Still here

[Mickymally]

Still here battling clinical depression, they say it's mental health awareness week but if you mention to anyone it's still shock horror like your some kind of freak . There is still a stigma attached to it.

[Kittykatxxxxx]

Totally agree with this !in a way it is good but sometimes I think it's' fashionable ' to say you have a mental health problem . There are such varying degrees of depression and mental illness and I think a lot of places are jumping on the band wagon . Severe mental health problems need treatment and sometimes they don't work.

[Mickymally in reply to Kittykatxxxxx]

Thanks for the reply Kat , theres still far too many preventable suicides , where i live has the highest percentage in the country.

[Hidden]

Yes I tend to agree with you Micky.

Don't get me wrong I think there have been some improvements.

But generally people just don't get it at all. I've given up on trying to explain now. Keep it too myself mostly apart from in therapy. In some ways I wouldn't expect them to understand it too complex for them, and we are all very individual in it. but more importantly I feel far too vulnerable when I do confide in someone. I have had it used against me. So I do what I do for me ,to manage it best I can.

Best wishes to you

[Mickymally in reply to Hidden]

Totally agree Masquerade it's as if i'm burdening them and they just don't get it anyway and yes vulnerable confiding in someone is always on the back of my mind. In America you are treated with alot more empathy and looked after by friends and family i wish our country would do the same.

[mysmugcat]

Me too. I know what you mean.

[Doggie123-UK]

I have suffered from depression for most of my life but very rarely told anyone (66 yrs old now) managed without medication for quite a time when I was younger, but not now. If I told anyone about my depression all I would get was, oh you're just feeling a bit low, buck your ideas up and get over it, nobody understood it then and only a few understand now. I recently had to have my medication increased and because of health problems been having anxiety and panic attacks on top of everything else

[Mickymally in reply to Doggie123-UK]

Nothing worse than being told pull your self together when your dying inside and nothing worse than anxiety and panic attacks , hope your having a good day .

[Doggie123-UK in reply to Mickymally]

Not too bad at the moment thanks, because of my health problems my anxiety levels have skyrocketed and the Doctor has given me some diazepam for emergencies

[Bulliedinlife1981]

Absolutely, I agree it's like my best kept secret, no knows what I have been through and I always feel like no one cares. When I say I major depression for me it's like ok , but knows about the days I can't get out bed or cry before I have to go to work.