Am I under depression right now?
By nytrisco
@nytrisco (567)
Philippines
August 24, 2008 6:40pm CST
Ok, every weekends I tend to go to my relatives house and stay there until sunday and then monday, I'd go back again to my house until weekends again and the cycle is just repeating and repeating. Whenever I am home, I feel so uneasy so I usually go outside just to hang around until it is night again to sleep. I am happy when I am away but when I am home, my smile automatically fades away. I don't want to see my stepmother, I really hate her and makes me irritated whenever she is around. She always tell people some make up stories about me, and now even my dad was hypnotized by her and he wouldn't even listen to me anymore. Now my father and son relationship are so messed up thanks to my wicked step mother.
Are those signs that I am depress right now?
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11 responses
@granite_butterfly (448)
• Canada
25 Aug 08
It certainly sounds like you have reasons to be depressed and could have some symptoms. Before making a self diagnosis, it would be in your best interests to seek some professional advice. Sure, many of us here could confirm your depression but to overcome the situation requires expertise. Stay hopeful and open minded. Do consider professional advice. Depression is a serious condition.
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@klaudine (3650)
• Indonesia
25 Aug 08
I can say that you are not yet depressed, but your anger and your sadness will bring you into one. You are on your way to the depression. But that was only my early opinion, I should know whether you have the depression symptoms on your daily activities.
Do you have sleeping disorder? Sleeping too long, and have no energy to wake up, or cannot sleep at all?
Do you have eating disorder? Release your anger to foods and eat as much as you can. Or not sleeping at all.
Do you start to do things that you would normally don't?
@nytrisco (567)
• Philippines
25 Aug 08
Often times I cannot sleep at night so I tend to tire my body by doing jogging at night so that I could sleep, or sometimes I have a tendency that I don't want to stand up on my bed and wake up coz I don't want to think about those problems. Eating disorder, I think so.. I gained weight, from 132 lbs now I am 147 lbs and still gaining.. I tend to eat when I think about it. I smoke a lot at night or when times that I am just alone by my self, just thinking of some of my problems. I connot concentrate at all.
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@klaudine (3650)
• Indonesia
25 Aug 08
Seeing the symptoms, yes, you are having medium level of depression. I used to be deprssed with my life, and I used to have an insomnia. If you are depressed, try to release it into something healthier. You can yell or blabber to people about your problem, share it make it better. Or you can take my friends way to lessen the tension. He would go to the gym and have a hard training so he would be tired but refreshed, or sometimes he would go to the boxing club and hit the sack like crazy, it releases his anger to the very low level.
Or you can try mine? Ignore them, and become ignorant, because the old people said, "Ignorance is a bliss"
Don't get stressed. Live it. 



@lingli_78 (12821)
• Australia
25 Aug 08
i'm not really sure that you are already in depression or not at the moment... but all i can say is, hatred is not a good feeling to be kept inside for a long time... it can certainly lead to depression... why don't you speak to your step-mother openly and tell them honestly how you feel??? you might be able to get an explanation from her and renew your relationship with her before it is too late... take care and have a nice day...
@jessica102810 (30)
• China
25 Aug 08
I think it is not depression,it is just a small trouble in your life.Actually,you can talk to your stepmother friendly and peacefully,just controll your emotions.Or maybe you can change yourself,for example,you can enjoy music and nature.To be happy,that is very important.when you find the beauty around you,you will be happy.Try to change and improve relationship between you.I believe you can reward a bid smile,come on!
@besthope44 (12123)
• India
8 Oct 10
I use to manage depression, listening musiq, playing violen and i like chocolates, and i feel i get refreshed after having my chocolates. And best remedy is Meditation, try breathing exercise, it will help you balance and handle depression.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
25 Aug 08
try to not look at thinmgs this way. this will make you more sad. don't try to put any idea on this fact that this is making you sad. enjoy life
@potrish78 (742)
• Philippines
25 Aug 08
I think it's more of hostility rather than depression. Your anger is devouring you little by little each day until such point that you can no longer control your emotions. You're staying-away-from-home is a defense mechanism to avoid your step mother or to escape the reality that she exists and is part of your life. More often than not our connotation for step mothers are "wicked or evil beings" stealing our very own precious family. Wrecking our once happy family life. This can sometimes be true but can also be the opposite. What you could do is be brave enough to tell both your father and your step mother regarding the situation. It is not healthy for a person building grudges for someone who is actually now part of the family. You'll never know why she is acting the way she does until a confrontation has made. You said that she always make up stories about you, right? Who knows, it might be something that she perceived of you. You'll never know. It is difficult to confront your parents but it's the best way to handle the situation. If you can't do it for yourself, Ask for someone who can be a mediator in the confrontation. A Godfather maybe or a relative who knows about your emotions regarding the matter.
@thaMARKER (2503)
• Philippines
25 Aug 08
i guess im feeling of doing the same thing too. well not so the same. every weekend i go to mall and stayed there most of the day. i guess im just too bored to stay in my place if i just lie on to my bed the whole day. i just recently moved into a new city by the way, that's why i feel bored or lonely.
@skaterx (530)
• Finland
25 Aug 08
I think you're stressed out, and bitter that you can't do anything about your stepmom, and unhappy that your father won't listen to you anymore. I think you should keep trying to talk to your father to try to build on the relationship again. You don't have to be friends with your stepmom, you don't have to like her. Maybe its going to get better when you move out and live by yourself or with some flatmates, because then you only have to see your dad, and you don't have to see her. It's never easy with a stepparent you don't like, so it's not that you're depressed, its that its really strenuous living there.
@aville44 (125)
• United States
25 Aug 08
i wouldnt say so. thats not depression... thats just the fact that you dont like being around her. im in a similar situation your in... and heres how you should handle it. dont let her know anything she ever does bothers you. she may feed on the fact that its bothing you and make the problem worse. if you think happy thoughts, you'll be happy. another thing... ive found that being outside can always cheer you up. lift weights, run, jog, walk, play some kind of sport, or just sit there. good luck









