I Battle Depression Stories of Experiences

Off and on since Junior High. But its slowly getting better, the cloud is lifting! But its still hard for me to get out of bed in the mornings, I still would rather stay in somedays, I still feel a void. I havent been on anti...

I love that emotions drive me to be a better musician and create meaning full pieces, but I don't want to live my life being unhappy.

Music does motivate me, but it bothers me that it's not enough to make me compeltely happy. It's...

It really breaks my heart when I read all the stories in this group. I for one have been trying to tear away from this disease for as long as I can remember. I could even recall the exact day my mind finally jumped into the abyss of...

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I don't know but maybe I'm depressed
How can I not be
With this watermelon in my chest

My pain decides to strangle me
And my hate just finds more pain
To entangle me in

One minute I smile and laugh
Then the next
I'm...

Hi erm not really good at this type of stuff but I'll give it a go. I really dunno how long much more of this I can take, every things just getting worse and worse and it feels like its only a matter of time before I say enough and end...

My friend is being aloof. I just found out that she's talking behind my back with a group of girls who I think hate me. Its like 5th grade all over again.
In 5th grade, my best friend ( back then in a different city) joined with a girl...

I am looking for someone. I am hoping that I can find them on this website. Life can really suck sometimes. And it would be nice to have someone to talk to who can relate.

not just for myself you know.
i get scared that one day i will snap and turn into one of those killers.
i really dont want that. and i have enough empathy for now to remind myself that it's not cool.
but depression is a horrible thing...

I just recently emerged from one of the darkest, if not the darkest, period of my life.
For over a year I was severely depressed. Nothing which used to give me joy in my life worked anymore. I love to write and the depression took that...

I usually listen to music or I play a mindless game to keep me distracted from the suicidal thoughts. Recently I just found a cool app that kind of fun. The apps called "Guardian Cross", if you do check it out you should add me by...

I feel like the pain will never stop I hate it so dam much I just want the pain to stop I always seem to be in some kind of pain and i hate it more than anything I just don;t wannnt to hurt anymore! ( it sucks...

I seem to have these spells of depression when I'm left alone for a few days at a time. I've grown quite attached to my girlfriend within the past seven years of us dating and have slowly lost touch with almost all of the people I was...

i went a place where i can only the voice of my heart..no other is with me..im totally destroyed..that too by love and relations.who will listen my anguish...my pain in the heart is still killing me truth that im deceived.ha!no one...

Have you ever felt like your heart was physically bleeding and it hurt so much that your chest was aching... I feel like that every day... I used to have this yellow ribbon system in place so whenever it got so bad that I couldn't carry...

I feel like I'm reverting to my old habitual depression. It's disappointing because I've been doing so well for myself these last few months. But all my efforts feel pointless, like I have nothing to work towards. I'm only working and...

Woke up and still feel awful. I never feel good these days been bad for months. Is there any point taking antidepressants if they don't work? Don't want to take them this mornin hate them.

im sorry for putting my problems on other people i thought it would help but the new scars on my wrist say diffrent i tried to end it and they found me be for i bleed out i never though that the same people that beat me every day...

This is my story, my life is my story. i choose when to turn the page,when to start the next chapter,and most important of all when the story ends.

The pages are bloody, soaked in tears, and dried in the numbness i have felt in...

Believe it or not trance is a state where you forget what's around you , the music controls you , its Euphoria !!! it is really helping me dealin wit my depression , i just put my earphones in , volume up and feel the melodies in...

i am 13 years old and i have battled depression for almost 2 years now. it had started when my grandpa died and it has never gone away. i have been to a metal hospital two times and almost ended up in a state mental hospital for 6...