TW: depression, mention of suicide.
So I guess I need to vent a little? I’ve been bottling up a lot of thoughts lately and my therapist was like that’s a big no no so yeah… I’ve been formally diagnosed with depression now and am taking medications and attending regular therapy. It’s so weird, I feel guilty. Like I shouldn’t be like this, like I should’ve known better; I’m supposed to be better than this. I’ve been told time and time again that depression doesn’t make me weak and that there’s no shame in needing help, but I can’t help but feel like I should have been able to control myself; one trip to A&E and boom I am being labelled as suicidal and depressed. I hate it, it feels like I’m sick but I don’t feel sick (sometimes anyway). Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be back to who I was a few years ago, that happy go lucky person who seems so foreign now. I hope I can get better soon, I’m trying my hardest but it is really difficult. The medications are helping but they are also not at the same time, little suppressants I take when things get really bad, but it never goes away; just puts the bad things on pause. I try not to take them as much as possible it sometimes the thoughts are so damn loud, it physically hurts. I think this helped, it felt good to type it all out, to whoever, if anyone ever reads this, I am so sorry.