I'm currently feeling really depressed, not suicidal, but just really empty in inside.

It's like nothing matters and I've messed up everything.

Hormones are probably making everything seem worse than it is but...

Anyone else feel like this and what do you do about it.

Yup. Once in a while. It eventually passes though.

I have been feeling apathetic about almost everything recently, can't even be bothered playing games. Maybe I'm just lazy though.

Absolutely. I think we all have those days where nothing seems to go right, and everything seems to be wrong. Thankfully, they usually pass.

I find a gaming session, a good book or a bit of music to help a lot - something to distract you. I generally try to avoid others and be alone. I get pretty irritable. Sleep often helps as well.

not really, I've been surrounded by people (mostly my family) who experience these sort of things. Mostly stress actually. Best example i can give is a fellow student of mine back when i was in school; she was stressing out about how little time she had to get her senior project done, but spent so much time talking about how little time she had that it became a self fueling stress event.

observing stuff like that, ive been making the decision since early on to put any helpless situations out of my mind. If its something i have no controll over i don't even care about the consequences because im not responsible.

I guess that is technically repression but it works for me as I don't crack no matter how much pressure is put on me, so far.

Everybody does.

If I know it's temporary (often stress-induced), I usually just wait it out. Isolate myself, sleep a lot and wait until I regain strength. But if it gets bad, I try to find some way in which I can be useful to others. When I start feeling that I svck at everything my life, it's next to impossible for me to convince myself otherwise, so I might as well leave it and try to do something about someone else's life. I can't fix myself, but sometimes I can fix something for others and that gives me a sense of purpose. Helps to get my mind off things too.

I also feel like there is so much rage stored inside me...

The smallest things (Like the fact the my nose is itching), make me lose my [censored] mind at the moment.

I feel like crying but at the same I feel like punching a hole through a wall!!

Welcome to my life.

Yeah, I used to think about suicide on the way to work for weeks on end and then at night in the path and before I went to sleep.

Now. Now I'm happy and don't give a hoot about most things.

I'm not usually like this, it takes a lot to get me down, but its all just got to me.

Used to occasionally feel a little down, nothing really too look forward to on the horizon; like being lost and uncertain or directionless of what was ahead. Just got a job though so now everything's feeling pretty good.

I get depressed fairly often. Kind of a given when one is constantly feeling like a nervous rabbit and has an anxiety attack or panic attack even when they are enjoying themselves. I'll be gaming, maybe playing something like Morrowind. Morrowind is a soothing game for me. Then... I'll be nervous if I hear the game's thunder sound effects!

Not sure if this thread is about clinical depression, which is where the empty, sad feelings can actually cause other problems such as feeling aches psychically. It also makes getting any motivation difficult. I won't really say much about how I've been feeling since it really isn't new for me at all. My depression started up around 7th grade and I've been on anti-depressants since 8th grade.

If you think you might have clinical depression, please see a doctor about it. I made some pretty bad decisions during the worst of my depressive moments before I finally was taken to a psychiatrist and given the help I needed. If you ever need someone to talk to, you can PM me. I won't judge. I might not have much to say and am very quiet, but I'm always glad to help.

If you can't find a coping method, please do. Doesn't matter if you are just short term depressed. I listen to metal when I feel like dying and it often helps quite a bit. If there's any music that makes you feel like you've found a place to escape to in times of pain, listen to it. If you have a video game you feel happy playing, play it. If you feel writing would help, write.

My mom always says, "Busy hands are happy hands." Keep yourself busy. It really does work. Hope things get better and good luck.

You sound like me :/ It svcks,But i have kinda learned how to controll myself better.

Yip, that's how I felt. It happens when you repress stuff, when you're in private and want to cry, just do it, you'll feel better for it. For me anyway in time it just faded away and I returned to my normal self again, I also realised I was letting my girlfriend down and I couldn't let that happen.

Thanks, good to know you're there.

I don't think I'm clinically depressed, but I've had a really bad week and its really svcked the happiness out of me.

I rarely feel like this and I'm sure it'll pass eventually... I hope.

Are you very young, like under 25?

Its absolutely not uncommon then, dont worry, it'll pass.

As you get older you get stabler, more secure in your personality and the rough edges will wear off. You'll settle down a bit.

I would not want to go back to the emotional state I was in in my early twenties, I'm really happy to be over thirty-five, it has many advantages.

I finally feel like me, if that makes any sense, and I feel that being me is ok. I can now also legitimately respond to any plan or idea people might come up with that I absolutely dont feel like with the 'Good grief no, I'm 35' excuse.

"Want to go for a long walk on the beach at 4am, see the sun rise?" 'Good grief no, I'm 35. I only want to see one 4 o'clock per day.'

16.

Yeah, a pretty typical age to feel like this I know... :/

It will get better, trust me on this.

"I'm not young anymore!"

I wonder what you'll say at 65.

It sounds nice though. That you're comfortable with yourself now. My mom always says the same thing, she laughs whenever someone mentions they'd want to be 20 again - she claims that her early 20s were so stormy and she was so immature that she would never, ever want to go back to time before her 30th birthday. Maybe there's something to it...

ha well good for you guys feeling better about yourself later in life. Personally i'd love to be in my early 20s again for several reasons, the main being it was before the drunk in his pickup truck caused me daily pain for the rest of my days.

OP when I get depressed there's several serious reasons causing it. No offense but crying over nothing and looking for drama when there is none is weak nonsense. I know your hormones are acting up but you're still young enough to enjoy life without worrying about all the BS....there's plenty of time for depressing BS later in life

I get depressed every now and then but mostly because I get lonely---(I don't have many RL friends), To solve this I usually make videos on my YouTube channel or go shopping seems to be my depression relief.

I don't have many friends these days. Never was good at making friends, so most of the friends I have in real life are either family or they chose to see if they could get me to talk with them for more than five minutes and open up a bit. Never really feel very lonely about that, though. Some friends were friends of friends who I ended up wanting to hang out with.

Keeping a sense of humor maintained helps in general with many problems. I use cracking jokes and simply thinking about funny things as a way to keep myself in a decent enough mood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLw-9dpHtcU

The spider who is bad at hiding is always amusing. It can't see you, so you cannot see it.

OP: It's called being a teenager. It happens.

Don't worry, you'll soon grow up and find things to really be depressed about!