Depression does not necessarily reffer to sorrow or feelings of greif it can also reffer to a lack of ambition, feeling down or fatiqued.


My cousin and I speak on the phone almost every night he is 27 years old and I am 24; he has more recently admitted to me that he feels asthough he has no ambition and just wishes he could sleep his life away(feels down). He also added in the fact that he believed that it was not a good thing; he recognized it as depression.


I myself am more of a sorrowfully depressed person and do not lack ambition, but am in fear due to doubt which keeps me from persuing my goals to my utmost ability. I believe that I have been "clinically depressed" for so long that it has gone completely unrecognized and I have self identified it mistakenly as doubt and inability.


My cousin and I try to help eachother, we support eachother and give encouragement towards working out, we identify eachothers moods well and ask the appropriate questions and offer the appropriate advice.


But we are both still in a constant day by day state of depression and perform subpar to our abilities and potential.


My cousin has tried gambling, qutting smoking cigarettes, drinking, girls, movies, video games , porn and much much more.


I myself have spent every day for the last year and a half trying to better myself, trying to encourage myself and even trying to identify symptoms and effects of my depression in life so that I can be positive and productive, i've taken up martial arts, taken up exercise, quit smoking, i dont drink, tried to forge stronger bonds with my girlfriend, and even gone as far as eliminating relationships that I thought were bringing me down.


But still every day we both still go to sleep feeling the same way and recognizing more and more problems, signs, symptoms, and effects of depression.


Perhaps a depressed person can not lift a depressed person out of depression? Even in regards to themselves.

This post was edited by MrJoshua on Jul 27 2011 12:39am

tl dr

It's harder than it seems

no offence.

i lol'd

no one really cares if you read it or not

dick! but ya same

I've suffered from depression and it is very helpful to have someone who you can relate to, but that's no cure. It sounds like you're doing the right things. Perhaps your depression persists because your depression rubs off on each other? Have you considered seeing a counselor of some sort?

E: Are you unable to spend time with each other? Maybe if you could both do something together that makes you both happy that would help.

This post was edited by Greeley on Jul 27 2011 12:43am

no offense
i hope you o'd on your sleeping pills

dont let him go shopping at a gun store

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