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"Got over"s wrong, I guess I mean those who were seriously depressed/depressed=induced anxiety or whatever and managed to eventually move on from that part of life.

Do you have moments where you just kind of...back slide? Not for any real reason, just wake up and it's like the windows are wide open and you can see everything and you just wish you could die, or go step in front of that train or something.

Just having one of those days :( A pale shadow of it for sure! Not going to off myself, no-one will take in my pets so I got to hang around, but damn if it isn't something I really want to do sometimes

Shit happens. Sounds like your overall average is up by a lot though, so keep it up!

It's day by day, you know.

Yeah, but they've gotten shorter and more spread apart each time. Also easier to beat back when they start.

I backslide, but it is nowhere near as intensely bad as it was during my two worst times. I haven't contemplated suicide in a long time. It's just more I have a period of time where I don't want to deal with people and I hate thinking about the crap of my life and can't think of things going better. But then I drag myself out of it again and keep going.

I know it sucks. I have been there. I hope you can overcome it.

I don't think I've ever had the good fortune of being truly over my depression, mine tends to cycle. But I think everyone has off days, you're human.

The long answer: Those days suck, but if you have the right tools and coping mechanisms, you'll get through just fine. Some helpful techniques are: thought diffusion, distraction (NOT isolation or avoidance), general self-care, grounding, and exercise. If you need help with any of those, feel free to reply to this, and I will do my best to help.

Hope tomorrow is better. <3

I used to get bouts of panic attacks every two years or so from the time I was 14 until I was 22. I'd be hysterical, yelling, crying, hyperventilating without knowing what would set me off. The worst round happened when I was 20 and I started seeing a therapist for a year and a half.

After I graduated college at 21, I had one small bit but I hadn't needed to see a therapist. Every so often, I'll get depressed again but I just manage to say "tomorrow is a new day" and i try and find different people to hang out with who don't make me feel bad. I have cut out a lot of toxic people from my life, but I'm a better person now for it.

I hope you're feeling just like this today and just take a deep breath, tomorrow is a new day and who knows what it will bring. Hang in there! We're always here to listen!

I'm still in what I would call the medium-end to deep-end but let me offer you a hug. I hope you feel better tomorrow and the backslide doesn't last long!

Definitely. But what's great about being in a better place to start from is that I usually have enough perspective to think rationally about why I might be feeling like this on this particular day, e.g. Has my blood sugar fallen because I haven't eaten in a few hours? Am I PMSing? Am I in physical pain that is affecting my mood? Have I exercised recently - would using up some excess energy and getting an endorphin hit lift my mood? Is the weather getting me down?

That sort of thing. And sometimes it just is the depression i.e. the chemical imbalance, but I still have enough perspective to deal with it when it comes and to know that it will probably pass, and I have tools to deal with it if it doesn't.

na Yes, THIS.

You're going to have backslides. Probably your whole life. Magically "getting over it" and getting well all at once only happens in the movies, sadly.

I have days like that. But the thing is that I can remember that I have more good days than bad, and it's worth sticking out the bad days to get back to the good ones.

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