Could you describe your depression

[Yvonne]

Hi All

I get so hung up on the symptoms I get and so I wondered if you would all let me know how your depression "feels" to you. I want to know how others feel inside and how they think. I just want to compare myself to others.

Thanks all. xx

[nickieb]

When mine is bad & its usually a bad bought of health anxiety that makes it worse but i always hate getting up in the morning like i cant face the day & look forward to going to bed all the time.

I tend to feel nauseated a lot & just generally upset- i cry a lot & dwell on my HA... i feel scared and its just like life is too much & i never seem to smile.
I also feel very lethargic & have no energy & certainly cant eat (its great for weight loss)!!

SO thats me & my battle!!
I am on no medication- just herbal supplements & at times i can deal with it & other times i cant.

My advice to depression sufferers is go to work....its distraction & is the best treatment. KEEP YOURSELF BUSY!!!!!!!!!!!

[Diane O'Brien]

Hi Yvonne

My depression is worse in the morning. Its deep sadness and I feel inadaquate and useless. I feel like crying. On a good day I feel a lot better at dinner time on a bad day the doom lasts all day.

Everythings an effort, to drag myself into the shower and get up sometimes in the morning is hard. I like to go for a walk and find this helps tremendously also talking to other people.I feel isolated sometimes so I do try and talk to other people. Like nickie says keeping busy however I left work after a bad bout of depression, I cant work at the minute. I have two children so this helps on me going outside. During a really bad bout I could,nt sleep I survived on 3 hours sleep, doing a degree and working full time and I got down to 8 stone. No wonder I crashed into major depression.

Be kind to yourself and remember your not alone. Ever.

Take Care

Diane I also love dancing, any exercise is good.

[eeyorelover]

I feel bogged down.
Everything is a chore!
It seems like my body is weighed down and it takes loads more energy to get anything done.
Energy that I just don't have!!
All my emotions seem so much more vivid!
If that even makes any sense.
Like I could just cry if any little thing happens and sometimes it feels like I could cry forever!
Once the floodgates open they don't want to close!!!
And all I want to do is sleep!!
When I'm low I LOVE to sleep!
That is how it feels for me anyway.
But remember altho we do have loads of symptoms that are similar we are all individuals so your experiences could vary.
xxx
Sandy

[Yvonne]

Thank you all so much. I was pleased because a lot of you have described the same sort of feelings I get.

Despite being on meds I still get this horrible gutted feeling and nothing seems to lift it. I get the lump in the throat and it feels that I need to cry. The crying (and I don't cry so much now) doesn't really lift the feeling as it should. Crying is good and it is our natural relaxant but I can still feel low after I've cried.

I don't suffer so much with the lack of energy stuff now I can motivate much better as well but life still seems very empty. I don't work because the anxiety just won't allow it yet.

Thanks all so much because I needed to hear that others feel as I do - you just don't feel so alone do you.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[mabel]

I don't sleep.
I wake up early in a complete panic.
Very tired and have no energy
I feel sick all the time
Very anxious
Chest pains
Feels like I can't breathe properly
My eyes just feel really odd
It's like I'm not really here
I feel like I'm helpless
Thoughts constantly going round my head
Body feels like lead
No motivation
Can't concentrate, not even on watching TV
Feel on edge, but tired to move
Feel completly hopless
The day seems to last forever. Every minute seems to take an hour.
I have no appetite at all
Feel weak
I cry all the time
Mornings are just hell
Feels like every bit of life in me has been drained away

Theres more. I could go on forever!

Mabel

[belle]

Mine are these.

Its as if i am covered by a cloud of doom
I fear everything
I feel lathargic
I cry
I don't want to get out of bed
I am angry with myself
I feel that i am not significant to anyone or anything
The world would be better without me
I hate myself
Can't think straight

...thats all i can think of right now.

[ElizabethJane]

Dearest Yvonne I hope that you never have to feel the feelings of dread and utter despair. Of going to sleep and never wanting to wake up. Of being in the dark everything is black unable to enjoy life. Depersonalisation like being in a glass box, invisible, shrinking away inside myself dust inside a coffin. not really knowing whether you are alive or dead you dont matter, feelings dont matter, no feelings of self worth, feelings of panic paranoia if you just disappeared now nobody would notice. So so tired and dreaming and waking sometimes dreaming that you are dead screaming yourself alive again. Did you really want to know all this. A living hell. Cant tell anyone how bad it is getting feelings of suicide become the norm. This not how I am feeling now. I have somehow managed to break out of the glass box.

[Natural Mystic]

My advice to depression sufferers is go to work....its distraction & is the best treatment. KEEP YOURSELF BUSY!!!!!!!!!!!

couldn't agree more

[Smiley?]

My advice to depression sufferers is go to work....its distraction & is the best treatment. KEEP YOURSELF BUSY!!!!!!!!!!!

couldn't agree more

Erm.... was just about to say, it depends what your job is....

But then I saw that nickie is a nurse - so i'm gonna shut up!!!