What it’s like to struggle with depression? The feeling of drowning while everyone else around you is breathing. Always feeling numb and alone. Screaming for help, but nobody can hear you.

Depression is like trying to crawl out of the deepest darkest pit. And every time you get to the surface and you can see a tiny bit of hope you get kicked in the face and back down you go!

As someone with severe depression, anxiety, & PTSD, you’re videos are so so incredibly helpful, wether you have a mental illness yourself or if you have a loved one with a mental illness.

my best friend has chronic depression and i think that your videos have helped me to understand my friend better. thanks for uploading these videos.

Your videos are pure gold. Thank you for motivating me and explaining to me what I'm feeling.

Thank you for giving me hope, i needed that

These videos are GOLDEN!!! Thank you

This was excellent. Thank you!

Thanks Julia Kristina, I have for a while now, suffered with depression. I have been diagnosed with chronic depression. At least on the moderate scale. This was very helpful. I can truely relate with both you & Kristen. I think I will subscribe to her channel too.

You have been a God sent to me.. I found your channel yesterday. Thankyou❤

So relatable. N educative. Kudos to awareness.

Hi Julia, My boyfriend recently is having depression and it has been really hard. It has been going on and off for a while now. But now it has been getting worse. I was searching through youtube and i found your videos. I find it this video very useful. I have better understanding now.

Amazing video!!

I have bad anxiety which led to depression- I was super resistant to the idea of therapy let alone medication! But it got bad enough I couldn't ignore it and gave in - WOW therapy really helped me but with my family history I also needed meds! I was totally against it but My therapist convinced me to try it and I feel like my old self again!

thank you both for this video

Hi Julia, LikeKristen nailed it....When in a depressive episode, never underestimate the power of words. When a loved one sincerely says they are there for you and truly care about you can work like magic. With experiencing depression myself, try adding the power of touch, give them a hug and/or a gentle pat or hold their hand. The physical touch sort of shifts the mind away from the overwhelming thoughts followed with true words of affirmation can break the depressive cycle. I did find it interesting LikeKristen commented about change. If change triggers depression, what are some ways to cope with the change to reduce depression?

My depression is an all time high. Depression has a hold on me.. its cold hard chains are keeping me from moving. My screams fall on deaf ears. I feel so empty, so scared, so lost. I am frustrated, lonely, sad. I hate that I wake up in the morning. I wish there was a switch I could pull to just die and end it all. I wish it was that easy.

Depression sucks thx you for being open & honest. It helps people so much ❤️❤️

Dear Julia We work in the same building here on Granville street. As a woman sometimes I find life difficult Watching your video makes me feel happier. I want to thank you so much for changing my life. Your videos have helped me change my life so much. You might never notice but I really appreciate what you have done for me with your videos. from your no.1 female Brazilian Fan - T.C.

I really wish i had a friend like kristen.. She's really good a giving tips and advice and of course julia too.. I've been suffering from depression and i really need help..

I wish we could discuss more about the different ways in which people experience depression. I am ashamed of my depressive episodes and I never talk to anyone about them, so no one among my friends and family know how bad it can get (suicidal thoughts and all, just like Kristen described it). But I've met some people who would tell anyone who would listen that they are depressive, that they are on medication, that they are seeing a therapist, as if that's something to brag about. I'm not saying depression is something shameful; even though I myself feel ashamed to talk about it, I know intellectually that depression can affect anyone and that it's important to seek help. But because I find it so difficult to talk about it, I don't understand how other people can be so open. Are they really depressed or just attention-seekers? I sometimes think that some people use depression as an excuse for failure, when all that's wrong with them is that they lack motivation or ambition... Hearing people say "I'm depressed" so often, makes me think "No, you're not, you have no idea what it's like", which makes things worse because I feel like I'm being judgemental..

Oh boy...I was watching that with tears in my eyes! I can relate 100% to what you said, Kristin, as I have a cyclical depressive illness (today is not a good day). It's such a great idea what you're doing to get people talking about this illness - as you say, if you have a broken leg you'd get rushed to hospital. If you're depressed, on the other hand, people ignore you. Thank you for having the courage to post this and thank you, Julia, for giving us the opportunity to open the talk up and make it public xx

It's so true, if you think a loved one is struggling say something! My senior year of high school I was very depressed and felt so invisible. About a year later my mom said that she had noticed and it scared her, yet even knowing that we have a family history she never said anything to me while I was struggling. It would have meant the world for her to even notice that I wasn't okay.

I feel very well described by her.

I have schizophrenia I was just realeased from a psychiatric hospital for 16 days i need it my mental health exponentially worse so now I feel much better thank you mental health is very important people need to know about schizophrenia i was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 18 i am still struggling with depression.

Hi Julia, this is great, we're going to check out her channel

I loved the collab. It was a great video! Loved the tips! But the video could have been longer. Just saying. It felt really brief/ rushed. Other than that, great video!

Omg I luv this n her n u of course

I'm a 42 year old married man, on my second marriage, and I have delt with depression since I was 9 or 10 years old. My struggle started when my mother and father got divorced and my family was low income, so we couldn't afford nor did my family see that I needed help. When I was 14 my grandmother passed away and she was my rock. At that point in my life I had lost my dad through divorce and we didnt speak and then my wonderful grandmother passed away and I couldn't handle it. It was 1989 when I put a loaded gun in my mouth and placed my finger on the trigger, but right before I closed my eyes to start squeezing, I seen this big white Holy Bible on the coffee table. I called 911 and I got help. There are a lot of times I wish was in another room...

Hi i whant to NO If trintellix is a good medicin for anxiety/panicattaks and depression?

Thanks

Amen!!

I always worry about the future and over thinking what others think of me

Bite size pieces of previous tasks are ideal as a start ... for positive results and feelings Of achievement ..

My family never takes me seriously, their denial is astounding. I have been too demeaned to give a s__t anymore.

What about when your loved one says the care, or they're there for you but their actions say something completely different?

I feel so hopeless and misunderstood.

What about when the depressed person says “I’m good,” but clearly isn’t?

Do you have a video like "10 Stupidest Things To Say To Someone With Depression"?

You feel completely alone, completely different from everyone else, completely lost, in pieces, like there’s no way to get fixed.

Check out Dr William Glassers books on Choice and Depression. Dr Glasser spoke around the world wrote many books and had his own Institute. But he was treated badly by the conventional medicine because he had a different approach from them. He would go into prisons and show prisoners how to change their outlook.

No one: Julia Kristina: Ok thanks for sharing that

It's an awful feeling

Where do I start?! First of all, this very young lady should NOT be speaking for anyone but herself! I don’t give a rip that she has a channel; she had nothing “helpful” to say to me, a now-65 year old who struggled with Dysthemia long before she was born. The rest of my diagnosis: Severe AD/H/D, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, near-lifelong Complex PTSD, Auditory Processing Disorder, OCD, Dyslexia, Dysthymia, bouts of Major Depression (the one I’m in now having been triggered by a vicious assault in Oct. 2017, by a tenant still down the hall from me). As challenging as it is/always has been, I’ve been up close to much worse, as my mother, at least one of 3 younger siblings, and at least one of my two grown children, are/were BiPolar/BPD and/or Schizophrenic. Neurobiologically speaking, I got off easy, diagnosis-wise-and am grateful for it. (Since the 1990’s I’ve also become physically disabled: Mostly spinal, but also musculoskeletal)...Can’t work, live on just over $800/month in SSI thanks to an incompetent law firm; am alone/abandoned by sibs I loved, and old friends embarrassed by my poverty. Do have a more recent friend I’m so grateful for, as a semi-shut-in who has no way to meet other peers. My life was never easy, but once my only/treasured daughter became on/off Psychotic, etc., 13 years ago, it got a lot harder. I’ll spare details, but have seen much ongoing heartbreak, etc....One thing that’s helped was advocating for my 30-something, who’s cut me off, rendering me unable to help now, due to HIPPA laws and a lousy system. I have done LOTS of research through the years-too depressed for that, now-and have often understood MORE than the Social Workers unqualified to replace the Drs. no longer provided by Medicaid. I was once bullied into taking an antidepressant, which only made things worse, and have seen appalling over/mis-use of them by the never-ending Clown Parade treating my daughter. (And I’ve seen/heard worse than what she’s been through, or myself, and am grateful for that, too). I tried for years, unsuccessfully, to get help with my Complex PTSD. Everything’s a fight, and it’s exhausting! As a poor person lucky to be housed (my advocacy got my daughter housed, but no lack of problems), I must deal with various agencies and an abusive mgr., all of which is more than I’m able to cope with, as depressed as I am. But I am stuck! I do have an “advocate” at a non-profit for disabled-for whom I am extremely grateful-but she can only do so much over the phone. My best is nowhere near good enough anymore, and my growing resistance to BS is concerning my advocate, who fears the loss of my housing as much as I used to. Now I’m just fed up. My big hope for the future is a lottery win, but don’t often buy a ticket because symptoms/pain keep me in most days. I never envisioned a future (much less my two brilliant grown children’s) like this. Didn’t mean to say this much, but watching your little video, with your little “depressed”-from my perspective-child, with her considerable resources, presuming to speak for OTHER “depressed”, was the proverbial straw that broke this old nag’s back...(As a double Sagittarian, I’m half horse, half Nan). I spent decades pushing the rock back up the hill, no matter what. Now? I’m not ready to give up, but I’m too damn tired to do it alone. This is too long, so I’ll end here. Thankyou for your time.

Omg she so cute

I don't mean to be this guy, but I've never had people care, I've only ever been told other people have it worse, its just a phase, they don't want to talk to me and they belive as a guy I just need to get a job.

Likekristen, you are alride that the People dont care to the Depression people

Who else clicked because of the hair thumbnail?