Memoirs: Depression 35 Articles

by Angela Scanes

BEFORE AND AFTER 1 The appointment approaches the one that's going to tell me what's wrong with me; or not. I don't know what I'll do if they say there's nothing wrong; nothing they can help with; just a weaker ve...read more

by Jennifer Clark

I wake up to crying at 3:00am. I roll over to my right where she cries in her little cradle next to the bed. I undo my night gown and bring her over to me where she can nurse and be comforted in my arms. I am the one who n...read more

by Lee Welch

April. The first race of the season is on the last Saturday of the month. You show up at the racetrack with your press pass an hour before qualifying and make your way infield. You sit on the steps that lead to the perc...read more

by Dianna Gunn

This is the meaning of true darkness. Some mornings you don't get up, some nights you don't sleep, most of them you're spending thinking 'how do I make it better?' You cradle a knife in your hand for the first time, you wo...read more

by Meghann Russell

I never thought I'd get out alive, I thought it would never end except through death. But I'm slowly beginning to emerge from my tunnel. My tunnel is not like that of a road tunnel or train tunnel; smooth and straight. Mi...read more

by Sara Siskin

When I'm in a depressive state, I feel it physically as well as mentally. I grow so incredibly tired I find myself weak. I walk around in a dark cloud wherever I go and it feels horrible. When this happens to me I feel cur...read more

by Marie Gallant

DEPRESSION! Standing in front of my son, hs little arms reaching out to me, as he was crying "mommy, mommy take me, take baby boy!", wanting and craving for me to take him back into my arms. I could not do this for my so...read more

by Chukwuma Anyaso

Diary Of Dispair:About a girl. April 10: Ladybird was here,the only one that seems to care.I wonder what invisible thing she sees,or thinks she can obtain.Nothing material i know.Wisdom?,thats a laugh.Maybe just ...read more

by Elizabeth Stewart

I've taken the meds. Both of them, in hopes of leveling out and coming down. I'm outside, on the stoop, smoking my fifth (sixth?) cigarette of the day. Making plans in my head, gesticulating and trying to keep my mut...read more

by Debbie Muir

Depression....Oh, that's not me. Lots of other people have it, but not me. I am just a little bit tired and over worked thats all. Things will calm donw soon. Just got to get this stuff done and everything will be perf...read more

by bettyc

I slowly open my eyes and squint at the clock beside the bed. Seven a.m. I shut my eyes, blocking the sunlight peeking through the blinds, "fifteen more minutes," I think to myself. I am already dreading the day ahead. ...read more

by Julie Gazca

I don't know when it all started. What I do know is I've been wanting help for a long time. Without knowing, and certainly without people noticing, I had been crying for attention, begging for something that'll help reliev...read more

by S. james-T Ward

Friend and Foe Alike. (friend) Many times have I called the beast from its deep cavern rest misrepresenting the very fury innate to the sickness itself. As cowardly a man could be twas I as hunkered own behind those claw...read more

by Dominique Burnett

There are times when you just want to give up. When you just cant take it anymore. What do you do in those times? Abandon everything you have put in. Give up on possibility cut your losses? When your heart is breaking........read more

by AMERICAN MAN

~=STATE INDUCED DEPRESSION=~ A LIVING ACCOUNT Americans don't deport their citizens they exile them, socially calling them criminals for getting caught by Johnny law - a one armed Angel that elected his (their) own agent...read more

by Amanda Regan

My Depressing Truth. I am comfortably numb. I suffer from depression, always have done as far as I can tell. I don't get suicidal, I don't have those euphoric highs and soul destroying lows and I don't hate myself o...read more

by Richard E. Grant

THIS IS A FICTIONAL DIARY ENTRY BASED ON FICTIONAL CHARACTERS Today is so far a better day than yesterday, mind you, it's on 09:30, but at least I woke in a better mood. I've taken my pills and I'm about to go and meet...read more

by misskitkat12

My life is a monotonous blur of people, places and things. I don't experience life, I just sort of trudge through it. I can barely make it through the day without the thought of swallowing a whole jar of Aspirin. Pain? ...read more

by Tammy Folsom

The year is 2005 and I have just had my third child since 2002. Everything seems so bleak to me, there is no joy when there should be right? I have just had my third child something I had been looking forward to since I fo...read more

by Tom Koecke

Happiness resides just above as the air to the vast sea of depression. Tho' not landed, there is much company adrift. Some claim light empowers them to walk on the sea. However, they fool no one; likely not even themsel...read more