I dont think so. Atleast not in my case. I was enjoying life and wanting to finish the race. I dont recall giving up before I got there. I am still in the race...just one of the walkers in the back.lol

Quite the contrary - I consider it a challenge to a dual - and so far, I've shot it down every time....

...then why am I still trying to stay alive?

I haven't given up...I don't want to either...

I'll just wait another 5 minutes...

depression to me is a chemical imbalance that can be made worse by different situations in life...depression is being at a loss of how to deal with my problems and make them better so that i don't feel suicidal

yea we're all here cuz we gave up----yea that's it.

Your right! I'm tired and I give up.

What are your woes?

Woes?
The future -- what is ikely to come.
The past -- which already happened.
The present -- which is actually happening.

I look at it as part of a cycle. Mine is recurrent any. I tend to get depressed right before major upheavals in my life....it seems to be an odd way of "resting up". Because I'm depressed I sleep more, I don't do as much...I just rest. Then if the natural pattern continues something good will come up. So, no, I'm not giving up. I'm just waiting.

no i will never give up and never give in to depression. i may slip and fall . have my ups and downs but i will indure to see another day. life is presious, so i choose to fight to keep mine. and will help anyone who needs help to see the light of dawn.

I ain't given up not ready for that dirt napp yet

i think most people dont even face or think about the option of giving up... but people with depression have faced the actual thought of giving up, and have to work twice as hard not to...

if that makes any sense hehe

not "given up" ... but it makes me want to give up sometimes.

for me, it's more... to illustrate... my mind has many pipes. emotions can flow through these pipes. one pipe is happiness. depression is like the sludge in the pipe, preventing happiness from making it through the pipes. sometimes there's more build-up than on other days... sometimes the pipe is completely clogged. it's not that i don't want the happiness to get through... it's that it can't, because it's so hard to clean out the sludge. the sludge is like a cancer to the pipes of wellbeing and happiness. and i hate the sludge. so much.

... did that even make sense?

To me its a fight. Something inside me is fighting to die and something inside me is fighting to live. My whole life it's like being in the ring.

depression is about rage.....and is also very close to fear.....it is not 'giving up'....it is a normal reaction of the mind to trauma of any kind....therapy is very useful in order to help us to feel our feelings and so let go of them....otherwise depression can get oput of hand..........and ............