Have you ever struggled with depression and how did you cope?

My best coping mechanism was walking. Every time I got depressed i would walk. When you take in the outside, even in a city, it just loosens up my depression. Life is too short to be sad. Try going for a walk and see if that helps

Ohhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 🙆

I struggle in the winter months, sweetie, so what I invested in was a S.A.D Lamp.

Get up early, have my breakfast and a cup of tea in front of it for around 40 minutes a day and, over about a week, I found it really helped enormously!

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Only every day. I have functional depression but it better this year

I quit drinking

They say verbally talking out loud helps the most... and at times that has worked for me.

I even did it with a neighbors dog, golden retriever that just wanted to be pet, verbally talking to her. Though she has since passed away.


And currently going through depression due to not understanding how to work under my boss... who wants "independent work", but then if you make any decisions, then it's automatically wrong, as he's a control freak and he needs to be the one that makes all decisions.

And I don't think he can see that he's the one causing the issue of slowing us down and creating his own back log, which means we need to work more independently and rely less on him, but then we're doing it wrong, as it isn't his decision.

Alcohol, friends, meds, sex, therapy, music, writing,

I eat Twinkies!😋

Yes and got sectioned spent time in care for it

Yes. I just suffer through it.

yes , i only focused in those matter i like to do and among those things which i got my around to do in that life and by involving in those things i changed my mind

Meds, therapy.

All my life. And I am not coping well at all.

Depression’s cut a 45 year swath of destruction through my life. This is the best visual representation I’ve ever seen of how it feels.

Time… music…. Running….

By praying

Learned to care less about things i cannot change.

I've learned not to be ashamed of it that's helped a lot if I'm depressed I don't try to hide it and if I need to sleep or cry I don't justify it or excuse it.

I've kinda always been depressed. Just push through, nobody cares.

Yes I struggle with depression everyday so I know the feeling.. I just go on about life and that's how I cope with it.. Not much I can do but keep my chin up and hope for the best.

I don’t struggle with it because she is just part of my being. I wake up with my monster every morning and go to sleep with her every night. I fight with her…scream even. I look for her embrace some days when I just have to give up. She’s my constant. My safe place. She always waits for me and I find comfort in her darkness.

It isn’t a matter of coping for me. It’s a matter of accepting where she and I are at any particular moment…sometimes day to day and sometimes breath to breath.

Well BELIEVE it or not... My whole "Independent Scientology" thing has helped in the past... (Again I order my books on eBay for cheap... I'm NOT and never will be part of the Church)... But what works for me may not work for everyone...

Yes and I have typically dealt with it as self-destructively as possible.

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