Thoughts and Feelings of Those Suffering from Depression

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Depression is a mental illness. A person who suffers from depression is not lacking attention, to hurt anyone, or even to die. They don't consider suicide to be "the easy way out." To someone in the middle stage or end of a depression, it is the only way out!

Depression has several stages to it. It begins with negative self-talk. This is like having someone looking over your shoulder telling you every little thing you think and do is wrong. This is every thought, especially the one that no one else has any idea you're thinking. This becomes a torment that you are a failure and everything about you are simply a waste of human knowledge. You begin to feel that if you could start the day over, it would make you feel better, so you take a nap. When you wake up that little voice reminds you that you can't do anything right, "You can't even take a nap right, you over slept." Things begin to feel very heavy, and you find yourself yelling at the kids or blaming your husband for your irritated state of mind. "You must be tired," you tell yourself. "I haven't been getting enough sleep," You become tired as if you are taking some kind of medication. So you sleep more and more, the sleep is so restless that you get even more tired. You are now sleeping all the time.

Now you begin to try to find ways that will make it stop. Sometimes you will hurt yourself in a way to discipline your failures so as to make this negative self-talk stop. If you are in a short-term depression this will work until the next even more serious episode. If this is the more serious depression, then you will either sleep or cry. The crying will become so intense it'll make you tired and your mind becomes aggravated with rushing thoughts, about either your past o...

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... life, but the depression can and will. So whatever you do don't patronize it.

They are not thinking realistically. Sometimes they will say something and not even be aware that they had that thought. A person in the midst of depression is almost as if they are sleep walking and/or talking in their sleep. They may not even be aware of what is going on around them. It may even seem as though someone else has possessed them. Most of the time crying is the only thing that will come out, no words or thoughts, only sobs of anguish. Be compassionate and understanding with someone who doesn't feel loved as you can. They might be trying to tell you something. "HELP"?!

This is my perspective input on a disease that is trying to ruin my life. With the aid of my doctors and the love from the most important people in my life...I will always have, "D.A.T.T.FAMILY SUPPORT".

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