Once you're diagnosed with depression-or any kind of mental illness it stays with you permanently. You can have moments of "freedom" from it, but at the end of the day everyday it will come back to you because it is apart of you. It's just something you have to accept and live with. I know that these aren't the words you want to hear, but you have to hear it from somebody and I think that in the back of your mind you already knew the answer you were just hoping someone would say something different. I'm sorry about that. I really am. But, it's just something we have to live with.

Yeah it goes away. You try every technique you can research until you find those that work for you. Then you put them into actions everyday of your life.

That combination, which the natural changing of the seasons of your life and depression can be defeated. The first step is identifying the cause and treating it, rather than the symptoms. Cut off the head of the snake.

@justwonders

That's actually not true. That really frustrates me that you could give someone that "advice". I've had severe deep depression triggered by sexual abuse in my childhood and also genetics, I'm now also a freshman and it's finally getting better. It's been about eight years, but now I'm pulling through and you can too! It just takes time, it may seem like it will never end but it will. It sickens me that people will take away that hope from you. Maybe you should message me and we can talk about this a bit more? I could help you out, more so we could help each other out.

Remember even WHEN you do get better, there will still be bad days. That's what makes us human, but a bad day doesn't equal a bad life. Recovery is difficult and often I wondered who I would be without my depression. Now when I have a bad day I have to remember it's a bad day, it doesn't mean I should give up because I'm getting bad again. It's just something that makes me a human being with emotions and feelings.