The Good Thing About Long-term Depression: I know I’ll survive. I’ve dealt with major depression for at least 2 decades. It hasn’t been that bad for about a year now, but as I sit on the bench, I’ve found today (specifically) to be particularly rough. Lots of negative thoughts about losing my job due to my utilization rate dropping, and then spiraling into more negative thoughts about the state of the job market, and feeling awkward as I sent out networking emails and IMs. So, I decided to 1/x

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2/x join this bowl after searching depression and reading some posts.

As I considered responses to the posts I was reading, I thought back on some of my lowest points in life (think divorce leading to day drinking leading to night drinking leading to blacking out regularly leading to losing my job, as an example).

I also thought about how I’m still here, made some serious strides since that example period, and even if I do lose my job, I’ll recover. I know this from experience (s).

I hope in some way, this is able to help someone who reads it. Posting it helps me. We’re going to survive - and hopefully thrive. Just hang in there.

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I never thought about it but yeah We survived!!!!
This bowl has helped me a lot. I have had nice people and mean people comment on my post. They have all helped. Some of the bad comments have helped me stand for myself a little more and the nice ones usually improve my confidence and helped me learn new cope mechanisms.

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