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A sad place for sad people to be sad.

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This community is for people with depression. Memes and general discussion about depression are encouraged and welcome.

Bi-polar people are also allowed to post here but only sometimes.(joke)

This community is aimed at being inclusive for all people with depression and as such should be free of racism, homophobia, trans-phobia, sexism, patriarch and all other forms of hate-speech.

Trolls will be banned!

Thnx

Some resources posted from helpful people:

Therapy is not for everyone, check out peer counseling instead: https://www.americanmentalwellness.org/intervention/peer-support/

Find health professionals: https://www.psychologytoday.com/

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Meeting about the new office building. Construction starting two years from now. What is my opinion on an open office? Can't say i give a fuck what's happening in two years, can't envision that being relevant to me at all.

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Ado - usseewa Ro2noki - hymn to a decadent life Kanzaki Iori - hated by life itself Shiinamota - Young girl A, Strobe Light

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Sources or fucking whatever, go check out this character, they're really fucking depressed.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Discoslugs@lemmy.world to c/depression_now@lemmy.world
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No wonder I am such a popular person.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by replicator@sh.itjust.works to c/depression_now@lemmy.world
 
 

Content Warning: Suicide. Be careful when reading this, if it ever feels like too much, just stop. You don't have to go through this.

spoilerI have learned quite a few things from my last time here.

First of all I learned that I was an "emotional dumper", I'm like a fan that spits out things that are vile and putrid. Can't finish a sentence without linking it to an established narrative that I have in my head.

Ever since I learned about that, I feel really closed off. Like I can't talk to anyone any more. I don't wanna hurt people, in any way shape or form. But I have so much on my mind, 24/7, I don't know where to go.

I feel terrible, I had to face my relatives today, and it was absolutely vile. I can't face the outside world anymore, everything reminds me of how much I hate this place, its people, its customs, its food, everything.

I can't look at a. fucking. tree, anymore. Glass half empty half full? More like when I look at a tree, i find some trash below it, or I look at the wasteland that surrounds it, and I make myself feel terrible.

Hmmm. But isn't interesting how this tree can survive in such a fucked up environment? I wish I was a tree, trees have always been symbolized as wise, caring, and gentle. Cut their branches, scribble your name on them, pick their fruit. It just keep growing...

But trees can be cut, burned, plucked by a storm, or become sick. Some trees can grow back, but not this tree. Not me.

I know I already made a post here, and I still remember Noodel's advice about being happy that today's brand of agony won't repeat again. But the future is still bleak.

For the last 7 days, 7 weeks, 7 months, I have felt nothing but dread and agony. At the first 1-3 months I was completely fucked, I wasn't hungry, and wasn't thirsty too, which really blew me away. To this day the only reason I get out of bed, it's because I want to go to the bathroom. That's how everyday starts, with discomfort that I have to deal with. Too much sweat, my breath stinks, I need to go to the bathroom. It's like I'm not even living anymore, just a set of instructions, simple if statements.

Last 7 days were already very rough. I was only able to hang in there with the help of some Matrix folks (which was very nice), and listening to music while dancing, like dancing very dangerously, last night I nauseated myself to sleep. It doesn't work anymore. I feel hollow, transparent, the colors are grey, again.

I love the wholesome community here on lemmy, it helped me get through so much. But nothing works anymore, "Nothing" that I know of any way.

I am trying really hard to make this not devolve into a rant about everything and everyone, but I also want to write how I feel, I am not writing an essay, from my mind to the little Lemmy box.

I have been trying to reach out so many times, anything, anyone. Nothing. Music is a really big thing to me, and even music doesn't work anymore. And I'm just repeating myself.

The fibromyalgia pain still continues, 3 days ago I felt absolutely terrible, this time I felt the pain in my knuckles.

Back again on Noodle's advice, I know that today's brand of agony is gone, but also, I will feel it again. And again, and again. Every time I get a cold, or food poisoning, the only way to comfort myself is to say "It will happen again". I will get sick again, and again, and again, and again, and again. It will never stop. I still have my condition, I'm still in my country, I am still me.

What am I supposed to enjoy? Breathing? Blinking? Am I missing something here?+

As I'm writing this, I'm trying so hard to reach out everywhere, tendrils of my mind spread everywhere, spreading their poison, hurting the next unsuspecting person. And for what? I know that it will happen again. People will reply to this, and I will reply back, and I might feel good for a while, like last time.

But "It will happen again", pain and the marching of time are my only constants, the only things I can depend on.

See you next week, month, year. This isn't the last of me. I go deprive myself of sleep, so that I may feel some semblance of "good" again.


As always artist is azaza0727 on instagram, only their art can begin to describe how I feel.

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So this is probably quite the specific question that might be pretty unusual but I guess it's probably still relatable to get rejected from people (even if I don't get answers I think it's just good for me to write this off my chest).

I 22/male am very lost in life due to my depression and anxiety.

I was searching for a place I belong for pretty much my whole life. Early on I started becoming very fascinated with America, their people and the culture. Some might argue it's just because American media is so influencial but I admired the country so much that I wanted to know and learn everything about the country and become as American as possible.

By doing that I thought Reddit is a good place to ask questions about America and learn from people who are directly from there. After very good initial experiences I sadly encountered strong hate towards me about two years ago (probably because I was asking too deep questions and haven't thought through them enough so they might've sounded ignorant/judgemental which was not my intention and I think it was a misunderstanding. [If u want further context an example would be: I asked many questions about positive topics that I admired, but during my research I also stumbled upon things people said about America that might be more negative/critical/controversial but important/valuable to know in my opinion and since I wanted to learn everything about America, both the positives and negatives, I just wanted to learn whether they were true or not because I didn't wanna be judgemental like others who rush to conclusions. So maybe they misinterpreted it as bate since the detail of human interactions gets lost in text based social media and my wording might've not been good enough]).

I tried to explain to the sub that this really hurted me and that I had no bad intentions but I only received rejection.

They said very hurtful things such as that they wish I would end my life, that I'm a loser and that I should never come to the country and it broke my soul.

Since then (about 2 years ago) I really started to lose the last fundamental passion and hope I had in life. It's like my fundamental passion got destroyed by this. It feels like the people who I deeply admired hate me and reject me and might be mean/bad people. To me it's the worst feeling I could feel, especially as a person who's already deeply lost and insecure. Maybe it's just because I'm not good enough for America anyways and I'm just fundamentally not on the same level.

I know my thinking is probably not reasonable/very foolish and doesn't make much sense but it is how my depressive/anxious OCD brain works and I can't get rid of it. I get very strong mistrust of people and this was probably the worst experience to trigger that in me.

This was literally everything to me as I deeply resonated with American culture. It gave me joy, a purpose and hope but it all crashed and I don't know what to do. I feel like my life depends on this. I'm fighting with these thoughts for probably 2 years now and asked for advice many times but just can't get over this. It's like this experience got burned into my brain and now I can't forget it anymore. When I watched Americans online it filled me with lots of joy, now every time I see an American online I get sad and depressed. And now it's like every time I see an American I have this mistrust and thought what if they might be evil, which is very unhealthy for me since I'm almost projecting it that way and obviously if you look for something bad in someone you will find something bad in someone and they will sense that and get off putted, further worsening the cycle. Reasonably this has nothing to do with America but I still can't get rid of this construct cause it might be due to my life history and my OCD/overthinking which is the worst when it applies to my idols.

I know that Reddit probably is a negative/hate filled place anyways and isn't a good representation of American people and people on there might be like that anyways because it's Reddit and it might be the same with people from any other country cause people are people and I'm way too sensitive. The problem is just that because of my interest in America and disinterest in everything else I almost exclusively only interacted with Americans in American subs. And even if I would experience something similar with a different country it just wouldn't affect me as much as the one I deeply admired and looked up to.

I wish I could be more mature in this regard but it's affecting me so deeply subconsciously. America is everything for me.

I hope someone here has some understanding for my odd situation and has some advice. I wanted to post this on the Reddit sub r/depression but even before it got published a moderator immediately banned me and argued with me that I'm not depressed and am not allowed to talk about the reason why I'm depressed even though everyone else there is talking about it. It really is a struggle living with this burden and people being so destructive and cruel.

It's probably too late anyways, knowing me I assume I will never recover from this.๐Ÿ˜ž

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by replicator@sh.itjust.works to c/depression_now@lemmy.world
 
 

"I almost wanted to post my thoughts and concerns over lemmy, until I realized that it was way too fucking long, so I got really angry and crushed a bottle of water that was near me, I wanted to punch a wall, but the bottle came in clutch. I am so fucking angry right now, I am fucking, RAGE."

There's no hope left for me. My health is in rapid decline, I have fibromyalgia, my limbs hurt every time I try to move them, my neck and shoulders hurt all the time too. I can't open my mouth all the way to the end, because my jaw would get stuck. I cannot speak for more than 20 minutes or so, because my throat will start to ache for hours. My eyesight is in decline, my glasses are so strong that I am starting to see edges being blurred or light behaving in strange ways. And that's only my physical health. If I was to start to talk about my mental health, paragraphs upon paragraphs would not even begin to describe my experience. In every waking second, I am in extreme pain.

For context, I live in the middle east, seeking help is not an option, making friends is not an option, I have tried many times, and decided not to. It would take about 5 or 6 years for me to even begin to see a chance of escaping this, this sickness, this place, this wasteland. So why hope? Hope for what? Everyday, my health is playing dice with me, one day I will snap, and I have snapped many times. I do not know what I will do. I have tried many ways to alleviate my "problems". I have tried meditation, and it works for a certain degree, I have tried music, and it works for a certain degree, I have tried journaling, and it is possibly the reason why I still haven't killed myself. If not for my journal and my music, I would be dead. But tonight, tonight, I have the overwhelming urge to end it. I joke many times by saying that the only reason why I haven't killed myself is because I do not have the means to do. There aren't high buildings around me, using a knife would be dumb as I would just bleed and cry, because oh no survival instincts. Pills are dumb too, as I might just throw up. I can't tie a noose, plus there's a chance of failure that I don't want to deal with.

So here I am, stuck in a limbo of suffering, as I am writing this my arms are begging me to stop typing, so I could stare at the ceiling and focus on their pain.

Here are some random copy and pastes from today's journal entry:

"Each day is more hopeless than the next. My health seems to take its toll more and more. I can't speak, move my limbs, or do anything really. My mouth starts to ache when I speak for more than 20 minutes, my limbs have been discussed extensively in many, many previous entries, my eyes are in decline, even my hearing is starting to show signs of decay. That leaves me with my brain, which is also fogged and clouded."

"I am in a very bad shape, I don't know what the future has for me. My only task right now is to survive one year of high school, I have to, I am not trying to agitate your anxiety, but the more you fail school the more years you will be stuck here. I am sick, like literally, physically, sick of this place. This place shall only bring suffering and ruin upon me.

"This place is like a void, the more I stay in it, the more it sucks out of me. I am certain that if I stay here any longer, I will kill myself."

"Chances are astronomically high, that the more I stay here, the more likely I am to kill myself."

"This place is a sickness, a plague, a fucking wasteland of carrion and decay."

"I am destroyed, I am spent, I have no energy left, no energy to think, no energy to listen, no energy to speak, no energy to plan my suicide. I wish, I wish... That all of this somehow goes away. It won't, I have to endure, decrease the pain, and cope in a healthy manner. And I am trying, trying really hard, with what little energy I have."

PS: You know what's funny? Compiling this was actually a very nice distraction, but that's what it is, a distraction, a very short one.

Art is by azaza0727

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over the years ive increasingly become a reclusive insomniac, its 5:02am and i haven't slept. i work in 3 hours. i also have no friends, no family around at all either, totally isolated. i usually just sit in my room getting drunk on vodka, malts, soju, all the time. my friend group is exclusively online, and over the years we have started to drift away not for any bad reason, but just because we all have very different lives in very different parts of the country, and we all want different things out of life.

i deal with this loneliness sometimes. its easier nowadays for me, i just daydream and fantasize a lot. but it does always sink back in eventually. i also have many personality phases and watch "friendship simulator" style youtube videos. typically vlogs from people with unusual lifestyles that i want to live. but when it comes to making actual friendships, i never can. i met someone recently who resonated a lot with me. we were both megafans of the same series, and grew up in similar circumstances. our views on things were quite the same too. but when he gave me his discord, i pondered it for a while, and just decided to hide from him and to not add him. i did it with sadness in my heart though.

i know this is from friendship trauma, but it seems like every time ive tried to form friendships over the years they crash and burn. (for example, the last friendship i attempted literally ended in drama because the person ended up dating a minor, and i backed out even further into solitude not to be involved with that. my main friend group also capitulated into 3 different groups over this, i have 2 people left in my life now, both online and both usually too busy to chat.)

im not sure if any advice is even possible here, its more of a vent than anything. i feel like im going insane sometimes. but then ill just watch youtube or something and it makes my brain pseudo-satisfied with the phony social interaction. i just dont know what to do with myself.

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Crossposted from https://feddit.org/post/15124486

Thought this might be of some interest here.

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I'm not sure what to say, I have tried my hardest to cope with my ongoing depression for numerous reasons, although it was never this worse, not until the person I looked up to, the person I adored, the person who is closest to me, the person I love decided to emotionally abandoned me, ghosted me out of the blue, gave me cold shoulder deliberately, leading me to develop severe anxiety and emotional trauma to the point where every single second of my life feels like an hour, excruciating long hour. I stopped eating, drinking, sleeping not because I wanted to, because I physically couldn't. Everytime I shut my eyes, I would end up with my heart racing and pounding to escape my chest. I'm tired. I'm tired of explaining myself, having people not understand how big of an impact they can have on others, especially when they are important ,I spent grueling past 4 weeks basically having mini heart attacks every couple minute or so, begging my SO to realize the severity of it. Yet I was so scared of her I couldn't tell her that she's became the reason why I have this anxiety, why I cried until I fell on my knees, until I throw up, until I pass out...some say life isn't fair when I try to be selfish for once...but life seems to be fair when they are selfish? I bawled my eyes out to be heard by one person who means the world to me, no matter the situation, no one deserves to be traumatized, be emotionally abandoned..under no circumstance to this extent do they deserve to be broken down so much...that they become so dysfunctional.....Now I'm calmer than before, but suicidal, severely suicidal. I still cry a lot, but they are mostly tears rolling down my eyes thinking about the aftermath. I thought about my parents, my childhood, to avert the situation but I am emotionally drained, tired. I can no longer navigate my life. I'm offing myself on 3nd July..I don't feel anything while talking about it, I don't feel scared even standing by the edge. I prayed, meditated, I tried , cried, and cried, I begged and wailed (cried intensively) but my voice went unheard. Repeatedly. Often by the ones I held close to my heart. My dearest ones. It hurts. A lot. I wish the people who matter to me would have understood my plea, my pain, my sorrows...my apologies, but I've made up my mind now. Even I cannot stop the time anymore. ๐Ÿ’”

I'm taking a day to tying up loose ends.

If I'm able to share a website I made of myself...my thoughts, I'm offing myself on 3rd July. I spent time with my mother and my father, although didn't go as I planned...I hoped to feel loved but issok I know they tried. ๐Ÿฅ€ I guess this cruel world didn't deserve me. ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ’”

I cannot navigate through life....the thought of it makes my will to end stronger. I'm tired. ๐Ÿฅ€ Sorry

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