If you or someone you know is fighting depression, here you’ll find symptoms, plenty of coping techniques, and above all, you’ll learn to understand it.
Before you’re certain that you’re actually depressed, it’s a smart choice to first take a look at the people around you and make sure that they’re not in fact the ones making you feel this way. Depression is a serious condition that is never to be taken lightly. Oftentimes, it’s extremely hard to recognize that…
You’ve finally found that amazing person who loves you, respects you, and takes good care of you. You should be deliriously happy but… You’ve started feeling blue and decided that there must be something wrong with you to feel this way when you have all that you have. Hold on… don’t jump to conclusions. It’s…
Suicide. You get shivers down your spine by just thinking about it. The thought of killing yourself and leaving everything you have behind is unimaginable for you, but for some, it’s the only salvation they know. You look at everything you have and you see life that exists in every living being. Everything that surrounds…
The alarm clock has just rung, telling me it is time to get up. I am opening my eyes and starting my fight again. One more day where I will feel like a walking dead. One day more where I will wish I was dead. My arms are so heavy and I can’t lift them. My…
What Is Existential Depression? There are many forms of depression and existential depression is just one of them. However, this kind of depression is quite special in more than one way. First and foremost, existential depression is difficult to diagnose. Also, this type of depression can occur at all ages and doesn’t have to be…
Breaking up is never simple. Even if you were with someone for only a short time, when you break up with them, you feel some sort of sadness and in long-term relationships, there can be severe depression and anxiety over losing a partner. When something like this happens, people try to find ways to get…
Depression isn’t something cured overnight and it’s not something that you should be trying to cope with all by yourself because your mind might get too dark for you to handle. But there are some things that you can do as a first aid kit, simply to ease the pain that’s been tearing you apart…
Can you please stop sharing the suicide hotline number and acting like you’re somehow going to be a martyr for mental health? Because you are not listening and you will not always be there. I’ll tell you how I know this. First of all, you don’t even know what to listen for. When a person…
People who suffer from depression encounter difficulties in their life from day to day. Without even realising it, I’ve managed to make my depression less powerful with little self-care tips I try to do on a daily basis! These little, daily rituals can give you insight into a whole new world which is not as…
The problem is not that you are bipolar. The problem is that you use your illness as an excuse to justify your poor behavior. I’m not insinuating that you don’t have a legit diagnosis, and I’m also not trying to say that you can control your behavior. I know that you can’t. What you could…