"I'm Fine" - Learning To Live With Depression | Jake Tyler | TEDxBrighton

you know you're such a lonely person when you read through the comments so you don't feel so alone.

I’m convinced that The only people who understand depression and how it works are those who suffer with it.

Still freaks me out that people go through life without ever feeling depressed, people exist without mental illness, absolutely insane

Depression really hits differently when you're stuck with no one to talk to. It's like that moment when you're just like, "Wow, there's legit no one I can spill my feelings to." Everyone else is wrapped up in their own issues, and you don't wanna bother them with your own mess.

When you wake up and your first thought is "Damn. Another day.."

“Do you actually want to die or do you just not want to feel this way anymore”? Powerful.

The problem with depression is that you spend so long in denial that by the time you make the realization you are so deep into the water it that there’s no air to breathe.

One of the worst parts of depression is questioning whether happy moments in your life are truly happy and if that’s what happiness really feels like and just not knowing.

I read this quote once that said "people with depression aren't faking being sick they're faking being well"

Honestly, simply being alive itself is starting to feel like a goddamn chore.

I think the worst part about depression is it's the one disease that the worse it gets, the less you want to do anything about it.

Is anyone else here to cheer themselves up ? Reading comments i felt like im not alone

Depression is not “I need attention” It’s “I need help”

I don’t even know if I’m depressed any more, I can’t remember my natural state

it’s really hard when you’re doing better and you think "yes man! this is finally it, i’m free from depression“ and then something happens, or sometimes nothing really happens, and you feel worse and worse and you kind of don’t notice until it’s too late and you’re really bad again and the happy times feel like distant memory

Him describing what it was like to not be depressed reminded me of a walk I had gone on. It was just so pretty. The trees looked amazing and it was a road I had lived on for the past 4 years. It’s not like it was some scenic place I’d never seen. But everything just seemed pretty that day and when I went to talk about it and tell people how pretty it was, everyone seemed to not really care or dismissed it. Thinking back on that moment after hearing this made me realize the one time I wasn’t depressed in a while no one cared because no one realized how different I saw the world Depression doesn’t only change your mindset but it affects how you fundamentally view things and even impacts your memory. I’ve had depression since I was 9 which at this point is more than half my life and I can’t remember what it means to be truly happy. I’ll have times I’ll laugh and I’ll have fun but after the moments over im left with an emptiness again. Things aren’t as vibrant and I’ll often forget things while having depressive episodes. I’ve had times while I was depressed that I’ve genuinely forgotten I’ve needed to eat and gone 3-4 days without eating because my brain just didn’t remember I needed to do that I know no one will probably see this, but it’s at least a decent feeling to get some of it out

the worst part of depression is you tend to want people to come to you and ask how you are but pushing away everyone who does or no one asks

"Usually the funniest people's are the saddest people"

It's a pain that cant be explained.. people who end their lives just want the pain to stop. Its a constant battle 24/7

I’ve had depression for almost 2 years now and it just completely obliterated my cognitive skills (Talking, thinking, communicating, memory) and I’ve never met anyone with depression as bad as me. I feel like I’m in a dream 24/7 and it’s gotten so bad that I don’t even remember what it feels like to be “normal” and not have it… i can barley even talk to my closest friends and family in person anymore because I get so anxious and my mind is just blank when trying to communicate with ppl smh. I just feel like a walking vegetable with its brain on autopilot mode every second of every day