i have been dianosed with depression.........no meds yet but is anyone else suffering from depression??? how do you deal with it???

Yep...I do, and I have a special treatment.
It's called music, socializing, forgetting and writing. It doesn't cure nor does it remove it permenantly. It just eases it, and treats it. It really works. I'm always depressed, even when I'm shining a smile. Mostly all teens deal from Depression, it's a puberty thing, and it's a inner thing, that'll always be there. Even in old-age.
Try these treatments listed above, if non-work talk to PM me.

yes i do but it gets better over tyme sorry to hear that

I just recently got diagnosed with depression. After I tried to kill myself overdosing on ibuprofen. (that doesn't work btw, so don't try it...) I was hospitalized for 2 weeks in a psych ward. As Click Five says in their song "Good Day". "Now I'm going strong on Lexapro, Dr. says I'm doing fine. I'm freaking out about, what's ahead, maby I'll just stay in bed. Cause it's no fun to be the one going out of my head..." This is me, exactly.

I have 5 therapists, they include 1 family therapist, 1 psychiatrist, 2 individual therapists, and a rule 79 worker. I am dealing with my issues one day at a time and that's really the best you can do. Some days are better then others. If you get on meds, TAKE THEM. if you don't you have withdraw and that's even worse. I guess that's the best advice to give.

There are lots of people like you, I bet you anything there are atleast 5 people that you know that are depressed. I found out after I OD'd that there were 2 girls in my english class alone that had done the same thing. Find someone you can talk to.

Be happy, listen to some good music, hang with friends, enjoy life.

hmm...well ive been real depressed lately and im finally seeing a counselor but whenever i feel depressed i used to cut but since i have to sign some contract i cant do it anymore and its hard...and i dont know exactly what to do about it since the ppl are waiting awhile to see if ill need medication and that sux but i dunno...i just wanna no how i can learn to deal with it without actually cutting.

I get depressed a lot.
It's cause I like to travel and I can't right now and it's cause of a lot of other things.
I have so much to do and that's on my mind all the time.
So I get depress, but I haven't been to the doctor and got diagnosed with it and I don't plan on it.
Cause everytime I start to feel depress and all I start to pray about it.
There are times I have no clue to why I'm depressed. I mean I can be having really good day, everything going the way that I want it to and all. Then all a sudden I start to get depressed and I hate that when that happens.
But like I said when I do start to feel depressed or when I am depressed I start to pray that I will get out of being depressed and usually a couple of hours later or right after I pray I start to feel normal again.
All I can say is pray. That is what works for me.

what exactly is depression....see at night when it gets dark and i am alone in my room and i am listening to a sad song i think of what would happen if like i get in a car acident...i would sit there and cry and cry and cry...i cant stop every night it is like that...... i do not want to have depression

hey i was diagnosed with depression a year ago now, they put me straight on the meds, and well sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesnt, u gota be careful though with things like drinking, if you dont drink, or take drugs, eat healthily and get a good amount of excerise you will feel that there is something worth living for...if you really want to get through it, it all depends on how badly you want it to whether or not you get through it, i can sometimes see it as a dissorder, or maybe just my feelings....im not sure but i know that mind over matter can help in so many situations where your depression crops up...hope this helps x x

well depression is something that is life altering me i live in a house with a brother that is bi polar it is nothing to be ashamed of everyone gets depressed so chin up always take your meds most people think iam sick cause iam on meds take them there for a reason

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i used to be on zoloft, it doesn't work. Try Wellbutrin XL tabs and Fluoxetine (or prozac if you can afford it) hcl caps, that is what I am on, and it works really well, ask your doc about it.

zoloft actually works for me.....but i still feel some symptoms of my anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder....i am much better on my meds than i am off, i nearly cant function off them.
but for some meds dont get it.....

to the original poster, a lot of people suffer from depression, you really just have to find your own path though it. or at least your own way to cope.

I don't believe in myself. I hate myself. You don't know what it's like from just watching someone. You have to have it to know. So unless you're actually bipolar, keep it to yourself. You don't know what it's like until you've felt it.

I know what its like, my mom had depression and bipolar i watched her bassicly fall apart... but you can get through it you just have to belive it yourself

I am bipolar.

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My mom had it before me, and I highly doubt my grandparents (yes, both sides) did not have it as well. I always thought I might have been bipolar (AKA manic depressive) up until my diagnosis. Apparently my parents should have listened a long time ago.

I care, because I know what it is like. I've had depression for over 8 years.

People don't care like they should, because my guess is that most people do not understand. I have never been diagnosed, but that's just my opinion.

That's right, nobody cares.

I sure don't. So go away.

i even overdosed. i tried to hang myself. the worst thing that can happen is
a) Your freinds wont support you
b) Your family doesnt even know
and finaly, i have to live like this my WHOLE life and nobody cares.

yeah i got it too...and while right now i'm pretty good i get set backs and draw backs and what not...its not easy...but it does it get better...when i get depressed i listen to music or call a friend and have them cheer me up (althogh that doesnt work) or i'll just sit in my room and just relax and take it slow just try to work it out on my own

Yes, she just called, she cancelled!!

I got powers!!! YEA!!!

LoL, don't get me wrong, I like my therapist. She is the best out of all the other therapists and psychologists that I had. I just don't feel like trying today. Maybe I should, knowing the fact that I had a little mental meltdown yesterday but I feel okay right now, I don't want to talk about it and be reminded of it.

Stupid emotions!!!