I’ve been deeply depressed for the last year, it doesn t matter what I do or what I think it seems that I just can’t get “undepressed”. Does depression ever REALLY goes away?
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I don’t think it ever fully goes away, but instead you learn to adapt and move with it. Also circumstances and experiences can distract from it. But I feel if you are prone to it, it’s always tucked under the surface waiting to flare up.
Depression is like your shadow: it never goes away…
i think depression is like an addiction. lets take alcohol. if you bet the addiction a lot of people cant ever have it again because they will relapse. if someone with depression has something happen to them it wouldnt take much for them to fall back into their old ways. the problem: you can avoid alcohol. you cant really avoid sadness. but when you do relapse remember that you got through it before and you can do it again.
It’s like a friend in your head.
It really looks like it…
I would like to think it does go away. I’ve had moments when my heart lifts and I laugh and almost forget about the black cloud. I hope that it will get better but it’s difficult to see. I thought I was better, then suddenly seemed to fall into that dark hole where nothing feels right, and you find yourself wanting to feel happy but you’re unable to tear away the heavy invisible cloak. I hope you find your way out. Know you’re not alone.
Thnks!
I think it depends on situation a lot, and yeah it’s an addiction you don’t really chose. I think it’s scary thinking it never goes away… I know mine comes back time and time again but there’s been moments it lifts, and I was like wow… if this this how people without depression feel no wonder there’s such a drastic change in behaviour. I never wanted depression to define me, and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone else to define them either.
There s a really big change in behavior that s for sure. I think i ve been mildly depressed in my life here and there, but when my major depression settle in that was for sure a huge change in me and in my way of thinking and living. Major depression is perhaps the worst “place” to be. :\