Have you suffered from depression? ?

Question

if so, what was your lowest point and how did you over come it?

Answer 1

I don't know if I have clinical depression. But I have never wanted to kill myself. Although I get more dissapointed with myself and I found the best cure to known to  man to lift my spirits and it's not addictive.

I smoke WEED...makes me feel good and I eat alot and then get the best sleep of my life.

Next day I feel like a million dollars.

Don't need god just need some fell  MJ.

peace my friends  

Answer 2

Failed attempt at suicide.  Failed attempt at running away.  Failed attempt at suffocating myself.  Failed attempt at finding sympathy from others.  Failed attempt at changing.

Answer 3

I believe so. Well I hit rock bottom and I had a eating disorder and I was not letting myself sleep. But the really big one hit when I got arrested for stealing at the mall bc I was so desperate to fit in that I made dumb decisions. I guess I wasn't very good at decision making then. I over came it by well. I don't quiet think its over yet. Give me a few more months.  

Answer 4

Contrary to popular belief, depression is a part of being human. We all have issues that are difficult to deal with and our mind is telling us to slow down for a period of time to refuel itself. Depression can be from living behind a mask, i.e. we're in a career because our parents wanted it, so we went along to please them. So, depression can be caused from not being our authentic selves, or because of a change from the outside. Say, we lost a job due to downsizing or outsourcing, we have to find other employment. Or perhaps a death in the family, an unexpected pregnancy, or any of 100 other things. Depression is a time to slow down a think out new options and make life-altering decisions. In answer to your question, yes, I have suffered from depression in my life. I've attempted suicide too. God miraculously helped me through a very difficult time and I'm very grateful He did.

Answer 5

I hit my lowest point when I could no longer function.  I was crying nonstop all day long, sleeping the rest of the day, and unable to care for myself.  

I begged the doctor for antidepressant medication and within 48 hours of taking the drugs, the crying stopped.  Within two weeks, I was functioning normally.  

My problems (a divorce and a critically ill parent) were still my problems, but at least I was able to cope with the problems and move forward.  Until I availed myself of the medication to compensate for a chemical imbalance in my brain, I was drowning in my own sickness.

Remember, pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.  ^..^

Answer 6

my lowest point was having a massive breakdown and walking around in the rain for hours not knowing what to do

i still havent overcome it, i just take life a day at a time

"resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker"

Answer 7

Yes, I was diagnosed with depression when I was eight years old.

My lowest point is probably yet to come, but so far it's just been my suicidal thoughts. I'm lucky because I have a great doctor who put be on some good medication.

Answer 8

I surd have ..but first this

Churchill's Black Dog, Kafkas's Mice & Other Phenomena of the Human Mind...Anthony Storr

Churchill's Black Dog, Kafkas's Mice & Other Phenomena of the Human Mind"Black Dog" was Churchill's name for his depression, and as is true with all metaphors, it speaks volumes. .....

The man was in lustrous company - Goethe, Schumann, Luther, and Tolstoy to name but a few - all of them great men who suffered from recurrent depression. Who doesn't have at least a passing familiarity with the notion that depression sometimes acts as a spur to those of a certain temperament and native ability? Aware of how low they will sink at times, they propel themselves into activity and achievements the rest of us regard with awe.

Storr takes the approach that a "depressive nature" and feeling unloved goes hand in hand, and that Churchill's thinking he was unloved was a reasonable supposition, given his parents' neglect and disinterest. Step Two in Churchill's journey to leadership was compensatory, i.e., "If I can't be loved, I'll find a way to be admired." Another name for this decision is ambition, and the P.M's was apparently legendary. Ambition of such proportions is laden with fantasy - which, oddly enough, may have been exactly what was needed in that particular time, place, and circumstances. "The kind of inspiration with which Churchill sustained the nation is not based on judgment, but on an irrational conviction independent of factual reality. Only a man convinced that he had a heroic mission, who believed that, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, he could yet triumph, and who could identify himself with a nation's destiny could have conveyed his inspiration to others."

Another bit of fall-out from being unloved is hostility, and in a brilliant and amusing argument, Storr suggests that never has any depressive had such a wonderful opportunity for venting his aggressiveness as did Churchill. He had an enemy worthy of the word, an unambiguous tyrant whose destruction occupied him fully and invigorated him totally year in and year out. If all depressives could battle obvious and external wickedness in this way, they'd cease being depressed. To conclude: "...in 1940, his inner world of make-believe coincided with the facts of external reality in a way which very rarely happens... (he) became the hero that he had always dreamed of being. It was his finest hour. In that dark time, what England needed was not a shrewd, equable, balanced leader. She needed a prophet, a heroic visionary, a man who could dream dreams of victory when all seemed lost. Winston Churchill was such a man; and his inspirational quality owed its dynamic force to the romantic world of fantasy in which he had his true being."

http://www.healthieryou.com/exclusive/ch...

Maybe read a bit about John Forbes Nash....

Nash began to show signs of schizophrenia in 1958. He became paranoid and was admitted into the McLean Hospital, April–May 1959, where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and mild clinical depression.[3][7] After a problematic stay in Paris and Geneva, Nash returned to Princeton in 1960. He remained in and out of mental hospitals until 1970, being given insulin shock therapy and antipsychotic medications, sometimes as a result of being committed.[3][8][9] After 1970, by his choice, he never took antipsychotic medication again. According to his biographer Nasar, he recovered gradually with the passage of time. Encouraged by his then former wife, Alicia, Nash worked in a communitarian setting where his eccentricities were accepted.

In campus legend, Nash became "The Phantom of Fine Hall" (Fine Hall is Princeton's mathematics center), a shadowy figure who would scribble arcane equations on blackboards in the middle of the night. The legend appears in a work of fiction based on Princeton life, The Mind-Body Problem, by Rebecca Goldstein......

In 1994, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (along with two others), as a result of his game theory work as a Princeton graduate student.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes...

I have had a number of low points...

one might be when I was in hospital ....tied down in four point restraints and threatened with five points.....

or WILD MAN FISCHER

excerpt from link

Fischer was institutionalized at age 16 for attacking his mother with a knife[citation needed]. He was later diagnosed with two mental disorders: severe paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (manic depression). Following his release, Fischer wandered L.A. singing his unique brand of songs for 10¢ to passers-by. Discovered by Frank Zappa, with whom he recorded his first album, Fischer became an underground concert favorite, earning him the title "godfather of outsider music." Zappa was responsible for Fischer's initial foray into the business of music, an album called An Evening with Wild Man Fischer, contains 36 tracks of "something not exactly musical." Frank and the Wild Man remained close--until Fischer threw a jar at Moon Unit Zappa, barely missing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Man_Fi...

The World would be Dullsville without Crazy people....

it comes and goes

Answer 9

I have suffered with depression most of my adult life

my lowest point i couldn't get out of bed for days,nor did I want to. I also never wanted to leave the house.   but... you have too get up every day wash up, comb your hair ,clean your house and do all the essentials as best you can, then go speak to your doctor about it they here it all the time you will not be the first and you wont be the last. Take your meds if prescribed for you and monitor how you feel. I felt better the first few days after taking welbutrin it was what saved me from myself.

good luck ...it will get better    I definitely believe God has a better plan for you , you just hit a little road block.. things will get better I promise.

Answer 10

yeah, for eight years now, and my lowest point was when i was sleeping all day and night and i would not come out of the room for days, only at the middle of the night to get some snacks, drink some water, and go to the bathroom. i overcame it getting treatment for it. i am now taking pills for it, and i  got better.

Answer 11

i turned to after hours clubs and fell into the deep dark world of drugs.  

Answer 12

yes i have , my lowest point was when i didnt feel i could find a reason to live and was starting to think of ways to get wat i need to kill myself , i dont think i have overcome it , i just dont think about it so much , i still dont think much of myself of life in general

Answer 13

No

Answer 14

for me, i really hated this person so much... that i basically scratched myself (not cut... i'm really afraid of blood) twice, so now i have two marks on my wrist... now, i'm (kinda) over it, and i'm sorta friends with that person now... but every time i remember it, i still get really mad...

Answer 15

my lowest point was waking up in the icu, to find out my liver had failed, and i was technically dead and they had to revive me. my lowest point was the night i od'd.