Is it just me? Am I too young to be depressed and don't feel any better

[StillWaiting]

I have seen a couple of people who managed to recover from depression while I become even depressed and frustrated in everything.
Today I was being told that I am too young to be depressed about life.
I have been depressed since a few years ago and never once I feel better or even close to it.
Either I feel too numb to think anything or I just feel shitty about everything in life.

What have I done wrong to become like this while others are getting better.
Is it because I don't believe in taking antidepressants that life will magically become better so I won't ever think about how life is not worth suffering for.

 

[Halo13]

No one is too young to have depression. You're not doing anything wrong, either. Everyone is different - different treatments or methods may work on one person and not on another. It is your choice to not take antidepressants and you have a right to feel like this life isn't worth suffering over.

 

[Tortured_empath]

For what it's worth, I don't think anyone is too young to be depressed either. Pain and sadness are relative concepts and are very real for everyone, regardless of age.

As a fellow young person, a lot of the adults and recovered people I have encountered have a tendency to enjoy coming off as wise and experienced, while they see us as the complete opposite. It comes of as incredibly condecending.

Maybe they just have an inherent urge to try to want to share their experience, but if I see my therapist make her stupid pseudo-empathetic wise face again while talking about my depression, I'm going to lose it.

 

[andy69]

I don't want to get better either. Getting better for me means being alone, feeling like a failure, feeling betrayed by everyone, and probably living in poverty. Other people want me to get "better" and live like this while they happily go on with their lives. Just thinking about gives the urge to end it all.

 

[puppy9]

Mental illness doesn't discriminate

 

[Severen]

I have seen a couple of people who managed to recover from depression while I become even depressed and frustrated in everything.
Today I was being told that I am too young to be depressed about life.
I have been depressed since a few years ago and never once I feel better or even close to it.
Either I feel too numb to think anything or I just feel shitty about everything in life.

What have I done wrong to become like this while others are getting better.
Is it because I don't believe in taking antidepressants that life will magically become better so I won't ever think about how life is not worth suffering for.

It's idiotic to think people are too young to be depressed. Anyway, have you tried anti depressants? They work.

 

[StillWaiting]

It's idiotic to think people are too young to be depressed. Anyway, have you tried anti depressants? They work.

I have tried. One of the hospitals I went to refused to increase my dosage despite not feeling better.
I went another hospital to get another type of antidepressant, it made me feel even worse.
Not sure if I should try to visit another hosptial

 

[Severen]

I have tried. One of the hospitals I went to refused to increase my dosage despite not feeling better.
I went another hospital to get another type of antidepressant, it made me feel even worse.
Not sure if I should try to visit another hosptial

What country do you live in? Why do you need to go to a hospital instead of just finding yourself a decent doctor? Hospitals are infamous for treating their patients like shit.

 

[RM5998]

I don't want to get better either. It's not a practical decision for me. CTBing is the optimal solution to my problems.