What impact does/did depression have on your life?

Depression reduces my energy, drive, and focus. It feels like it changes not just how I feel, or what I can do, but who I am.

When you are in depression or have started to get depressed, you find everything meaningless and even the thing you loved the most seems like a waste. You would start to get detached from the people, friends, family, feelings... There are times when you want to just live, and depression is the opposite of that where you just don't.

It made me stronger. I would have died a long time ago, if I given up, but I didn't, so I'm still alive and I really hope to stay alive as long as possible, even through I'm struggling with a stage IV lung cancer. So I can say, deppression kept me alive, because I didn't give up :)

As a person who had to deal with depression in the past, I know that it's hard to conciliate it with everyday life. People expect you to get things done and smile when you feel like staying in your room all day,wanting to die.

Depression can be so heavy it's something that can make life feel like it has no point ! Fighting it can feel so hard that it on it's own leaves you feeling like you want to give up ! Depression kept me in a dark corner without words :( no pill fixed me it was the magic of the sun each morning and all the gift from Mother Earth :)

Depression has taught me how better to understand and relate to others. Depression allowed me to experience things and sort through how to cope and how to better help others going through similar situations.

I was in university when my depression became too severe to continue. I struggle through a semester, barely passing my classes, and then decided I needed to take some time off. I engaged in harmful behaviours, and I questioned whether it was worth it to continue on. I made the decision to share my struggles with my mother, and she helped me get in touch with multiple mental health care professionals, thus beginning my journey to recovery. This was two years ago, and everyday I'm thankful for how far I've come. I'm back in school, close to graduation, with a fantastic job and wonderful friends and family who have supported me every step of the day. Getting help is absolutely worth it. I was lucky enough to have a mom who cared enough to help me on my way, but even if you don't have that kind of support system, reach out for health. You are worth it.

It made me into a person i never wished to be, angry selfish, not kind and caring, an mean person, i was treated badly, and had bleak outlooks, until i found freinds, and my old soul awoke.

Suddenly Life seems challenging and kind of dull. You seem to lose interest in your favourite things. Nothing seems to excite you. You seem to constantly be in a cloud of hopelessness. And hence, you feel a little lonely and feel nobody understands you because they are not going through the same things. And so, it affects your interpersonal relationships, efficiency at work or studies. And so, as your performance may go down and you feel you're not doing your best, you start feeling bad about yourself and you seem to lose faith in yourself and it can take a lot of effort to gain that back.

I never realized I had depression until I read that it can just be a feeling of "nothingness" When I read that and looked more into it I realized that I might be Depressed. I had lived most of my life(since around middle school) depressed and somewhat scared of talking about it because I thought I was crazy. Along with depression I also have very mild social anxiety. On a good day it wouldn't really affect me because I could overcome it very easily. However on a normal day with depression I just couldn't find the motivation to overcome it.