Research shows your brain physically ages faster when you’re depressed - Sensationalist Headlines

This is the same mindset as overweight people reading about fat genes and just giving up lol. Im sure you have massive respect for someone like Issac Newton, who went crazy from lead posioning. His legacy wasn't tarnished because of his mental deterioration and anything you do will not become meaningless because of it either. You may have a shit hand but there is still a shit load of value that can be added to your life through your own efforts and newsflash a huge majority of people will die in ways that are not on their terms but we have to come to terms with that as a living thing.

Guess that explains why I feel so old all the time!

Jesus H Christ with you, people. Did you ever try not to be sad or worry about stuff? Millenials.... it gets better over time. Stay strong and focus on what matters.

Synapses can regenerate (as far as I know) - which means that even though it will take time, there's hope for your brain to recover. This is purely anecdotal: I was depressed during most of my teenage years and have mostly climbed out of it now (I'm 25). I do remember having memory issues, and I still have very few memories of my teenage years but many more stronger memories of the past 7 or so years. It's slowly getting better and I went from being completely dysfunctional and mentally unstable to being pretty alright. If you suffer from depression, don't try to tough it out like I did. It took me years to recover. Go see someone, if only it's just to talk about your feelings. Going at it together with someone is better than doing it alone.

There's gotta be some kind of threshold we will hit as a population that finally indicates that maybe we should start taking mental health seriously? At least I hope

Can attest to this, having kicked depression in the dick three years ago I'm currently feeling the most brightest and vigorated I've ever felt in my life. I've also had my problem solving and pattern recognition skills improve significantly over the past years, so much so that I strongly suspect my IQ having gone up, or in the very least being cleared of whatever mental mucus keeping it down.

I wondered why I felt so damn old all the time. It’s kind of scary to think that our own bodies can just sabotage themselves to this extent. Suppose that means I won’t be seeing the singularity age before my brain turns to dust. Ah well.

Is this why my memory deteriorated super fuckin quick.

Long-term hrt helps more than you can possibly conceptualize. Trust me.

Yep. Once I got out of depression my memory started improving exponentially.

Would explain why I always feel like how Coco looks. https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/992/1*lDf3k2AszdJtByiAbrIB6w.jpeg

I was just having an anxiety attack realizing I dont remember what the inside of my old house looked like, its only been 3 years.

Holy shit, there's so many people on Facepunch who are depressed

Makes sense, it's getting more and more common to be depressed.

When I was a teenager I used to joke that my spirit animal was a senior citizen because I felt like an old man all the time and not like my age. Kind of funny in retrospect that I've suffered from major depression most of my life.

pretty sure if facepunch was an exact cut of the proportions of the first world's population the numbers would be hanging around the same

I feel confident that FP is way worse on average.

NAC hasn't done shit for me to be honest there was a thread about loneliness or gfs or something and it got a big reception too