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Oct 15, 2014, 12:59 AM
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Hi every one, I'm new here and thought I'd post what i see as a crippling problem for me and see if it's common... I constantly feel that all the things i am depressed about, i should just be shrugging them off and getting on with life. I feel like others troubles are greater than mine *all the time* and i am really struggling to get past this negative thinking. Even looking at the messages here, I'm thinking who am i to be depressed? Makes me feel stupid, but i think this must be the depression itself, yes? People say no, no, no you're allowed to feel depressed, but i don't believe them.
Plus i don't want to be depressed, so i fight it and pretend I'm not. A combination of both has led to me finally and eventually becoming totally exhausted and withdrawn. Do others find this too? That its hard to accept your own depression and try to repress your depression?? |
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Oct 15, 2014, 08:37 AM
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Hi,
Thank you for your post. Yes, I repressed my depression for a long time and it was a bad idea. Depression is a health condition that happens to many kind of people from beauty queens to homeless. To me, sometimes it does not matter the "objective" size of your problems in the external world.
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Clara Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel |
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Oct 15, 2014, 10:11 AM
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Oh yeah.....same here.
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Oct 15, 2014, 05:21 PM
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Yes, same here. Repressed it for a really, really long time (a couple of years, at least) and have now been in a severe depression for 8 months and having a really tough time pulling myself up. You are allowed to be depressed no matter what your situation is in life, no matter what you do or don't have to be thankful for. I have to tell myself that ALL the time. I agree with Clara22 - "it does not matter the 'objective' size of your depression in the external world." Easier to say it than really internalize it, but keep reminding yourself of that, and I hope you are able to get some good help with it sooner rather than later.
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Oct 16, 2014, 01:06 AM
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Don't feel bad about it. It happens to me, too. I feel like people think that because you don't have it as worse off as someone else, you shouldn't be feeling bad at all. We're humans and we're meant to feel emotions.
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