I feel the need to make an important point here - Not all depression is reactive and brought on purely by the enviroment. Enviromental factors can make some depressions harder to deal with, however.
In my case, my depression is not reactive. It happens almost at random and goes through phases of being worse than at other times. I am not bi-polar though. I will point that out as well, to help prevent confusions (my psychs, plural do not have me down as that for a dx at the moment, but it has been considered in the past).
I know that for me, being stressed and tired can make all of my mh symptoms worse, including the depression and I can also find that if one of my other symptoms e.g anxiety or psychosis is playing up that can also make me feel worse.
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Oh no I know but I'm saying that for me it's mostly to do with the environment, but sometimes something good can be happening and I'll still be depressed.
My depression acts up if Ayka's being rude, or if Blue's upset or something like that, or if my anxiety is bad too.
I am similar to roiban, most of the time there really isn't an environmental trigger for my depression it just happens at random. However environmental triggers can make my depression worse. Hope that makes sense
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Can be anything. Could just be completely spontaneous. I wish I knew what triggered my own depression. I guess mine could be down to believing that I'm a failure, that I've not lived upto expections, not knowing what to do about anything; the list just goes on and on.
Generally just seems to come in cycles or not actually go away but then worsens again. There are other things that have affected it aswell but can't think of them off the top of my head.
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Depression seems to be my base mood. I.e. if nothing else is happening, no work, nothing to think about then my mood sits very low. Environmental stuff tends to kick off my mood swings and states. Suppose depression is my default. Even happiness is environmental for me. I never just sit in a happy or contented state.
I've noticed if I'm doing nothing at all then it gets bad or if I'm on my own for too long which is why I try and surround myself with people most of the time
But environmental things make it bad as well, like when I'm going through way too much stuff that I can possibly deal with it gets worse
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i never know what triggers mine, i tend to be ok one day, the next day i get down and very angry and hostile then i dip into a horrible depression that lasts at least a week...
it's bl**dy frustrating when people ask what's wrong and why because i don't even know!
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I experience the same as Danniegirl, I'll be completely fine one day but then the few following are bad and I'm just too depressed to do anything. And it annoys me when I can't answer people either, because I honestly don't know.
And they get annoyed with me... And then it all starts over again.
There are so many triggers to depression... I don't think it can be pinpointed to just one thing.
Sometimes its for no reason, it isnt hard for me to get triggered. People reminding me of stuff that I think is sad and I just dont want to talk about it also triggers me.
Mine is also pretty much the same as DannieGirl's and Kitkat :)'s. It just happens and then I just act very gloomy.
Mine is pretty random... I have had traumatic things in my life happen that have of course set off my depression, but sometimes I just become deeply depressed. Like I am now.
Um. Sometimes I just wake up and feel low, no real reason. I hate when that happens as the all-encompassing negativity when I'm in that sort of mood just makes EVERYTHING bad, so it gets worse and worse..
When it's triggered by something, it's usually to do with relationships e.g. having an argument, things not being 100% with my fella.. and then my insecurity kicks in, it becomes very difficult to get out of no matter how much he says nothing's changed and he still loves me. I somehow become convinced he's going to leave me, I'm going to be all on my own without the man I love and I just spiral down from there really :-/
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