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By *appyPandaMan
over a year ago
Kilkenny, but Dublin is more fun |
I was cursed with it from mid teens to a few years back.
Was suicidal quite often and just glad I had such a great family around that I loved so deeply. It's not just because they were so supportive to me through the bad times, but when things were at their worst and suicide was so tempting, I just couldn't do it to them. It would have messed them all up so bad and I just could not let that happen.
It's been a couple of years since it affected me badly, but I still have to deal with a lot of long term subconscious effects, which aren't as serious at all.
It's all about getting through it and knowing that for all the bad times, there are good times. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I've gone through bouts of it. Very severe and unable to see the next morning as a visible outcome. I decided to try understand it and have studied psychology and began to use mindfulness and meditation in my daily routine which really helps.
I say to myself I live with it sporadically and understand it will return but also that it does not have the power to control me like it used to.
Hope you are doing well this morning OP . X |
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By *appyPandaMan
over a year ago
Kilkenny, but Dublin is more fun |
We can all get through it, whether it's with the help of family and friends, psychology or medication. Also found mindfulness a great help during bad hours.
Depression is a part of who I am, not because it affects me now, but because how it has made me who I am today. If I hadn't suffered depression at all, who knows how different of a person I'd be.
While I may still suffer from social anxiety, and the fear that if people get to know me, they'll reject me, these are just small voices in the mind that fade as time passes.
For the most part, I am a better and stronger person because of it. I'm also deeply empathic (but I believe I was always like that beforehand too, as it was worry about the world and the injustices that may have been cause in the first place), and I try to do my best to help friends and loved ones through any trouble.
I spent years worrying about what I wasn't, when I had the depression.
The first step is to start thinking about what you are instead. |
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