How to get rid of depression if you've talked it out and nothing is working?

Even if you don't believe in God, I would suggest you pray. Just speak into the air, asking Him to make Himself real to you. If there is a God, He can do this, since He made you. The second thing I would tell Him is how you are feeling and how you want to feel. He made you and He knows how to get you from point A to point B. Then, let Him guide you wherever you need to go, to get there. He may take you back to some old memories, where someone, or soemthing, hurt you, and have you grieve the pain. You will know when you ahve grieved something completely because He will introduce levity into the situation. Only God can make you laugh, coming out of deep grief.

Many people don't realize they are grieving things superficially. Our culture teaches people to "get over," "bury" or "deal with" their emotional wounds. You even used the phrase "stabbed in the back." Whenever someone stabs you with a knife, you have to deal with the physical wound, even if it means going to the hospital, having the doctor irrigate and cleanse the wound so they can suture it closed and advise you on how to help it heal. The same thing goes for emotional wounds. Time doesn't heal a physical wound, the immune system and proper treatment heal a wound. If you don't get a wound cared for, it will often get infected and become more painful than it started out or, worse, go numb. The same goes for wounds to your soul.

The healing process for a soul wound is similar to the physical process, only the doctor is God, and the nurses are the people He brings along side who can support and encourage, not judge or condemn, what you are going through, and the process you need to go through. First you have to acknowledge their is a wound. Sometimes we have gotten so used to the pain, our threshold is high enough we don't even recognize it as pain anymore.

Once we acknowledge we are hurting, we have to process the fact that we were hurt, who or what hurt us, and how we feel now. Then we start grieving, allowing our tears to irrigate the wound, so Christ can debried and cleanse it, thoroughly. If we don't let Him go all the way to the bottom, which is not pleasant, we may cause something that will cause infection to remain there, to infect us again and require even more painful surgery the next time.

After He has cleansed the wound, Christ sutures it up, allowing it to heal, and allows others, including the enemy of our souls, to probe and stimulate it, to quicken the healing and keep atrophy and callous from taking hold.

Now, I want to assure you that I am not a religious person. I don't even believe in Christ. I have met Him, and therefore know, and believe Him. Unlike many people that claim to represent Him, I encourage people to seek, and pursue a personal, intimate, powerful relationship with Him. The Bible is full of accounts of people having intiamte relationships with Him, serving as a love letter to His children in which he introduces Himself.

I was dealing with depression about a lot of things in my life, so I can understand where you're coming from. Something someone told me once helped me - that depression is repressed anger and that it normally comes from a situation that we feel we have no control over. However, if we look at each situation specifically in our lives and we really think about or study the situation, there is always a solution. We cannot fix or change what someone else thinks or does or what they have already done, but there is always something that we can do on our parts regarding a situation. If you sit down and take the time to think about the situations in your life, think about what you need to do to solve each problem. (Do this individually, because if not, you can get overwhelmed!) Sometimes, we need to truly forgive other people or ourselves and let go of what we feel they have done to us or we have done (or not done) in order to get relief from what's bugging us. Sometimes we need to confront people about issues we have never confronted them about (in a healthy, non-threatening way, that is). Sometimes there are things that we leave unspoken that should be spoken or things that we should have never said that we did and we have regrets. It's not too late to go back and do or undo things that we need to. These are just some thoughts about the causes of depression. If you also think about the word, "depression," it gives you some insight into the meaning of it. To "depress" means to push something down. These are things we are pushing down inside of us that we are not dealing with. If you begin to deal with issues in a healthy, positive way and continue to deal with them, you should find your depression beginning to lift. Don't become frightened or stop if you start to feel your anger begin to swell up at first for a while. It just means that you are taking the lid off things that you have not dealt with. It will begin to go away once you properly deal with things. If you still feel angry, it means that you have not dealt properly with the issues. Well, I guess that's about all I can say right now. I'm not sure if this helps or not, but I hope so! At any rate, good luck! Keep us posted! :)

I have depression too, and am still struggling with it. I think talking to a therapist is a good way to release your thoughts and feelings, it helped me a lot. Also try talking to your therapist about going on anti-depressants. I know a lot of people who are on them and it worked wonders for them. I just never went on them because I am currently on anxiety pills, and I feel I don't need them. I hope everything works out for you.

Have you seen a doctor to perhaps get some anti-depressants? I've been there, ended up on two different anti-depressants for a while, one being just the anti-depressant, the other to help me sleep and make me eat (I wasn't eating hardly at all and was losing weight like crazy). Now, that being said, you have to be careful what you say to your parents and how you say it. I'm sure it's not that they think you're going through a phase, they just aren't sure how to help you deal with these feelings. My parents didn't know either, all they knew was that I wasn't happy and it was essentially killing me. I had gone through a stage of cutting and trying to deal with the stress and pain of my life by making it a physical pain instead. Bear in mind, I knew that this was not helping and it was only making things worse, and I told my mum and boyfriend at the time. My mum was supportive in telling me that it was time to take a break from work (where a large portion of my stress was starting). My boyfriend, however, basically told me that I was being stupid, not the response I needed. You need to see a doctor though, and find out if an anti-depressant will help, because it's tough to work through feelings like this on your own.

I hope this helps.