[BlueCrustacean]

I don't know if anyone else feels this, but lately I'm just becoming depressed, and trying to think positive is straining and exhausting. It feels so much more relaxing and comfortable to crawl into bed, ruminate in misery and cry. Why fight the darkness? Why not just sleep there for a while? It's so much more comfortable.

[healingme4me]

Why not? No law that says that each emotion cannot be embraced as it is, in the moment.

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[hsalmon21]

Fighting the darkness is exhausting and depleting. Like how you lay in bed, I embrace it by shutting myself off from the world by sitting in my room as much as possible. I draw and paint, watch netflix. I think of it as recovery time. I need time to just be alone and let this wave of depression work its way in and out of me. It's like a train going 100 mph - it's going whether I like it or not, and if i try to stop it i will hurt myself.

So cut yourself some slack, do what you need to do to take care of yourself, and hopefully the depression will leave as quickly as it arrived.

[BlueCrustacean]

Every time I go through something stressful, like finishing a project and showing it to people, or preparing for a very important interview, I succeed and it's done and over with, and then depression gently slips in and then knocks me out unconscious over the next few days, and I can't do anything but lay around and feel depressed/almost suicidal for the next few days. That's not normal, is it? Why can't I just relax after a big event without being so negative about it?

I have personally been diagnozed with the symptoms, But I always think laying around instead of facing the world is an act of a coward. I have wept, isolated myself and panicked. I have learnt to find bliss in self-loathing, i like the hole in my heart. I ****ing hate people and this drives to prove them ****ing wrong.