Does depression ever REALLY end?

Being honest, is depression just something you are stuck with that you just have to accept as something that will stick with you for the rest of your life? That you were just unlucky and had to have depression (kind of like when people are stuck with diabetes and just have to live with it)?
I can't imagine how someone could cure depression or stop having depression because I don't see a way out of it. I mean depression that doesn't have a specific cause (depression NOT caused by the death of a relative or by being fired from your job, etc.).
Do people who had long lasting depression ever REALLY stop being depressed? Or is it just something you are gonna be stuck with forever?

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I understand your concern but that is simply not the case. Depression is absolutely a curable condition.

I changed my life and prayed and god removed it completely from me

I guess I have trouble imagining what not having depression is like. Is it mostly just like feeling you are always distracted or always excited about doing something?

not it just makes you feel human again

What did you have to change about your life?

diet, lifestyle and personality

Well I might need to change my diet. I focus on eating food I enjoy for lunch regardless of how healthy it is, and eating healthy food for dinner.
Idk about my personality, I consider myself a good person. I'm probably not much fun now but I blame that on the depression rather than the other way around.

I've had depression for several years, and so far I'm just learning to live with it. Having skills and a job helps so you don't spend too long thinking about things. (If you don't have these, try and find something you enjoy and figure out if there's a way you can turn it into a job. It will be tough, but it's the best way)

I think depression can have some benefits, you see things in a different way, and may about things more. You're probably less likely to do all the same stuff that regular people do. Focus on what you're good at, and what you enjoy, and you'll learn to live with it, and it might just end up going away on it's own.

So many people have anxiety and/or depression, most are just good at hiding it, or haven't realized it, so don't think you're alone. There's lots of help out there if you think it might help, though personally I've just tried to stabilize and progress with my life as much as possible.

Idk if any of this helps, but good luck either way.

avoid sugar and shitty fast food and drinks mainly and also only hang around people who are motivated, happy and positive

Thanks! Yes I agree with you, I think the same about how depression makes you see things a different way, like it makes you more aware of things.
>So many people have anxiety and/or depression, most are just good at hiding it
This kind of scares me a bit because it makes me think I'm less capable than other people since I'm "not even good at hiding it".

Don't worry about hiding it. People probably just do it to fit into the general mold of how society expects everyone to be, for work or social reasons.

It's handy to be able to fake it when you really need to, but in the long term it's good to find a lifestyle where you don't need to fake it often.

I'm a programmer so my job doesn't require talking to a lot of people/customers. When I do talk to people, it's usually about work-related matters so I don't need to be an overly enthusiastic, social being.

When I socialize, it's only on my terms and with people I want to hang out with, with similar interests and hobbies. I'll actively avoid situations I know I won't enjoy, or feel comfortable in. Taking steps to control your life as much as possible really helps.

>This kind of scares me a bit because it makes me think I'm less capable than other people since I'm "not even good at hiding it".
Well you're probably not very smart. You can't fairly judge the way people look against how you feel. You feel anxiety-ridden, but to everyone else you seem like a regular guy going about his day and many similarly anxious people feel inferior to how calm and peaceful YOU look.

I'm not sure about that, some people have noticed how anxious or depressed I look.

Don't lie, it undermines all of society. you're not important enough to notice.

Also OP don't listen to people like this one who tells you that you're probably not very smart because you can't tell when other people are depressed.

Learn to just dismiss most of what you hear, because most people are full of shit anyway.

I don't understand what you mean. I have a lot of empathy and I can easily feel what other people feel.

And people do ask me if I'm okay because I look too tired or sad sometimes. But I say I'm okay because there are usually other people around who don't deserve to hear me saying "no, I have depression".

Probably depends on why you have depression.

If it's because you have some sort of genetic imbalance in your brain chemistry (hormones), depression might stick with you forever.

If it's the result of negative shit in your life. For example: loneliness, money problems, drugs, PTSD, social anxiety, sexual frustration etc. it can definitely be cured. If you cure the cause or causes of your depression.

In my experience, It doesn't go away.
That doesn't mean that life has to be shit though. I'm a goddamn human bean and we are adaptable creatures.
Last year, i'd wake up, get high, fall back asleep, wake up, get high, masturbate, then get on the computer all day. I wouldn't go downstairs to eat except maybe once per day (and only when my parents were gone). The only reason i'd go outside would be to get high with people or to smoke a cigarette, and most of the time id just light up in my room despite it not even being my house.
I cant say i'm not depressed anymore. I still am. But, I don't get high, I exercise, I read an hour or so every day, and I study an hour or so every day. Also I eat like 5000kcal now and only use dipping tobacco.
I am not happy. I am not going to be happy. But ultimately self control keeps me from making myself unhappy through constant withdrawals, starvation, and negative thought spirals.
I could go into one of those letter threads and write pages and pages about people who wronged me and how it made me feel. But that'd hurt me, so why the hell would I do it?
I could get high and feel fantastic all day, but instead of eating bacon and eggs upon waking up tomorrow id probably just get high again and id feel slightly less fantastic. We all know where that would lead after a month or so.
I've been depressed from a young age because I always saw something wrong in both the world and myself that I cant quite put my finger on, and now that's its been about a decade since those childhood days of crying in my room not wanting to go to school, I am taking a step forward every day instead of back.
But im still depressed. To hope for a cure would be false hope. To wake up happy as an improved person would be a nice surprise.

It cannot be cured, only kept at bay.

I've had depression for over 3 years. It started when I was laid off. I was suddenly wrecked with debt and had very little money. I couldn't find a job that paid me anything close to what I had been making. Eventually I went back to school, but even that got messed up because I lacked the funds to move any where to finish it up. Then last year I fell for a guy. I never thought he'd date me, but he did, And for a month I thought my depression was cured and I was on top of the world. Until he dumped me out of the blue. And he's been dragging this shit on ever since. Sometimes we are cool, sometimes not.

I've finally decided I've had enough with him. I've blocked him out of my life. Gonna try to finish up school in a degree that wasn't my first pick, but at least it's local and I know the work well enough to know I won't absolutely hate it. I'm trying to make lifestyle changes. Changes to my room. Changes to my body. Even if it doesn't cure my depression, I hope I can cope better. I'm trying to surround myself with more positive people. I got 3 people that I rely on and can confide in and that's good enough for me.

Yes and no. Basic depression can be fixed by fixing your life. Clinical depression is an imbalance in your brain chemistry. Sometimes it can be fixed with the right combination of medication and sometimes it cant. If you did try medication and it didnt work then tell your doctor you want to try something else and keep trying until you find the correct combination.

yeah I mean I've been dealing with it for 10 years. I have improved my life in some aspects before but I always fall back in. Even when my life was going great a few years ago and I made a huge amount of progress I just fucking died inside one day and didn't give a shit anymore. It honestly fucking sucks.

Whoever said depression is temporary is a god damn liar. It never goes away. It follows you forever and if you can't stay above it with a colossal amount of effort fueled by a deep sense of motivation you will die as you lived; depressed.

Depression is just emotional constipation. How do you cure constipation? You have to shit it out. You have to let yourself feel your emotions, there are a number of ways to do this. Do them.

It never goes away. But can learn to ignore it.

It ends once you stop being a faggot and grow a pair. You can either stay depressed or snap out of it, it's all entirely on you and you need to realize depression is a self-imposed state.