Do you feel it coming on or......................?

If you get up smiling it will all fall into place and get you out of the dulldrums

Well i take it every weekend and at during festival months i never miss vacations, that my best depression relieving out of mechanical life.

it all depends, I sometimes just go to bed and things look very different in the morning. I wanted some pills but the doc won't subscribe them for me.

Sometimes I can feel it coming on... I'm the "get up and exercise" type when I feel bad.. I ride the storm out and hope to live through it.

Hey celtic~I have chronic depression and unfortunately I can sometimes feel it coming on, but can't always do much about it. I take medication for it and see a therapist once a week. But at this time of year I kind of get down and just have to talk myself into not letting myself get too depressed. I have been doing pretty well this year. I haven't let myself get into a deep depression like I usually would this time of year. I have been kept pretty busy. I also have my boyfriend to thank for that because he keeps me busy cooking for him and taking care of the apartment and we were busy doing the re-decorating of the apartment so I didn't have too much time to think about how badly I was feeling. That really is the key. Keeping busy is the most important way to avoid getting really depressed.

I can usually feel when my depression is about to begin. I also know that I have a predictable 2 month cycle. I have been trying for years to come up with a list of personal signs, and ways to prevent the depression once I notice them. I have not been very successful. Depression seems to have it's way with me, beyond all of my defenses.