Symptoms of Depression / Cure

Add one thing that you have experienced to the list. Or something that you have found to help a problem someone listed.

*Lack of sleep - (stay awake on internet, listening to music, or just lying on the carpet trying desperately to think. Two to three hours for years).

*Beach walks help clear your mind

okay i was hoping to avoid this but its apart of me and i am still trying to accept it!!! when i was 13 my step-dad abused me, when i was 14 i got raped 3times. oh god here comes the tears, erm... im still trying to deal with it all and my family hates me and i've realised that i have changed i will never be the old me no matter how much i want to be!!! i went the wrong way about this i started self harming it was a way of coping and still is, but i also write poems especially when im depressed and feel all alone. people who are reading this please do not judge me please!!! takecare mel xxx

Something that helps

* A warm drink before bedtime, dimming your lights an hour before trying to sleep, listening to a story or relaxing music and trying to wear yourself out during the day help me to sleep.

*Selfharming sometimes the best thing to do is just stop. Throw away the blades, and stop doing it. You will find that when you go back to it after a while it really hurts, and you don't want to do it.

*Feeling down, writing in a diary, or poetry anything like that, forcing yourself to do things with other people, listening to some angry music and jumping round a bit! It's very satisfying.

I dont know what to say Mel is there a cure for what you have gone through, I don't know?????

writing...............writing is what have keeped me alive all these years...............from poems...........to books...............i love to write

~~~~angel~~~~~

Erm, I'm bipolar, so I have to cope with depression more than I want to, lolz, not to mention the mania side of it all, but yea, writing definately helps me deal...that and having people to talk to who are like me. Self harming is one of the worst ways to go...my friend has, I have, and we've promised eachother not to...it's not like we plan to stop eachother, but neither of us want the other doing that to themselves so we're struggling together...music does help, a lot, whether it be something that will bring you down from blazing anger or something that will get your mind working normally, functioning properly, and feeling something...out of everything that comes with the territory, feeling numb is the worst part...feeling inhuman...I hope things work out for you, and if you ever need someone to talk to, the forums are always open ^^

I have been diagnosed with severe clinical insomnia. It is quite an obstacle and so far I have not found a cure, or anything that helps in the slightest. My unusually high metabolism prohibits sleeping pills from working.

I am often up for days at a time, in extreme cases a week or longer. After such lack of sleep, strung out periods of collapse are not unnormal.

When awake for such long amounts of time, days pass without notion, and memories are a blur. It is a truely saddening condition.

(I just re-read the post title. Seems I may be having a relapse right now. You may disregard this post)

Nobody - lack of sleeps is terrible, some nations intelligence agencies use it as a form of torture. I am the same, its like being hung over tired and head spinning. I haven't gone a week but three days. Otherwise its only a few hours a night.

My thoughts are with you.

writing stuff about how u feel doesn't cure it....it MAKES u think ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if u're feeling damn sad just kill ur LIFE!!!!!!!

xxleisaxx

"writing stuff about how u feel doesn't cure it....it MAKES u think ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

exactly. if you think about your problem not only do you understand and process it more, but you also release some of the stress. writing is good.

and killing yourself is a bad idea because you're dropping your problems on everyone else... this coming from someone who's struggling with that a lot lately.

*Stress---blow bubbles with soap in the sink
*Cutting---focus on a tongue twister or a logic puzzle, online quiz... something you have to think about it. it doesn't cure it but it might get you through the moment
*Need to calm down---think of your favorite place in the world. what does it look like? what does it smell like, sound like, etc.?

Kill your life. Haha that's a classic.

And the jack ass eviscerates herself.

hmm... i dunno if i'm sadistic or something, but i know that i'm paranoid.. but...

.i think people conspire against me at times. i fantasize confronting them. and killing them in the most gruesome manner..
.my girlfriend usually sends me random texts that seem like they answer a question that i never asked. i think she's cheating on me.. even though she assures me she's not. the distance is murder with me going to college and all away.. i think about catching her with a guy.. and me killing that guy in a painful manner..

that's the sadistic part.. i just can't elaborate on the details, but they make me smile and warm and happy inside.. plus the paranoid part..

now for the depressed part..

.i lay in my bunk bed at night, alone. i dorm by myself, and i have no friends. i'm in a foreign country.. [philippines].. i can't sleep. sometimes i don't notice the sun rising before i go back to school. but surprisingly i'm not tired. hours of the night are passed just thinking of what could've been on so many incidents of my life.. if i did this, didn't do that, etc. i'm zoned out in the day during class, but i manage to get my work done while still think about my sadness..
-what i think about.
--betrayal.
---my best friend moved on without me. it's been a year since i moved from california.. it's understandable, since we've got hella friends there... he's not lonely.. i on the other hand am alone.
---my mother lied to me to get me to leave america. i'll leave it at that
---i'm anti-social here.. completely different from how i was in america. i lay thinking about what went wrong and why and how i changed. i've betrayed myself, my ideals, and my overall outlook in life
---girlfriend leaving me.
---family conspiring behind my back
--nobody understands me
---language.. i speak english, they speak tagalog.. the don't understand the depth or jyst of my english.. pisses me off.. i hate this place. i struggle to speak tagalog.. doesn't work.
---my family doesn't understand wtf depression is
---i have nobody to talk to to help relieve my stress since my so-called best friend is gone.
--anger management
---i'm violent
---i scream for no reason
---i turn up hardcore to max volume and just rock out.. trying not to think
---i break things
---when i'm pissed off, i'm a different person
---i get angry easily
---i hold grudges
---i'm a bitch.

whatever... no cure yet? somebody wanna help? be my guest. email me your answers at DJxFlipomatic@yahoo.com, cuz i'm barely on here..

^ That's not the slightest bit creepy

A cure to depression, you ask?

Fall. In. Love. =]

xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

^^

what if the Love of your life is the cause of your depression?

what if.....................

LOL.
'The love of your life has caused your depressed'.
Then you aren't in love, if they can make you depressed.
Geesh. Is it that hard to comprehend?
Crazy kids.
And if they broke up with you, find someone else. There are plenty 'fish in the sea'.
If you 'loved' them and they left, you should be happy and realize they are happy.

xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

Buy a dog, or cat.

^^^
True.

But, Jess.. If you need anyone, you can email me, ok? I promise you can trust me, and if not trust me, then at least talk to me.
Maybe I can help. =] [Hugs] Take care of yourself.

xTheEcstasyOfSuicidex

My friend has a display pic tht says i write for the samae reason i breath without it i would die umm any people suffering depression writ poems it should help you out alot

BUY A DOG-DEFINATLY, YOU WILL HAVE TO WALK A DOG...HENCE HAVING TO GO OUTSIDE WHEN YOU DONT WANT TO AND IT WILL TAKE YOUR MIND OF THINGS....

{{{sorry just realised im typing in caps}}}

....anyway yeah, buy a dog.
and although i get depressed more when i think about my problems i write and it kinda helps, it makes me write about my problems clear and i think it helps me emotionally.

um i think someone posted about tagalog...im trying to learn that lingo too so if you want any help i think i still have an inty name for a dictionary..its really good.

NOW, can someone tell me how i can get out of the habbit of sleeping loads and then at times not sleeping at all? sometimes i get bad nightmares...

october xx

writting poems helps me,
self harm sometimes,
crying helps sometimes,
i smoke as well.
since i started smokeing my cuttig has gone down. i smoke when i want to harm. it works for me cause i know i am killing myself just like i am wiht self harm.

I got given a working dog and since we don't live on a big farm he needs to be walked every day. Together me and him walk approx. 8-10km a day and I found it the best way to keep my mind of things. Also paint, it doesn't matter if you're not too good, paint what you feel make a mess and take a while to clean up. And when you're finished burn it. It makes me feel better. Killing or harming yourself just makes those around you as miserable as you are, to me there if I'm going down it's not fair to pull those closest to me down as well.

Killing yourself is not the answer. writing about your feelings does help. write them on paper. then rip them up. it helps. truly. it does.

Martina.xo

write a letter to someone who has really hurt you, or just made you angry, or has left you (died or whatever) and include every single one of your feelings. then rip it up. or burn it. If you're feeling gutsy, give it to them, or maybe keep it so you can add to it later. But spend a long time making it exactly what you want and really good and such, because angry impulsive letters don't often do the trick... poems are good. and art. and music. start learning an instrument! I am a cellist pianist double bass player guitarist and bass guitarist, and before I die I plan to learn to play every instrument in the orchestra... at least a little bit. lol.
all this stuff helps me through hard times, my dad and brother dying, my other brother and his bipolar disorder, being raped (enough said), my best friend killing herself, the list goes on. Just keep on keepin' on. And be creative, turn your feelings into something inspiring, beautiful, ugly whatever. Something other people can relate to, and then share your creations with others, use your experience to help people through theirs...
That is what I do... and it keeps me alive. Using my bad experiences and learning from them and helping people because I can understand. I'm 16 and I've been through it all. If anyone wants to talk, email me on luvme_luvmycello@hotmail.com (or add me on msn).

i'm 16 too and i have been diagnosed with ruemotoid artheritus so i'm always in pain.that hit me hard and i was bullied since reception not nice. every time i wake up i have 3 thoughts
why am i still alive
oh great another crap day
then i think of ways to kill myself. some say it's attention but it's not i just don't want to be here and now my lifes falling apart. i write poetry and am writing a book too they kind of help but only for a little while.