Skip to main content Skip to bottom nav
Community /

Depression Support Forum

Create a New Thread
Gif Photo Link
Your Poem...
by EmmaE
Last post
Friday
...See more Hi everyone, I came across this poem prompt and thought I'd share it here if anyone would like to try! ------------------------- My Poem (Title) My name is (name). Today I feel like a/an (adjective) (noun) (verb)ing in the (noun). Sometimes I am a/an (noun) Sometimes I am a/an (noun) But always I am (adjective). I ask the world, "(question)?" And the answer is a/an (repeat your words from line 2). ------------------------- If you’d like to join the depression support team, please check out THIS POST [https://www.7cups.com/forum/7CupsLeadership_188/SubcommunityHelpWanted_2306/HelpWantedDepressionSupport2023_295219/] for more information. To join our tag list and receive notifications, click HERE [https://www.7cups.com/forum/DepressionSupportCommunity_52/DepressionSupportLeadershipTeam_404/NEWautomateddepressionsupporttaglist_274831/].
Weekly Prompt #41: How do you perceive your own resilience and ability to cope with challenges?
by ASilentObserver
Last post
Thursday
...See more Hello all, I hope you are all being easy on yourself this week. A few weeks ago we discussed: How does your depression affect your ability to care about and take care of others? [https://www.7cups.com/forum/depression/General_2427/WeeklyPrompt40Howdoesyourdepressionaffectyourabilitytocareaboutandtakecareofothers_336335/] Thank you to all who participated and shared their thoughts and questions for discussion. They were thought-provoking questions and thoughts. I hope you all did too. If you didn't share yours, please share them here [https://www.7cups.com/forum/depression/General_2427/WeeklyPrompt40Howdoesyourdepressionaffectyourabilitytocareaboutandtakecareofothers_336335/] and I look forward to reading and discussing them with you This week's prompt: How do you perceive your resilience and ability to cope with challenges? To perceive your resilience and ability to cope with challenges, you can reflect on your past experiences, identify your strengths, ways to embrace a positive mindset etc. Let's get started and share your thoughts with us. I look forward to hearing all your thoughts and ideas.  Join us in the 24/7 Depression Support Group Chat [https://www.7cups.com/connect/groupChatrooms.php]
You can keep going 💙
by LoveMyMoonflowers
Last post
November 22nd
...See more Hey everyone (: I hope your all doing okie 💙 and if your not (': we *do* care about you and we would really love to be there for you whenever you need us. 💜 I really hope you know that you don’t have to do this alone, buddy.  i don’t know what your going through right now, exactly. i don’t know how you feel (': but i’d like to remind you that it *is* okay to *feel* 💙 and it’s okay to take your time when figuring things out. it may be hard to explain how your feeling as well and i get that. 💜 (it’s important to take some time for yourself also 🥰 please do try being kind to yourself 🥺)  and some days… it just feels like too much, doesn’t it? we feel like we can’t take it anymore, we can’t go on anymore. Things just get too overwhelming, life just gets too hard… and hope seems like a distant dream. i know i’ve felt this way many times (': i think many of you might be able to relate 💙 but honestly, i need to remind you that there *is* hope, and you really can keep going. your never ever alone 💜 and you’ve never been truly alone.  And even though you might have never seen it, you are strong. stronger than you think you are. You’ve come *this* far and I am so so proud of you. i know it hasn’t been easy. i’m so proud of you. 💙 i’m sending so so so much love your way 💜 you deserve it, you really do 🥺 we love you, we care about you *always* and yes, there *is* hope for you. 💙 i promise.  🌙 Ni 🌸 @HealingTalk 
Depression and Self-Help
by Heera72
Last post
1 hour ago
...See more Depression can be caused by anything that has affected us psychologically, our emotions, and our feelings. Depression can drain our energy and make it hard for us to live and enjoy the things we once enjoyed. It is our past experiences or any trauma that we might have undergone that might have led us to be depressed. The first step to depression is acknowledging that you have it and knowing if it needs to be treated or not. Depression can often leave us feeling empty from within and make us numb. To help oneself from depression is to become more aware of oneself- that is, to develop self-acceptance and self-love. Self-acceptance can help us better understand ourselves and make us look at ourselves positively. Certain things work for some people, and finding which works for you is essential. There are a lot of self-help activities and habits that one can incorporate into their daily life to help themselves.https://yourmentalhealthpal.com/how-to-create-a-daily-routine-for-depression/
loneliness, depression, etc
by okaysimones
Last post
2 hours ago
...See more im so tired of feeling so lonely and sad 24/7. it feels like i have no support behind me when it comes to my depression and anxiety. i have a *** relationship with the majority of my family so they can’t help, and it feels like my mom is distant-ish emotionally so i can barely ever rely on her, and my therapist i feel like isn’t much help either. i have trouble making friends so it feels like im completely by myself. im so tired of living my life this way. it doesn’t feel like it ever truly does get better, im. convinced it doesn’t.
Mental Health Check-In 🧠💗
by Angelanj
Last post
2 hours ago
...See more Hey everyone! Use one of the emojis to share how you are feeling. Drop the heart in the replies that relates to your current status. Sending love and light your way! - Angelanj 💗🫂
PTSD an survival how do I do it just want to move on.
by powerfulSkies3388
Last post
2 hours ago
...See more For four years I stayed around I dealt with so much abuse things I can’t get out my mind things that make it hard for me to watch certain movies, hear certain sounds. A door shut makes me jump loud voices an screams scare me an a simple hand shake makes me jump he was charged with multiple charges yet he only received 15 months an hear I am feeling like he’ll get to come home an live life be happy an move on but I’m here damaged in this dark place changed forever an constantly having flash backs that lead me into crying an panicking an I just want to be normal I’ve dealt with enough trauma an he just added to it only this time I’m completely broken.
I can't do it anymore. I am just too gone and broken and just too confused and just too down. I got nothing left in me.
by confusedandbroke
Last post
10 hours ago
...See more I am 38, Parent's died in my early 20's no siblings, no other family. have had no friends, what friends I had just used me or stole money from me then threw me away. in my 20's I was homeless and going town to town state to state had many day jobs, did many things learned many skills. volunteered sitting with people who were dying and had no one there. learned to read and write at age 20, I volunteered in homeless shelters, children's hospitals reading books and drawing with children who had cancer and other diseases and were dying. I volunteered in no kill animal shelters. I just don't know what to do anymore. I am at a loss of what to do. I would go to the park and hang with people and would even play tackle football with some guys at the park, never knew them just walked up asked if I could join they said sure told me what to do and I did it. Did boxing for a few months, got my CDL but no trucking company would hire me , worked for a band etc. did construction jobs had my own landscape company etc. Now here I am in my late 30's pushing 40, single, alone, no kids, no education, learning issues crippling me from being able to further my education. Made a facebook account and have no one to add on it no groups to join, I have no one to talk too daily. I am on disability unable to work. I have arthritis crippling me from my lower back to my feet and every where in between. Lucky if I can even walk a mile and stand for an hour at this point. Past ten years I have tried to get my GED and failed and have tried getting a fundraiser and getting grants and getting companies and churches and such to invest in me as I start a shelter to take in teens 18 to 25 who are homeless and help them get off the streets and on their feet and help get them a job and their own place. all the while trying to find a girlfriend someone to love and settle down with and make a life with and be with all at the same time as I try to start a couple of businesses of my own that also got shut down in my face while living in this dead end town that has sucked the life out of me. I have no family, no friends, I go months to years no one to talk too, no one who calls say hey whats up, no one who calls to talk about the new game of thrones episode etc. or just to bitch about their dog shitting in their shoe and pissing on their bed while chewing up all the toilet paper in the house. I have put myself out there for the past eight years in the dating scene trying to find a woman to date and settle down with. I have been rejected around 1600 times and told I am ugly, disgusting, worthless, useless, told I have nothing to offer a woman or give a woman, mocked at laughed at, told I don't deserve love or a relationship, told I needed to end my life for being so fat and lazy. 7 nights ago I had 10 women reply to my dating post telling me they loved what they read about me, they wanted to get to know me, they wanted the same things in a relationship etc etc etc. all of them ghosted me once they found out I was obese. all but one, One was a single mom of 4 by 4 different men, living with her parents no job, an alcoholic then told me if it was an issue she understood. we talked for half an hour, she sent a pic. I sent one back. when she seen my weight she said hell no, I should be ashamed of myself and I am worse than a drug addict and I need to end my life. there is no way she would ever be with someone as horribly fat as I am. but right before that she was talking about how funny I was, how she couldn't find any decent genuine men like me. how I seem to have a great heart and so on. I just feel like my life went from something really good to a complete waste of nothing and I am now nothing but a worthless failure that doesn't deserve anything and can't do anything with my life anymore no matter how hard I try. I just fail at everything I do now. I rent a room from an elderly woman who is in bad health and I give her 350 a month all bills paid. and if she dies I will be homeless. no car, no where to live. no family, no friends. homeless and on the street with arthritis in my back my knees ankles feet unable to walk more than a mile in a town with no uber lyft taxi or city bus an hour from any town either direction one way I have absolutely no one, no where to go every night when I go to sleep I wonder if this is the last night I will be here and every morning I wake up i wake her up to see if shes alive and for her to check her blood sugar for her diabetes and hoping to god shes still alive. I get 790 a month every room I find to rent they want 400 plus half in bills. I can't afford that. I can only afford 350 with all bill included and no one will do that. and if I do find anyone who will they don't want me on disability they want me working and no one will rent to me because of my weight I've had people turn me down over my weight and rooms with all bills paid are around 500 to 600 a month. I have meds, and copays to drs and other things I need to get through the month not counting food. I cant afford that on my 790 a month check I don't know what to do anymore. I was supposed to be in Wisconsin last month for an apartment complex for low income, been on the waiting list for years finally got called up. but when it came time I couldn't get there, didn't have the money for the bus ticket, for rent, and to have the lights turned on. was trying to save but things came up around here that took the savings. I bought a car last year but got scammed out of 3 thousand.I don't know what to do anymore. I am at a loss of what to do. It seems like everything I do or everything I come up with either blows up in my face or I get scammed out of or it just is a closed door. and I am feeling like I am just meant to be alone in this world forever. . I just dunno anymore what to do. I'm so broken beyond fixing at this point. I can't take anymore.
Never ending issues
by querencia798
Last post
14 hours ago
...See more I have been keeping my mom at an arm's length since November when she failed to show me some support (like she always has) regarding my goal of going abroad in front my father. Also, she checked my igcse results. I took 5 subjects and had straight A-s in all of them. 3A* and 2A. She had seen them when they came out in August and was pleased. But when I went to collect the certificate in November and she saw them again, it was like she was seeing it for the first time. Upon seeing the A in Math, she was like "Then what help did your tutor gave you!" She immediately corrected herself and said she was happy but only I knew the ***-ery of that reaction which just made me mad. That's the first thing you comment? And why it looked like she was seeing it for the first time when she had already known my grades before? Because she is a forgetful person. She is a victim of psychiatric issues and a history of schizophrenia. She takes a lot of medicines, is in a better position now, and hasn't had an attack in a decade. But there are effects of an illness and its treatment, right? So she has the effects now, which include saying senseless stuff, saying the wrong stuff at the wrong moment, forgetfulness, hearing voices that aren't there when she is not busy. Oh Anika then cut her some slack!?" Please do not tell me this when you are not in my position. Just because a person has had mental challenges doesn't mean they cannot be a narcissistic person or parent. It doesn't mean they have no personality, which can be ugly, just like normal people. It doesn't mean they do not have children who have suffered because of them and their personality. It doesn't mean they didn't abuse their children emotionally. I never blame her psychological condition - that's a medical issue. Something no one had a control over. But her personality? I blame. Her spinelessness? I blame. Her hiding behind her illness and using it as a shield for multiple bad attitudes? I blame. Very rare are people whose both parents are narcissistic and only they know how complicated dynamics are and how *** up situations we go through. Her comment on my A is still one of the lightest of the things I have tolerated. There are worse. And my sister has dealt with the worst with being beaten at the age of 3 with her hands tied and what not, and she wasn't even a psychiatric patient then. What I want to emphasize on this post is what a big lack of coping mechanisms I have had for my mom all these years, and I continue to have none. Whatever I have suffered these 5 years and more which are my bad years I went through them painfully, esp in the case of my mom. We would just have ugly fights, then go back to being normal and nothing else. Every relationship needs to be healed, and I deserve a good life. I passed my exams this way, I don't want to pass the remaining life this way, having a problematic relationship with my mom. Any other time, I would still be fighting with her about her comment and the lack of support she shows for my abroad thing. But now I keep my door closed and limit contact and words with her because the stressful position I am in mentally would result in an escalation with her. She does nothing other than dismissing, refusing to admit her fault. A car cannot run on one tyre.  But I still suffer sometimes. Whenever I see her face, I remember the unresolved issues. I began to boil. I just drove her out of my room before I got into a fight. But how many more days like this? Without any coping strategy. I don't see any.
My 7 Cups Dream Journal
by integrityblues
Last post
14 hours ago
...See more Entry 1: The Boxes of Cats It was a little strange but what I remember most is visiting a house that was in my old neighborhood that I’d recently moved from (it really wasn’t, so dream logic) but I came back to collect something I left or my mother left. It was very sad and the people who were there now were sort of okay with me wandering around and looking. I kept noticing the signs that I’d once lived there (painted over places that still revealed chipped paint and stuff I recognized from my apartment). Then I looked beneath a couch or table and found boxes full of kittens. Two boxes were full of meowing kittens in water that the new home owners had no idea were there, and one more box held a very dead cat that was an older one from a previous litter. All of the kittens were starving without their mother and I knew that it was the reason why the older one passed. The new owners suddenly smelled the dead cat and I took it upon myself to get rid of it. When I came back an hour later all of the kittens were gone, and when I was walking past another house I could see all the kittens. They’d all grown up into adult cats!
Help: Extreme depression
by Sanvee11
Last post
14 hours ago
...See more I am 21, female, and hopelessly depressed. Every day is a burden, life itself seems like a long, cumbersome, painful nightmare. I seriously wish I would die peacefully and painlessly. Suicide is a constant thought in my mind.  The deep, piercing pain I feel within is indescribable, cruel and endless. I don't like my life. I don't like this horrible world which God has created. So much of evil here. At 21, I already feel I have lived enough and want an end to this stay in this dystopia called Earth. I don't know what to do, I am trapped between life and death. It sucks. 
I wish I could give my life to someone who wants to live
by GumballMachine
Last post
18 hours ago
...See more I wish I could give my life to someone who wants to live but can't. They would benefit more than I from having it. Meanwhile I could rest in peace, away from not having anywhere that I belong, away from being isolated, away from not ever being good enough regardless of how I think about myself, et cetera. I hate it here in this body.
4 Self-Care Tips for Winter Depression
by Angelanj
Last post
21 hours ago
...See more December is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Awareness month. Here are 4 self-care tips that will hopefully help you to cope with the winter blues! Comment down below if you have other coping skills that help you that can possibly help others to cope.
Lost
by bluePear7870
Last post
22 hours ago
...See more I’m feeling a little lost.  I’ve had quite a traumatic life and it’s only somewhat settled down recently.  Even though I’m not experiencing the same level of trauma anymore  it doesn’t feel like I’ve made it out the other side at all.  I seem to struggle a lot with things that others around me seem to find manageable. (I also think I’m severely behind people my age due to my trauma) And it’s been making me feel bad.  It doesn’t help that I get these depressive episodes (which has been happening a lot more lately)  Where I just don’t even want to move. Don’t even want to eat. Or do anything (I force myself to function though even though it’s very hard)  I just wonder sometimes what was the point of surviving all that trauma when I’ve just ended up as this half-functioning half-falling apart perosn.  It’s like walking on a broken leg. I’m moving forward but at what cost?  I don’t know if this is me asking for advice. Or a rant but I’d love some opinions on this. 
Desahogo/Relief
by marchenamoronj
Last post
23 hours ago
...See more Sé que muchos de ustedes habláis inglés, pero lo escribo por si acaso. Llevo un tiempo teniendo el ánimo bastante bajo, he tenido pensamientos suicidas y he tenido un intento hace varios dias, el cuál no se lo he contado a nadie. Estoy llendo a terapia, claro. Por eso estoy aquí, porque mi terapeuta me dijo algo como: oye, y todo esto se lo contarás a alguien, no? y pues por eso estoy aquí, porque no hay nadie que yo vea conveniente a mi alrededor para contarle mis desgracias, y me siento mal poniendo mis penas aquí, porque no es vuestro problema. Me gustaría alguien para apoyo mutuo, también me gustaría ayudar a esa persona. Confío en un mundo mejor y una mente mejor, por eso estoy aquí, también estaría encantado de ayudar. TRADUCCIÓN I've been feeling pretty low for a while now, I've had suicidal thoughts and I attempted suicide a few days ago, which I haven't told anyone about. I'm going to therapy, of course. That's why I'm here, because my therapist told me something like: hey, you're going to tell someone about all this, right? And that's why I'm here, because there's no one that I think is convenient around me to tell my misfortunes, and I feel bad putting my sorrows here, because it is not your problem. I would like someone for mutual support, I would also like to help that person. I believe in a better world and a better mind, that's why I'm here, I would also be happy to help.

We hope that you can find some respite here from what you're going through. We all help each other through the darkness. Welcome, friends, to the Depression Support Community at 7 Cups. We're so happy you're here <3

Click the "join" button above to stay up to date with the community's activities! We'd love to have you as a friend!

Adults & Teens: Join us in the Depression Support Room every Tuesday! The room is open for 24 hours. 

💗 New to the Depression Support Community? We want to get to know you! Introduce yourself here! And here's a welcome guide for you!

💗 Join us in our daily check-ins here and join the taglist here!

💗 Are you interested in joining the Depression Support team? Learn more and apply here!

Community Guidelines

Be gentle to yourself, you're doing the best you can. Remember that your feelings are your own, and no one can tell you that they are not valid.

Be gentle with others, because you don't know what they're going through.

Community Leaders
Community Mentor Leader
Community Resources

(all colourful text is clickable)

- 9 Types of Depression and How To Recognize Them 

- You don't have to understand, you just have to be present by @MarianaFilipaSouza6

A beautiful testament to the nature of depression

- Rethink Mental Illness: Depression

Basic information and facts

- Resource Masterpost by @Sealiously

A plethora of amazing links

- Depression Self Help Guide

Discover some ways to help manage what you're going through

- Safety Plan

Here's a safety plan for those who are passively suicidal. Your life is important

- Resources to Help Manage Depression

A collection of helpful links for more information and support

- Depression Community Path

A path that helps guide you through dealing with depression on a day to day basis


(Think that more resources should be here? Send a message to @EmmaE)