I've been depressed my entire life, what is it like to not be depressed?

Being happy and content, the opposite of depressed, feels like you are content in your life and in a good place where you can enjoy things, have motivation, confidence, and an overall positive outlook. Everyone deserves this feeling, although it's completely normal to be a bit down at times!

thinking about I am depressed will ruin all the other things whenever I feel depressed I am trying to change my focus

Dealing with depression is the most difficult thing I have ever encountered. Helplessness, addiction issues, nightmares, and anxiety follow. Helping others, helps myself. Not understanding why you feel certain ways is a son of a bitch, and after 30 years of dealing with it, I still have no answers. I harbor compassion and understand the fear involved.

Immense peace and joy fills up your inner being and you feel like you're on top of the world. You're finally joyful and can voice it out loud and you feel limitless, selfless and joyful! You want to help others, so they can feel the joy that you feel!

I too have had a lifelong struggle with depression, and only now am I having the courage to fight and overcome. To not be depressed is to change your perception of your life, knowing that joy does not come from circumstances. It is to shift your perspective of reality, realizing that sadness and failure may be a part of life, that the perfectionistic standards you hold for yourself may be idealistic and impossible to achieve. Not being depressed means to see yourself as worthy of love and belonging, and acting accordingly, such as eating the right foods that are good for your body, loving your body through sleep and exercise, and loving yourself through confiding in friends or even sometimes giving yourself time off from toxic people.

I am not quite sure how that feels like myself too. let's talk about it, there's gotta be one or hopefully two times of our lives where I / we have not been depressed in the past.

Not being depressed is an enormous burden evaporating through your pores allowing your body to breathe and your mind to wonder all the wonderful possibilities in which you can prosper , in which you can fall in love with , in which you find harmony between what you value and desire. Not being depressed is when your heart is no longer heavy like a dripping sponge but anewed where it can feel accepted and loved. Where your limbs contain this bendable free energy that can take you worlds across. Not being depressed is freedom.

To be depressed is like walking in the rain with no one, neither you nor people around you recognizing your tears for the rain that drops on your cheeks. To not be depressed is the feeling of the gentle wind that blows through your hair and the sunshine after the rain.

My experience is of course different than others.I think, it felt quite normal I guess. There were highs, there were lows and thses combined to make it a great experience. But, in depression everything is just awful and "awful" is the new normal.

It's like a whole new life and everyone can get there. You just have to find the right support and anything is possible