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Living With Depression
Do you suffer from bipolar depression? On these pages you can share your symptoms and read others' personal stories of what life is like during depression and ways they have found to cope.
How to Recognize a Depressive Episode
Steps for identifying when a person is suffering from either unipolar or bipolar depression.
What Are Your Depression Symptoms?
Depression symptoms can include sadness, unexplained crying, insomnia, sleeping too much, fatigue or loss of energy, losing interest in things you normally enjoy, thinking a lot about death, restlessness or sluggishness, loss of or increase in appetite or weight, and other difficult symptoms. Tell us what your depression symptoms are, and read...
What Makes You Notice Depression?
For someone with clinical depression or bipolar disorder, it's not all that difficult to become conditioned to mild to moderate and even severe depression. You have experienced so much depression in your life that it has become a norm. Do you think you have become conditioned to depression? What makes you finally notice that you are depressed?
Are You Conditioned to Depression?
For someone with clinical depression or bipolar disorder, it's not all that difficult to become conditioned to mild to moderate depression. You have experienced so much depression in your life that it has become a norm. When you are conditioned, you may not even recognize depression for what it is.
How to Get Through December Holidays When Depressed
The December holidays - Hanukah, Christmas and New Year's - can be brutal for people in depression. Here are some tips to help you cope with family, gifts, parties and yourself.
Wrestling with Depression: Annie’s Perspective
Depression is gut wrenching. It's heart breaking. Depression is the cancer in my soul. I can actually feel the hole in my soul when sick. You can feel it take over. It has it's own taste and smell. I'm tired of the fight. The darkness has won. Like it always wins. And yet, I'll never give up my hope.
Bipolar Journal: Depression
I look at specific symptoms and behaviors I recognize in myself that indicate I am suffering from depression.
Bipolar Journal: Down, Down, Down
From the “I’m Bipolar” series, the authors shares that the latest medication changes were disastrous emotionally, leading to an examination of one of the problems all-too-common to mental health patients: weight gain.
Round and Round with Depression
Two more med changes. Frustration mounts, and real life is about to intrude on the prescribing process. From the “I’m Bipolar” series.
