I Survived Depression Stories of Experiences

What is real happiness? Is being Happy getting that new phone you've always wanted? Is being Happy being in a relationship? Is being happy having money? What is true happiness?

I don't know about others, but to me happiness is a state...

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Can u give me an advice?i love how u explained that to overcome anxiety,u shud rely on urself and not on others bcoz dependency will only make me feel hopeless and weak.I really wanna try to live again.I miss the old me so...

One of the hardest things to deal with when trying to overcome panic and anxiety is knowing what to do with all that excess energy. I know when I used to get my panic attacks it sometimes felt like I just wanted to jump right out of my...

Hi, this goes out to all those that are suffering from panic, fear and agoraphobia, I know some days can feel pretty low but hang in there, there is life after panic attacks. I suffered through occasional panic attacks that later...

I will preface this poem with a disclaimer...I often write poems when I am depressed and this is one of those poems. Please understand that this is how I felt when I wrote this but not usually now. I was pretty much ready for ....the...

I would have never thought 10 years ago that today I would be laying in my bed feeling down and depressed. No one truly understands but my best friend Jaynie, she's been there before she understands how I feels and she comforts me and...

I can say I survived depression... today. Some days I don't feel like I am surviving it, but deep down I know that as long as I breathe, I can fight the seemingly never ending battle with this daunting, unseen, but ever so prominently...

It's not like bipolar delirious with happiness but down-to-earth honest joy.

I've been feeling pretty miserable for the last few (two or so) years and all that time I never went to see a psychologist. I also believe that I was a bit...

I have struggled with depression for as long as I can remember. I was told it was situational depression and then that escalated to PTSD. Everyone around me seems to die that I am even remotely close to. My birth mom gave me up for...

I have been diagnosed as bipolar with emphasis on bipolar depressive disorder. I have been diagnosed as such since the age of eleven, even though I think the onset of it was around the age of nine and a half. I am not perfect. I am...

The flashback that started it all
It was January. I woke up a snowy day feeling down. Suddenly I started remembering things from 5 years ago. It was a horrible memory. I didn't go to school that day, I was too depressed.
Maybe it was...

Unfortunately I am not at a state of mind where I can join this group, and I want so badly to be able to say this title out loud "I Survived Depression" and confidently without a doubt click the button reading "Me Too"....but I can't...

about 2 years ago i had really bad depression and was very anxious about everything. mostly because i was scared about what people would think of me seeming i was struggling to except who i really was, and i was heaps quiet and never...

About four years ago, I found many things around me going bad... my relationship, my occupation, my health, etc. I knew then I had to do something about it rather than just ignore things as I had done previously. Began seeing a...

Here I am. Though most times I feel I can not breathe. My eyes are clouded and I can not see. I am worthless and nothing inside but I dress and eat and go to work. I am and always have been invisible. I was thirteen and sad and now I...

I've been crushed by the insurmountable condition called Depression since my childhood, it made my life hell and often taunted me in times of the dark.
It fluctuates inside of my system, consistently weighing me down on weeks to months...

When I was 18, I was unhappy at school, at home more so, I was working and studying so much I became lost. Wasn't sleeping...two people I didn't know well commited suicide within 2 weeks of one another; both 18. I saw the reaction of...

I watched my brother die, I witnessed a homicide a week before Christmas, I'm a victim of sexual assault and rape, I've ran to a best friends house after a disturbing phone call at 3 in the morning just to find him lying on the floor...

I am a survivor of deep depression and suicidal tendencies for five years now. I'm proud of that, being I suffered with depression since age 12 and the suicidal tendencies since age 15. Mine was "situation depression", depression caused...

Comedy Free-Write #3 (started writing 1:41am May 17, 2012)
[I posted previous one's on my blog which I don't think anyone is reading so I've decided to post as story instead and plead for help]

I’m hoping 3rd time’s a charm. [in...