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To those who have recovered from depression?
I am wonder one thing about your experience with depression.
While in the throws of depression did it feel like you didn't understand the world or that the future seemed so tangled, as if you could never understand it? It's like not knowing how to work life, or how it works, and not having any clue what you are doing. It's not that the future seems bleak or hopeless really, but that you just don't get it enough.
Did anyone have that? If so, did recovering change that or help you come out of it/understand the world better?
I am wondering this because I want to know if this is my depression or my nonverbal learning disorder. Thanks.
I guess what I am trying to say is that when I think of life and what to do and how it works it all seems so foreign to me. It's as if there is just nothing but this fog clouding my mind. I can have all of these stories in my head of how life is supposed to work of how I'd want it to work (though they'd never happen as most things I want never happen), but I have no idea how to live in reality, if that makes any sense.
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
It wasn't that I didn't understand the world, but I saw it as it is. A lot of other people would see the world as a great place but I just saw it as a terrible place where terrible things happen. As for the future, thinking about it gave me anxiety because of the fact that I didn't know what would happen, where I would be or anything like that and that scared the crap out of me. So I guess in a way the future did seem a little tangled to me but I saw the world how it is. Hope this helped xx
- Anonymous8 years ago
Hi! I am recovering from depression and self harm. Before I realized I had depression I thought the world was out to get me. I didn't understand why the world works the way it does, if that makes sense :P. I felt like there was no future for me and that I wouldn't be successful in anything I do. I locked myself away from everyone else and was hospitalized twice. As for understanding the world better, I don't think anyone will ever fully understand the world. It's a pretty ****** up place. We just kind of have to live day by day.
- 7 years ago
I literally understand completely. Every word you wrote I kept screaming YES in my brain. Recovering has definitely made life seem more manageable and I think this is because when were sick we often put ourselves in a victim state and see the world as this big scary place that's against us. Thus we see other people doing all of these "right" things and think that something is wrong with us that we aren't sure how to do that. But as we recover we begin to feel empowered and realize that we aren't a different from everyone else as our eating disorders/depression/self harm made us feel. I still feel this way sometimes but much less.
Anyways, I wish you the best of luck and hopefully you will be rid of this feeling as you get better and realize how strong an capable and smart you are.
Stay strong and keep fighting! Recovery is possible :)
Source(s): Recovering anorexic and bulimic - 6 years ago
I'm still recovering from depression. This is my 3-4 year and it sucks so bad. Do you have kik or something we could talk on?
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