Do you have moments of depression?

im normaly 'happy' ish but i feel empty and sometimes i just cant handle people and i cant even will myself to talk.i just get so sad. all i do is sit, and get so slow
ok yes im a teengirl but but trust me and those around me i kinda go inside myself.
i dont think thats normal (i have NO ONE to talk to about it, im not in school)
whats wrong with me?

It is horrible, I know, but it does sound pretty normal to me. There's probably nothing 'WRONG' as such though some people like to categorise it and seek medication to help ... My doctor likes to call it depression and and to prescribe SSRI drugs but I am less keen to label what is just another aspect of life.

As someone who has suffered like this my whole life, I suspect such feelings are a symptom of a life with too much comfort and too few challenges. People who are fighting every day to stay alive, to find water fit to drink and to scratch a living from the soil don't have time to feel depressed. They are too pre-occupied .... and there may be a clue in there for those of us who find ourselves in dark, lonely places.

Part of the solution is to make ourselves DO something ....anything! Sometimes, I just make a list of how I feel - not just the emotions but all the things that seem wrong with my life. Then I try to think what I could DO about just one of the things that is wrong to make it a little bit better - maybe not fixed but a step further along the way. If you can actually DO that thing, or anything positive, it helps dispel the dark feelings. For me, it may make me feel like continuing to put little things right as I go along until I find my outlook generally more positive.

We are all different. If you are really bothered by these feelings, perhaps you should talk to your doctor.

Yes, it's perfectly normal for anyone--teens in particular due to unstable hormones--to experience moments of depression. Usually they will pass, some people get them more frequently or for longer periods of time than others, but it's perfectly normal. Happens to me, too. Some days, I just don't feel like living. But it passes. But if you feel like talking about it, maybe you should talk to your best friend or your mom.

I'm not a teen girl but I am a girl and I passed high school already.
I feel like that too.
Even when i'm wicked happy I get servere depression.

But you have to be strong,there's many people with depression =)

It's completely normal. If you didn't have moments of "depression", you wouldn't be human.

when you go through your teen years your brain develops different chemicals and what not causing this to happen,i feel the same way sometimes it will eventually go away

I wouldnt say EVERYBODY suffers in this way, but a significant minority do suffer depression and I think thats what uve got.
Dont despair, its not always a chronic (long term) condition.

Nothing is wrong with you everyone goes through periods of depression,just take a look at the state of the Union thats enough to depress anyone.

You have depression.

goddamn, i have the same problem.

talk to me about it