What got you through a time of serious depression?

To add on to J_Awesome: Don't cut to escape either

Well I nearly took the wrong way towards it. I witnessed something very horrible when I was younger and at time scarred me and I tried to end things. but I was found before things went beyond recovery and all my friends gathered round me and supported me so I would say my family and friends carried me through my hardest times. When you are at your lowest you find who your true friends are.

@drako2k0 That too. That damage is permanent. Cocoa butter ain't gonna repair your ass from those marks.

At first, I wrote poetry when it got bad. Then I wrote papers/dialogue. Now, I mainly just converse with myself doing all of the above. And as the rest are saying, never drink, do drugs, or cut/self-mutilation. All that will happen is that it'll become the center of your depression.

Much better ways then being self destructive... recently I've been listening to a lot of music. It really does help and bring you up out of a bad mood if you let it. I'm also swimming a lot more regularly... I find it gives me time to reflect while doing something positive for my health too.

When I was at my worst, I was at my best. I've been close to suicide before, and the main preventative was my own stubbornness, but the methodology has always been creativity. I create things. Usually, I draw, but I also sometimes sculpt, carve, build (typically wood structures, I worked for a while as a punchlist carpenter), create mosaics with stone or tile, bead jewelry, anything physical that will allow me to create. If I could, I'd create music, and every now and then I'll sing nonsensical songs. The trick is, I'm not trying to exorcise the feelings when I'm at my lowest. I'm not trying to "give them a place" or make myself feel better. I'm just trying to express where I'm at, and create something new. I think if I can still make something new, something striking, then I'm not in as bad a place as I thought I was, and my stubbornness will do the rest.

- Watching Anime - Mentally creating new stories and characters - Audiobooks - Gaming - Snowboarding Just put your entire being into something, drown out everything with an activity. Especially physical activities help.

I yell, the embarrassment made me realize how stupid the problem is

I've been cutting since I was 12, and after a fairly recent suicide attempt, four prescriptions thereafter helped with my bi-polar disorder. I need it adjusted, though. I'm going to have it for the rest of my life, so how I cope is by cleaning more often than I should.

Mine probably sounds really boring, how I got through depression. Lots of time (passage of time and growing up, finding out about myself, working towards a goal (school), and developing hobbies, with anime/manga, writing a book (kinda lol), and teaching myself how to use blender (for a positive outlet since I can't draw lol). I also had to accept that I didn't need to be in a relationship, to be happy. That was a hard one to accept and took a string of abusive/unhealthy relationships, for me to be happy with who I was.