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Originally Posted by elin95
Hello I'm Elin 
I am struggling with depression since age 13. I'm 19 now.
Do you guys think that it's harder or even impossible to fix your depression when you have it for many years? To me, it's just a huge part of my life, I'm used to feeling of being depressed. Every day I ask myself; why would it get better if it only got worse the last few years.
And can every depression be fixed? Or are there some types of depression that haunt you forever.
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Every depression? As in every person with depression? I don't know and I really doubt that anyone else does. I've been told by doctors that some people seem to have depression in their genetic makeup. I think that may be true. I don't think it is constant and debilitating even in those people. I have been aware of depression since I was a child. It varied in degree and in the length of time that it was debilitating. I've had periods when I was pretty much non-functional and I've had periods where I muddled through with a semi-normal life and then I've had periods when I was able to go out and fulfill some of my dreams. There is a member here who has these quotes as her signature:
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Being normal is overrated. I am (still) young and crazy in a world where normal, decent people construct nuclear weapons.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Krishnamurti
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I lot of people would agree with those thoughts. I do. We have a pretty screwed up society if you think about it. Considering the amazing amount of suffering, injustice, and misery in our world, I wonder about people who
don't have at least a trace of something like depression.