How has your life changed since depression?

Just a place to have a vent if you want!

This could be a really terrible question, and i'm thinking there may be a bit of a mix of replies, or none at all! I got thinking today, accidentally, about the past 2 and a bit years since I began my treacherous journey through the waves of depression. Back then, everything was going so well - or so I thought..

I've gone from being in a happy relationship, to single - which I am more than ok with, that had to end.

I thought that I would NEVER see a Therapist, nor would I go on antidepressants. I'm now onto the second therapist, and 3rd failure of an antidepressant.

I have a beautiful dog now!

I have lost my passion for a job.

I'm living with a guy who I met on a support sight similar to this one - that one is a little strange!

I now am living with a chronic injury which likes to cause me constant pain.

I am completely changing career paths because of this injury

Moral of the story, if anyone had have told me that all this would happen, I never would have believed them. I never would have believed that this depression would last 2 years, let alone 6 months. Truth be told, all this could have happened regardless of me falling down into the depths. It is just really confronting looking back at it all.
Like, who am I? Is this still me? Was that really me? Can things get better now?

Ive been on a roller coaster ride when it comes to my mental health till recently. Ever since 14 i struggled i had dozens of suicide attempts er trips and hospitalizations i had falls and muscle weakness from my conversion disorder i had voices.today i feel like though i slipped up im doing better i have no hospitalizations so its a very good thing

Good changes: asociality, antisociality, apathy and thoughtfulness.

Bad changes: asociality because of anxiety and distress, serious lack of concentration and motivation, high sensitivity, numbness and slowness(it took me 20 min to write this post and I'm a very good typewriter ). .

I've lost relationships, made a lot of bad decisions but I've also learned a lot. I've learned that I am lovable just the way I am even if I am imperfect.

The good things. I learnt who I could trust. I made two new very good friends. I have learnt a lot about myself & continue to do so. I recognise the signs of a dip & can sometimes reach out for help & stop the dip turning into a hole. I found this forum & the people here have saved me when I felt I had nowhere to turn.

The not so good things. My marriage has suffered & I doubt is repairable. My work has suffered. I feel I've lost myself somewhere along the way. I can't stop my head going over & over everything. I feel I live on a see saw.

Thank you for this thread. Had I been asked this & not thought about it I wouldn't have thought it possible for good to have come from the darkness. But they have & there lies hope.

I don't remember it's been so long.