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Old Nov 06, 2015, 07:44 PM
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Hello. I am not clinically diagnosed with depression, but I have had depressive episodes every winter and summer for the past 2 years. I am feeling myself going into another episode. Weather is a big trigger to this, but has something else triggered your depression? Like, anxiety, a life event of some kind or it just happened. Anxiety may be part of a trigger for me, but it seems to be weather and life events that suck. Anyways, maybe you know or you don't but anyways, thanks for the response Did something cause your depression?.

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Old Nov 06, 2015, 08:44 PM
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Hard to really pinpoint it for me. I guess it started when I was around 13 and my parents split up, then I got into some trouble and ended up in a juvenile drug treatment center for 14 months from the age of 15 to 16. I was never really the same after that. Since then it's come and gone in waves. Was good for a few years then lost a well paying job and my girlfriend within a month, after a while I recovered a bit only to slip back under similar circumstances a few years later. Recently I've lost a young cousin in a tragic accident and my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, these things have pushed me back down.

I'm starting to get "used to" these ups and downs being the normal flow of life, but that doesn't necessarily make them any easier to deal with.
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Old Nov 06, 2015, 08:55 PM
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Mine was a culmination of how I'd lived my life up until my breaking point. I tried to suppress emotions, and so when I hit a really stressful point in my life, I finally fell apart under not only that weight, but the weight of a lifetime's worth of suppressed emotions that had festered inside of me.
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Old Nov 07, 2015, 09:51 AM
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My last bout was triggered by some losses in my life - especially my relationship

But usually, my depression is triggered when something causes me to remember a happy period in my life - and the lack of any 'life' I have now.

I used to be extremely active outdoors. This June I was passed on the street by a black jeep, two kayaks on the roof, and bike on the back. That was once me - even the bike and boats were the right colour. I broke down. I was hospitalized before the day was out.
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Old Nov 07, 2015, 10:02 AM
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Mine was a culmination of how I'd lived my life up until my breaking point. I tried to suppress emotions, and so when I hit a really stressful point in my life, I finally fell apart under not only that weight, but the weight of a lifetime's worth of suppressed emotions that had festered inside of me.

This is what triggered the first depressive episode in me. I have suppressed all the emotions and pain I experienced for 4-5 years and I told someone and became super depressed for months. People told me I was depressed, I knew I was depressed, but no one sent me to see a mental health professional for it.

I'm sorry that happened to you too.

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Old Nov 07, 2015, 10:39 AM
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Hello. I am not clinically diagnosed with depression, but I have had depressive episodes every winter and summer for the past 2 years. I am feeling myself going into another episode. Weather is a big trigger to this, but has something else triggered your depression? Like, anxiety, a life event of some kind or it just happened. Anxiety may be part of a trigger for me, but it seems to be weather and life events that suck. Anyways, maybe you know or you don't but anyways, thanks for the response Did something cause your depression?.

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Talk Therapy Trumps Light Therapy for Seasonal Depression | Psych Central News

Alot of people get seasonal depression.
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Old Nov 07, 2015, 12:52 PM
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For me it was a major disappointment that resulted in the loss of my home and a lot of money. Before that I was happier and more stable than ever. It all fell apart in a matter of weeks, and continues to get worse.
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It was triggered when I was dealing with a physical illness/disability/pain.
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Old Nov 07, 2015, 12:57 PM
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I know. I believe that could be a thing for me.

Thanks for the article by the way .

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Stress is a big trigger for me, but the weather plays a big part too.

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