Depression hitting hard today

Minca, this has helped a few friends a lot - go on to youtube and search for Brian Proctor - there are others too - and go for visualisation techniques on how being positive, self help for depression, etc. they are pep talks but so helpful.

I don't really have much advice but I just wanted to send you some positive thoughts and a virtual hug. I have struggled with depression and anxiety ever since I can remember and I know how hard it is. I think you have done so amazingly well to lose all that weight while you have depression. This too shall pass x

I dropped down to 209 2 years ago thanks to hard work and dedication. Then successfully failed to cope with severe depression and ate my way back up to 260. Depression sucks. The dark just doesnt seem to want to go away, but it will. Sooner or later. Just keep your head down and your chin up and tell yourself that today won't matter once tomorrow gets here. You can be successful even if it means you fail once in a while. Hugs to you.

Minca I can totally relate to depression. I've fought with this since my early 20's and I'm 48 now. Major Depressive Disorder, they call it. Among other things. I can go to seriously not wanting to get out of bed depression, like lately. To mild every day depression. But I can't say I've ever not been at least somewhat depressed.

I did all the therapy, all the self help, all the meds (seriously, I think I tried just about every one out there). I still can't say I have an answer.

The only thing that sort of helps me is to simply make myself do something. I live in an RV park with a lot of open property (fields, etc.) and the last couple weeks I've been making myself go walk around the park. 3 or 4 times around gets me 1.5 to 2 miles of walking. Exercise releases natural endorphins that do help. I asked for some help from my adopted daughter. She texts me every few days to ask me if I've been walking. I don't want to disappoint and say no, so I go out and do it. That seems to help.

I've also been making myself do chores that I've been putting off. Organized the storage shed some. Organized the little piles of stuff that have built up around the trailer, etc.

All of this has helped some. But, still a lot of depression.

Feel for you man. (Or Miss. Don't want to assume).

I struggle with depression and anxiety as well. I hear you on both wanting to not eat anything to spite yourself (or as "punishment") and wanting to not care and just eat it all. I also know what you mean by wanting to crawl into bed and hide. I've been there with all that! I'm glad you spent time with your animals. My dog is big comfort to me when I have these days (or the panic attack days).

Sometimes posting things like this can really help you "talk" out your feelings. Good for you for having the courage to put it out into a community, even of random strangers who will probably never know you beyond the screen. I hope you continue to feel better and break out of this slump. If you can, try some light exercise, it can often help. Being outdoors and getting some sun can really help, too. And if you "slip up" a bit an end up eating a few more comfort foods than your plan has room for, it's okay too, because one day won't set you back too far in the long run. Of course, the trick (and my biggest challenge) is to keep it to one day, so I can understand why you are nervous about that. Just try to do what you can today to keep yourself going.

**hugs** I've had major recurring depression since I was a child, so I know the struggle. It contributed to my own weight gain time and again, and there have been weeks where I couldn't even get out of bed. The best thing I ever did was ask my husband to force me to do some form of exercise whenever I tried to lock myself away. Go for a walk, get to the gym... some days he has to literally stand next to me and make me take the necessary steps to get out the door, but I always feel better afterwards. Not all the way better, but better enough to take a shower and do something with our daughter.

And I'll tell you what - it's a long road, but as I got into better shape and healthy eating/exercise became routine, I've actually had fewer and fewer episodes. I'm down to a few days a month, as opposed to half or more of every month. I'm not even on antidepressants anymore, which is huge for me.

I hope you're feeling better, and just remember that you're not alone.

I have dealt with melancholy moods for as long as I can remember. It used to really bother me and I would get anxious about it, thinking there was something wrong with me. Then, my friends father gave me the following advice. I remember it almost word for word as several times a year I remember it during the hard times and carry on.

He said. " So you are prone to times of depression. That may be a good thing. It is not something that you can just change, so you must learn to cope. Do something with it. Do you think that beautiful music, or poems or paintings are always created by happy people? Do you think that content people with no anxiety change the world? It takes some sadness to appreciate gladness and some fear to instigate change. Embrace who you are, accept it as normal for you, and create something wonderful with it."

So, now when I get the blues, I play the blues, or I paint, or sometimes I write words that don't matter to no one in particular. But I'm not broken or abnormal I am just feeling a natural and wonderful human emotion that is part of who I am and I am pretty damn awesome.

My advice would be to find any kind of outlet, and spread joy with it for no particular reason at all.

I can totally relate. I have had depression on and off for 11 years and I thought I had beat it 18 months ago. For 18 months I have felt "normal" yet feelings have been creeping back for a couple of months and then the last 7 days have been unbearable. No pleasure in anything, so tired, no appetite in the morning then binging later on till I feel unwell and those horrible thoughts of taking the pain away.

I have been back to the Doctor and will now be undergoing 2 types of therapy and on antidepressants so hoping I'm on the start of the road to normal so that's what I want to say to you...things can get better.