Reflections: Depression 56 Articles

by Bethany Anderson

Mental Illness - From Outside Your Mind Every human being has ups and downs. Every human being reacts in unexpected ways. Emotions are what makes us human and yet my emotions are often crucially different from my boyfri...read more

by Crystal Harvey

I was diagnosed in my early twenties with depression,I had just given birth but I thought it was postpartum depression but it wasn't. No one knew I even had it but I did. I liked to isolate myself from family,friends and e...read more

by Joseph Wardy

When my brother got killed in a car accident 30 years ago, I was concerned about my parents and did not grieve his death. Then, one morning nine months later I woke up and could not move my body. I was diagnosed with wh...read more

by Dawn B.

My depression actually started when I was a child around the age of 8 or 9. At that time I had no idea what was wrong with me and had no clue as to how to go about finding out what was wrong with me. I was finally diagnose...read more

by Misty Cryer-Davidson

Depression . . . It is like a bandit that takes away the enjoyment of everything that really matters to you. I have seen it happen to people that I love and I really couldn't understand it. "Just pull your self out,"...read more

by Catherine Fitzsimons

Its a black hole..no light can pierce it. It feels like there is no hope. Thats the biggest loss for me...no hope of anything. I can pretend to feel. I pretend to laugh but inside there is that black hole...It swallows the...read more

by Laura Grimshaw

Depression isn't just about feeling "a bit down". It is a bleak mental state to be in. For me, my depression took the form of a path of self-destruction spurred on by the diagnosis of my Mother with cancer. The more ...read more

by Elisha Bates

This past week was an emotional roller coaster for me. One minute I would be on top of the world and things would seem like they couldn't get any better. The next I would feel like things couldn't get any worse. It was mai...read more

by Diana North

My thoughts of killing myself started at age eleven, middle school. Middle school is when most kids either make name for themselves or make themselves a mark, a mark for persecution. I was the ladder. I was definitely t...read more

by Jen Bonds

Crying for no reason at all, sleeping for days, not eating. I went from being a strong willed woman to being like a child afraid of the dark. I was a prisoner in my own mind, confining myself to my home. I went from being ...read more

by Tracey Watkins

DEPRESSION-ITS YOU AGAINST THE OUTSIDE WORLD. I myself have suffered depression on and off since 1996.Back then You used to feel like an alien compared to everyone else,as people didn't understand much about the conditi...read more

by Myrna Writewood

Depression, when one goes through so many losses in life, they go through a depression. Where it leaves one feeling sad, meloncholy, not sure of themselves, you have to build yourself up all over again. Where depression...read more

by Kathryn Smith

Depression is a commonly used word, but when you have just been dumped, you are not truly depressed. Depression is not something that you can just feel; it's a state of mind. It does not come and go; it's always there. ...read more

by David Rheins

Evan and the e-mail epiphany Thousands of emails stacked up in his in-box. Offers of no money down mortgages and discount Viagra, online catalogs for Oregon pears and offers from the panty-of-the-month club. These along...read more

by Stacy Rodriguez

She was recently divorced and thats when her soul was lost in a blink of an eye. She did not see the landslide of bad luck coming her way. If she had she would have sheerly run for cover. It begins with her two...read more

by Tonic

Depression is a downer. Many people will say why and what depression is. "Its anger turned inward" exclaims counselor. "Depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain," explains the psychiatrist. "You are depres...read more

by Koren Ribken

The hand that holds you often has to be your own. When the winds blow hard and storms rage and the darkness surrounds you. That is when more than ever you look up to the heavens, and you look for a friend. That is when ...read more

by Grace Brentley

"What do you have to be depressed about?" my mother asked when I first told her that I had seen a doctor and been put on an anti-depressant. I fought off the urge to retort that perhaps I was depressed because I had such ...read more

by Linda Shirley

The phone rang that fated October evening. It was my husband's brother-in-law asking for my husband in an almost too cheery of a voice, yet you could hear the hold back and the crack in his voice. "How goes it he forced ou...read more

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by Leslie Lundy

Its so dark in here, and I feel nothing, everything infront of me seems to anoy my every being, almost every waking moment is filled with thoughts of suicide, I long for the peace and solitude of death, the chance to rest ...read more