have you ever had problems with depression?

[arsenicCatnip]

Yep, diagnosed and almost put on medication, until I decided it all wasn't worth it, so I punched it in the dick and told it to piss off. Worked surprisingly well.

Same here, pretty much. I was diagnosed at age eight, hospitalized repeatedly and force-fed medication until I was eighteen, and lived with a mother who is severely bipolar and thinks therapy and pills are God's gift to the human race.

I left therapy, kicked the pills cold-turkey (that was the scariest six weeks of my life), and overall I'm a healthy and functioning individual with a stable job, relationship, and life. I did have a revelation that the diagnosis might have been affected by my learning disorder, and I have anxiety which I staunchly refuse to treat because without my anxiety, I don't know who I am.

Again, overall I'm an okay person, and you can be too. Fight with everything you have, and don't decide to follow my example. Figure out what works for you.

 

[Ham_authority95]

On and off, in 8th grade and my freshman year especially. It mostly has to do with my sleeping patterns and what I do with my time.

I've never had it for more than 5 days at a time, so it isn't like it's clinical depression.

Even if it was clinical, I wouldn't take any pills, which don't help at all. My bandmate takes pills for depression, and is now dependent upon them for her to function. Unless it's a chemical problem with your brain, most depression is situational and can be fixed by your own actions.

 

[staika]

I've always been a very happy person throughout my life but I did have moments when I was really sad for some reason or another but one of the last things my grandfather said to me before he died was "You can be sad, or you can go out and do something about it." and those words have given me the strength to pull out of some of the darker times of my life.