How goes the battle against Depression, Madam/Sir?

[NothingToSeeHere]

"How goes the battle against depression"... not great. Not great at all. Pretty sure I'm losing right now.

 

[Adder1234]

Argh!! Too many opinions in this thread to read at the moment, sorry but for the moment it hurts my brain .

A few of the examples I'd try;

Be sure to book time off from work and spend the entirity doing things you did before you ever went to work.

Watch films that take you to magical places (childhood ones may be the best)

Go for walks in lovely rural or seaside places

Recall times that existed in your life before depression ()when you were that superior person that you long to be again)

Visit old and memorable places to find yourself

Write down in detail your worries (knowledge is power)

Not sure about every one else but all of these just make me nostalgic and/or melancholy, which in turn makes me even more depressed. Still, thanks for the ideas.

 

[Irene Helrose]

Clinical depression here as well. Music helps as does reading. I find that watching movies has a tendency to make me more depressed, as though my brain chemistry has somehow been altered. Does anyone else have the same problem, or am I the only one?

 

[The Outsider]

I'm losing the battle pretty badly. I feel worthless so often. It's so easy for me to focus on what everyone else has and not really see the good in what I have. I know it isn't logical or healthy to compare myself to other people but I keep falling into these bad habits. Perhaps someone has a spouse. Maybe they have a job. They can actually focus on tasks. Most people ain't suffering from a crisis with their gender.

About a couple of weeks ago, I felt like I almost had another mental breakdown because I'm not a woman. No amount of wishful thinking will change that and I still have plenty of steps to even appear female, yet I'm too depressed to even do that much. I feel so hopeless like nothing else matters. It's like, if I'm not even presenting myself to the world as my actual self, what's the point? I'm not by any means wealthy, but I have things like hundreds of PC games I brought over the course of years. Yet I feel like none of that will take away from the fact that I hate who I am and feel like I can't change it.

 

[Liam Sifr]

southern discomfort,i can honestly say i relate and i understand!
i have been desperate to get on some sort of computer building course,but the only ones out there require things like GCSEs,which are a no go area for someone like me.
i also looked for a course than taught linux,i found an awesome course-it taught everything about computing including linux and hacking and programming but the damn thing was foundation degree and again it needed GCSE,for someone like me who has mild intellectual disability and severe [well now moderate] classic autism it was well out of my league.
theres nothing in between.
ive also been drinking far to much in recent times,trying to numb the pain of reality and depression.

my depression is very severe at the moment,im not been supported properly, im not getting out of my small flat every day due to lack of driving support so i am stuck inside seeing the same 4 walls going insane hearing the voices constantly,and the idiotic manager,sorry team leader who thinks shes a manager says i dont require a driver every day and she purposely puts driving staff on next door regulary even though no one else owns a car like me [its a motability car],she does it to spite me,she has no empathy and it makes me really upset to not be listened to.

my best fish,a golden sucker loach also died yesterday,i loved her like i love my cat;mr shadow.i rescued her from a awful aquatic shop that kept her 24/7 in the pitch black with no plants or gravel in a tank that was to small for her.
the magazine;practical fishkeeping slagged the breed off,saying dont buy them; they think they own the whole tank and are agressive,well my bumble was shy but kind and highly respectful of other fish and even became good housemates in a big hollow log with a bunch of bronze corydoras,ocasionally she would kick them out of the house with her tail when she was fed up with them but they would rush back in to sit with her.
i love her lots and i am really numb and upset,i know grieving is different to depression,but its just made my depression miles worse.

Have you tried coursera? Its an online, open education platform with courses run by ivy league universities, among others.

 

[toothless]

my depression is really bad at the moment,im not sleeping AT ALL at night,i really want melatonin but one of my stupid support staff who took me to a routine sleep apnea clinic apointment told the staff back home that the specialist didnt want me having melatonin when he in fact said its ok for me to make my own choice he cant tell me not to-which was a good enough answer for me and good enough answer for the managers back home,so now ive got to wait to get another bloody sleep clinic appointment and get it written down on paper that they dont care with me taking melatonin,this annoying staff regulary hears a negative answer from all of my appointments,she really frustrates me.

Have you tried coursera? Its an online, open education platform with courses run by ivy league universities, among others.

thankyou!! ill check it out.