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hi, I was officially diagnosed with depression by my GP earlier this year, but tbh, ive had the syptomns since I was like 13, but no-one ever did anything about it and I never really talked to anyone about it, only because I opened up to my mum that I saw the GP about it even.

I basically get really, really low alot of the time, like I cant find the motivation for anything and I cant seem to feel happy with anything I do and ****, which pretty much sucks, but I try and keep on through, problem is that stuff in my life has a habbit of going wrong :frown:

im on anti-depressants now since February, so 6 months (wow, really been that long), my GP has advised me to stay on them while im at Uni aswel, I guess they are working to an extent, cause I have more good days atm, but tbh I still feel pretty low much of the time.

anyway, thats my story, hopefully going to Uni will help, part of the reason I feel low is because I dont really have any friends, so hopefully I can make some on my degree.
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SciFiBoy
hi, I was officially diagnosed with depression by my GP earlier this year, but tbh, ive had the syptomns since I was like 13, but no-one ever did anything about it and I never really talked to anyone about it, only because I opened up to my mum that I saw the GP about it even.

I basically get really, really low alot of the time, like I cant find the motivation for anything and I cant seem to feel happy with anything I do and ****, which pretty much sucks, but I try and keep on through, problem is that stuff in my life has a habbit of going wrong :frown:

im on anti-depressants now since February, so 6 months (wow, really been that long), my GP has advised me to stay on them while im at Uni aswel, I guess they are working to an extent, cause I have more good days atm, but tbh I still feel pretty low much of the time.

anyway, thats my story, hopefully going to Uni will help, part of the reason I feel low is because I dont really have any friends, so hopefully I can make some on my degree.

:hugs: sure a lot of the people in this soc can relate to your feelings etc. and you are always welcome in here to chat, vent and ask for advice :smile:
sauce
:hugs: sure a lot of the people in this soc can relate to your feelings etc. and you are always welcome in here to chat, vent and ask for advice :smile:


thanks :smile:
Idiot-Finder
Explain what you mean.

Dont listen to her, everything is worth a shot.

I realised it was a bad idea, I do however have access to enough painkillers to kill a bear (I worked it out per kg of BW) and I have looked at other better methords. I dont know yet.


I'm not even sure what I mean. Like when I think back on every single thing in my life I either think "why the **** did I do that? wtf" or I think "should have done this instead...". These things can't be undone, it's not like going up to someone and saying sorry (which I have done and it didn't change anything), I would need to completely erase me from the earth and then be born again as someone else to start again and do things right. I told my psychiatrist some of these things and she was like ":eek: Oh I mean......:unsure:".


Yeah...it's not a very good idea, nor are the painkillers tbh though. What's made you decide about this? Part of me wants to ask was it the results, but I don't really imagine it was.
******* mother just came in and shouted at me for still being up. It's not like I'm going to get any sleep tonight. :colonhash:
SciFiBoy
hi, I was officially diagnosed with depression by my GP earlier this year, but tbh, ive had the syptomns since I was like 13, but no-one ever did anything about it and I never really talked to anyone about it, only because I opened up to my mum that I saw the GP about it even.

I basically get really, really low alot of the time, like I cant find the motivation for anything and I cant seem to feel happy with anything I do and ****, which pretty much sucks, but I try and keep on through, problem is that stuff in my life has a habbit of going wrong :frown:

im on anti-depressants now since February, so 6 months (wow, really been that long), my GP has advised me to stay on them while im at Uni aswel, I guess they are working to an extent, cause I have more good days atm, but tbh I still feel pretty low much of the time.

anyway, thats my story, hopefully going to Uni will help, part of the reason I feel low is because I dont really have any friends, so hopefully I can make some on my degree.


Hey there. I know the no motivation and nothing making you feel much better kind of feelings, they suck, but at least the antidepressants are working for you a bit that's a really good thing. Uni can really help people because there are so many new experiences and people and **** to do that it can make you feel a bit better. Keep an open mind about it though, are you in halls? that's a pretty good way of making friends, and just talking to everyone, on your course at the pub whatever. Don't be afraid to try new things either, unis have loads of sports and societies so you can normally meet people into the same kind of things as you. But yeah, keep a positive mind about it and tbh most people I know really ******* enjoyed uni.

ps. ewwwwww socialism. :p:
Sabertooth
Hey there. I know the no motivation and nothing making you feel much better kind of feelings, they suck, but at least the antidepressants are working for you a bit that's a really good thing. Uni can really help people because there are so many new experiences and people and **** to do that it can make you feel a bit better. Keep an open mind about it though, are you in halls? that's a pretty good way of making friends, and just talking to everyone, on your course at the pub whatever. Don't be afraid to try new things either, unis have loads of sports and societies so you can normally meet people into the same kind of things as you. But yeah, keep a positive mind about it and tbh most people I know really ******* enjoyed uni.

ps. ewwwwww socialism. :p:


I applied to stay in halls, not heard back yet though, but im hopefull, im looking forward to staying there if I can, heard lots of good things about Uni life, ill probably join a society or two, yeah, I need to do more research on what they have at Uni though.
SciFiBoy
I applied to stay in halls, not heard back yet though, but im hopefull, im looking forward to staying there if I can, heard lots of good things about Uni life, ill probably join a society or two, yeah, I need to do more research on what they have at Uni though.


Most unis seem to have days when all the societies will go to one place and you just wander about asking people about their societies, it's cool (if only for the free sweets :biggrin: ). For most, they're either going to be free all the time, or free for the first few sessions, so going to as many as possible in anything you're even a tiny bit interested in won't hurt you and you might find that you really enjoy something you hadn't really considered before. :yy: meet more people, make possibly more friends, find new hobbies, it's good.
Sabertooth
Most unis seem to have days when all the societies will go to one place and you just wander about asking people about their societies, it's cool (if only for the free sweets :biggrin: ). For most, they're either going to be free all the time, or free for the first few sessions, so going to as many as possible in anything you're even a tiny bit interested in won't hurt you and you might find that you really enjoy something you hadn't really considered before. :yy: meet more people, make possibly more friends, find new hobbies, it's good.


cool, well, I think the Uni im going to has stuff like that in freshers week, so hopefully I can check some of them out then :smile:
SciFiBoy
cool, well, I think the Uni im going to has stuff like that in freshers week, so hopefully I can check some of them out then :smile:

What uni are you going to? I've got about 5 or 6 different societies/sports I want to try out and join, go for as many as you think you'd find interesting and then have a look at their stalls during the freshers week fair and see which takes your fancy :smile:
kiss_me_now9
What uni are you going to? I've got about 5 or 6 different societies/sports I want to try out and join, go for as many as you think you'd find interesting and then have a look at their stalls during the freshers week fair and see which takes your fancy :smile:


Essex, I think they might have a website, ill look in the morning for it :smile:
Still over a month until university starts again :sigh: I really can't ******* wait, I desperately need stuff to occupy me. I've even started my dissertation which I don't need to really start until January :sigh: I ******* detest Summer Holidays.
Ha! Wow...I've managed to screw up pretty much all my relationships with people this summer because I'm so pathetic. Only I am able to go from finally finding the perfect friends to making everyone despise me. Going back to Uni is going to be fun...I should actually just stay away from people because I just disappoint everyone, I don't deserve and I'm not worthy of the people in my life....I'm such a disappointment, how can I get everything so wrong everyone else manages to get it right? I'm so **** I'll never be what/who I'm meant to be. **** it! :angry:
Magnum Opus
Still over a month until university starts again :sigh: I really can't ******* wait, I desperately need stuff to occupy me. I've even started my dissertation which I don't need to really start until January :sigh: I ******* detest Summer Holidays.


Sounds like a pretty good idea to start it now; more you do now, less you have to worry about later. Plus it'll help pass the time for you. Win-win. :yy:
RachelOranges
Ha! Wow...I've managed to screw up pretty much all my relationships with people this summer because I'm so pathetic. Only I am able to go from finally finding the perfect friends to making everyone despise me. Going back to Uni is going to be fun...I should actually just stay away from people because I just disappoint everyone, I don't deserve and I'm not worthy of the people in my life....I'm such a disappointment, how can I get everything so wrong everyone else manages to get it right? I'm so **** I'll never be what/who I'm meant to be. **** it! :angry:


Nah, I managed that too once. :biggrin:

If you really have screwed everything up, though tbh these people probably don't hate you and possibly will talk to you again (if I'm wrong ok I'm sorry), you're going back to uni right? You managed to make friends last tiem, you made friends at school so why wouldn't you be able to meet new people?
Well that was a complete waste of time. Just spent the day doing cock all, it's not therapy in anyway shape or form, they're too scared of upsetting people to press any issues and they don't actually do any therapy sessions, it's all sitting as a group and focusing on anything other than what you think and feel. I'm going to ask tomorrow if there's any chance I can be released early and do something like CBT, anything would be better than that.
Despite everything I've been through and everything I'm still going through, and everything I'm inevitably going to have to go through, I've never actually felt truly suicidal before. Yet now, I'm really seeing nothing for me anymore, and I don't want to face that inevitability either, I just want freedom from it all now, nothing more.
Magnum Opus
Despite everything I've been through and everything I'm still going through, and everything I'm inevitably going to have to go through, I've never actually felt truly suicidal before. Yet now, I'm really seeing nothing for me anymore, and I don't want to face that inevitability either, I just want freedom from it all now, nothing more.

:hugs: Things will improve for you, they always do. And uni isn't that far away, just a few weeks until you can go back. Would moving in to your house/flat as soon as you can help?
steffi.alexa
:hugs: Things will improve for you, they always do. And uni isn't that far away, just a few weeks until you can go back. Would moving in to your house/flat as soon as you can help?

I already am, I've been here all summer (and all year before) :sigh: I have nowhere else to go, no family. Some things will improve, I'm sure, but only some, most things are already final and can't possibly be changed, and they're not a good final either. I am so lonely, and there's nobody here but me, I can't go anywhere because of the massive negative in my bank balance. I'm just pointlessly prolonging the inevitable now, I have nothing else left :sigh:
Magnum Opus
I already am, I've been here all summer (and all year before) :sigh: I have nowhere else to go, no family. Some things will improve, I'm sure, but only some, most things are already final and can't possibly be changed, and they're not a good final either. I am so lonely, and there's nobody here but me, I can't go anywhere because of the massive negative in my bank balance. I'm just pointlessly prolonging the inevitable now, I have nothing else left :sigh:

:hugs: Do you have a job to keep you busy or maybe do some temping? It's not the inevitable, things will improve and you'll feel better and love life again. Are you receiving any treatment at the moment?

Or could you meet friends or TSR members locally to do something free?