
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.

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What is depression to you?
To me depression is a monster, a big scary beast with fangs, horns and claws, that walks the darkest corridors of your mind drooling, and feasting over your self-hatred and your insecurities. When you are at your best, it lets out a piercing roar which shakes your bones, and brings to the front of your mind, all that which you thought you had buried. You think you have it in a corner, then all goes dark and you find it is you in the corner, cold and crying in fear that the beast will get you. You spend life running and hiding from it, or standing face to face trying to tame it.
I am done with running & hiding, and done trying to tame the beast! Just when I think he (yes, MY depression is male) is calm and sedate, he gets a whiff of some emotional prey and goes crazy; pure animalistic rage. I am done with fighting him. He is too unpredictable. I must kill him for good.
Two problems though. Im not sure how, AND If he is PART of me will part of me die too?
To me depression is a monster, a big scary beast with fangs, horns and claws, that walks the darkest corridors of your mind drooling, and feasting over your self-hatred and your insecurities. When you are at your best, it lets out a piercing roar which shakes your bones, and brings to the front of your mind, all that which you thought you had buried. You think you have it in a corner, then all goes dark and you find it is you in the corner, cold and crying in fear that the beast will get you. You spend life running and hiding from it, or standing face to face trying to tame it.
I am done with running & hiding, and done trying to tame the beast! Just when I think he (yes, MY depression is male) is calm and sedate, he gets a whiff of some emotional prey and goes crazy; pure animalistic rage. I am done with fighting him. He is too unpredictable. I must kill him for good.
Two problems though. Im not sure how, AND If he is PART of me will part of me die too?
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Depression has always been there. Sometimes worse than other times. I always called depression the Triple Threat -- helplessness, powerlessness and hopelessness.
If depression is part of you and killing it off is the goal, you end up killing yourself.
As for abuse, we should chat sometime. Each time I start dating someone I have to have a conversation with them about the scars that they are going to see on my body from years past. (And some of them, clothing doesn't cover.)
They are one and the same thing to me.
hey bunny.x.xx.x.
Bit of a metaphor but hope it makes sense to some of you.