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Understanding Extreme Depression

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Beware of Extreme Depression: Don't Let This Illness Consume You...

Most experts believe that everyone suffers some form of depression at one time or another.

However, there are many people suffering from extreme depression.

Unlike "regular" bouts of depression, extreme depression is characterized by the length and severity of the depressive feelings.

Depression is classified as a whole-body illness, which means that it negatively affects the mind, body, and soul.

However, serious depression is a much more corrosive and erosive illness that can render a person completely helpless.

Understanding extreme depression is the first step toward treating it.

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When the symptoms are apparent and start...
Are You Taking Care of Yourself?
The End of Depression Is Near
Understanding and Dealing with Extreme D...
Get more help with coping and dealing wi...
Have you experienced extreme depression?...

When the symptoms are apparent and start to consume you...

Recognize these symptoms early...

Although conditions vary from person to person, extreme depression, left untreated, can last from months to years.

Signs of extreme depression are quite identifiable.

People who suffer from extreme depression can suffer from self-destructive feelings.

Coupled with excessive guilt and self-criticism, extreme depression can wreak havoc on your thoughts.

Those who are coping with this type of depression are also sad all the time and no longer have the ability to enjoy activities that they once enjoyed.

This inability to derive joy from life can be debilitating. Sufferers become apathetic and uncomfortable around other people.

Not being able to socialize or sustain normal, healthy relationships with other people only reinforces feelings of loneliness and depression.

Are You Taking Care of Yourself?

If you're unable to do your daily routine of personal tasks and chores...seek help

Other signs of extreme depression include a disregard for personal hygiene, as well as personal well-being.

The depression can be so deep that the person may be unable to get out of bed and meet their responsibilities and obligations to other people.

Eventually, they begin to physically decline because of a loss of appetite and chronic fatigue.

If you are suffering any of these symptoms, it is imperative that you seek help immediately.

The End of Depression Is Near

It's up to you to take the necessary steps...

Despite what society tells us, you cannot simply "pull yourself out of it."

This rationale is one of the main reasons why so many people continue to suffer needlessly.

Depression is an emotionally crippling and physically weakening illness.

If you are suffering from extreme depression, get help today because you deserve to live a happy and content life.

Understanding and Dealing with Extreme Depression

Get more help with coping and dealing with depression.

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Chris Nov 17, 2011 @ 4:38 pm | delete

Is it possible to be so depressed that you can barely leave the house or motivate yourself to get help. I feel like I am just waiting to die but yet I don't want my kids, even though they are older, to find me dead. I tried medicines years ago and NOTHING helped, I actually got more depressed on them.

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jessie-lou Oct 25, 2011 @ 11:15 am | delete

When I started high school everything was a little scary but people excepted me..
.About 3 months into school people began to find out about my... Loss of innocence I guess you could say... And then rumors flew like a bag in the wind. Normally I would've been fine and not cared since it is a Extremley small school but when my friends began to dwindle I began to get upset all the time for no reason, for example I shattered 6 bones in my hand punching a concrete wall in geometrey. I began cutting and my grades fell like wildfire. My scholarship fell through because I got shitty grades. When my dad saw the cuts he hid every sharp object in the house but then my suicidal thoughts got worse and worse. Eventually I began staying home from school (like i am now) because I didn't want to deal with the rumors. Depression is a serious illiness, and if you suffer from anything like me please get help before its to late.....

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MsAntiDepressed Oct 26, 2011 @ 6:05 pm | delete

Hey Jessie Lou. This is a very common situation that some high school students have to endure, and you are definitely right about the size of the school. If the school is small, so many people may alienate you that you end up with no one since the possibilities dwindle much faster.

Sometimes being in an unfortunate situation like this is a good thing, because it really allows you to understand who your true friends really are - the gift and the curse. If there is no one to speak to at school that you consider a friend, it may be helpful sometimes to look outside of that element for a good friend circle.

Just understand, that it really isn't important what other people say, and it's ultimately up to you to find the right circle of friends for yourself, instead of being accepted to those that are already rejecting you.

What's even hard is when you lose friends that you really put your trust into that now look at you as an outcast. Those relationships and memories that you thought were genuine, now start appearing as a huge lie. The feeling of being an outcast makes you start to believe that something is wrong with you, when that's not the case at all. You start inflicting self pain because you were a victim of unwarranted judgement.

In your case, to prevent further self infliction of pain, it is important to remove yourself from the environment. That is the best way to stimulate the possibility of relationships with others that you can call friends again, giving you the thrill of being accepted and ultimately building a strong and stimulating social environment for your happiness and growth. This is a testament to the idea of taking control and changing the cause of your depression (your environment) to stimulate a successful mental recovery. If you take medicine to help now, but continue to stay in the environment that caused your depression initially, there is a high chance that the medicine will only temporarily relieve the consequences of the root environmental cause of the issue.

I hope that helps to stimulate a better solution to your problem Jessie-Lou, as I have definitely been in your situation before. Feel free to ask any questions are say hello to chat!