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I've had depression for as long as I can remember and the only thing that has ever helped me feel truly happy and content was weed. I got to where I was smoking CONSTANTLY and when I wasn't smoking I was working to get money to buy more weed. I realized by doing this I was just numbing my depression so I didn't have to deal with it instead of figuring out a way of ...

An odd counter intuitive thing has been happening to me lately and I am trying to understand.
Hetero Male 60 divorced.

I am prone to melancholy my entire life. To tell you the truth there is a warm comforting feeling about this curious sadness and it can me take time to break it’s effect.

It is never debilitating, sometimes I have to take a few days off from work to get my head straight.
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Hey there. I'm new here and I really hope being here can help me reduce some of my anger/anxiety/depressing thoughts..

I'm having trouble controlling my emotions regarding my grades at university - well not only about grades but this is what's bothering me this afternoon..
I put in a lot of work to pass my exams, I try to be social, which never works though, and when I finally think I did good I either ...

Okay guys, so I've been diagnosed with severe depression and anxiety and I don't know if this is normal. I hear these voices in my head but instead of it being a voice it's an entity. It can get very harsh, when I was little I spent an entire summer with the thought, "I don't want to go to hell" in my mind. Except it didn't come and go. It never stopped, from my very ...

I recently stopped smoking Cannabis (about 1.5 months ago) after smoking it for 8 years from the ages of 20 to 28. All was going well until about 2 weeks ago when I remembered something from my past that gave me a MASS surge of guilt. The issue happened long before I started smoking weed and this incident was never the trigger for my starting with the weed in the first place. In the past ...

I'm teenage boy. My grandma died 6 weeks ago. I now live with my dad who is 52. My mother left me as 5 months old baby. I'm ugly, poor and I like girl that's a year older and rich and beautiful.
I play violin, english is my L2 as you've noticed. My IQ is 123. I really did everything I could about my depression. I went in hospital, talked to friends, overdosed on pills, ...

I ######6 hate myself at the moment.Let's waste no more time and start with the actual story.So I have an account in a app called amino.Its basically a app that lets you join communities.So I go there a join one about my favourite show.So i write a lot about the characters of my shows.And what i mainly do is make funny things about the show or make memes about the shows which are pretty funny ...

I've been talking to a good friend of mine for about a month and a half, and I've notice him say depressing things before, but we went on a date yesterday and he admitted he has depression and both of his sisters have tried to commit suicide before. I also struggle with depression, but more so with PTSD, but I don't know how to react to him telling me this. What I want to say ...

So my psychiatrist prescribed me Lamictal today. I always research the meds afterward. So I find out it's for bipolar depression which I don't have since I never have intense mood changes. I never have mood "highs" just very intense mood "lows". I've been diagnosed with clinical depression along with several anxiety disorders and ADHD. But anyway, he prescribed me this since I've been really irritable. It seems to happen after I take Viibryd which ...

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