News of Clinical Depression Forum

Hi everyone,

I'm new here. I'm 28 and single. Today I felt so depressed I have decided to sign up to this and try to get some advice from other people. Usually I just wallow and wait for it to "pass".

OK here goes, hopefully some of it makes sense.

I feel empty, alone, worthless, hollow, ugly, useless, stupid, unattractive, uninteresting, unwitty, annoying and invisible. SOmetimes I feel so invisible the automatic doors won't open ...

I swear my family enjoys making me miserable. I swear they want to make my life a living hell. They don't seem to ever let me do what I want to. They are changing. They aren't the loving, caring family that raised me anymore. They are not the family that I know. I don't know if it's just me or if that's the reality of things right now. I just don't know anymore.
I wish ...

Anyone on Effexor, if so do you have any side effects, such as insomnia, what do you do about it. Lack of sleep makes everyhting worse as far as I am concerned. Also anyone just recently diagnosed with depression, like I am, was it related to a life stressor?

hey, I am really depressed and desperately wanted to cry but I don't want to. Because tears couldn't help. Here my problem is, I stopped liking Mike, my date guy. For that reason, I was not really happy when I'm with him. It didn't felt so right for me be happy to be with him. But fortunately, we yet weren't in a relationship. Because I easily get depressed for nothing or sometimes reasons. I told ...

hi, I am scared to tell you because you'd think that sounds totally stupid or else.. But I have to tell.

Anyways, my name is nina.. I'm 15 years old. I suffer lots from depression and anxiety disorder. I have a professional therapist and a school counselor but it doesn't help me. I still am unhappy with lots of things what I do. But I want to be happy even though it doesn't feel right ...

I feel like I'm having a panic attack. My boyfriend had to go to court today for dui and the judge actually sentenced him to 14 days in jail! I've been diagnosed with postpartum depression, and had my doctor write a note for my bf to give to the judge, saying that he NEEDS to be home with me and the baby and that it would be TRAUMATIC for me to be at home by ...

Depression is an emotional state characterized by the exaggeration of nagative feelings. The person usually becomes inactive and dejected thinking nothing is worthwhile

Read more about the different types of depression and how to treat it http://www.whatafeeling.net/depression.php

Hi, i believe i need psychiatric help. I am severely depressed. I dont think i'll be going to a psychiatrist or tell anybody about my problems in real life, but i know that i do have serious problems...

a)i was never depressed before say 14yo. though i moved to a new country at 11, i made some new friends and played sports,etc. but i started using computers at about that age. Thats when i started ...

Not sure if the trigger was needed.
There's no boby in the ppd forum so I'm posting this here.

I'm not sure where to begin with this.
I've been drepressed pretty much my whole life but has gotten soooo much worse since my daughter has been born, almost 3 months ago. My doctor gave me antidepressants, but I stopped taking them after 2 days, cause they were making me sick. I go back to see ...

Sorry ---

Here's my question:

On Memorial Day I was drastically depressed. I thought it was because it was a holiday and I'm stuck in the house because I still have the tail end of tetanus.

I was just overwhelmingly depressed, and I didn't think I'd ever be able to see the light and go on.

But... next day I felt a great deal better, and the only difference was that I got 7 hours ...