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Living life as someone experiencing depression is like scuba diving with a bunch of friends, only to find out mid-dive that your equipment doesn't work-- sure, your friends are having the time of their lives exploring the reef and marveling at the pretty fishes, but in the meantime you're there, choking to death, frantically clawing at your oxygen tank and mask praying to any dear sweet deity that you don't pass out and die right there at the bottom of the ocean. Now, imagine those friends becoming frustrated and bored with your "antics" and insisting you "lighten up", enjoy the dive and the pretty coral and "stop being such a buzzkill." It's not very fun.
 

Some people think that depression is derived solely from a set of bad circumstances, and that once these circumstances the depression should by all rights go away. Again, false. The entirety of modern science recognizes that mental illness is a legitimate condition that doesn't ebb and flow according to how great your life is going on paper at any given moment.

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[(Anonymous)]

I hear ya. Going through it too. If I knew 20 years ago what I have learned in the last few years about seratonin levels & how that works, my life would have been so different.

I probably would have advised the doctors that they could take their Zoloft and stick it up their ass.

Recently had to explain to a loved one that all I wanted "from" him (re: my depression) is that he be on my side.

People who haven't experienced it don't really seem to understand how hellish it can be.

I have experienced it, and I'm on your side, babe. I use L-Theanine and 5HTP, which are amino acids that are safe and natural. They don't make my problems go away, but when I use these I'm better able to deal with them w/out having a melt down (most of the time).