GraysonEvans Posted September 9, 2014 I don't know if anyone has made a thread like this before but regardless I think it is important. There is nothing wrong with being depressed and there is always something you can do about it. if you are suffering from depression please reach out, your family and friends are there to help. No one wants to consider a world without you in it! If you don't feel comfortable talking to your family or the people close to you please use these resources. Suicide hotline: http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Some resources to deal with depression: http://depressionhurts.ca/en/default.aspx also please feel free to use this thread as a safe place to talk about your feelings, sometimes it is good just to get it out. please stay safe <3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gormongous Posted September 9, 2014 I could have sworn we had a mental health thread, but now I can't find it. Good post, good links. Thanks, GraysonEvans! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
namman siggins Posted September 9, 2014 I've fought depression to deep depression to everyday melancholia to being heavily suicidal ever since I was a little child. These feelings were exasperated when I started taking Ritalin early on in my life. So right away, I'm living in a state where I'm drugged up and I'm drifting through life as some ghost or robot--because that's what Ritalin does--matched with a heavy depression that got heavier due to heavy racism and attacks (verbal and physical) on my gender--I'm genderqueer--messed me up for a good while. Add that to some of my friends killing themselves and I literally and figuratively having pick them up and the pieces. Life was and is hard but now at 27, I've learned to live with and integrate my everyday depression. I've learned how to use it to my advantage (turn it something good), to be able to speak to my friends about it openly and that it's okay to wallow in it every now and then. It's something that's hard at first but as I've gotten older and more used to myself and how I think and tick, I'm able to internalize my depression and do some damn good damage control. There are those few times where I get heavily depressed and as I've gotten older my heavy depression has gotten meaner, more mercenary. What I mean by that is: as I'm more comfortable with myself and able to see what makes me tick, and when I get into that head-space, I use myself against me. When I'm in my everyday depressive mood, there's more an abstraction to it, the feelings, but when I'm in heavily, it's more honed, more targeted. As if my heavy depression is able to attack me with these missiles--made up of past mistakes and how I view myself and so on--that are, again, honed and articulated and made to do massive damage against myself. It's hard to explain and evener weird that I talk about it as this somewhat separate entity but that's I view my depression. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GraysonEvans Posted September 9, 2014 I've fought depression to deep depression to everyday melancholia to being heavily suicidal ever since I was a little child. These feelings were exasperated when I started taking Ritalin early on in my life. So right away, I'm living in a state where I'm drugged up and I'm drifting through life as some ghost or robot--because that's what Ritalin does--matched with a heavy depression that got heavier due to heavy racism and attacks (verbal and physical) on my gender--I'm genderqueer--messed me up for a good while. Add that to some of my friends killing themselves and I literally and figuratively having pick them up and the pieces. Life was and is hard but now at 27, I've learned to live with and integrate my everyday depression. I've learned how to use it to my advantage (turn it something good), to be able to speak to my friends about it openly and that it's okay to wallow in it every now and then. It's something that's hard at first but as I've gotten older and more used to myself and how I think and tick, I'm able to internalize my depression and do some damn good damage control. There are those few times where I get heavily depressed and as I've gotten older my heavy depression has gotten meaner, more mercenary. What I mean by that is: as I'm more comfortable with myself and able to see what makes me tick, and when I get into that head-space, I use myself against me. When I'm in my everyday depressive mood, there's more an abstraction to it, the feelings, but when I'm in heavily, it's more honed, more targeted. As if my heavy depression is able to attack me with these missiles--made up of past mistakes and how I view myself and so on--that are, again, honed and articulated and made to do massive damage against myself. It's hard to explain and evener weird that I talk about it as this somewhat separate entity but that's I view my depression. <333333 your the best! and you are super brave! thanks for sharing <<33333333333 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Treasure Goblin Posted September 9, 2014 Just adding in a list with quite a few numbers with international crisis lines. If you really feel you are in danger remember you can also go to the emergency room for help. United States 1-800-784-2433 (1-800-SUICIDE) Texting: Text ANSWER to 839863 Spanish: 1-800-SUICIDA Veterans: 1-800-273-8255, Veterans Press 1 www.suicide.org/suicide-hotlines.html www.crisiscallcenter.org//crisisservices.html Europe Wide 116 123 - Free from any number Australia 13 11 14 Belgium 02 649 95 55 Brasil 141 Canada Kids Help Line (Under 18): 1-800-668-6868 Alberta: 1-866-594-0533 British Columbia: 1-888-353-2273 Manitoba: 1-888-322-3019 New Brunswick: 1-800-667-5005 Newfoundland & Labrador: 1-888-737-4668 Northwest Territories: 1-800-661-0844 7pm-11pm everyday Nova Scotia: 1-888-429-8167 Nunavut: (867) 982-0123 Ontario: 1 800 452 0688 Prince Edward Island: 1-800-218-2885 (Bilingual) Quebec: 1-866-277-3553 or 418-683-4588 Saskatchewan: (306) 933-6200 For more numbers in all areas please see here Deutschland 0800 1110 111 Denmark 70 20 12 01 www.livslinien.dk www.Skrivdet.dk France 01 40 09 15 22 Greece 1018 or 801 801 99 99 Iceland 1717 India 91-44-2464005 0 022-27546669 Iran 1480 6am to 9pm everyday Ireland ROI - local rate: 1850 60 90 90 ROI - minicom: 1850 60 90 91 Israel 1201 Italia 800 86 00 22 Malta 179 Japan 03-3264-4343 3 5286 9090 Korea LifeLine 1588-9191 Suicide Prevention Hotline 1577-0199 http://www.lifeline.or.kr/ Mexico Saptel 01-800-472-7835 Netherlands 0900 1130113 New Zealand 0800 543 354 Outside Auckland 09 5222 999 Inside Auckland Norway 815 33 300 Osterreich/Austria 116 123 Romania 116 123 Serbia 0800 300 303 or 021 6623 393 Online chat:http://www.centarsrce.org/index.php/kontakt[2] South Africa LifeLine 0861 322 322 Suicide Crisis Line 0800 567 567 Sverige/Sweden 020 22 00 60 Switzerland 143 Turkey 182 UK 08457 90 90 90 (24hrs) 0800 58 58 58 (open 5pm to midnight nationwide) 0808 802 58 58 (Open 5pm to midnight London) text 07725909090 (24hs) 07537 404717 (5pm to midnight) [email protected] www.samaritans.org http://www.supportline.org.uk/problems/suicide.php CALM - online chatting for those in the UK. ChildLine (Free for any #, does not show up on billing) 0800-11-11 childline.org.uk Uruguay Landlines 0800 84 83 (7pm to 11 pm) (FREE) 2400 84 83 (24/7) Cell phone lines 095 738 483 *8483 Useful Websites Dutch - www.113online.nl Greece - http://www.suicide-help.gr/ International - http://www.befrienders.org/index.asp Spain - http://www.telefonodelaesperanza.org/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
