Depression Support Group
Depression is a real and debilitating condition that is often misunderstood by family and friends. Its meaning can range from a prolonged period of sadness to an actual mental illness with specific symptoms. Find and share experiences with others who are going through the same struggles.
I just want to feel love, support, peace. I want to feel peace. My life is anything but peaceful and to be honest. I want to end my life. I feel like I'll alywas be this way so what the point.
We all want to feel good, be happy and have someone to love and love us back.
Don't give up and don't think about ending anything.
Find things you can change about YOU. Create goals that are small at first. Then bigger as time goes on.
Do you think a therapist would help? Or Medication?
No one can go on day after day being sad. Feeling as if they are unwanted and unnecessary.
Foods, diets and vitamins can help a great deal. As good or better than many medications can.
Only you can help you. We can only listen and support you. The best we can give, is encouragement.
Keep trying..... Life can get better!!!
Your life has so much value. I absolutely believe that you were created with a purpose and a plan for your life. I do not believe we are here by accident, and I believe that we are allowed to go through the tough things in life for a purpose that goes so much beyond ourselves and our pain. I think behind suffering is meaning and that we are meant to use our pain and our struggles to help others who are going down a similar road.
I once heard a man share the following experience, and I hope it may help you. He said he was on a mission trip to African in a country where they were so poor their church building was a metal roof on four posts. There were no walls, floors, doors. He said the people were the poorest of the poor, but you would never know it. because they were some of the happiest people you'd ever meet. When it came time for offering, it took 2 hours for them to collect all the offering, because the people would form a line and dance up and down the aisle. They would intentionally give little, so that when it was their turn, the man holding the offering basket would look at their offering, shake his head "No," and motion for them to give more. They would laugh and get back in line to dance and sing their way up and down the aisles until it was their turn to give again. Then, all at once, without any warning, there was a loud "POP!* and everything went black. It was so dark that you could not see your hand in front of your face. And everything went still. Absolutely still. And the people hunkered down in fear. At length, someone found a candle, and it was amazing how much light that one lone candle gave in the darkness. And from that candle, another was lit. And then another. And another. Until the whole room was bathed in this soft glow. The smiles returned, the laughter returned. I've been in that darkness a number of times, the kind where you can't see anything ahead of you and you hunker down in fear. But then someone comes along and they know what it's like, because they've had their own darkness and times when they couldn't see ahead. And they have used their candle to light my candle. And so I try to light another hurting soul's candle. Yes, there has been pain, but there has also been meaning, and if at the end of going through some of the darkest seasons of my life I can extend my candle to light another's, then the pain is worth it. You have no idea how your experiences may be used down the road to make a difference in someone else's life because you "get it" in a way no one else understands.
There are two books I really hope you will get. When I was in the throes of depression a friend gave Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer to me, I have highlighted it, made notes, read it and reread it. The other book that changed my life was called From Prison to Praise by Merlin Carothers. You can get both of them on Amazon.