I'm feeling depressed

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It's not ending. I feel sad and miserable every time. Loneliness ruined my life. I have mental problems too (aspergers and anxiety). I get worse over time. Seeing other people happy and social makes me realize how unlucky i am. I hope my life ends soon

The biggest problem is that you see anything but your depression as your enemy. But your depression is one of the worst and most dangerous ones. Better try to kick your own ass and get rid of it. Keeping a positive way of thinking is sometimes a very hard fight. But it keeps you a life that is worth to live. Do focus on positive things and on the ways to improve instead on the negative and bad things only. Go out into the daylight. It helps against depression. And try to be nicer to yourself.

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I am as I am. Life has to be an adventure!

You need to do a few things:

- Distraction therapy--do things that distract you from wallowing in misery.
- Health--get more sleep, eat better, and get exercise.
- Take mood-boosting supplements, including B complex, vitamin D, and vitamin C, and take them at higher than recommended doses, but raise the dosage gradually, and use capsules or gel caps, not tablets. Tablets don't fully dissolve, and end up getting flushed down the toilet.
- See a therapist or psych doc if the above remedies don't help.

Hope my suggestions help you, they've helped me.

meditation

goals

organization

counseling

deep breathing

hobby

Depression can be one of those negative feedback loops. The worse you feel, the less you do, the less you do the worse you feel and so on.

The only thing I have found to get out of it is to do those things that people suggest, like questor or shortfat, whether you want to or not. Make a list and do it. Even if you don't want to. Then do it again the next day. Feeling good in life takes work. It is much more difficult in the beginning. Like when you are way overweight and start on a diet. Or you've been a couch potato for 40 years and now need to exercise.

It does get easier to do. And eventually, it even starts feeling good too, but don't aim for that. Just get up each day and do your list. Don't judge your list. don't judge your life. Just do what is on the list.

Or not. Just my 2 cents to use or discard as you like.

reach out to people who might care even if your brain thinks they won't.

The more u articulate it somehow to others the more likely it is u will have support.
Just another person emphasizing lends strength.


Nobody can breathe easily for long without support. Some ppl have a talent for having friends, being understood and accepted, and being liked wherever they go.

Others have to work at getting basic support and stability.

It doesn't make you any less worthy.


Same with anxiety meds. They can make a big difference.


Not exactly universally applicable but in one of my mom's books (harvest for life), it said that eating salty or pickled n salty food helps with anxiety and depression to some degree.

I found it to be true because I bought
olives and made myself eat them daily... several times a day...
Drinking water too...

today after 3 days of that I was able to muster up energy and kick my anxiety to actually step out of the car, out of the parking lot and do smthing positive that I have been trying to do for about 4 years now...

I asked my mom why it works and she said blood pressure balances


And felt much less depressed almost zero.

Walks also help.

I go through the anxiety/loneliness/depression cycle myself.
Prozac helped me through a couple of bad periods in the past, but the last time I took it, I got severe chest pain, wound up in the E.R.
When I got home, I went on the internet, found out that rather a lot of people have experienced chest pain from Prozac recently.
Never had a problem before; could the pharmaceutical company have changed the formula?