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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Depression is the most inclusive club in the world. It’s biggest trick is convincing everyone that they are the only member.”

“I was overwhelmed because I was trying to remember what it feels like to be happy, and I couldn’t remember anymore” 😢 I feel that

It's the lack of motivation that gets you. The unwantingness to get out of bed, to shower, to go to school. It the feeling theirs no way to improve sow why bother that gets you.

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