i struggle with depression every day and my eatiing disorder every day also but i am better about it i think now
anyone else have depression like serious depression

I did when I was younger. I don't know if I've ever fully been able to shake it, and it still rears its ugly head occasionally, but... helping others helps.

*hugs*

Hang in there, honey.

Yes.  It can be horrific.  Get your therapist or doc to prescribe some antidepressants.  They worked wonders for me and got me back from the brink, back to being myself.

Depression sux.

Jay

i do have an anti depressant and an anti axiety sometimes they do help
*hugs back*

Yep, it comes and goes, sometimes gets pretty deep. Jay's advice is good if you can find one that works for you. But, depression is also a part of everyone's life. It's the degree that's a problem with us, it can be hard to shake after a day or two. Most people can do that on their own.

We all have positive things in our lives as well. Some may seem to have an abundance, but I'd bet you can find at least one or two in your own.

N~

Yeh... but unfortunantly I find anti-depressants do little for me.  If anything I then find myself unhappy because it depresses parts of myself I actually like intact, plus the weight gain...  with them two I'd rather be trying to learn how to deal with it in another manner.

I used to have really bad depression and none of the meds would work (caused stupid stuff like spasm attacks, extreme acts of recklessness, etc).  I am better now, but every once in a while I will succumb to the misery and suffer for about a month or two.

I'd have to say that I've battled it off and on since puberty, maybe even before puberty. It really got a lot better after I turned 22 but reared its ugly head again when I was 26 and led to catastrophic weight gain and more than a decade yo-yoing between 230 and 260 pounds. But I must say that accepting myself as a transsexual and accepting the fact that I really like men instead of women has been very refreshing and has been a very positive experience. Right now I am at 195 pounds and have completely stopped all binge eating, all excessive eating and the feelings of despair are not as frequent. I say that whatever a persons situation is they should work hard to address the root causes of their depression because if we don't fix our real problems then the best we can do is tread water.