FriendlyShadow
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I am an 8/10 for sure and my emotions are driving me all over the place. Such a shame that my life ended me up this way.
What is your level of depression from a scale of 1 to 10?
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I am an 8/10 for sure and my emotions are driving me all over the place. Such a shame that my life ended me up this way.
planetweirdo
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My depression tends to alternate between 2 or 3 on goods days, and about 8 or 9 on bad days.
voodoochild16
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With having to push myself to be social most days, that's what makes my days go up and down. So depression kicks in when it goes bad. But overall depression in my life entirely is like for sure a 9/10 (I know I gave other scales previously). What could make it go away?, maybe if i won the lottery, then I could just move away and get proper treatment for SA...
PheonixBomb
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If I average them out, probably a 7. Most days are 5s, but there are days where its like 11.
voodoochild16
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Yep, and during those times of 11 I just don't feel that sense of reality, I just feel even worse than an outcast. I always feel non-existent, and motivation is so bad that everything seems hopeless and i just feel helpless.
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PheonixBomb
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Yep, and for me I end up doing nothing but laying in bed staring at the ceiling. Almost like I've been paralyzed temporarily.
voodoochild16
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I've had that moment a few times last year and just after the new year. Eventually I gather the motivation to get up. I just hate laying their and wasting time. But if I did it for many weeks then I guess that is when I should start doing something about it.
Most of the time I'm doing something I guess. I just hate this feeling of helplessness and no motivation, life and death.
Opaline
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The title should have included "most days".
My depression about a year ago was closer to 10 most days, and on better days maybe an 8 at the lowest. Now it's down to a 5 or less these days. I have some 7 days and occasionally an 8, but I've really gotten a handle on things.
What's interesting about it is my circumstances haven't changed much (besides a difficult person no longer living in my house, but he wasn't the main cause anyway). I've simply developed a better outlook. I'm not even sure how. I guess I just sort of got over it, in a way... It ran its long ugly course and then disappeared.
My depression about a year ago was closer to 10 most days, and on better days maybe an 8 at the lowest. Now it's down to a 5 or less these days. I have some 7 days and occasionally an 8, but I've really gotten a handle on things.
What's interesting about it is my circumstances haven't changed much (besides a difficult person no longer living in my house, but he wasn't the main cause anyway). I've simply developed a better outlook. I'm not even sure how. I guess I just sort of got over it, in a way... It ran its long ugly course and then disappeared.
Kiwong
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Despite having severe anxiety, my depression is mild. If I really focus on all the bad things that I've gone through, the crushing weight of disapproval, the anger, then I might have given up long ago, but I am still here. There is a fighting spirit in my mind, and I reckon it is something to recognise and encourage, and to listen it more. I call it the voice of my guide, and it is always there to help, even in my darkest moments.
It is an almost unconscious will to fight and survive. If I could take the edge of my anxiety that will might become even stronger.
It is an almost unconscious will to fight and survive. If I could take the edge of my anxiety that will might become even stronger.
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MikeyC
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Mine has historically been the other way around, but your fighting spirit is very good, Kiwong! :thumbup:
FountainandFairfax
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I probably cruise on a 3 or a 4.
My depression is more of a feeling of complete indifference towards myself, rather than a feeling of deep sadness though.
My depression is more of a feeling of complete indifference towards myself, rather than a feeling of deep sadness though.
skins
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maybe its the scientist coming out in me but its such a subjective question as we don't have any control to compare to. I've been depressed for that long I simply don't know what is supposed to be a normal feeling anymore? If I say a 9 then maybe that's an overstatement...if I say a 5 maybe that's an understatement..it depends what the average populous would experience for me to make a call, but then I wouldn't know what the average would be unless you tell me..so how the hell would I know what I am??
Steiner
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No clue. I guess you just have to stick a pin on the donkey.
A Many Splendored Thing
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In my opinion, the levels would be:
10- Always feel like killing yourself. Or equivalent-like life is torture.
8- Always feeling terrible or neutral at best, may contemplate suicide frequently.
6- Mostly bad days with a few diamonds in the rough. Still able to have happy moments.
4- Can have the same depression moments as 6, but it is only for maybe a day per week.
2- Moody. The worst feeling is more like having a cold than any sort of sadness.
0- Farting ice cream and rainbows.
Depression is more about time than how bad you feel. I think of it as a snowball effect. The bad days make you think of things that sour the good days, so you have more bad days which sour more good days. Then every day is a bad day and willpower will run out eventually.
I don't like the idea of comparing how one person feels to how everyone else feels. Emotion can't currently be measured like strength. And just like strength, you may never be as strong, but you can always improve yourself. Outside help like steroids(medication) may also help boost you even higher.
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Before meds, I was 8-9. Every day I would have crying episodes that lasted 10-15 minutes. I could feel in my brain a form of what I'd consider to be pain(same sort as if I had severe diharrea). Now I'm 2-3 and off the meds.
I could go back on the meds and have a 0 level(you would not believe the feeling, I was so giddy
), but I don't want to be addicted to them.