I Battle Depression and Anxiety Stories of Experiences

Many of us have gone so numb and discounted our feelings so completely that we have gotten out of touch with our needs in relationships.

We can learn to distinguish whose company we enjoy, whether we're talking about friends, business...

The bridge looks nice.
I've romanticized suicide.
My life has lice.
I am faded away and fried.
I will die young.
My breath will end with my hands.
The things I would have sung.
If only I'd lay deep beneath your sands.
One day, it won...

I'm feeling very anxious today and I've been crying frequently.

Not a day goes by where I don't have one of these two feelings.
It gets frustrating when I don't know why this is happening. I should be the happiest person around. I...

Yes, I did. I had an appointment with psychiatrist yesterday. I admitted I need help. Another blow to my ego or another step to my recovery. She cleared up a few things in my life and prescribed two pills.

The road of happy...

Life doesn't have to be hard.

Yes, there are times we need to endure, struggle through, and rely on our survival skills. But we don't have to make life, growth, recovery, change, or our day-to-day affairs that hard all the time...

Part of recovery means learning to share ourselves with other people. We learn to admit our mistakes and expose our imperfections - not so that others can fix us, rescue us, or feel sorry for us, but so we can love and accept ourselves...

I have tried almost everything out there to try to cure my depression & aniexty. I have recently tried Paxil and it has done wonders for me. I have only been on it for 2 weeks now and I already feel a difference with my thoughts and...

I have suffered from anxiety problems for the last five years or so. I have discovered that it is the root of 90% of my problems and was the cause of my anger and depression. I tried a few prescription medications, but they made the...

Master the lessons of your present circumstances.

We do not move forward by resisting what is undesirable in our life today. We move forward, we grow, we change by acceptance.

Avoidance is not the key; surrender opens the door...

Found this article on the web...

Treating Depression with the Oxytocin, the Love Hormone
By TRACI PEDERSEN Associate News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on February 20, 2012

When a person hugs or affectionately touches...

Having boundaries doesn't complicate life; boundaries simplify life.
—Beyond Codependency

There is a positive aspect to boundary setting. We learn to listen to ourselves and identify what hurt us and what we don't like. But we also...

my depression started when my grandpa died. i started to cut myself. at first i didn't really think that it was bad. I now know that people discourage it a lot.
Some people dont mind others will try to help you. Now the cuts are...

Knowledge is WITHHELD ,We are not warned about the traps in society and live blindly in marriage and child rearing,Dispassion is WITHHELD,I feel compassion for every individual who shows none and it festers within me like a cancer...

Hi all,

I am not sure if I have put this in the right section. I am a new member to this forum and an ex-sufferer of Generalised Anxiety Disorder. I will try to be blunt and to the point, although be warned I do have a tendency to...

"Yes, I know your spouse is an alcoholic, but my son is an alcoholic, and that's different. That's worse!"

My pain is greater than yours!

What an easy trap that can be for us. We are out to show others how victimized we have been, how...

"When the time is right, child." When the time is right. How often have we heard those words - from a friend, a sponsor, our Higher Power?

We want things so badly - that job, that check, a relationship, a possession. We want our life...

Its hard for me to describe what im going through but ill try my best. Ive always had anxiety and depression problems but in the last week ive felt like im loseing my grip on reality, im not seeing or hearing things that arent there its...

We want to travel baggage-free on this journey. It makes the trip easier.

Some of the baggage we can let go of is lingering feelings and unfinished business with past relationships: anger, resentments, feelings of victimization, hurt...

theyre ignoring me again. going out an leaving me on purpose an not talking to me or return my txts until it too late. like when they left to go to movies an our to the water park an out to the beach on the south end...they knew i...

So... fun over. School... :/ i'm really depressed. my mom will never stop being negative. makes me really angry too. well, okay. i'm always in a bad mood... i'm so confused. i need someone... wanna talk about this with my two friends...