Do you ever feel depressed for no real apparent reason?

Question

I'm 22 just finished college a year ago started on my career 7 months ago. I'm healthy I have good friends a supportive family but i just feel SO empty sometimes. I see many people around me with many problems and i guess i should feel fortunate that I don't have those but I can't help feel this sense of loneliness and depression sometimes I hope i'm making sense. Has anyone else gone thru something similar?

Answer 1

i am going thru the same thing.!

i hatehatehate my life

Answer 2

The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.

A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the garage with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it:

I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know the kind; he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whomever he was talking with something about 'a thousand marbles.' Iwas intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say.

'Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay you well but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. It's too bad you missed your daughter's dance recital he continued. 'Let me tell you something that has helped me keep my own priorities.' And that's when he began to explain his theory of a 'thousand marbles.

You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years.

Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime. Now, stick with me, Tom, I'm getting to the important part.

It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail', he went on, 'and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1000 marbles! I took them home and put them inside a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear.

Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life.

There's nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.

Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off and go out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time.

Answer 3

you are probably missing something important in your life that 'fills the hole' called a spiritual path.  try different things until something meets your needs.  for me it was www.dancemeditation.org

Answer 4

Sweetie , do you have a relationship with a boyfriend/ girlfriend ? if not that could be whats missing , since you've started a new life pretty much your mind and heart knows whats missing , so get on the dating scene , or at least flirt ;)  

Answer 5

What about hobbies? Or perhaps it's a spiritual yearning that you've been ignoring. We are designed as multi-faceted beings. We have many sides that desire development at different stages of our lives. There's the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and the social sides to our personalities. Something is missing or you haven't developed it yet. Try taking some classes at your local community centre or interest courses at a local college. You'll meet people and eventually you'll develop deeper friendships with other you have things in common with.Volunteer work, helping out those less fortunate in your community might be something you would enjoy doing. Don't leave out church. God may be drawing you nearer to Him at this point in your life. Explore more possibilities.

Answer 6

Sometimes they crop up, but moreso because I dont have someone I can connect with (Girlfriend)

Maybe depression runs in your family?

I just try to see the good in the world, be optomistic and life really becomes lighthearted and simple.

Answer 7

If you have a chemical imbalance, there is no apparent reason. It's a medical issue and should be treated by medical professionals. Feel better...