Depression sux !

Suffered it before and am under medication now, it really sux as it hurts everyone around me and even myself. i felt like im alone in this world, and when im upset with some1 i didnt think much but just wanna end all the noise and make my world full of silence.cut my wrist, my hand, left scar all over my body, i ran after some1 with knife, sometimes while walking in a crowd i attacked a stranger without realising it. The anger killed me, my personality was destroyed by the depression. Recently, i fell in love, my life was beautiful like it never been, but everything destroyed and i suffered worse than before, went for medication from doctor but its all drugs ! i couldnt move and couldnt do anything for myself. just kept myself in the dark. Now im able to laugh and be happy again, by the natural stress relief product which i bought online. This website made my life... every part of my life depend on it. =D

here are some detail about depression.

Biology

See also: Neurobiology

Biological influences of depression are varied, but may relate to malnutrition, heredity, hormones, seasons, stress, illness, drug or alcohol use, neurotransmitter malfunction, long-term exposure to dampness and mold^[1], back injury, and to aerosol exposure.^[2][3] There are also correlations between long term sleep difficulties and depression. Up to 90% of patients with depression are found to have sleep difficulties.^[4]

[edit]Depression as a defense mechanism

A number of authors have suggested that depression is an evolutionary adaptation. A low or depressed mood can increase an individual's ability to cope with situations in which the effort to pursue a major goal could result in danger, loss, or wasted effort.^[5] In such situations, low motivation may give an advantage by inhibiting certain actions. This theory helps to explain why depression is so prevalent, and why it so often strikes people during their peak reproductive years. These characteristics would be difficult to understand if depression were a dysfunction, as many psychiatrists assume.^[5]

Depression is a predictable response to certain types of life occurrences, such as loss of status, divorce, or death of a child or spouse. These are events that signal a loss of reproductive ability or potential, or that did so in humans' ancestral environment. Depression can be seen as an adaptive response, in the sense that it causes an individual to turn away from the earlier (and reproductively unsuccessful) modes of behavior.

A depressed mood is common during illnesses, such as influenza. It has been argued that this is an evolved mechanism that assists the individual in recovering by limiting his/her physical activity.^[6] The occurrence of low-level depression during the winter months, or seasonal affective disorder, may have been adaptive in the past, by limiting physical activity at times when food was scarce.^[6] It is argued that humans have retained the instinct to experience low mood during the winter months, even if the availability of food is no longer determined by the weather.^[6]

An alternative theory ^[7] posits that depression is a plea for help. However this view is not widely credited by evolutionary biologists: depression is observed in other species that are not social, and depression in humans is often actively hidden from others; even when it is apparent, it often fails to elicit a positive response.^[8]

Milder depression has been associated with what has been called depressive realism, or the "sadder-but-wiser" effect, a view of the world that is relatively undistorted by positive biases.^[9]