Story archives - tag: "depression"

Travis B

My spare tire was also flat.

tags: sad tire driving depression hopelessness spare [add]

2008-06-12 14:31:49 / Rating: 266.5 /

Fat Girl

I have to choose between anti-depressants and weight loss, when half the reason I'm depressed is because I'm fat.

tags: fat depression no way out [add]

2008-05-15 11:46:25 / Rating: 208.75 /

notabirthdayfan

This year, on my birthday, I will eat alone at the restaurant where I spent my happiest birthday which eventually turned into the birthday which made me despise birthdays.

tags: birthday sad depression lesbian coming out [add]

2008-04-07 14:31:29 / Rating: 103.5 /

Dekay

Being a kindergartner feeling as if he didn't deserve to live should have been an early indication that there's something wrong with me.

tags: depression childhood [add]

2008-03-10 10:17:34 / Rating: 151.5 /

Charlotte

I still hate it that mom did not take me seriously until I was on antidepressants.

tags: depression [add]

2008-02-25 21:25:58 / Rating: 116 /

Sadly So

I realized suddenly as the music started, that I had never seen my mother dance.

tags: motherhood depression dancing [add]

2008-02-13 13:19:15 / Rating: 222.5 /

Ol

While on my way to the office this morning, I realised I really should be less careful when crossing the road.

tags: work depression hate excuses [add]

2008-01-22 18:13:54 / Rating: 130.75 /

M.M.

Grandma hasn't been the same since she flipped her SUV into that ravine.

tags: grandma accident depression [add]

2007-12-27 12:23:20 / Rating: 101.75 /

ichthus

Until last year I never realized that people in mental institutions really do color and put jigsaw puzzles together.

tags: depression suicide humor [add]

2007-12-13 00:18:46 / Rating: 135.5 /

lovefatewrite

This has been the worst birthday ever.

tags: birthdays finals stress depression [add]

2007-12-13 00:17:43 / Rating: 93.25 /

ac

I used to take my grandmother's ring off my finger before I bent over the toilet after every meal out of fearing my grandmother could see me.

tags: eating disorder depression family [add]

2007-10-23 11:55:57 / Rating: 203 /

Jenna

My boyfriend got really excited when I ate this morning.

tags: eating disorder weight loss depression [add]

2007-10-11 11:18:18 / Rating: 171.75 /

Broken

I didn't want my mother to know that I had cut myself again, so after trying (and failing) to cover it up with makeup I scratched at that area until it turned red and pretended that it was an eczema rash.

tags: self-harm secrets depression [add]

2007-10-03 10:01:16 / Rating: 87.25 /

eschatologies

"What the hell is wrong with you?" he vehemently spat, and I bit my lip in confusion wondering where to begin my heartbroken monologue.

tags: fights depression [add]

2007-10-02 15:43:29 / Rating: 125.75 /

don't breed your dog

If I see another dog get dumped at the shelter, I just might save it or kill myself.

tags: dogs suicide depression animal [add]

2007-09-26 07:57:38 / Rating: 119 /

MJHawk

I didn't know I was pregnant, but now that I've lost it, I won't ever tell him because I refuse to let a baby be a trump card.

tags: miscarriage break-ups depression pain moving on [add]

2007-09-26 01:06:25 / Rating: 143.5 /

Spike

The same year I started cutting in high school, Christmas lost its magic.

tags: christmas cutting depression [add]

2007-09-19 15:05:30 / Rating: 110.75 /

IE

Had I gone back to sleep when I saw his number, he'd be dead, but I still feel like a bad friend.

tags: overdose suicide friendship depression confusion [add]

2007-09-18 13:13:54 / Rating: 163.5 /

Sigh

I thought the anti-depressants were working until I came back to work.

tags: depression blah anti-depressants [add]

2007-09-10 12:11:12 / Rating: 149.25 /

Kaitlin

I stopped being depressed when I saw a snippet of the Jerry Springer episode entitled "It all ends with a pig", and I knew that my life wasnt that bad.

tags: depression tv life [add]

2007-07-27 09:28:00 / Rating: 123 /

Steph

It used to annoy me when I would let a tear run all the way down my face, but I've been crying so much lately that I don't even notice until my shirt gets wet.

tags: depression crying [add]

2007-07-17 13:08:22 / Rating: 143.5 /

Blue

I had been crying for hours, so I felt a little silly when the moment he told me he was on his way right over, I stopped.

tags: crying love humor irony depression [add]

2007-07-09 10:09:16 / Rating: 150.5 /

zot

As it turns out, today was just one more in an endless succession of days where the desire to get out of bed and go in to work marginally outweighed the desire to put my head in the oven and turn on the gas.

tags: suicide despair depression futility hopelessness [add]

2007-07-06 11:19:55 / Rating: 228.75 /

Steph

They say that depression runs in my family, but that doesn't help me much right now.

tags: depression family [add]

2007-05-31 14:54:40 / Rating: 156.25 /

Pearl

Sometimes, weddings where you don't know anyone are worse than funerals where you know who's in the coffin.

tags: strangers death loneliness depression marriage [add]

2007-05-29 15:58:04 / Rating: 163.75 /

Michal

The work week seems to be a repeating blip that echoes a nasty scratch on the record of life.

tags: work life depression money time week weekend loneliness lonely sad music scratch skip world economy social crisis freedom [add]

2007-02-12 12:32:42 / Rating: 196 /

Zigmund

If I wasn't depressed, I wouldn't have fallen for you, but I was, and I did, and I'm sorry for what's about to happen.

tags: unrequited depression apology love [add]

2006-11-21 09:23:41 / Rating: 169 /

SheRodent

I said I was Vegan, then I went and bought a hamburger and quickly threw it up.

tags: eating disorder lies vegetarian vegan bulimia depression [add]

2006-10-25 11:03:09 / Rating: 158.25 /

Eureka

My brother bet me $5 that you and I would grow old together, and two days later when you broke up with me I bought five boxes of the most bittersweet twinkies I have ever eaten in my life.

tags: bet brother twinkie love loss breakup depression [add]

2006-10-22 01:34:27 / Rating: 266 /

NoFool

Even though she very nearly destroyed me when she dumped me without a word, twenty three years later I let her do it again.

tags: heartbreak love depression [add]

2006-10-01 14:19:54 / Rating: 183.75 /

Rob Sanderson

I sat there that night and realized that all my life I’ve been trying to eliminate the things that cause me to get depressed, instead of the depression itself.

tags: depression sad sadness realization change [add]

2006-09-14 07:14:25 / Rating: 320.25 /