I think I'm depressed...

[GirlAfraid23]

But I'm not sure...

I do feel very down alot of the time...like life sometimes just doesnt have any point at all. I dont enjoy the things that I used to...I am constantley thinking that I'm dying...or I have a horrific disease.

Should I get help?
I dont neccessarily want to go on anti-depressants...some people have told me that st john's wort helps?

Please, any advice would be helpful :weep:

[PUGLETMUM]

:) hi yes these can be symptoms of depression - docs will generally offer meds as the cheapest way to help you - they can and do work if you can get the right one for you - so i wouldnt dismiss them totally - but they can also make things worse - ask for counselling and maybe read up on what depression is and how you can help yourself - it is a bummer but you have to put in alot of effort to rid yourself of it - paradoxicalas you dont actually have much energy to do this!!! but it works if you do little acheivable things and if you learn to be positive - however in my experience these werent things i taught myself - i read about them, emma:)