How long have you been depressed?

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wondering how deep some of your depression have been,how long have you been depressed? i guees the longer the deeper

Not sure how long, but it only got really bad about a year ago. Actually, I remember my first big pitfall was a year ago, early June 2004.

i have been depressed for about 6 months. im only 15 and my dad died about 3 years ago and i held all my feelings and anger and basically everything inside until a little while ago, i stopped going to school half way through the year, lost touch with my friends, didnt talk to my mom, started sleeping all day and staying up in the night...i never felt the need to go outside or do any social activities, i basically just sat in my basement hating my life and thinking whats the point in everything. now the summer has come and ive started hanging out with my friends and stuff like that, kind of like a new hope for some reason, but i still havnt got my feelings out about everything thats happend in my life so i dont know what i should do

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