life help: I’m 34 years old and have been depressed for more than - Help.com

If you have a rational reason to be depressed you should work on that and try to resolve the problem. If you have no reason to be depressed but you just are anyway, you might have clinical depression and you should seek help in dealing with it. I assure you it is ALWAYS worth living. always. I hope you feel better soon

i love your glasses ;) is that your natural hair color ?
smile :) even if its a fake one … i have to wear one all the time !
depression sux !!!!

Oh my God, I just turned 34 in february and had the same exact thoughts. Put on prescription meds at 15, 16, told them I was better. They said no you have to take them. Panic attacks. Hospitalization to try to get off of benzos I never abused. YOu start looking at things, like, can this thing be turned around? What about the weird parralell move job history? Will I ever be on the inside? I don’t want to cut off my family, but the desparity between them and I is so apparent its almost laughable. I know I can’t go on much more. The state of things and me is unacceptable. You are not alone, to use a cliche. Really you are not. I would love to talk to you.

You feel so bad for so long you forget what it was like to feel good.

i dont know what to do. at 23 i was divorced with a child. i have a loving family perhaps to loving to the point i feel smothered.i am not 26 met somebody but his parents cant fully except me as i have a child and was married. i am going through a deep depression. they also commented about my physical appearance because i try to maintain myself. i have manicured nails hair extensions and love make up. i am in the process of self loathing and this is causing me to feel depressed please help!

I feel for you. Life by definition is a struggle. A battle. Go outdoors and look around you and you will see all of nature struggling from insects to mammals and everything in between. I do not intend to sound like a frolicking butterfly-snorting Pagan (although I am) but you are simply locked in lifes epic struggle and havent taken the time to discover who you are and what you want to get out of life. Youre not dreaming so please dont expect to wake up. As a 34 year old male I know where you are because I ideate suicide every day. I dont have any intentions or plans to act on those thoughts however. I am an OEF/OIF US Army veteran and my unit led the attack on Baghdad (we were there before the Marines). I was wounded when an RPG struck the HMMWV I was in which gave me a concussion and four ruptured vertebrae in my back. I suffer from chronic pain and take morphine and vicodin multiple times a day just so I can get out of bed not to mention frequent nightmares related to the combat-induced PTSD. I have a son with autism who also suffers from Shones complex and he has already had two open-heart surgeries. He is seven. Let us both be thankful we are still alive and try to do the very best we can every day. Deal? Someone once said “if a person does their very best, what else is there?”

Hang in there. Good luck and remember to take care of yourself. Start with a hot shower followed by some hot tea. Cheers.

This blog has been so helpful for me. Thanks for posting this I know I’m not alone feel better life is precious.