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Pau wrote:This made my day. Thank you so much.

I am so so glad it helped, even for a little bit. Take good care of yourself!

Dear pain , You showed me a way to happiness. The tough way. The cruel way. But, somehow, seeing it from a different perspective, the most colorful one. The most beautiful. I know that without you I couldn’t learn to find joy in the details I took for granted. In the stars, the moon, the clouds, the...

Hello. I honestly don’t know what it’s the best decision for you right now. Somehow i’ve been through this when i was in high school. It was my least year, but I tried to kill myself. I ended up in hospital. And then again, I started to cut myself. I fought with this for so long. And I ended up in h...

That’s it, I’m oficially mad. )
How does this PM thing work? I’m so confused. I thought I answered and a hour later I realised that the message is in the outbox. How can I actually send it to you confuses me.
I need a step by step tutorial or sth. ))

I gave up too. Maybe we should do a group or something. I don’t think the two of us are the only ones that gave up. I don’t know what you feel right now, don’t know if you want any advice (not that I am capable of giving any) or to read others experiences. Maybe you want to be found. You want that d...

I am sobbing. I am shaking. It touched me. Amazing it is. That is how life is. People like us, combatting depression are so empty so incomplete so void. We live in a dark phase with no hope to survive.No positivity, no motivation. We allow depression to take control of our lives. Depression in retu...

The night before I killed myself was scary. The night before I killed myself was in December, of course. The joy eclipsed my sadness. The lights eclipsed the big dark hole inside my chest. But the cold... the cold spoke entirely about my heart. The night before I killed myself, I had to face who I w...

In the various forum posts that I've made here about my girlfriend and how she has depression and possibly bi-polar, whenever she gets like this she often asks me a question that is both unfair and impossible to answer. The question she asks me is, "with someone suffering as much as I am, woul...

Long ago I found a prison. Whose only key was in my hand. And because I was sad, because I wasn't able to see a purpose in my pain, because I was so scared of the world around me... I locked myself. Thinking that I will set myself free when I will feel ready to fight again. But, one day, because I ...

I think my psychologist, way back when, brought that up when I kept saying that, “I just want to be happy.” He asked me to define what happiness means to me. At the time, I perceived “happiness” as just the opposite of depression. As far as i was concerned, happiness was to not suffer emotionally f...

Dear Spleefy, I have never really thought about what “great” and “good” feel like. But I love that you asked that! Right now I have a huuge question mark inside my head. Because... I really don’t know. I knew I’ve been using words my entire life without thinking about the real meaning behind them. I...

Spleefy,
Hi again!
Please tell me if you will use one of these someday. I hope it will help you but even if it won’t, I’d like you to give us a feedback.
I loved the quote from Dr Phil, I’ve never heard it!

It's been over 2 years since I was diagnosed with depression. My psychiatrist never diagnosed me with an anxiety disorder, but I think its because I didnt tell the whole truth. To put it bluntly, on my first day of highschool (a year after I was diagnosed) I was crazy nauseous, dizzy, hot all over,...

Hi Searching Freedom, How are you today? Have you written any more wonderful prose lately? When you do, please share them. Your prose will give people hope and remind them that they are not alone. I find writing therapeutic, too. One of the things I used to do to cope with depression was write poet...

athena.vhd wrote:i hadnt seen these lists they are awsome thank u Searching Freedom to reply this posts.
maybe i have to make one for myself

If you'll make your own list, I'd like to see it too, but only if you let me.