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Exactly, I didn't just snap out of it. Words didn't work for me so I quit the psychiatrist and got on medications only.

I know it's not something you can just snap out or just turn the switch off, but what are you going to do to get better? You have children and other responsabilities, you have more important things to take care off than dealing with depression and anxiety. It's hard to get out of it and you might not even get out of it who knows, it depends on the individual and his/her inner strength to get out.

It's almost 8 am and here I am awake.

Saw this movie yesterday, was expecting it to be more dramatic but it felt like a disney movie where everything goes right and everyone is overly positive. What are you thoughts?

My favorite from him is fear and loathing in las vegas.

I am very sorry that you're going throught the same experience if not worse, again for the second time, I have a wonderful family but they never truly understood how I felt either. I'm also sorry about your breakup, actually me and my girlfriend also broke up about 3 weeks ago because she wants to focus on work and we were a long distance relationship, but I have to stay strong and hope that one day I can get her back. Even if you don't have that someone to text or talk, I'm sure you will find someone else to do that even if it's not as good it's better than nothing. You should look for ways to entrertain yourself, like watch movies or a tv show like game of thrones, because what you need right now is a distraction/hobby to pull away those depressions thoughts you have, even if it's just for a small amount of time. It always felt great when I was able to forget for atleast 1 minute. I honestly have no friends in real life, I just have those people that I know but they're not like real friends if you know what I mean. I made most of my friendships (really great ones) over the internet and I regret nothing. My depression started when I was 20 and now I'm 23 so yea I just barely got out of it and I know and have the feeling that I'm out of it. Watching youtube also helped me a lot forgeting about my depression but each person has a different way of dealing with it. You can't be depressed forever and your family is right when they tell you to snap out of it, they just don't know what else to say to help. <modsnip> message me about anything whenever you feel like.

I went to the psychiatric, got proper medication, have a wonderful family that gave me full support, got the nicest girlfriend who helped me a lot through this phase. But the main reason I was able to overcome it was through my inner strength and my will to want to get better, trust me nobody will get rid of your depression completely even if they wanted to, it has to be you who has to build up inner strength to get out of it. For anxiety, I decided to do volunteer job as a teacher, I had around 30 students I was anxious at first but then I started adapting to the public, having a girlfriend who constantly compliments me and actually tolerated being with someone as depressed as I was helped me a lot too. My inner strength that made me wanna get out of depression was that I was seeing other people sad, I was destroying myself along with them. My mom would cry all the time, I used to be rude enough to tell her that I'd rather be dead and that I hope I die in my sleep. Seeing as it was destroying me and the others around, seeing as my friends and other people were moving on in life, gettings jobs, getting friends, going out and I was just stuck in an endless loop, It just hit me that I have to stop being an idiot and get over it and thats exactly what I did so I can be on the same page as everybody is because depression just delays your life, especially when you're in your 20s because that's when you're suposed to start building your life and depression gets in the way.

It is confusing but I understand what you meant. Your mind searches something bad in yourself to answer to the question why you're feeling like that and that answer isn't true at all. When I stayed home for a long time my mind had nothing but depressing thoughts it's like those thoughts were all fake but somehow I came to an understading that it was my reality and everybody else I reported it to called me crazy and told me that no such problems as I described existed in the first place. It's a very uncomfortable feeling and what you can do is think very hard that your mind is just tricking you because you're not in a healthy state and you're not stable to judge yourself, everything that comes out will be negative.

I've dealt with depression and social anxiety and I come to this forum to see if I can somehow give good opinions to the community since I've dealt with that "disease" for like 3 years. I have no experience on psychology or anything like that and my words might not even make a difference, but trying to help doesn't cost anything so here I am.