lately my depression has been getting worse. i'm just curious as to how everyone else handles their depression if you have any. but if i'm the only one then oh well.

What are you depressed about? Usually when I'm depressed, I write it down somewhere (if it's personal) or I talk to someone whom I'm comfortable enough to share something with. I suggest that you try talking to someone that's close to you (and whom you're comfortable with) and tell them what's wrong. It'll really help with expressing your depression. There are a few links in which I think are helpful for you and will hopefully help out with your depression: the links are here, here, here, and here. Also, do things that you enjoy and try to keep your mind occupied on positive things rather than the negative. I hope everything works out with you, and if you need to talk, you can always send me a PM. :).

thanks for the links. i appreciate it. i'm just at a point in my life where i'm tired of being sick and on meds. i just was hoping to find others out there that are suffering like i am. i'm a stay at home mom/army wife and my hubby is deployed so i've been taking care of everything here. and i'm living in KS with no friends or family because my family is in NY and i just haven't found the right friends. the friends i did find, just weren't the kind of friends that i needed. i just needed someone who has been through what i've been through, or is experiencing what i'm going through.

Never suffered from depression. In the words of Bill Bailey:



In all seriousness, though - my boyfriend's brother suffers from depression and has been on anti-depressant pills for years. I don't think they help all - neither does councelling which simply makes you store and re-live all the negatives in your life.

If you can't get away to a beautiful sun shiney beach with a certain Jack Sparrow, I highly recommend trying valerian. Good luck, chuck.

I went through a phase when I though I was depressed. Turns out, I'm just eccentric. I'm a seriously odd and awkward person and it used to wig me out that people just didn't know how to respond or react to me. It takes a lot of patience to be a friend of mine. lol Basically, when I stopped giving a shit about what people thought, there wasn't really any depression to speak of.

Even when Iz (my son) was diagnosed with autism it didn't freak me out or depress me. Instead it seemed organic, natural that he'd be different (for lack of a better way of putting it).

Granted, not everyone's circumstance is the same and sometimes depression is 100% clinical and if that's the case, see a doctor and all that.

Depression runs in my family. My mom had it really bad, and when her other health was bad her depression would get worse. I understand how you feel when you don't want to be on medicine. Right now, I'm seeking some help for my anxiety and I don't want to be put on drugs. I would recommend that you go to a psychologist, not a psychiatrist. There's no shame in getting help for depression, and I think people who go get help are quite brave.

I can have some empathy towards you with your husband being deployed. My brother was deployed to Iraq, not too long after my cousin passed away there. So there was a lot of stress and worrying there. Do you live on base? If so try to get some other wives together so that you all can support each other.

Everyone gets down at some point in their life, but if it's something that's truly interferring with your life, see a psychologist. There's no harm in just trying it out, and if it doesn't work for you try something else. I wish you the best. Just remember you're not alone.

it varies with my physical and social health, as it naturally should.
honestly, i deal with blocking everything. rarely do i even admit i'm..."sad".
from what EVERYBODY else has told me, find somebody to listen. seriously, i've known people who have gone from suicidal to the happiest person just because there was somebody to sit and listen every now and then. and really, if ANYBODY is strangly upfront to you, take it as a blessing. normally, when you start talking, the person will give advice, and you'll keep going and going, and they'll keep going and going with the advice, and chances are you'll slightly still be irritated. sometimes this can be the worst. a lot of times what you really need is somebody who will LISTEN, not talk, and tell you to suck it up and move on when you're done talking. :]

oh my gosh that is so true! on mon i just vented to this one woman and it just felt great just to let it out! the only problem i had was that she felt that i needed to be hospitalized. all i knew was that i needed a break from being a mommy from time to time and i just felt so overwhelmed. but i had to suck it up and just go out. i wasn't going out for awhile. i would just go out just to get groceries and that's it.

unfortunately i dont live on post and the post is like 45 mins away from where we live. the only reason why we're living so far is because they didn't have any apts or housing available when we first moved out here. thank goodness he wants to move closer to the base when he returns.

Meditation/Chakra

ive tried meditation for my depression and it works sometimes but 80% of the time i cant get out of my depressed state. i usually try to occupy my time with doing something productive wether it be working, reading, studying, etc.

I play sports to relieve stress away

you read?! reading never helps, especially when they're all about love and death and "different" people and life experiences. totally not fair! :[

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oh yeah, of course sports! a nice walk will make you think harder, but it also helps put things into a different perspective, and really does help you think of things to kinda get out of the depressed feeling.
other than that, sports involving hitting balls can be a savior. volleyball is the bomb, you can pretend the ball is somebody who may be making your condition worse!

How long do you meditate for?... I would recommend at least 1 hour a day, either right after you wake up, or right before bed. Because this is your most relax state, bodily and mentally.

my problem with meditating is that i can't get a clear mind to do it. i have so many things going on that i can't even shut them off so that i can be calm. which is why i go on this site and do myspace layouts and stuff to keep my mind occupied. the only thing is that the problem will still be there once i'm done.

take u kid out everyy weekk sumwheree like chuckie cheeze or park.. just cuz u depress dun meann you kid gitta b depress 2.. take dem out n havee fun...

for you age.. you need sum guy with you butt he wur now..iraq..? well.. justt wait then..

for now just havee fun with u kid.. n get sum alonee timee while u kid at skool.. go library or just shoppin n try meet new ppl.. librarry or work seemm like good place 2 makee friend...

Close your eyes... and focus on the darkness (no, not dark energy). Just practice... if you truly couldn't focus, then you'd have nearly no sleep, trust me.
Do not let your mind control you. YOU control YOUR mind. So try again, as you go to bed and you lay with your eyes shut, just look at the insides of your eyelids and don't try to analyze it, don't try to think of anything, nor try not to move your eyes.

Try it for 10 minutes a night, until you build it. The mind must think at a peaceful pace.

Personally, I cut, and other stuff.

Yeah but you're only makin it worst... all you're doin is feeding your low self esteem. It's all psychological. Letting your mind control your self is not good. The mind is powerful, but you need to control it and not let it control you.

^ say what?

It feels good, suprisingly. thats all i can say.

and as far as the controlling my mind thing. As far as i can remember my mind has controlled me, and nothing has ever gone horribly wrong.

I rest my case in this irony.

Irony? This isn't ironic.
Its just I have a highly complex psyche. err... something like that

The irony is that you need to feel physical pain of which is more painful than your emotional pain in order to relieve your emotional pain. And that physical pain that you inflict upon yourself is only feeling good because it's weaker than your bottled up emotional pain.

But then when you see the scars on yourself, all you're doin is causing more emotional pain because of the damage you're doin. You're stuck in a catch 22-cycle twilight zone.

It doesn't hurt if you cut across fast enough. Emotional Pain hurts much more than physical pain, at least the amount I feel (a lot)

^ u sooo douchee.. HAHAHAHAH!!!

u evaa cut u leftt nut...?

^Why would i want to do that?