29, a dude and I guess that’s debatable. At the early age of 7 I clearly remember wanting to stab myself with my little pocket knife, standing there with the point of the blade on my stomach crying. I guess I was motivated because I would’ve rather been dead than live the life I had even back then, although I didn’t know that other people wanted to do the same thing to themselves. Then at 16 I got caught trying to buy a gun from another student in school to kill myself with, so I guess clinically I’ve been depressed since 16. Every year gets worse and I grow more anxious and depressed, it’s gotten to the point that I’m afraid of everything and have more than one mental illnesses going undiagnosed.
1. I’m 20.
2. Girl.
3. Not even sure at this point, I think in some ways I’ve had it from a young age but it probably wasn’t clinical or chronic or that severe back then. I have ASD so I’ve always been made to feel like I’m an alien, an outcast, that this defined me as a person and I didn’t exist outside of the label. And to this day I just believe that the world wasn’t created for people like me, we are just silenced, forced to suffer because ignorant neurotypicals can’t accept differences in the way people act or the way they view the world that’s not the same as their view.
Because I’ve always struggled with these thoughts on some level, I think since the age of 8 or 9 I can recognise signs of depression.
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29, a dude and I guess that’s debatable. At the early age of 7 I clearly remember wanting to stab myself with my little pocket knife, standing there with the point of the blade on my stomach crying. I guess I was motivated because I would’ve rather been dead than live the life I had even back then, although I didn’t know that other people wanted to do the same thing to themselves. Then at 16 I got caught trying to buy a gun from another student in school to kill myself with, so I guess clinically I’ve been depressed since 16. Every year gets worse and I grow more anxious and depressed, it’s gotten to the point that I’m afraid of everything and have more than one mental illnesses going undiagnosed.
1. I’m 20.
2. Girl.
3. Not even sure at this point, I think in some ways I’ve had it from a young age but it probably wasn’t clinical or chronic or that severe back then. I have ASD so I’ve always been made to feel like I’m an alien, an outcast, that this defined me as a person and I didn’t exist outside of the label. And to this day I just believe that the world wasn’t created for people like me, we are just silenced, forced to suffer because ignorant neurotypicals can’t accept differences in the way people act or the way they view the world that’s not the same as their view.
Because I’ve always struggled with these thoughts on some level, I think since the age of 8 or 9 I can recognise signs of depression.
1. 25
2, girl
3. Had mine depression since I was 13, but wasn’t diagnosed until 23 years of age. I had anxiety at age of 15.
FakeImportance, I can see we have a lot in common
1. 46
2. Man
3. Since about 11. Gotten progressively worse since then. Counselling at 24 and first antidepressants at 30.