Amumu
Ctb - temporary solution for a permanent problem
- Aug 29, 2020
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I've been depressed since childhood, so it's unlikely I'm going to recover. Maybe pills will enable me to go through a few more years, but that's it.
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I really agree with this. I think that our teens are super formative years, and depending on the kind of experiences we have it can have nearly irreversible effects on our mentality when we're old. When you spend your formative years with suicidal ideation, it's all you know and it's impossible to see the world without it. It's not only about hormones in the brain, although I'm sure that can contribute, but about the life experiences you develop especially because of the hormonal changes, or because of whatever other hardships you become defined by in those years.I think attributing teenage depression solely down to puberty/hormones completely takes away and diminishes the struggles that teenagers face. That one couldn't possibly be able to make to decision to cbt, or even be allowed to, because their brain isn't fully developed. Pressures to perform academically and socially have a huge impact on mental health. Wanting to fit in. The sudden loss of childhood and innocence. 24/7 bombardment of social media and negative news. The environment we live in. All of these contribute to depression and suicidal ideation in young people. Not just hormones.
My depression as a teen wasn't at all related to puberty. What got me down the most was seeing how pointless everything was. Coming to the conclusion that life had no meaning. I had no place in it. Or at least that I didn't want to be part of whatever sick joke life was.
Yeah, when people say they got "so much" out of therapy and meds, I know their problems were always temporary and recent, not the lifelong, crippling struggle I and many others here have faced.I made a poll on this forum a long time ago and most of the members got depression and/or became suicidal in their early teens some even in childhood which surprised me and I think it is safe to say that if you became suicidal in your early teens you will never recover; whenever I hear about a person recovering from "depression" or being suicidal it´s typically adults (20+) who have just experiencing depression for some months or maybe even longer but for them it´s due to life changes for the rest it was predetermined by hormonal changes caused by puberty usually in our early teen years.
Most members here have had a good or at least decent childhood mine was paradise on Earth I feel I might have had the best childhood in the world but enough about me the point is most of us were happy living life to its fullest in our childhood it was only with all the hormonal changes puberty caused we became depressed and suicidal I mean think back at your childhood and think how happy you were for so many years and all of a sudden life started to get darker and it´s not a coincidence, my puberty started at 12 but at the end of 13 I started to become depressed and suicidal and all because of the hormonal changes to the mind by puberty because for those past 11-13 years life was amazing.
If you're on a desk top/laptop:Its interesting how things went to crap for most people around 12/ puberty. I started to suffer then to. Not with depression or SI, but anxiety and some borderline schizophrenia.
btw, can you change a cringy username?