I don’t understand why I feel pain like this. It’s completely unbearable. Two years ago I was diagnosed with severe depression. i’ve spent these last two years in therapy and searching everywhere for something to make me feel better. I’ve tried therapy, ten different anti-depression drugs, hypnosis, acupuncture, acupressure.. the list goes on and on. on top that i’m victim to horrible anxiety attacks that can strike at any moment without warning, i usually get about two or three a day. they make me curl up into a ball and wait to die. my family has abandoned me because i cause everyone around me pain too. everyone i get close to. my mother told me that it’s my fault her life is awful and that i should kill myself. my dad thinks that showing any kind of sad emotion makes you a ***** so that’s all i ever hear and my sister has been raised to agree with my mother so she wants nothing to do with me. When i look to the future all i see is more agony and i cannot continue to live like this. fighting depression has been like fighting with a piece of my own consciousness. how do you fight an enemy that’s completely in your head? it’s gotten so bad that i don’t even have the ability to force myself to do simple tasks anymore. it takes all my will just to do one school assignment let alone seven classes worth every single day. I’m so so tired. Truthfully i’m exhausted. I always wanted to live a happy life but that no longer seems anywhere near possible. I feel a pain deep down in my chest all the time that never goes away, like its part of my soul. i don’t know why i posted this here, just wanted to share my story i guess. it needed to be told at one point i suppose.
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you’re a very strong person. don’t let your family bring you down they sound abusive, especially your mother. as for your question, how to fight an enemy that is in your head there are several answers.. depression is a beast that I have managed to subdue, but never to tame completely. You can make yourself feel better with proper exercise, friends and a good job but if you don’t have any of those things, you’re fucked. There is situational depression, and then there is permanent severe depression. When you just hate every day living. That’s the kind of depression i don’t know how to get out of.
thanks deathdreamer. im just… really done you know? You call me strong but the things you go through are awful. I can barely cope with an anxiety disorder and depression let alone full blown schizophrenia. Though my therapist tried to send me to a mental hospital at one point because apparently i’m a high risk patient. anyway its just that when i argue with myself i feel like the one responding isnt me at all. it’s some foreign entity inside me. my aunt says ive let the devil into my soul and i’m being punished for it, who knows, maybe shes right.