How common is depression, am I really alone?

Deppression is one of the most common disorders, is also probably the most "hidden" one, a large number of people spend years even without knowing they are suffering it. I have know many people who think that they are just "passing trough a rough patch" "having a bad time" but since they don't know they are deppresive they try to convince themselfs that what they feeling is normal. Martha Manning say it better: Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door.

Depression is very common actually, this shouldn't diminish or invalidate anyone's experience of depression, but most people will suffer from depression at least once in their lives and it's nothing to be ashamed of or to ask help for. You are not alone.

"Clinical depression is the most common type of mental illness, affecting more than 19 million Americans every year." -MentalHealthAmerica.net These are the statistics. Depression is common and no, you are never alone. There is always someone who is feeling exactly the same way that you are. Stay strong!

Statistics show that 350,000,000 people have depression. That is only of the people who have gotten professional help. Depression is very common. You are not alone. Even I have depression. But, darling, you can get through this.

In my personal experience, I've learnt that you are NEVER alone. There are always people around you who want to help, even if you can't see it . Depression is very common and so it's likely that people in your neighbourhood or even your school are going through the same kind of struggle as you.

You are not alone, depression is one of the most common clinical diagnoses in the entire world. There are many with it, much of them are guaranteed to want to share their experiences with you and to grow and learn alongside you.

Depression is really common, and you're not alone. WHO states that over 350 million people world wide suffer from depression. So it's really, really common. And you're really, really not alone :)

it's all in your head when you say you are alone. there are many people out there willing to listen and support you. you just gotta open yourselves up to them

Depression is considered the "common cold of psychiatry" because it's common enough that a randomly selected person of sufficient age would be able to say that they have had it at some point in their lives. You're not alone, and there are people out there who want to help you.

Depression is a common thing, but sometimes we don't know that we are experiencing that. Sometimes we would just feel hollow, sad, lonely, bad mood, upset, and all of sudden we realized that we are depressed. I've been through this. I still do sometimes. But now when i start feeling depressed, I talk to someone, my best friend. If I can't, then I would just write. Write anything. Doesn't have to be good, but writing is actually a way of talking too. Let anything just flow through your fingers and mind and watch you pen dancing by the grip of your fingers above a sheet of paper. Then go outside. Suddenly i don't feel lonely anymore. That's what i do when i feel depressed. But again, this only my point of view, we are actually not alone. The mind of lonely comes as a distraction when we don't really see our surroundings. Even if it's only a friend, we should be grateful for it.