How long have you been depressed?

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You can always talk here, acooldude. (And welcome, BTW.)It's a very positive thing that you are hanging out with your friends now. Getting out of the house and doing things help a lot.

ive been depressed for about 5 years solid,and suicidal for about 3 years,i guess its all pretty deep when your suicidal,i have no freinds,no place of refuge,parents that hate who i really am and try to control every breath i take,poetry gets me by

about a year

since day 1? I've been happy so many times but the world always finds a way to crush me. I love my wife but she treats me like shit. I'm crying right now.

About 16 years

since i could remember

Have you gotten any professional help...or did it not do any good?

depressed for 7years, suicidal/homicidal for 2years

saying ive been depressed as long as i can remember is an over statement, but it seems that way. im 21, and since i was 14 or so, ive been depressed. i used to act "happy" so no one would notice, and then i would go home and just sit in my room. its gotten better (im on medication) but sometimes, i just sit in my room.

im the same way, i walk out the door and im totally different person than what i am inside my room. i put on a act 24/7 to mask it, but i sit here and think and be depressed. i have been depressed since 11yrs. old. now im 17 soon to be 18. and still depressed. im not at the suicidal/homicidal stage... yet. i dont talk to anyone about it, and i dont take any medication to help me with it.

I think a lot of what people call 'depression' for people aged 11 - 18 is just what we have all been through, life changes, body changes, just regular growing up, I remember feeling that way when i was younger, but wouldn't have labelled myself as 'depressed' any way thats my personal opinion.As for not talking to people, try it, it helps, odds are that a lot of your friends are feeling the same way........and talking to people really helps.............i don't necessarily mean a councillor, but just talking to other people will help you organise the problems in your life (if any) find solutions, and generally feel better about yourself, you're not alone in the way you feel.

i think the teenage years can just be hell sometimes, i think im out that period now but i remember when i was 15-17 it got especially bad, and i know i would never want to revisit it, i would call it depression but at the same time ive kinda come to realise that life doesnt get anymore easier

5 yrs now , since i entered collage life, not just because of body changes or teenagers problems, but i had a new life, new wider world to see. diffrent kind of people , everything is depressing.

Since my best friend died almost 3 years ago.

about 6 years :frowning:

three years.

edit:sucidal for two years

i was diagnosed with it in march of this year. but looking back on it i think it started about two to three years ago and just steadily went downward from there.

4 years ever since i had my first sexual experiance since then ive just been depressed and ive recently wanted to kill my self

I've been struggling on and off with depression since I was a little girl..I'm talking (does the mental math) since I was like 4. Apparently..(I don't remember this of course) after my Aunt's wedding in which I was the flower girl I went up to my father with a huge butcher knife and asked him if it was sharp enough to hurt myself...Then there was the time I tried to throw myself out of the second floor window at age eight when my kitten got hit by a car. I've stedily become worse and worse...ie more and more hopeless and easily upset. My family doesn't understand and thinks I'm just flying off the handle or am being too dramatic...I've tried telling them a few times how I feel, that I am suicidal and terrified of docters. I think (crosses fingers) that I have it more under control at the moment...But I am still am easily upset and un-motivated..All I want to do is sleep...and wow am I ever rambling -_-;; Sorry about that I didn't mean to go on for so long.