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I have a problem like this too, where people have to remind me to eat. I just don't feel like eating and nothing is appealing. When I do force some food, I don't even feel the relief of alleviating hunger. When I realize this happening, then I try to treat myself to some of my favorite things. The k...

My boyfriend lately has been having some kind of mental breakdown. I don't know what is wrong with him, but he's just being really manic/depressed. Sometimes he starts laughing or crying or screaming for no reason. Since I have depression then I understand he doesn't do it on purpose and it'll proba...

Hi, everyone. Like it says, I came here mostly because I was looking for a place where I could post about my troubles anonymously. I have had the problem lately where if I talk about my problems out loud to people I know, they get really worried about me and they seem to internalize my problems. I d...

I am a lot younger than you, but I feel the same way about my family sometimes. I just have to live without them and that's hard.

Anyway, you've already helped me out a little and I hope that you'll feel better having known that.

Thank you. Hearing about that makes me more optimistic about it. If I can just work out the logistics, then I would be willing to try.

Depression can definitely hit you in a physical way. I know that when I have a particularly bad spell, I can forget (or just neglect) to eat or drink, and that combined with the insomnia results in feeling light-headed or dizzy all the time. I don't know if that is the case for you, but eating and d...

Hi guys. I have depression myself, but my mom and sister also have it. My mom was sexually abused as a child, by her mother no less, and she just started to reflect on it in the last few years since her mother started to take ill and eventually died. She doesn't seem uncomfortable talking about it, ...

Thanks for your response. I never considered there was therapy over the phone. I'll try to get up some courage and ask the Planned Parenthood if there is a list of income adjusted therapists, or something like that. They seem to be really nice about it even if I can't pay. I have been fighting it fo...

Myself I'm a bit afraid to get on medication for that reason. My sex life is already so dreary. It doesn't matter how much he tries to warm me up, I just am not feeling it at all. My partner gets very emotionally hurt when I'm unable to connect to him sexually. I wish I could, but it's just not happ...

I have always had a lot of the symptoms of depression ever since I was a kid, but lately it's getting much worse. This is really worrying me because I've been trying and trying very hard to get better. I exercise, I eat well, I try to make myself do things I don't want to do, and it just gets worse....