have you tried a med change? have you tried therapy to deal with the happenings in life? both could help a lot. and if you have done either, maybe a new doctor or therapist. don't settle for less than you deserve. the professionals are there to help you and if you don't feel like you are getting the help, look elsewhere

ALAJZA
I WOULD LIKE 2 TELL U IT WILL GET BETTER, BUT 2 B HONEST, IF U HAVE BEEN SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION SINCE 13, I CAN ONLY TELL U SOMETHING IS DEFINITELY WRONG.
THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE AROUND THE CORNER.
REALLY, THERE IS HOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
B PATIENT.
IT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER CAUSE I M PRAYING 4 U.
THE LORD ANSWERS MY PRAYERS.
JUST B PATIENT AND HANG IN THERE......................
I HAVE SUFFERED FROM CLINICAL DEPRESSION FOR 30+ YEARS.
A BRAIN TUMOR WAS FOUND.....................
IT IS INOPERABLE BUT I M PATIENTLY WAITING 4 MY CHANGE 2 GET BETTER.
I STRUGGLE DAY AFTER DAY.
I WASNT STRUGGLING B4 MY BRAIN SURGERY.
NOW EVERYTHING IS A BIG EFFORT NOW.................
NEVER LOSE HOPE.
GBU
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To angeleyes92 yes I been taking medicine for years different ones, they start working at first then it gets worst. One medicine in the past made me suicidal. I am seeing a therapist. but maybe your right I might need a new one because am still sad all the time and its taking over my life.

I've had a similar experience in my life, depressed, was assessed by a psychiatrist and put on meds at 12. Ever since then I've been i to see doctors and have my meds changed. Now that I'm older, I still have depression along with a few other disorders. I thought I'd be forever unhappy, but life got better.
Have you tried therapy? I find therapy helps me immensely.
I also feel once I've dealt with something and you think everything's good, something else comes along, like you said above, I don't know why though.

Hello Survivor69,
thank you for your words of encouragement it really means a lot. Prayer is defiantly what I need, I will pray for you also. I hope one day it will get better or at least easier to deal with. I'll wish on a star!

this is my second time at giving you a response ......having a hard time to know what to say .....I have had depreshion all my life so I don't know what it is to not gave some leavel of depreshion ......but it runs in my family on my fathers side and on my mothers side ...I just happen to be one of the worst cases ..in the family ...it took me 50 years to want to be here ...but I am so blesed ..so happy that I dident give up ..you can't ever give up ..because it can get better and you never know what is comming to you in your future ......life is all about chang ...and new experances ....new changelanges ......you need to fight .every day ...keep negitive things away from you ...and that includes people ...you need to have as much positive ..energie around you as you can ...look at the little things ..enjoy them ...you need to talk .everything that has ever hurt you needs to come out ..so you can begin to heal ....I just feel like you have a big heart ...and someone isent seeing that ....you have a lot of love in your heart ...you feel very deaply and so you hurt deaply ......you need to fight meds ar not enough ...they are needed ...but you also have to fight talk ...learn to love your self ..but I think you like your self ...but you need to love your self .....you need to live in the presant and leave the past in the past it is gone ...if you have lost someone that keep the good memories ....if you need to deal with bad memories than talk about them ...it is ok ......so you keep the good you look for the good every day ware ever you see it ...this is a way to get positive energy in to you .to fight the negative energies .......keep as much negative energies and. Negative people away from you as you can ........and be good ..be kind to your self ......things can get better...and often do ....your last statment .....bothered me ..because ..when I have felt this way ...is when I needed to go for help ...so you may need to get your meds adjusted ...I think it is good that you are here ware you are understood ...and not judged .......I will keep you in my prayers .....you take good care of your self ....you are needed ...you are ...a beautifull ..person ...God bless

The first thing you need to do is accept that what you are having to deal with and worry about is part of life and everyone goes through it one way or another. It's all in the way you handle each situation. And it may be possible that you are not on the right medication. I would ask your doctor if possibly a different med would make a difference. But remember, the meds can only do so much, our thoughts and reactions to life have a lot to do with it as well. Hugs GB