Help i want to get better but it hurts so much

[ashesashes]

i've been severley depressed for a couple years now, but only these past few months has it been this bad. i try to do things to help myself but it feels like there's so much physical pain associated with my depression now. like my head will really hurt or be really foggy like almost all the time and it'll make it extremley difficult to do anything. people have told me it's just because of how little i get out but when i go out it doesn't feel any better. it's made this past while really hard 4 me and i wanted to see if anyone else had the same experience with depression and if anyone was able to overcome it and how. maybe it's a seperate issue. idk i feel like i'm going crazy.

 

[NutOrat]

No it's all connected. Depression can have real nasty effects on physical condition, and I've experienced similar things, especially the fogginess and weakness.

people have told me it's just because of how little i get out but when i go out it doesn't feel any better.

Yeah, my relatives say this to me all the time. They think it's that simple, just force yourself to do something and it will magically stop being hard all of the sudden. That's not how it works, when you're so spent and are constantly in this state, unable to replenish energy with anything, it's not possible to just do something. And you know, I went out, I socialized, and I felt like shit afterwards. My body wants to never go out again.

 

[BeyondSurvival]

I thought I was trapped in a cycle of going back and forth between good and bad, but I've realized that everything is only getting worse. It feels like my soul and identity are starting to fade away. When I look inside my body, I can't see a soul anymore.