Triggers for your depression...

[wavey]

hey, oncey ou get depression and you combat it, certain things always put you back into the 'void' of depression...

for me...

People saying the word grandma, nana or that relative.
References towards my lost pets (died)
References towards my mother when i worry. (eg ur mother is so...)
The smell of brands that you have at your own house where you are missing from it...

These are just a few of many triggers.. .
please post yours and we'll see.

Copying from abuse thread.. since i have never been abused in such a way, i figure depression triggers are also important.

Also, one last thing to add.
The Word of mouth of death.
everytime somebody dies, somebody speaks of it, it puts me into the void.

This void, you go zombie. life crashes, its like your a computer and your hit with a Blue screen of death.. you freeze, it takes a while before you are ready to speak. sometimes you weep, other times you need a few minutes to come back down to earth...

Tell me what the 'depression' zone is to you. and what its like.

[Grey fox]

I don't have depression, but as soon as I feel i've done something wrong and my boyfriend won't talk to me I worry and lose self-esteem.

It got so bad a while back I had to break up with him, then realised I loved him too much to be apart.

[StrawberryCyanide]

I don't get triggered particularly, only because i've been constantly depressed for pretty much the past year and a half.

For me, the void is faked smiles and laughter, an act played out to perfection.
Not once has someone said "you're not ok, are you?"
They say "are you ok?" i smile and reply "yeah i'm fine! and you?"
I'm still trying to escape this void.
But you never know what the future holds, one day i might find myself again :)

I'm sorry to hear about your triggers and the other things you talked about. Stay strong, ok? <3

[Hatsune Miku]

The name Peyton
the word love
the word florida ( Reads anthony_'s location ) ...
i know...weird lol

[clone]

umm not much triggers but jokes about things that are important to me and when people think im bad at sports when im not they only think that stupidly because im skiny

[overcome.]

For me, I've suffered mostly from depression from a family loss at a younger age, and recently over the past 4-5 years when bouts of anxiety and similiar problems have gotten overwhelming. Overwhelming for me as in, I'm finding it hard to socialise often, go to work and do so many other basic things without a huge effort which involves me confronting a phobia and my anxiety problems surrounding that phobia and a lot of general life. I guess what I have could perhaps be generalised anxiety disorder, but it's painful and sometimes emotionally crippling, because I'm in a tough situation which is extremely hard to get around to these basic things. If I had a social anxiety disorder I'd have to deal with that, but it's far worse in my eyes, I can actually socialise very well when I do and have many friends.

I imagine there are so many different reasons for anybody to experience bouts of depression or long term depression. I feel sympathetic towards people that have issues with their body, because everybody does in actual fact, nobody really is 'perfect' since everybodys views of perfection are varied. If you didn't have these 'flaws' as you may refer to them as, you wouldn't be who you are today. Be proud of who you are. For depression as a whole the best thing I could advise is to do your best to have a positive outlook that one day things will change, knowledge will help you and you will find your way. Each step is a step closer to getting better emotionally, and everything will fall into place. Nothing lasts forever, that goes for depression too my friends.

[Art_dude]

Interesting thread!
Triggers are usually certain words, smells, sounds, feelings etc, that your brain associated with a time when you were depressed. For example, when I was depressed I ate my feelings, more specifically a certain type of sandwich I would make myself after school. Two years later, I was eating a sandwich at a restaurant, I bit into it, and something about the texture and flavor combos reminded me of this 'remedy sandwich' I used to make myself. I was frozen in space, and I suddenly had a visual flashback to the time I was depressed.

Other times, triggers can be completely random: when I went into relapse, I was opening the refrigerator, and when the light went on as I opened it, Something in my mental processing just completely shifted and I suddenly was hit by a wave of depression. It was the oddest thing. I was perfectly content and then suddenly BAM it just hit me.

[Syvelocin]

Triggers...

My family is the biggest. Through my mother with bipolar disorder herself, my father who never thinks before he speaks and has no comprehension that sometimes life isn't as dandy as his is (he had no losses in the family, no physical or mental conditions, a good job, close friends, married for nineteen years, etc.) My sister who is a brat with a horrible attitude. Ten year-old, abnormally immature and not fortunate for all she has. Getting upset over the smallest things, can't get the toy she wants at the store, while I'm alone upset about more rational things she's the one that gets all the sympathy. Not once have my parents hugged me, held me when I cried. Not even as a child, and she comes along and treated like the messiah. She's just difficult and raised overall very badly on my parents' part. I had to raise myself since they didn't, thank god I'm unusually mature.

My void is like a dream. Not a good one, but at the same time it doesn't as much feel like a nightmare, but the combination of never waking up from this dream and the hurt you experience makes it so. You don't feel anything in this dream, you float but never feel satisfied.

[Triceratops]

Watching someone experience pain that I've undergone myself, feeling lost in a crowd, those voices telling me that everyone is out to get me, I'll never be good enough, to make myself throw up, to harm myself etc, certain songs, certain lyrics, certain TV shows, certain movies, certain books, certain photographs, diary entries, a few things I have typed up on the internet (such as blog entries or threads), seeing certain faces, having a certain dream, a certain way my dog looks at me, certain clothes and the way a child would describe something they enjoy that I used to enjoy (such as bowling or colouring books).

Basically a lot of things that would bring up my past.

[BlackenedSilver]

People ignoring me, binges, exams, exam forms, revision, any random comment about me (how I look, how I act etc), The song "You've got a friend by James taylor", seeing my friends or anyone I love hurt or in trouble, knowing that people talk about me when Im not around, being patronised, failing, churches, people talking about love and acceptance and flashbacks on my past.
I'm not 100% sure what the original cause of my depression was but I know these trigger it.

[FallenAngel]

For me, I've suffered mostly from depression from a family loss at a younger age, and recently over the past 4-5 years when bouts of anxiety and similiar problems have gotten overwhelming. Overwhelming for me as in, I'm finding it hard to socialise often, go to work and do so many other basic things without a huge effort which involves me confronting a phobia and my anxiety problems surrounding that phobia and a lot of general life. I guess what I have could perhaps be generalised anxiety disorder, but it's painful and sometimes emotionally crippling, because I'm in a tough situation which is extremely hard to get around to these basic things. If I had a social anxiety disorder I'd have to deal with that, but it's far worse in my eyes, I can actually socialise very well when I do and have many friends.


I can relate to this. I myself have suffered from depression over the last two years, and im also suffering from many other problems. One of them is anxiety, i think i might have an anxiety disorder but im not 100% sure. I find it difficult to do basic everyday things because of my anxiety. it is mainly based around the social aspects of life tho, and can even lead to mild panic attacks.
This anxiety is a HUGE TRIGGER of depression for me and is one of the many reasons my depression started.
Other reasons why the depression started are; family, my parents divorce, stress, emotional problems, friends, school and other reasons too.

I seem to suffer from depression very often, basically everyday, and im unsure of the triggers but there must be so many.

[sarah newman]

I cry at the slightest things, i get angry easily, i cut myself, i feel like no one cares about me, i wake up at certain times at night, someyimes i dont eat at all and other days i cant stop eating, i get negative and suicidal thoughts and i have very low self -esteem.
Thank goodness i could actually get that out! I couldnt tell anyone about that as no one asks me whats wrong if im upset. I've been waiting for someone to ask me about this in a long time, so thankyou xxx

[drewlink99]

Being hid with sudden, horrid memories from my early childhood.
Seeing people in love, because I have nobody.
Watching something on tv, and knowing that something bad is going to happen to somebody.
Stupid things like that.

[zgrazier]

recently getting out of a long relationship, naturally anything involving the name matt, boyfriend, certian songs.

and when people talk about loving familys..

X(

[drumir93]

Getting made fun of occasionally. It makes me feel as if I haven't gone as far as I thought.

People talking about their oh-so-fun childhoods.

When people talk to me about how angry and hateful I am, when I'm not.

When I'm in the middle of a sentence and the person I'm talking to walks away to talk to someone else as if I was never there.

When certain memories pop into my mind from years ago.

When I think about all the tiny, simple things I could have done to make my life more enjoyable.

[YesterdaysNews]

The smell of bleach, the song Save You by Simple Plan, Drakkar Noir Cologne, just anything that reminds me of my dad...
People who call themselves fat when they themselves are much thinner than myself, seeing kids destroy their lives by smoking...

[Gumleaf]

i'm basically down all the time with the odd happy day or a happy time within that. sometimes its not just one thing that will trigger me to spiral into a heap like i am now, often a trigger triggers another trigger if that makes sense? there are a few main things that cause me to spiral down and it makes me feel and look so selfish, but i can't help it. but the things that get me down is feeling alone, worthless, useless, unloved, neglected by people, a failure and crying for no reason. there are other things too, but those are the main thing.