Hi im claire and i have been living with depression on and off for the past four years. It all started in 2005 when i had a lot of changes in my life, at that point i had just left school and started college i had also moved homes with my parents. Theses changes unearthed feelings that i had buried over the tragic death of my brother three years before. At first i couldnt accept that there was any thing wrong with me and my parents tried there best to help me but under the pressure of the depression i went down the wrong path and made some bad decisions but then i meet my wonderful partner aaron who has been like my knight in shining armour, but still i have my times when i get back into a cycle of feeling bad and thinking about all the bad things in my life.
At the moment i can feel myself slipping back into that cycle because of pressure from family members to make more of my life.
I just hope that being about to share how i feel and what ive been thought with others that understand what its like themselves will help me
Hey Claire
Undoubtedly...you will help others by sharing your experiences here. Seems like major life transitions can always bring about both stress and sometimes depression.
Do you think with the pressure you are feeling from others...do you think that this makes you feel angry and then you turn this anger inward? It is easy to squelch feelings that way...by feeling bad about ourselves instead of saying..."Hey stop pressuring me!"
It is good that you know when the downward spiral is beginning. Is there anything that helps during these times?
Nice to meet you Claire.