Depression?

Ok so ive just been diagnosed with depression and put on medications. its realy overwheliming to realize that i, the girl who always made everyone smile and laugh, is in fact depressed.... i know ive been crying a lot and having some thoughts that i shouldn't but im really depressed....

has anyone else found out they were depressed; and what did you do?

Yeah I was diagnosed with depression, but I already knew I had it. Mine was pretty bad so I talked to my school counselor and she really helped me out and my doctor put me on some medications. I write poetry to calm down and listen to music. I just try to take everything a day at a time.

I was diagnosed with depression but I already knew. The only reason anyone else found out was because I was having a really bad day and I took out my knife in the middle of a full class room in 7th grade and began to cut myself. I was sent to my councelor and then to a psychologist. My other option was the Link (a home for "troubled children"). Because i was so young they didn't want to give me any medication, plus they were afraid I would over dose on them. Then I started writing poetry about what was bothering me. It was a way for me to express what i otherwise couldn't.

I was really depressed a few months ago and then my brother died and less than 2 weeks later my boyfriend who i really loved broke up with me, i just sank deeper into my depression but then i just went played my drums and guitar everyday, i ran even more than usual, went and sat on the beach watching the sunset and drawing, listened to music, read stories about people who's lives were way harder than my own, wrote and drew oh and spent a lot of time with friends and just talking to people. i use to keep everything bottles up and that just made it all worse. i just forced myself to see the positive things in life and how all the time that i spend being sad and depressed is precious time which i will never actually get back.

Yep, I have been. For the first 3 months after that I jsut cried and cried. But then my friends woudln't leave me liek that and eventually I let them in. So now I'm starting to smile again and my friends are the whole reason I am still alive.

Lots of people are depressed. It's all in the attitude.
Get help and learn how to deal with it before it gets too uncontrolable.

I wasn't DIAGNOSED with depression...but yes I have been through the stage where I can no longer fall because I have literally hit rock bottom.
And in my case it was a bit like you...I was overwhelmed because I'm a fun loving person, I make others laugh and smile everyday :) it's what I love doing making other feel good about themselves...but I realized that although I make others smile and I smile myself...something was missing :/
To be honest with you..I have no idea what I did...I suppose I lifted myself and stopped letting people pushing me around all the time. Every time someone would ask me for a favor I would refuse ( only those who I didn't exactly care about) because I was always used....so I left those who didn't care about me behind and kept those who loved me for who I am close...and I told them my situation and they helped me through it all :)
Now Im back to my old happy self :D
xxxxxxxxx Hope everything turns out well
MWAH

I knew i was depressed when i was 12 and got diagnosed at 17 and im now 23, still depressed, no change in my ways, i certainly havnt got any better, in my oppinion i have got worse.

i have my good days and bad days like everyone else but when i get a bad day were all i wanna do is sleep and cut i tell myself its the depression making you feel like this, and sometimes that makes me feel a little better knowing it isnt me its a disease...

oddness i know, but it helps.

PEACE & LOVE
I.B.E
XXX

Depression is like a maze you can't escape from. Sometimes you cant change the barriers but you can change your goals and perceptions. I was depressed about my private life and eventuallyafter a decade I had a breakdown. It took an assault and serious injuries to get a different view of my maze. I've beat depression because my expectations have changed and continue to do so. My advice to you would be to keep yourself busy, hobbies, friends, and fitness and make sure you take time to enjoy the little joys in life. Theres no easy answer but you have time...lots of time, the secret is not to waste too much of it because I've lost loads. I have a brain injury I feel dizzy most of the time and I really struggle, but I would not swap it for the lost decade.

I went 42 years and never , to my knowledge, had anything like depression. Then a situation came along in my life and now im struggling with depression. The Dr. has prescribed 3 different meds but they dont seem to help. I know what triggered my depression and if i could fix this problem i would be ok.

I suffer from depression but my mom won't put me on any kind of medication. It really hurts when you first find out and I turn to ways of letting it out that i shouldn't. I've learned to just cry when I need to. Having a good couselor that you can talk to is always a good thing. If you need someone to talk to just pm me.

I wasn't diagnosed as depressed, but when I was younger I was taking a certain type of medication & one of the side effects could be depression... Which, unfortunately for me, I had the displeasure to experience. I didn't want to end my life but I felt like I had no life in me. I was immediately told to start taking less of the medication, slowly, until it became that I didn't have to. (That's one thing to remember, to never immediately stop taking your medication unless your doctor says otherwise!)

Also once when I was younger I was going through a rough patch; dealing with peer pressure & the cliques. My parents found one of my rants on the computer. They thought I was suicidal but I really wasn't I just wrote the things that I did as a way to vent. Besides, I knew better than to be thinking like that; to kill myself. I never went to see a doctor about it, there was no need. My parents were enough.

Depression just sucks!!!
You're sad and down and feeling rough, Though you want to be happy, but you can't be happy, cuz its like your in a 2 story house. The 2nd story is happiness, and you are stuck on the first floor without a flight of stairs. So you have to build your own stairs to reach happiness. That's what I have concluded in my life, even though I can't seem to build my stairs.

Yes. when i was diagnosed i shot into some anxiety. what would people think? am ia freak? is there a cure? however, i was only 10 when i was diagnosed. so my mind wasent at it's biggest capabilitys. I feel i could have done more. 6 years later to this day i am still depressed. find help RIGHT AWAY. do not think of what others will say. reach out for good friends and ONLY good friends. perhaps once this settles in you can move on to others, however, i wouldnt take the risk of just normal friends knowing things like that. especially if your the type f girl who makes people laugh, they could judge.

Best wishs.

-Nikki-