I just got done watching an inspirational speaker that I like talk about depression. He said “depression comes and goes.” And that “once you start identifying with depression, is when bigger problems start to happen.”
Honestly, for me, depression simply does not “come and go.” I’ve been dealing with depression for about seven years. I’ve tried therapy, medication, and even a program. And for the past year I’ve been depressed every day. I wish depression would simply just go away.
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Once your neurons get sensitized to the chemical exchanges corresponding with depression, depression becomes a fixture of normalcy. Until it stops being normal by a similar means. Your brain is like plastic and changes frequently, but not rapidly. You can’t really think yourself out of a depression, or decide to stop being depressed. At the same time, it’s not necessarily a permanent state, either.
You can walk through it and try to make good decisions.
“Depression comes and goes” who said this shit to you??
I had depression for 10 years. It sticked on me as glue.
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What that guy was talking about was indeed depression. Everyone experiences depression occasionally, so yes, it does come and go. However, what most people on this site have is chronic depression, which is diagnosed if you experience depression, and associated symptoms, for a period of six months or more. People confuse the two way too much.
Who said this clearly hasn’t had depression ever.
Well, what that speaker says can be right I suppose. It would honestly be dependent on how he would define “Depression”. To the everyday person to be depressed just means a sadness. Probably a state of sadness that is perhaps one tier harder to shake off, (this doesn’t really make sense in that depression cannot be measured with numbers) but you probably get my point. Depression doesn’t come and go though necessarily. It can come and possibly last forever and for others it may never get to them. Depression in its basic form, to me, is a state of mind that does really make one self-centered mixed with bitterness, sadness, and/or other negative emotions with pain. It is very difficult to overcome and for me, being with people that can give hope and bring me out of my hole is def a great helping hand. But a key note to is that if you do get out of that “hole” it’s your own job to fill up that hole. Friends are there to help pull you out and can possibly do a patch job on that hole. Falling back in is definitely easy and a real possibility, so as the individual him/herself needs to try to gain fortitude. (My case of depression may and probably does vary than your’s so this is just my own take on it.)