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symptoms of depression

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have been feeling well really down, not just for a few days but for the past few weeks and i wondered what the sypmtoms of depression are? :frown:

to elaborate, i feel like i have no energy. i used to love film and media but i ahve no passion for my course, i just feel like i can't be bothered. i keep thinking i shouldn't even be here :frown:

theres so much stuff i dont understand. i hate being around people too. at first i was quite chatty but this last week ive spent everyday in my room. i cant face being around people os i keep crying. half the time i just want to break down and i dont even know why.
i'm not eating. not on purpose but i just have no appitite, which for someone who usually binge eats isn't normal. i just can't be bothered. i dont care anymore.

i feel so stupid. im sat in a computer room cos i missed my seminar and i want to breakdown. i shouldn't be here and my head feels so messed up. i've hardly slept at all and i feel like its getting worse. i should see someone but if i do then i'm admitting that i can't cope
and i have to cope right? i'm an adult now. set loose in the big wide world and all ive done so far is screw it up. if i admit i can't cope i have nothing left.
and there's noone i can really talk to. i've been avoiding my housemates for ages cos i feel like i don't know them well enough. and i know no-one on my course.

i'm always sat there and im too scared to talk to anyone. i keep having panic attacks too. i was queuing in one of the uni cafes and i got all panicky cos i didn't know what to do. its all so stupid.

and then there's my boyfriend. as much as i know he'll be there for me he has his own issues at the moment and his own opions on depression. how the hell did it get like this. i'm sorry for rambelling. i just need to talk to someone :frown:

Reply 1

Love_Hearts

9

arhhhh darlin :hugs:

im really sorry to have read ur post, u sound extremely messed up.
firstly is there anything that is bothering u to make u feel like this? missing home, friends etc? are u taking any medication either... cuz i know when i went on the pill imade me feel like that.
u really should talk to someone thou (i know it is what everyone will say but its one thing u really should do) do u have a personal tutor u can talk to about ur issues?
u do sound like u have upcoming syptoms of depression yeah... but it can be treated. i had a friend who became depressed and it triggered off a number of other issues including an eating disorder. it is a long spiral that is hard to get out of unless u get help now!
dont worry about missing ur seminar either, it cant be helped! everyone does it at least once. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reply 2

Dalimyr

17

Symptoms
Even without getting that page for you, it sounded like you are fairly depressed, yes :frown:

I know it's hard, but think back to when these symptoms started up and try to pinpoint what the actual cause of it was. Once you know the root of the problem, you should find it a little easier to sort out the problem.
Depression is really difficult to live with - I've had it a few times in recent years, and my mum had it as well, so I know it's hard; but you should find some way to get over it - it just takes time.

Hope that helps you a little bit, hun :smile:

Reply 3

Toy Soldier

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Dalimyr

you should find some way to get over it - it just takes time.

The problem with that is the apathy. I was pretty depressed for a while, and everyone who's depressed knows they should do something about it. The bitch being that you're too depressed to bother. I'm not going to tell you to see a doctor, because I have first hand experience of people being even more messed up by the bullsh*t drugs doctors push for depression than the depression itself (my mum was put on depression medication and told that there was no addiction or side effects. When trying to come off them she had a seizure in the middle of a supermarket and ended up in hospital for weeks).

To be honest, you probably just need some time to think about your life and sort it out in your own head. Maybe try to get away for a bit.

Reply 4

Love_Hearts

9

I'm not going to tell you to see a doctor

totally agree.. depression is a psychological disorder.... doctors have little if any experience with it so prescribe drugs in the hope that it is a biolgocial problem rather than a mental one

Reply 5

-TMG-

9

xXMessedUpXx

have been feeling well really down, not just for a few days but for the past few weeks and i wondered what the sypmtoms of depression are? :frown:

to elaborate, i feel like i have no energy. i used to love film and media but i ahve no passion for my course, i just feel like i can't be bothered. i keep thinking i shouldn't even be here :frown:

theres so much stuff i dont understand. i hate being around people too. at first i was quite chatty but this last week ive spent everyday in my room. i cant face being around people os i keep crying. half the time i just want to break down and i dont even know why.
i'm not eating. not on purpose but i just have no appitite, which for someone who usually binge eats isn't normal. i just can't be bothered. i dont care anymore.

i feel so stupid. im sat in a computer room cos i missed my seminar and i want to breakdown. i shouldn't be here and my head feels so messed up. i've hardly slept at all and i feel like its getting worse. i should see someone but if i do then i'm admitting that i can't cope
and i have to cope right? i'm an adult now. set loose in the big wide world and all ive done so far is screw it up. if i admit i can't cope i have nothing left.
and there's noone i can really talk to. i've been avoiding my housemates for ages cos i feel like i don't know them well enough. and i know no-one on my course.

i'm always sat there and im too scared to talk to anyone. i keep having panic attacks too. i was queuing in one of the uni cafes and i got all panicky cos i didn't know what to do. its all so stupid.

and then there's my boyfriend. as much as i know he'll be there for me he has his own issues at the moment and his own opions on depression. how the hell did it get like this. i'm sorry for rambelling. i just need to talk to someone :frown:

Same here. I got a date with a babe tomorrow though so it's not all bad, as for the course I'm gonna have to start doin some revision soon, spent 200 bar on books.

Not got many mates though lol, well not lad mates. Girls like me but theyre a bit diff to lads. I go out with my flat mates still but theyre slowly turnin against me...cos I do stupid things and I'm a social ****** lol.

Reply 6

Toy Soldier

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Love_Hearts

totally agree.. depression is a psychological disorder.... doctors have little if any experience with it so prescribe drugs in the hope that it is a biolgocial problem rather than a mental one

Plus they constantly come out with "new and better" drugs (every year or so) and then find out something was horribly wrong with it after f*cking a few more people up... then switching them to the latest "in drug". Even if the problem really is biopsych, I'm not sure your local GP is the best person to help with it. In fact, I don't think they have a clue.
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-TMG-

Not got many mates though lol, well not lad mates. Girls like me but theyre a bit diff to lads. I go out with my flat mates still but theyre slowly turnin against me...cos I do stupid things and I'm a social ****** lol.

Heh, yeah I remember in the first few weeks everyone in our flat would go out together (10 of us)... but in the last week or so I'm starting to see the cracks showing. Some major clashes. And to be honest, some of them are just a bit weird. I suddenly realised "Hmm, hold on a minute... I actually don't know these guys at all". Guess I'm lucky that I have some old friends at my Uni too.

Reply 7

-TMG-

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Yeah at least my mates at home know what I'm like and that I do silly (but funny) things when drunk. Also about my aggressiveness when drunk...but I can't be arsed explainin myself to the ignorant people in my flat.

Reply 8

Mad Vlad

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Firstly - xXMessedUpXx, if you need to talk, PM me and we can have a conversation in confidence.

Secondly - Love_Hearts, going to the doctor is a good way of sorting it. Just ask for them to refer you to counsellor and say that you don't want meds. Thats what I did. I'm now seeing a counsellor and on meds (Lustral (Sertraline 50mg) Which I might add are helping. There are some horror stories about meds around, but if you get prescribed the right ones for you, they can give you the energy boost that you need to be able to face up to, and tackle your problems with few side effects and no addictive attributes to the drug.)

Reply 9

SianyLou

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As a recovering depressive, I know exactly how you feel. Even now, at uni, I have moments but then I realise that now I'm away from home I NEED my friends to help me climb outta the hole I slip into from time to time. Before I left home, it was my mum that provided my support, now I realise that my friends can be there for me just as she was. If ever you wanna chat, let me know. From previous posts in a different thread I gather you're living at the Forge (am I wrong?). As far as I can work out, that's not far from where I live - I am at Devonshire Courtyard, living about the Devonshire Cat which is just up from Corp. Corp is built into our building. So if ever you wanna meet up and chat, I'm free. I actually have no life. But it's mostly through choice that we all stay in discussing life, the universe and everything. Feel free to join if ever you feel like talking.

Reply 10

xXMessedUpXx

OP

15

i have had depression before from age 12 to 16. and i self harmed from age 12-17. i'm so scared its something i could fall back into., i dont want to be like how i was again but it feels the smae. think i will see my tutorn maybe a doctor :frown:

thanx
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and babynessontoast im living in hilary house, nr to the forge

Reply 11

Dalimyr

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xXMessedUpXx

i have had depression before from age 12 to 16. and i self harmed from age 12-17. i'm so scared its something i could fall back into., i dont want to be like how i was again but it feels the smae

Yep, that sounds very familiar to me. I fell into depression when I was 16 and earlier on this year, and attempted suicide both times after about a month or so of depression. It's always something that stays with you, even if it's not something you think about all the time, and I know it is horrible to live with.
Please, seek professional help...especially if you're not eating as well (this probably has something to do with thinking so much about the depression that you're not thinking about things like how hungry you are - I don't really know, I'm just guessing that it's something like that)

Reply 12

xXMessedUpXx

OP

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last time when it was bad i went from a size 16 9im normally a 14) to just under a size 10. i had no appietite. and i OD in 2003. i just have a feeling if i go the doctor they wil jst send me to a counseller (like they did before..tho i quit too soon) but equally i don't wnat to be put on meds. **** i don't know anymore. i dont even know where the doctos is around here

Reply 13

white_haired_wizard

16

I sometimes think some people have some depressive genetics in them, innately speaking...physically speaking if my diet goes a bit pear shaped, even for say only a week, then i feel down, i guess quite depressed, feel physically and mentally drained so hmmm...ive only been depressed on a long term basis for period of 10 weeks, it was drug induced but occasionally i do feel pretty down, maybe cause i need to feel 100% and if i dip, it hits me hard...chemical imbalances who knows...

Last 2-3 days...just don't sympathy vote yourself, try not to...thats worst thing to do, soon as you feel you're starting to slip, try to do sommat. I feel pretty awful today...thankfully the only lecture i have is compulsory so im not going, im going to get my diet back on track, by diet i mean eating the right amount of the right stuff....sounds strange but not been taking the cod liver oil tablet i usually take - my bottle ran out 10 days ago, so hmm theres been a difference from not taking that...for me...i guess i run into mild depression, temporary outbursts of it i guess, for me, you are what you eat, really runs true.

Take care.
Wizard :smile:

Reply 14

Dekota

Hey, I feel kinda the same as you many times.

But you're 19, you shouldn't be down, being at uni and all.

Just get the meds I say.

Reply 15

Mad Vlad

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Ricki

Hey, I feel kinda the same as you many times.

But you're 19, you shouldn't be down, being at uni and all.

Just get the meds I say.

MEDS ARENT A CURE! :mad:

Reply 16

Dekota

Mad Vlad

MEDS ARENT A CURE! :mad:

They Are too :mad:

It really depends what type of depression.

There are specific types of depressions... :mad:

Reply 17

Mata

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Ricki

They Are too :mad:

It really depends what type of depression.

There are specific types of depressions... :mad:

In my experience, medications just stop the problem from registering, if you know what I mean. For example, if you're depressed then they can stop you from feeling depressed, but the issues which trigger your depression are still there. So, if your depression is a chemical thing then meds are obviously the best solution, but you don't know why you have depression until you first get some counselling or therapy. A qualified psychiatric worker is the best person to tell you what your best course of treatment is.

I've had depression before, and think I'm teetering on the edge of it again and if it develops, I will ask for medication, because I've had therapy since I was 10, and nothing has helped. But for someone like the OP who is having their first experience of depression, in a situation where she might be feeling vulnerable, I would recommend going to see a counsellor before throwing drugs at the problem.

Where someone is severely depressed, has had depression for a long amount of time, is suicidal etc, then medication combined with counselling/therapy seems a good idea.

Reply 18

Mad Vlad

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Ricki

They Are too :mad:

It really depends what type of depression.

There are specific types of depressions... :mad:

I suffer from major depression... Meds lessen the symptoms, they dont solve the fact that my life is f**ked up! :mad:

Idiot. Don't just blanket diagnose because its bloody stupid!

Reply 19

palmer*

And of course there's also the fact that meds are a bit hit and miss- some work for some people and not others.
Believe me, it's frustrating to start on medication, be told it *will* help things get a little better, and then it changes nothing (I'm talking depression so severe to the extent that it seriously intereferes with having a normal life). Never mind eh, I guess it's a case of just keep trying until something helps.
I'm also starting counselling soon- just been told I'm at the top of the waiting list. Not sure what to expect from that but I hope it'll help.
Anyway, I seriously recommend going to the doctors. I struggled with a little support from my school for nearly a year before I bit the bullet and got myself to the doctors. I'm lucky in that I have a fantastically supportive GP, but I just wish I'd gone sooner. Meds AREN'T the answer, they can however help to lift your mood enough for you to deal with the underlying issues, once you get the right ones! And I also think the use of meds depends on the severity of the depression- if you still have some energy/can function etc etc then perhaps straight counselling is best.
So yeah, hope that helped. Don't know if I've said anything helpful....but yeah. Depression really sucks.

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