I’ve been living with depression since I was 14. It felt inescapable, but for a couple of years, I was doing really well. I stopped going to therapy, I was able to handle bad things, anxiety wasn’t tearing me apart, I had goals I wanted to achieve. Then in the last two years of college, my depression came back worse than ever. Trying to get better isn’t even on the table, right now I’m just trying to want to get better.

But for a few years, I was able to think to myself that I was happy, and that depression was a thing of the past. For the life of me, I can’t remember why. I feel like I’m doomed to be stuck in a cycle of falling in and out of depression for years at a time at best.

But has anyone actually come out of depression, for real? Is it possible to say that you dealt with your depression and you are genuinely happy, or at least want to be happy, and you think you will be that way for the rest of your life? Because I genuinely don’t see how people are supposed to be happy.

Also did we used to have a mental health comm?

  • theoneIno@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Yes, I actually have, depression and anxiety are not an inherent trait like Autism or ADHD, they are linked to our circumstances, environment and perspectives of ourselves and our outlook on the world’s conditions.

    Sometimes circumstances change and I may get depressed for a few months, but it is not a looming and endless depression like it was before.

    Stabilizing your financial life and having good friends are for me the starting point to cure yourself, and also seeing a psychiatrist helps, but I wouldn’t recommend going on hard antidepressants as they don’t do much to get yourself out of your depressive situation.

    For me, having communist China rise in the world stage made my outlook on the world’s future much better, the Chinese don’t share the western doomer culture of the world ending and are very optimistic of their future.

    And in a personal level, getting to know myself more, building better relationships and earning some money did the trick.

    I didn’t even started doing sports or going to the gym, which can boost your recovery, if I did those things, I’d be much better off.

    Taking ADHD medications also helped, as before I was unable to “do things” and being able to do things reduces my anxiety and depression greatly.