Is depression a comfort zone for anyone else?

It is for me.

It used to be for me, after about 6yrs of depression I was scared to be well, because I had forgotten what it was like.. Depression was my life at that time, however after 9yrs I realised It isn't so much a comfort zone.. more like an uncomfortable zone. I wasn't living, I was just existing and not a nice existence either. Wish I had realised sooner, although for the first 6yrs I was unable to overcome it, I do believe the last 3yrs could have been a great deal better if I wasn't too scared to get well :]

Yeah . It is for me . Most of the time xD
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i guess it kinda is being that i run to it for comfort cause if it didn't help me then i mean i wouldn't go to it... thats how i see it

Liz

Depression is my life!

its a part of me, and i will admit, sometimes i hide in it and behind it..

october xx

Not a comfort zone. I don't like depression. When i'm depressed, it's like i'm a different person. Depression doesn't do me any good..i don't like it.

Well I think that I'm just now realizing that I may depressed. So I'm not sure how I feel about this. I mean I never hated my life before, and now I'm starting to look at things differently, and I realize now, that I've shut myself away. So I'm gonna have to say, that its not a comfort zone. Cause all it makes me feel is hate, and pain.

I'm like broken dolly. Depression is all I am and probably all I'm ever gonna be

Nah, when it's comforting it's called nostalgia.

I agree with you Donna, I feel like I've wasted the last 10 years, I'm scared to go back there, I couldn't face that again I wouldn't make it

i hate havin depression. i feel so vulnerable & my friends (what r left) r gettin pissed @ me sayin im 2 needy cuz when i get depressed i want sum1 2 talk 2 about it so i dont go bac 2 doin stupid stuff like i used 2...
r they rite, is that 2 needy?

I wouldn't so much call it needy, but depression is very self centred, it can become frustrating having someone around You that is depressed all the time, knowing there is nothing You can do for them. My best friend didn't talk to me for almost a year because she was scared that I really wasn't going to be around for long, and was trying to protect herself from getting more hurt than she was already feeling.
I have been on both sides of it, I have been the depressed person and I have been a friend of people that are depressed. Neither are easy, but being the friend, and thinking You are going to lose somebody You care for has got to be one of the hardest things to deal with.
When it is You that is depressed, You get the idea in your head that everybody will be better off without You around, and all You can think about is yourself and the way you see things, You don't look at it from others points of view, even when You think You are, You're not, you are still looking at it from your depressive state and what you believe their point of view is.
You end up pushing people away unintentionally, either because they don't understand, and get fed up of being around a depressed person all the time, or they care about You so much and it kills them inside to see you the way You are, and being unable to do anything helpful to get get You out of it.
Well this was supposed to answer TPAM question, is that too needy? but don't think I really succeeded *doh.. sorry.

its more like a war zone..

I don't beleive I have depressoin, although some depressoin like symptums. When I feel hopeless, like there's no point, like I'm unwanted, like I'll never be truely happy, there is a bit of a comfort around it. I know what to exspect, and sense I know I won't let myself do anything stupid, I feel relaxed and more indifferent about everything around me... There's no point, why care?

It's a comfort zone for my paranoia.

depression, in the past, was a subconcious comfort for me because it was a familiar feeling to fall back on and hide behind. but i never did like how it felt. it just was that way. sometimes happiness can feel almost uncomfortable when you aren't used to it---good, but uncomfortable. i used to see it as my identity because I was convinced that was my personality. but it isn't my identity, which is something I constantly struggle to remind myself. it's scary to change things in your life. but that's just me.

depression is just something many people do because it is all around us. look in mags and u c on tv. even at home or at school people r face with it. u only get urself in2 it because there is no other ways 2 deal with ur emotions. u just do it.

Another good post adie

I'd say so.