depression_now!

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A sad place for sad people to be sad.

Have fun!

This community is for people with depression. Memes and general discussion about depression are encouraged and welcome.

Bi-polar people are also allowed to post here but only sometimes.(joke)

This community is aimed at being inclusive for all people with depression and as such should be free of racism, homophobia, trans-phobia, sexism, patriarch and all other forms of hate-speech.

Trolls will be banned!

Thnx

Some resources posted from helpful people:

Therapy is not for everyone, check out peer counseling instead: https://www.americanmentalwellness.org/intervention/peer-support/

Find health professionals: https://www.psychologytoday.com/

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Don't self harm. It doesn't help and is addicting.

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Had a whole identity crisis.

So, I got some homework to do, and I noticed something.

Last year, I was a motivated student. My thoughts were around getting the class' highest grades and suceeding. I was one of the 3 students with the biggest grades at that class.

This year, um... Where do I start? I took all of my homework and put ChatGPT to answer it. I sleep during classes EVERY DAY now.

I used to scold my classmates for being lazy and using AI at their homework, but now I'm one of them?!

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Duloxetine works great for me until I sleep, then I wake back up into the pit of despair and I feel like I’m supposed to wait until ~24 hours since I last took it in order to take it again. I can’t find any cases of other people reporting this and it’s not something my medical professionals have heard of. It makes it hard if I don’t have energy due to not getting enough sleep the night before so I take a nap, and then when I wake up I still don’t have energy due to lack of willpower. I’ve also found it harder to get out of bed in the morning shortly before taking the medicine.

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I keep texting him (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by hayyy@thelemmy.club to c/depression_now@lemmy.world
 
 

Even though he’s not replying.

He’s got a fast car and I just wanna feel something other than this emptiness. Hollow. Nothingness.

He’s so sweet but I don’t deserve his sugar. I’m selfish. I just want to take. I don’t have anything for him but my dignity. He doesn’t want that I don’t think.

I’m addicted to you and you know it. Shouldn’t I get at least something good for that? I’m drowning in you. Your water’s too deep… but I want to swim. I want you to see I’m good. ————- You tell me to stop playing games but it’s just me deleting messages when I’m more sober headed. Need your validation

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I'm 18, soon to be 19, but I feel so left behind.. my 3 years younger sister went on her first date. In school (in my country we graduate HS at 19) and I always hear classmates talking about jobs, parties, even just living and I feel so left out.. Im not trying to be spiteful or anything, but I don't have a driving license, never had a relationship and spend most of my time rotting in my room. I just feel so horrible, having lost so many years and knowing the pain will likely eat away many more, having tried to escape it so hard and yet constantly falling and falling and falling.. a complete waste of life, an unfixable flaw in my brain..

I think a song I like, hymn to the decadent life, describes these feeling the best.

"Without being anything, I stare into the void." Complete loss of identity. A disconnect of myself from my body, from who I want to be.

"I'm so sorry for existing, I'm a worthless adult wasting precious air" The painful reality that I can't blame anyone for my failure, that it's my fault, that I ruined my life.

Chat, am I cooked?

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Hi depressos,

I'm glad this sub is still going. I started it back when the reddit API scandal happened because I wanted lemmy to have a depression meme page. I'm happy to see people still posting here.

I am always pleasantly surprised when people use this space to trauma dump about the darkest parts of their lives. Mostly because I know that writing it out to strangers on the internet is sometimes the only safe outlet for thoughts about suicide self harm ect.

This is a space where we can talk openly about these topics without shame judement or the fear of being involuntarily commited.

Hopefully, this is also a space where mental health resources can be discussed and distributed. But I think we all know how hard it can be to find help that is truly helpful.

Also would like to see more depression memes and moments where people can laugh. As a depressed person myself, I know that laughing at the depth of the trama is sometimes the only funny thing about it.

Sooo, If you have funny memes, dark timez, stories of treatment or anything related to depression, please consider posting. We at a depression_now! also highly encourage stealing memes from reddit.

Stay sad y'all (not really)

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I'm so angry. I can't feel anything other than anger and depression. Either I'm dreading my existence with agony, or I'm furiously wanting to smash my head into a wall in pure sheer rage.

What even is the point of suicide? Like, what's the end goal here? Damned if you live, damned if you die.

Where would I even start? The chronic pain? The anger? The abuse? The trauma? The stress? The absolute disgust of trying to hold it all together while the entirety of the world seems to be suffering either less or worse than you.

I hate my life, I hate life, I hate all lives, I'm usually not one to hate, but I've just, I've just grown to learn hate.

This, this here, this little lemmy box, seems to be the only place where I belong, where I can let out some of the gore-y horrendous shit that I want to do to myself.

GoreA lot of images seem to pop up through my mind, I imagine myself lying down, and I imagine another self with an axe, and I would smash my head beyond recognition that such an organ belonged to an organism.

I wanna cry through every pore and hole in my body. I want to rid myself of all the nasty fluids that are the "essence of life".

GoreAnd here is something I wrote on September of 2025 "Tear my vocal chords apart, hold them out high, against the madness of the world. "YOU SEE THIS" I will try to shout, gurgling blood, desperately trying to breathe. "THIS IS ME" I say while shaking the mass of flesh in my hands, now nothing but a nameless goo, because I've crushed it with my own hands, I've crushed it so hard, that my nails started to pierce into the palm of my hand. Blood, blood everywhere, blood doesn't matter anymore, I am soaked in blood, more blood wouldn't change a thing.

I want to drive some far away place, behind a dam, a clearing, a field, somewhere very very remote. And I want to scream, howl, screech, until my voice gives up, until blood starts spewing out of my mouth."

GoreLook at your fingers, you see those lines that segment your fingers? I want to cut my fingers, using those lines as a guide. I want to slowly cut out my limbs, starting from the right hand, to the wrist, the elbow, the arm, the shoulder. Then start all over from the left. Then my feet to the legs. Until I am nothing but a torso with a head, and then I'd wish for my neck to be sliced.

I seem to have no empathy for myself, I have, of course, thought about suicide a lot, I can't talk about this, no one seems to care and even if they did, I can't possibly tell them about this, and hurt them. That's assuming I can find someone who will listen, and even if I did, they can't listen to me 24/7.

Misery! It's what I have for breakfast, for lunch, and for dinner! Because I can't get the fuck up, I am depressed and chronically ill, and both of these fuckers like to feed each other off like a disgusting mukbang. I can barely get up to the bathroom, on many days I have to hold the piss in my kidneys to the point where they'd grow numb because of all the holding in.

I am so fucking tired. and I CAN'T FUCKING KILL MYSELF Because here we fucking are, I have no accessible method to kill myself, and dear god if you suggest a method down below I'll tear your fucking eye balls out. I am done, I don't want to live, I don't want to die, I don't want to take another fucking breath anymore. Breathing is hard, it's fucking difficult, it hurts, both physically, and fucking mentally.

PS: Hah. After wanting to add the content warnings for this, I hesitated before adding self-harm.

Suicide, GoreI have never done self-harm, but I won't lie and say that I haven't contemplated it, that I haven't stared at a knife longingly, almost as longingly as a bird in a cage looking out the window. Very cheeky I know, but I can't describe the mesmerizing stare that I get when I'm staring at blood or fire. Oh fire, oh I would love to self-immolate my fucking self. And the knife, well I want to see my blood running down this fuck waste of a body. This body that has endured so much, and keeps enduring. With a mind that wishes for it to snap and fucking break.

I won't die. If I decided to, I will make it a fucking spectacle.

People seem to rush when self-harm is mentioned, suicide and gore seem to be your every day content warnings, but it's only when self-harm is included, that somehow things start to hurt. That's from my own experience anyway.

And thank you, have a nice day.

PS: I almost harmed myself! Yay! Boo fucking hoo. Here, have fun reading this

Self-Harm, and Begging YourselfI almost attempted self harm today. I cried. I begged myself to stop, and I cried, I tried to stop myself, saying "please don't, please, please, please don't. I beg you, I beg of you, please don't. please don't do it, please don't" after variations of this for minutes, I managed to put the razor down.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by bellly@sopuli.xyz to c/depression_now@lemmy.world
 
 

No one will ever care for me the way I care for them. There must be something so fundamentally repulsive about me, that people are willing to use me but the moment I try to open up I get cast aside. I dont blame them. No one wants a burden in their life. Maybe things could be different if I wasnt so ugly. But it wouldn't really matter, because id still be broken beyond repair. I guess my father was right when he said no one would ever love me. He was right and it hurts. I already know that I will eventually kill myself. Im not sure how to write a suicide note, but if it's bad I at least won't have to live with it

Edit: and before anyone says the "don't kill yourself, I care blah blah" bullshit platitudes: you do not know me. The person you are saying that to is some imaginary person you just made up in your head. A person who is "good enough" and "able to be loved", and whatever other nonsense you thought of. But I am not that person. You wouldn't know that, though. Because you do not know me.

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I always had trouble showering, bc it's boring, and I hate it, but mostly my long hair is really difficult and time consuming to wash properly. (I can't cut it short bc I have a part time adult entertainment job, and honestly, it's my one physical feature I'm actually kinda proud of.)

A few years ago when I was doing way worse, I'd go 1–2 weeks between full showers if I didn't have a gig. I'd bird bath my pits, parts, & feet but not wash my hair cuz I just. couldn't do it. Didn't fuckin have it in me.

So one day I walked into the hairdresser down the street and asked "Do you guys do just a hair wash? Sorry if that's a weird question" and they're like, "Yeah, why not! No problem, is $15 ok?" I was honestly surprised it was that inexpensive, so I said "Yes please!"

For the rest of the time I lived near there, if I got a mental block against washing my hair, I'd just go to the salon. Didn't even get it dried or anything. It was just so nice that a couple of kind ladies existed who were willing to help me deal with that problem for a very fair price and with zero judgment. Nobody ever said a word about how dirty my hair was, they just washed it and were nice to me.

I'm really grateful for them. And, I'm doing better now, which I'm also grateful for.

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Last year, I had 2 OD attempts. Couldn't do a third because my mom found out and hid my pills, but this ain't this post's focus.

Waking up after a failed suicide attempt has a... eerie feeling. I can't really describe it, but you feel weird after it.

Just wanted to share a thought.

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Meeting about the new office building. Construction starting two years from now. What is my opinion on an open office? Can't say i give a fuck what's happening in two years, can't envision that being relevant to me at all.

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Ado - usseewa Ro2noki - hymn to a decadent life Kanzaki Iori - hated by life itself Shiinamota - Young girl A, Strobe Light

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Sources or fucking whatever, go check out this character, they're really fucking depressed.

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