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Depression - I gotta question |
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 Replies: 11 — Last Post Feb. 20, 2007 11:53pm by Poker Shark
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Web Resources: Suicide Myths Dispelled, Suicide Information
USA Suicide Hotline: 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)
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( Shawn517 )
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Can you tell you have depression without diagnosis? I can't even begin to explain things in my life. I'm so stessed, from everything. In the back of my mind, even though I'm not actually thinking of killing myself or anything, I really honestly always, even when I'm happy, believe that I would be better off dead. It's not unhappiness as much as it's a wish to rather not be living. I mean, idk. I can be having the best time of my life, and I still wish I wasn't alive, and I'd wish I didn't have to go through it, because I have it in my head that it'll eventually get worse, because it ALWAYS does. It's where you come to this realization that you've worked so hard to get through so many bad things that have already happened in your life, and you just want it to be over and you want there to be happiness and you don't want to have to worry for the rest of your life, but I know this is only the beginning, because I'm a teenager. I don't want to go on. I really just wanna die and get it over with and idk how to deal with it. What do I do? 
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5 of 9 of the following symptoms must be present for a diagnosis according to the DSMIV, with at least one of those being either a depressed mood or anhedonia.. Depressed mood
Loss of pleasure in usual activities (anhedonia)
Feelings of worthlessness or inappropriate guilt
Inability to concentrate
Fatigue or loss of energy
Insomnia or hypersomnia
Psychomotor agitation or retardation
Significant weight loss or gain
Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide sticking to the technical part of your question just because.
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10:54 pm on Feb. 20, 2007
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AROONA1
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Hi Shawn.
I think that u should look at the positive things in life...
Think about the goals u can work towards. You are much stronger than u think u are. Do not isolate yourself. Interact with people that are of a good influence. There are times when situations get real sticky , but u have to beat it. U got what it takes.
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Indecisive
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oh my gosh I must be depressed... So is manic depression all all nine symptoms
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rawrr
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hmmm 8/9 but i dont think im depressed?
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10:58 pm on Feb. 20, 2007 | Joined: June 2005 | Days Active: 756
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( Shawn517 )
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Wow guys thanks, especially for that quiz....
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Poker Shark
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Quote: from Shawn517 at 5:33 pm on Feb. 21, 2007
 Wow guys thanks, especially for that quiz....
your welcome. i hope u manage to work out ur problems somehow :)
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Indecisive
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Anyone notice how his title rhymed HEE HEE...
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Poker Shark
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Quote: from Indecisive at 5:41 pm on Feb. 21, 2007
Quote: from Poker Shark at 11:10 pm on Feb. 20, 2007
Quote: from Indecisive at 5:27 pm on Feb. 21, 2007
oh my gosh I must be depressed... So is manic depression all all nine symptoms
manic depression=bipolar disorder which is a completely different (and more serious) mental illness from regular depression (aka unipolar or major depression). i have had all those 9 symptoms and have been diagnosed and treated for severe depression.
I think bipolar is a disease that ppl tell you that you have just to put you on psychiatric medication everyone I know is bipolar... Supposably me.. I say BUSHIT to that
bipolar disorder affects about 2% of the population so i doubt "everyone" you know is bipolar. so a psychiatrist has diagnosed u with it? yeah the best way of managing bipolar is with psychiatric meds (antidepressants (prozac, zoloft, lexapro etc.), mood stabilizers (lithium, lamictal, topamax etc.) and antipsychotics (zyprexa, abilify, geodon etc.). if ur symptoms dont negatively affect ur life then there is no need for treatment. it's up to u really but if u go really manic and crazy or depressed and suicidal u will get locked up and force medicated.
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