When did your depression begin? Did something trigger it? Did you have this feeling all your life?

[HopeforJustice]

WHEN DID YOUR DEPRESSION BEGIN?

[brokenlight]

I think my depression began in childhood, but my symptoms started to present in middle school, into high school, and throughout my adulthood.

For me, it comes in waves. It’s sporadic and sometimes, very long lasting.

[LadyZen]

I feel like mine was trauma induced when I was 17.

[fauxartist]

Mine is hereditary, I've had it all my life, but child abuse etc. made it worse. In my teens and early twenties it was the worst. But that also is a time of major brain development for us, we are mostly frontal lobe and it's why teenagers are so reactive and drama oriented. Then in our mid twenties that development changes, but the depression is a chemical thing, so it does not go away. And unless you get therapy to understand any other extenuating circumstances that contribute to your existing condition of depression, it can make everything very difficult to otherwise get a handle on. It’s complicated even more because we are all in this with our own set of circumstances, no one size fits all, no magic pill…we just have to learn to manage it and not let it define who we are. Just a person learning to live with depression and what ever else.

There are always going to be people who have their own definitions, beliefs, and take on this topic, you just have to do your own research, ...knowledge is power.