depressed..?

Uh so this is basically the first place I'm appealing to for help. I wasn't sure if I was 'depressed' or not but after reading so much about depression; everything, physically, mentally and emotionally of the symptoms of depression I'm feeling.

For around a few months now, everything is less exciting and fun. Sometimes I get mood swings. You know those times you just DIE laughing? Yeah, I used to have them with my friends everyday. Haven't laughed like that in months.. I think slower..I'm no longer a funny out-going guy..Socializing doesn't excite me, but even if I do try and be the "regular me", it just isn't the same so basically my social life sucks. Food isn't as tasty, sex isn't as good, it's hard for me to put up a smile. I might be happy about one thing but a minute later I'll think about something else and my mood dulls completely.

I don't want to go to the doctor and start taking pills for this...but life..sucks now I guess?

 

Is there any particular reason that you may be feeling depressed?

Alot of people go through periods of depression during their lives, ESPECIALLY during their teen years. I myself was very depressed for many years during my teens and even had a time where I got so low I actually decided that I no longer wanted to live. At the time I was so mixed up and confused, and so lost and depressed that I simply couldn't see clearly. I had great friends, a great family, was extremely social, popular, and had just about anything most kids would want. Yet I just felt so numb and sad all the time and lost interest in just about everything I used to like. I couldn't eat, started either sleeping all day long for days at a time, or staying awake for days being a total insomniac. I also began abusing lots of drugs and alcohol which made it severely worse.

You should seriously seek help and try to talk to somebody about your depression and figure out reasons why you feel like that. My parents and my doctor wanted me to go on anti depressant medication but I refused. I didn't want to become a zombie like many people in my family who suffer from bipolar disorder or various types of depression and are heavily medicated for it. It tooks years, but eventually I kind of grew out of the depression somehow. I look back and I know that there was alot of factors in my life that contributed to me feeling extremely depressed, but I also think that just something to do with my hormones and brain chemistry was out of whack just from being in the middle of adolesence.

Before you turn to medication, try to seek help from your parents and a counsellor, and try to work through your issues and see if you can pinpoint any particular reasons why you are feeling the way you are. If nothing seems to help at all and you are running out of options, then some people do really well on anti-depressants. But I think that sometimes those periods of depressions just come and go, and you need to try to stay on top of them the best you can. I know that I still go through periods of depression, lasting anywhere from a couple days to over six months.

Seek help and get yourself evaluated so you can try to figure out the best plan for you. Getting help can be one of the most difficult and challenging experiences you will ever face but you will feel so much better if you do, and if you can get your whole family and friends on board to stand behind you and support you. Good luck man, I wish you the best. Keep your head up

 

Two words --> Happy Meal. On a serious note maybe you are just in a slump, try and wait it out and see if things get better.

 

I've been feeling this way for several months. I was that funny, out-going dude in class. Now I don't talk, if I do it's minimal. I can't make a joke for my life now =/

wtf man

 

I am the same i used to be a popular person loved by everyone now i stutter when talking to people i blame it on runescape im so depressed these days aswell i blame staking.

 

A few questions for you..
How old are you?
Has anything recently happened that you were sad about?
Have you taken or are you still taking drugs?

By the sounds of things, I'd say you need a doctor if it has gone on for so long and it's effecting everything in your life, but I may be able to assess it further if you anser the above questions.

 

Good luck with your problems TheBailey

I'm 18.
Nope. Everything in life is fine if not amazing apart from the fact that my social life has gone downhill because of feeling this way.
I've smoked weed, drank alcohol, popped oxys and taken ecstacy.
I've felt this way before the oxys and E came into play though.

Honestly if I HAD to blame something, it would be two things;

Excessive amounts of smoking marijuana and to go along with this, I always smoked with people who would find it funny to "shit on" each other. I didn't find it funny so I guess smoking weed made me extremely susceptible to it or something. I'm actually feeling better these past two days though.

 

Ah, have you stopped smoking marijuana? That does stuff to your brain (I know weed smokers on here always feel like that have to say weed is harmless, but I've had experience with it in the past), also glad to hear you have been feeling better
Also have you stopped taking oxys and E's?

 

Consult your doctor. Don't let social stigmas regarding anti-depressants deter you from the idea of having a prescription to one. The thought of being dependent on medication for the rest of your life is exhausting, i know, but it might be what you need.

 

I still smoke marijuana on occasions. Not close to nearly how much I used to. Only on weekends in low amounts atm. (A dub every now and then can last me a few days). And yes, I've only taken them both once. I want to take E again as it was an amazing experience; but I'm waiting for that special moment - rave, party, sex, whatever. Not considering oxys again.

Eh..I don't want to be a slave to a drug.

 

Ironic subsequent statement, and arrogant for that matter as well. You smoke weed on weekends to pass the time by and you need ecstasy to enhance a 'special' moment yet you won't stop for one second and consider a drug beneficial to not only stimulating you when you're destructively indulging yourself at a club but on an every-day basis. Cool story bro.

 

Because molly and weed are both destructive drugs and cause obvious withdrawal symptoms upon stopping usage.

/idiot

 

Uhhh, yeah, the downtime that sometimes lasts days after coming off of MDMA or ecstacy is a lot harder to endure than any prozac blues. This is coming from experience, to which you have none evidently.

As for weed, i won't even get started getting into long-term effects that dumb ass Rastafarians and teenage delinquents will retort against aimlessly, with complete bias.

 

I took E once. There was NO crash afterwards from it that I experienced.

 

Well, first time impressions aren't reliable enough to base an opinion on. Wait till you binge one weekend, enjoy the next few days of complete misery while your body tries to make up for the lack of serotonin that had been eaten away by the E.