When did your depression start?

[MrDawn]

At what age did you start feeling depressed?

 

[Webster]

At what age did you start feeling depressed?

Probably after becoming disabled in late 2009-early 2010.

 

[Dollhouse]

I would say, around 2020

 

[cybercupid]

I was 11, or around that. It was just before starting middle school.

 

[cowcatcher]

I never thought of it as depression, it was just my life.
I'm not sure I ever tried to focus on the world around me, or become self-aware, until I was about 8. Between then and 16 I came to realize I didn't fit in.
It took me quite a long time and a drinking problem for me to understand I am a depressed person. Reflecting back it was probably around 12 that the depression became who I am.

 

[emily]

I can't remember ever having a happy time in my childhood, (because of mother's abuse), so I think I always was.

I mean I wasn't born depressed, obviously- but it sure feels like that sometimes.

I suppose when I was 9 I properly became aware of how I felt about life- and that is, life's a bitch, and then you die. lol

 

[PGen98]

I was always pretty depressed as a kid, reserved and held back. I think I truly hit peak depression in my teens, I was almost constantly suicidal back then, whereas now it's...well...frequent, but less pervasive. Depression hits me quite hard, for whatever reason, I go from moderately ok to teetering on the brink in a river of tears in an instant. Not much fun, but you have to try and balance it, some people get upset if you show it too much, so I do my best to only let it out on occasion around others.

 

[Daltonio]

We sure are a depressed bunch, aren't we?

Don't think I realized it at the time but probably in high school. And then progressively worse in the years since.

 

[PGen98]

We sure are a depressed bunch, aren't we?

I'm a therapist's best friend, all wrapped up in a gooey flesh bag

Don't think I realized it at the time but probably in high school. And then progressively worse in the years since.

We don't realize it until we're so far down the spiral. It's just...sad...feeling upset, angry. We don't get help, we just think it'll go away...until it doesn't.

 

[Webster]

I would say, around 2020

I was 11, or around that. It was just before starting middle school.

I never thought of it as depression, it was just my life.
I'm not sure I ever tried to focus on the world around me, or become self-aware, until I was about 8. Between then and 16 I came to realize I didn't fit in.
It took me quite a long time and a drinking problem for me to understand I am a depressed person. Reflecting back it was probably around 12 that the depression became who I am.

I can't remember ever having a happy time in my childhood, (because of mother's abuse), so I think I always was.

I mean I wasn't born depressed, obviously- but it sure feels like that sometimes.

I suppose when I was 9 I properly became aware of how I felt about life- and that is, life's a bitch, and then you die. lol

I was always pretty depressed as a kid, reserved and held back. I think I truly hit peak depression in my teens, I was almost constantly suicidal back then, whereas now it's...well...frequent, but less pervasive. Depression hits me quite hard, for whatever reason, I go from moderately ok to teetering on the brink in a river of tears in an instant. Not much fun, but you have to try and balance it, some people get upset if you show it too much, so I do my best to only let it out on occasion around others.

We sure are a depressed bunch, aren't we?

Don't think I realized it at the time but probably in high school. And then progressively worse in the years since.