Do any of you deal with depression?

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I do the opposite of deal with it, lol.
I just ignore it until it inevitably comes out in angry outbursts (I also have anger issues) and I isolate myself from all my friends!
I like to think that if I just ignore it'll go away but I'm too self-aware to not know that's denial. Just a temporary solution is to freak out everyone I talk to by oversharing and bringing up my suicidal tendencies.

I'm diagnosed with bipolar (among things in my alphabet soup).

Yes but horrible situational depression from disabling chronic illnesses and having almost no friends(one person I rarely see),almost no social life,no partner.

The disabling chronic illnesses and severe anxiety makes it hard to leave the house mostly.

My worst disabling chronic illnesses are:
Vestibular migraines,SIBO,Silent Reflux(LPR),GERD,asthma.
Which all cause very severe anxiety,panic attacks and depression themselves.

I'm trying out meds again but I can't treat both the physical chronic illnesses and mentally health issues all at the same time.

I've been battling depression since I was in my teens. Dealing with the ignorance of backstabbers seemed to hurry it along. I lose all energy and I dwell on things that the backstabbers do to me. My depressive episodes can really do a number on my nerves and my body. I feel fatigued, I get the shakes and the type of incontinence that I have worsens. I don't know if it's the autism, depression or rejection that does a number on my bowels. All I have to do is make one mistake, perhaps have a meltdown and the person who's usually a woman abandons me and stabs me in the back with her gossip. I can be a shaking mess when that happens.

Poor old man....

Randomly --
Situationally or hormonally.

Former is consequence of executive dysfunction, the latter seems a part of PMS.
Both are tricky.

I am trying to figure it out as well.

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I have been in the greatest despair of my life for nearly two years, but it's because of circumstance, and I don't think it's depression, though it has my psychiatrist and therapist very confused, because I appear to be dealing with a very severe depression. But if my circumstances were to change (though I don't think they can) I would be fine. Some would say that counts as depression, and that antidepressant medication would help. But I have never been helped by antidepressants so it's hard to tell. All I know is I can't stand to struggle through day after day.

Yes. I suffered with depression since middle school. I was a very lonely child. I often isolated myself.

My entire life I think. I have been diagnosed with Cptsd, ADHD, generalized depression, and generalized anxiety. Therapy has been a great help. Learning all of my diagnoses has also helped fill in the gaps of understanding. I am not as depressed but my situation right now is not the best.

What helps me with depression is going r o the gym and having a cat.