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hi i am suffering with depression and need help to stop all the negative thoughts i have .i feel worthless,useless and un wanted and i want it to stop

Have you spoken to your doctor? They can help a little..as can very understanding friends.

Hi there new researcher, and welcome to h2g2!

I'm sorry to hear that you feel - have you tried using the <./>Search</.> page to look for articles?

You might find these edited entries useful/of interest:

A565625 Depression and College Students
A685037 Overcoming Depression
A722251 A Personal Account of Depression Survival

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Morning Titania
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Sorry im not awake enough to have been of more practical help yet!Im useless first thing(would've come back with some links a bit later).

Thanks! *sips *

Would you like some ?

I can't say I'm all that bright eyed and wide awake myself (too little sleep lately) - it took me quite some time to come up with those links, but the articles seem informative, and I'll hope they will be of some help

mmmmmmmmm would be nice thanks
I darent even attempt the search button till at least 10 am

I'll have read of those articles myself later. I've found from experience though that one of the best things for depression,low self-esteem etc is a friendly ,supportive environment. Beng here for the last couple of years has done a lot for me..you dont feel your'e being judged all the time for one thing.

Hi there, Researcher 239841...
I've added you to my friends list, I hope that's OK...

Come and say 'hi' to me when you get back to this ad we can talk...

Hi there, the advice you have been given is spot on.

But if you feel you wish to speak to others with the same problems then i run an msn support group at

http://groups.msn.com/LastExitForTheLost

which you are welcome to join.

but i would suggest speaking to your doctor and taking it from there. Drop by my page anytime for a chat U204689

Mort

Hi,
I'm amazed by the uncaring replies you've had. So I'll try to be more helpful. I don't know how old you are, so I don't know how long these feelings have had to burn their way into your soul. The problem is that feelings aren't real. They're intangible. A product of our minds. Minds not ready to produce anything other than self destruction. This is the cycle that needs to be broken. Easy to say, but it's the only way forward. We're all at the mercy of our minds, because that's where we live. 24 hours a day. I feel like you, and I know there's something wrong. I know that the picture I have of myself is not the real me. This makes me behave in a way that simply makes my situation even worse. My closest friends, my family, all the people I cling to desperately have become bored with my problem. And so the downward spiral becomes even tighter. I've had counselling, and it's very helpful, but the minute I walk out of the room the feelings come hurtling back. And so I feel doomed. I ask why and how an educated, intelligent, successful person can experience such pain and horror. I have come to the conclusion that my brain chemistry is abnormal and that medication is the only answer.
This is what I'm now plucking up courage to ask for.
Please reply. I need to know that someone out there has the same story as me.

I wouldnt say any of us have replied uncaringly

Ive sufferered from bouts of depression and borderline personality disorder since i was 16/17 so i do know what its like all to well. feel free to pop in to chat anytime.. U191719

Hi,
Glad that SOMEONE replied. I certainly didn't mean to be aggressive about the responses, just that they all seemed in a way to be lightweight.
Keep talking, please.

I guess maybe you worry about overwhelming someone with a heavier reponse and it ca just be hard to know what to say!
I think the fact that people replied at all shows that they 'do ' care! As I said stop over for n a chat anytime..im usually around somewhere.

Greetings researcher 240495...

Uncaring? Surely, if we didn't care we wouldn't even bother to reply, would we?

I've never suffered from a *real* depression myself (sure, I've felt down and at times, but never so badly that I haven't managed to get over it), so I could never say 'I know how you feel' and really mean it. I do believe that the links to articles that I posted might turn out to be helpful - some of them contain advice, and one of them was a personal description.

Sometimes it does help to realize that you're not alone, that you're not the only one to feel the way that you do - which I guess was my intention with the links.

If you're referring to Serephina's and my postings about and things, it is one of many ways to keep a conversation going while waiting for the original poster to return, making sure said conversation doesn't slip too far down on the researcher's list of postings.

I see that you only joined yesterday yourself - how about sticking around and finding out more about us before labelling us as 'uncaring'?

hi! i'm a newbie too and having read thru the postings i think your input was very caring and helpful so don't get hurt by what others say.we are all learning to speak with each other in a way that was seemingly impossible before,and we have a certain obligation to not be too flippant or knowing when imparting info to others.you fulfilled this remit wonderfully.

'waves to Titania'


Thank you Pdante
Are you settling in ok?

Thank you pdante - sometimes people (including myself) tend to forget that it's very difficult to express or interpret intention/meaning/feelings expressed through simple text - sometimes a smiley can make it clearer, but not always... I myself tend to be somewhat unclear unintentionally from time to time due to English being a foreign language to me...

*~waves~ back at Serephina*

I must say then that your English
is very good Titania! I wouldntve guessed from the posts Ive read of yours that it wasnt your first language

not too bad but it can feel like your wandering around some vast elfin landscape sometimes (not that that's very different from normal life here at maison de sante).yes i've been long time depressed since about 9 years old (any day past 10's a bonus )and have managed to evade becoming a basket case(for want of a better term)by trying to find as much humour as possible in this wide old multiverse ,long and wide really ,and you don't find that very often. there isn't an emoticon for "ooooh matron" is there.my nick-name (always wondered about that term ,is it a ref; to Old Nick ?)is pdante because i was always being accused of it and its pronounced pdant A because i can be quite infernal about it ,if you love sophia then you have to turn every stone just in case there's an angel sleeping there,well i do.Ive loved the humour of a. crowley since i was a 11 yr old and have a 'feeling' for the synchronos so your home page almost made me fall backwards out of my chairquite made me do a double take witch doesn't happen often what pack do you use? may i have your permission to start my friends list with your good self? i'd reciprocate if you but have you seen your friend list ?!Who's popular theni can see why you seem a good judge (maybe the wrong word)of character (intuitive) so thats something to beam about do drop round sometime to my page i havent got any thing freaky to make the hare stand up on your head but i do have this wonderful talent just to drone on about most thin

Hi again Pdante

Im guessing that was to me?Im really not well at the mo so not all that with so a few things went over my head there..but i think i got the gist!

You can start your friends list with me if youd like to,though im not sure why anyone would want to!..and im using the rider-waite deck at present..though ive also used the
marsailles and Thoth decks. i couldnt get on with the Thoth though..and the marsailles met with an acident!.

thank you and i hope you are feeling much better real soon(how do you do that on your home page reeealy neat !!