I’ve known since I was a kid that I’m depressed. I even have infant photos of me, where I look like I just hate life. Other baby photos the baby is smiling, and interested in everything. Whereas I look like even though I’m too young to even have thoughts, I’m still giving off body language of “leave me alone”.
But when I started asking everyone I knew if they too were depressed, I haven’t gotten one single person to say that they’re happy. Everyone has said they’re depressed. So now I wonder if it’s a regional thing, or if everyone everywhere is depressed.
Yes, I was diagnosed with what they said is severe depression with suicidal tendencies. I’m on a couple different medications for it. I do have a friend group of people that are both not depressed at all to clinically being diagnosed as having depression. We try to help each other out as much as we can. Relationships can be hard as there is such a social stigma with mental illnesses. I can’t count the number of times I’ve lost a friend or potential romantic partner because of my depression.