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I'm curious how everyone here is doing mentally. Do you consider yourself depressed, whether or not you've been clinically diagnosed?
I think you should take this as "how are you feeling?" rather than "have you been diagnosed with depression?".
I'm curious how everyone here is doing mentally. Do you consider yourself depressed, whether or not you've been clinically diagnosed?
I'm curious how everyone here is doing mentally. Do you consider yourself depressed, whether or not you've been clinically diagnosed?
I dealt with depression when I was younger, and being completely isolated due to the current world situation has brought it back. I am situationally depressed from a lack of human contact. I feel awful on a regular basis, and I wish more people would come out and just say it now. It's not rare or precious or embarrassing, it's just being human.
I badly need my three year old to be in kindergarten so my wife can have six hours a day of just one child and possibly claim back part of our house and energy levels from the abyss. I'm counting the days to next September.
I feel you, myself I have two toddlers (2, 4) that was a life change for me. Responsibility, scream, lack of sleep, inability to what I used to do to get some energy boost. Which escalated during working from home. No advice from my side, as I haven't found any good way. Take care,
I want a "I don't know" tick.
Holy crap, that's a way higher percentage than I was expecting. What are some of the reasons you all have for being depressed? Also, is this possibly a self selective poll? Are non depressed people not bothering to answer?
“You don’t get depressed because bad things happen to you. . .depression is something that happens like weather to you, it’s inside you. . .it’s not enough to talk yourself out of it by saying, ‘but I shouldn’t be depressed because I’ve got people who are nice to me’. . .It’s very important, at least to get that stage of it out of the way, to recognise it as a mood disorder, as something that is akin to weather.”
I feel like there is a lot of confusion between "Shit Life Syndrome" and depression, and to the people suffering from either I'm not sure the difference is much of a consolation.
I had to put down my childhood dog down today. He was with me every day throughout my depression. It's awful, it hurts and I'll never be able to replace the role that dog played in my life. I don't feel depressed though, I feel distraught.
I'm lucky enough to have lived an incredibly privileged life, with a stable family, excellent education and opportunities etc. so today is the worst I've felt in ages. With that in mind, I don't feel like I can lay claim to even "Shit Life Syndrome", I live in a country that has nearly eradicated COVID, I have a strong support base among family friends and coworkers.
With all that in mind, all I want to drive home is that if you're depressed, you don't need a reason. Though if you do have reasons you could have depression or you could not (I'm never going to tell someone the way they feel is invalid), either way I hope everyone out there is looking after themselves as best they can.
A yes/no questionnaire is the worst possible way to poll this issue.
Holy crap, that's a way higher percentage than I was expecting. What are some of the reasons you all have for being depressed? Also, is this possibly a self selective poll? Are non depressed people not bothering to answer?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255
+1 (800) 273-8255 or text HELLO to 741741 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
+1 (800) 799-7233 National Domestic Violence Hotline
+1 (888) 373-7888 National Human Trafficking Hotline
+1 (800)-422-4453 National Child Abuse Hotline
+1 (800)-656-4673 Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)
+1 (800)-985-5990 Disaster Distress Hotline
+1 (866) 488-7386 TREVOR Crisis Hotline
+1 (800) 996-6228 Family Violence Helpline
+1 (800) 784-2433 National Hopeline Network
+1 (800) 366-8288 Self-Harm Hotline
+1 (800) 222-1222 American Association of Poison Control Centers
+1 (800) 622-2255 Alcoholism & Drug Dependency Hope Line
+1 (800) 233-4357 National Crisis Line, Anorexia, and Bulimia
+1 (888) 843-4564 LGBT Hotline
+1 (800) 221-7044 AIDS Crisis Line
+1 (877) 565-8860 The Trans Lifeline
+1 (800) 273-8255 Veterans Crisis Line
These phone numbers were pulled from the following resource which is US-centric but you can call from anywhere if you need the help: https://www.caredash.com/articles/which-online-therapy-servi...