Your longest depression?????

What has been your longest depression (accompanied by mania or not)?

Why did it last so long?

Did you come out of it own your own, or with meds?

Was it pre or post diagnosis?

For times that really stand out for me, when it gets really bad, three months for depression. But it's been there for the past four years, pretty consistently.

I've been rapid cycling for the the past three months. I don't know if that counts.

My depression usually lasts between three to four months before I decide to do something about it. I've been diagnosed with depression for most of my life, before I got the bipolar diagnosis about three years ago. I do better with medication and attention to my therapy.

Pre diagnosis I hit rock bottom, December 31 2013, that night I tried to kill myself by oding on pain meds and ambien. I didn't seek help I'll July 14 and was depressed the whole at into July. I think the depression continued till October when I went out for the first time that year so 10 months.

Post diagnosis
I've had several episodes of minor to moderate depression. The minor were I wouldn't get out of bed unless I had work that's been for a year but I did have some lapse in it were I would watch tv or go out.

Originally I as diagnosed with major depression. Think it was January following year she changed it to bipolar.

I say my longest depression would be 8months after I had my first child. Around the same after my second. My third ive been up and down and up and down and just had a very bad depression the past two months and am currently super happy and non stop. I am even slobbering when I am talking because it's fast and non stop.. totally nasty.

My longest depression lasted about two years. I literally laid in bed and watched the seasons change. I ate, slept, ate slept. I wasn't taking any meds. I think me going to the hospital and finally getting diagnosed properly helped a lot.

8 months and had been misdiagnosed by my GP with major depressive disorder. Meds and my pdoc got me out of it.

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The depression morphed into depression with psychosis with delusions and disassociation. I thought a secret society was out to get me. I thought there was a man in all black clothing hiding in my house ... to terrify me and eventually murder me. Everyone that drove a Lexus vehicle was part of the secret society. (I was lead in-house attorney for Lexus at the time). I had many, many hallucinations at home of various types.

I floated out of my body while driving - severe dissociation. I was looking down at myself from the roof of my car and could see my body. I couldn't feel the gas or brake pedals at all and I was driving. I thought everything was tapped at home and work. I trusted no one except my pdoc and, of course, my daughter ... who thankfully was way too young to know anything was wrong. Most terrifying depression of my life that turned into psychosis, too. Maybe it turned mixed. I was messed up bad. My pdoc saved my life.

My longest, wow, idk, maybe a year or.so, my original DX was MDD recurrent severe, but after manic episode was.changed to my current.DX. Idk how I usually come.outnof these.depressions, I'm in one right now, and the meds only help.a little bit, this current depression I'm in has lasted since April so about 4 months, and being in grief won't help.me.get out of it anytime soon either... I just hope.I don't have another manic episode following this depressive one...

I've been battling with depression since I was in my teens. When it comes to any one specific episode, I'd say probably 6 months has been the longest stretch that I can at least remember.

My longest depressive episode (mostly mixed actually) lasted a few years, with a little hypomania in the middle but quickly back into mixed depression. OD'd 5 times I was so unwell. At the time I was being treated for MDD and PTSD only so I wasn't on a mood stabiliser. Once I was properly diagnosed and treated the episodes got smaller but are still frequent.

My longest depression that I could think of was pre-diagnosis. The pattern seemed to be from mixed to regular depression, then mixed again, then depressed again. All together, I believe this lasted about seven months where the depressive symptoms were present and very severe. It was back when I was in high school, and I spent most of the time in the guidance office since focusing was impossible. My mother had insurance issues, and I went without treatment. Every minute seemed like an hour, and during most of that time, I felt paranoid and super sensitive to every little sound. It was agony.

10 months. Though, it was more a mixed/agitated depression.

hated it. Any time I go into that I usually end up in a really bad place.

I think the longest was two years in high school, I remember being sad all the time and angry. Lots of isolating I'm glad that has passed

My longest depression was a few years ago it lasted a yr and half. Like lady I just watched the months go by. It still haunts me. I quit going to therapy and quit living. It finally turned into mixed ( which is when I get suicidal)and that drove me to leave the house and seek help.

meds got me out of my depression. probably wouldve been longer than 8mos without.

This past year. August of 2015 into May 2016 was hell. I had moments of remission, but it's only now that I can honestly say that I am out of depression. It's been a wild ride and hasn't taken so long to stabilize. That time frame also includes three weeks of PHP. So glad for it to be over with.

Three years. That was before diagnoses and meds. Had a bunch of family crap going on that made me it worse. It was hell.

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My pre-dx days were kind of a blur of ultra rapid cycling, but I think my longest only-depression depressive episode was about 3 or 4 months. I spent a lot of time depressed but I would have fairly frequent (hypo)manic episodes as well.

I had my longest depression after I quit drinking, for 6 months.

I came out of it with meds and a good stabilizer. I swear by stabilizers and every BP person should be on one.

Post diagnosis? Not sure what you mean but I was still BP but stable.

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Its hard to say but before my bipolar diagnosis I was told I had severe depression.
I was not on any meds and I am guessing but I think my worst depression lasted
for a couple of years with only very brief moments of mania.

About a year. Such a hazy fog. Which is probably just as well. It was pre-dx, but I was well aware of it being depression, as many had preceded it.

Finally, my ex couldn't take it anymore and insisted I see someone. Unfortunately, that led to mis-dx as MDD (by GP -- BIG mistake). Thus began the ADs. I went manic within 2 days. (Which, at the time, I thought was great! At first...) Then it just got bad. So chaotic. For months. (Because I assumed the problem was me, not knowing how ADs can be problematic that way.)

Smartened up, went to a psychiatrist, dx'd BP. (Solid 25 year history of obvious symptoms. Had actual BP screening questions been asked by the GP, that whole AD nightmare might've been avoided. Do not let GP handle serious psych issues!!!)

I don't even know how to answer if meds brought me out of that one, lol. Circuitously? But they have saved my bacon many times since.

Ten months of uninterrupted happiness. Thank you Lithium. You're Da Man.