I was just diagnosed yesterday with severe depression 🙁. I have numerous things about this. I'm 16, going to be 17 in October and with this depression I don't know if I should work or not. I mean, I need money to buy stuff to make me feel better and I hate being a goldbricker but if I work I get very stressed out and I just need to be alone. I've heard if you're diagnosed with this you can't drive and could go on disability (not yet for me though). I don't know what to do, any advice as to the job issue?
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AmazonRasta
Banned
You could always take some E. From four to six hours you will feel better than you've ever felt in your life. Be aware though, your depression could increase tenfold when you are coming down.
Or, you could always get legal medication, like Prozac, to help your depression. If you were diagnosed with depression, didn't your doctor prescribe you some medication?
Or, you could always get legal medication, like Prozac, to help your depression. If you were diagnosed with depression, didn't your doctor prescribe you some medication?
PsychoAndy
Lifer
You're reccomending MDMA? What are you, high? Dont answer that.
-PAB
If you've been properly diagnosed, and the drugs you were given didn't do anything, get a new doctor.
Given the medicinal arsenal with which physicians are able to combat depression, odds are excellent there will be something that will work well for you.
Keep in mind they aren't quick fixes, some require weeks to take effect.
Viper GTS
Given the medicinal arsenal with which physicians are able to combat depression, odds are excellent there will be something that will work well for you.
Keep in mind they aren't quick fixes, some require weeks to take effect.
Viper GTS
UglyCasanova
Lifer
Just take a while and chill out, read a good book, listen to some good music, and realize that the world is not always a pep rally, nor should it be. I have been depressed, I still am in a way, and I know how it is. I don't know how severe yours is, or even what a severe depression is. All I know is that downer music and starring at cold, gray pictures gives me some sort of religious sensation that nothing else can. People ask me why I like things that are so bleak. I'm not sure if I can even answer that. I don't listen to all of that death rock (or whatever the hell pigeon hole you want to call it) or look at morbid things like dead dogs and stuff, I'm just not really into being pepped up all of the time.
As far as the work thing goes, get a job. I didn't have the great experience of HS that most people fall in love with. I just went, did my thing, and left. I had friends up there, but none that I would consider close by any means. For I while I didn't associate with anyone my age outside of school hardly. The job helped a bunch. I became really close to everyone up there, and I have to quit in a week which will be really hard. I got to reinvent myself up there, so now I do go to parties sometimes. This doesn't mean I don't some sort of cold feeling about the world, I just have fun too.
I guess I'm just trying to say that I wouldn't really consider depression to be a bad thing, just don't let it control you like it did me. Life is what you make of it. Force yourself to associate with people, and speak with as many different people as you can.
As far as the work thing goes, get a job. I didn't have the great experience of HS that most people fall in love with. I just went, did my thing, and left. I had friends up there, but none that I would consider close by any means. For I while I didn't associate with anyone my age outside of school hardly. The job helped a bunch. I became really close to everyone up there, and I have to quit in a week which will be really hard. I got to reinvent myself up there, so now I do go to parties sometimes. This doesn't mean I don't some sort of cold feeling about the world, I just have fun too.
I guess I'm just trying to say that I wouldn't really consider depression to be a bad thing, just don't let it control you like it did me. Life is what you make of it. Force yourself to associate with people, and speak with as many different people as you can.
PistachioByAzul
Diamond Member
Buying stuff will not make you feel better.....yeah, right. Work-home-shop-home, the American way.
PistachioByAzul
Diamond Member
Depression is a lie, the people who came up with it are too feeble to understand that what they call "depression" and treat like some kind of biological defect, is really a symptom of how toxic our consumer culture has become. Money, stuff, they provide false security, momentarily filling the void that gets bigger and bigger the more detached from nature we become. Simplify, spend more time doing things outside. Kill your TV. If you can, kill your computer.