very few women, let alone women who are easy on the eyes. I thought she was finally the one, but I was horribly wrong. I am obviously a mid-twenties gf-less virgin destined to be alone.
>inb4 fat, ugly, etc
I am fit, ~7/10, nice apartment, nice car, but apparently with a terrible, terrible personality or something.
that sounds so shitty man, I really hope it gets better for you,
try and meet girls outside of work perhaps if there's not many in your line of work, you're not destined to be alone, you'll find someone.
forget about that girl though seems like a THOT
You're very young OP. Pinning all your hopes and dreams on one girl is irrational. You'll get over her, and you'll find someone else. Have some faith.
This is the first depression story on Sup Forums that hasn't ended in "okay how do I kms?"
Thanks. I try and go out at least once a week, meet new people, the works. Not a whole lot of people I find too interesting though... such is the life as a physicist.
It's not so much pinning all my hopes and dreams on just this one girl as it is coming to the realization that maybe there is something seriously wrong with me. That's why things like this are such a struggle. It seems statistically more likely that there is something fundamentally incompatible between me and everyone else than it is that I haven't met the right person yet...
bar a few people, this is a very wholesome thread, pleasantly surprised.
SHE'S RELIVED
Fortunately no one was all "a-bloo bloo bloo imma kms, hue"
Stay positive bro and good luck!