Posted by Edward on July 11, 2001, at 14:53:18
I have been diagnosed with depression, and put on meds but I'm not sure I am depressed. I don't feel really bad, just a bit bored with life, and quite unfeeling. I don't have any problem with eating or sleeping, my mood isn't consistant, sometimes I do have quite a lot of energy. I don't feel a lot of guilt. I just feel a bit lazy and unmotivated. I've seen really depressed people, and they are nothing like me. They don't eat, talk or do very much. I do.
I've been very shy and nervous all my life. My psychiatrist blames this on depression, but I've only been unhappy since I was 11. (I'm now 17). There have been some short times when I've been happy since, and sometimes I am quite excitable. Could it just be that I am unhappy because I am nervous and I don't cope with stress very well? I can't think of anything I want to do with my life, and I've sometimes thought about killing myself, but it just doesn't seem like I'm suffering from depression when I compare myself to descriptions of depressed people and real depressed people I know. I don't think my psychiatrist understands me. How do I know if I'm really depressed?
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