Some people really have NO FUCKEN CLUE how depression works. So sorry.

I feel ya. I suffer from very severe depression, as well as schizoaffective disorder, and I can't tell you how often I'm told to just "look at the bright side of life" or "just ignore the voices". People just don't understand.

as a Muslim Imam (well almost) and someone who has suffered from anxiety for years, I can say that at least the Islamic view is that prayer isn't the only treatment. I definitely respect the work of psychologists, and medications. However, I have experimented with some prayers as well that do wonders for my anxiety! so i guess balance is key here :)

I know that feeling!!! Although I do strongly believe in God, people don't understand how difficult dealing with depression is. I pray and take my meds. When I don't take my meds for days at a time, people notice and ask if I've taken them.

How is this an fml moment

Prayer can help, but if you have already decided that it is stupid and can't do anything then you are defeated before you begin. If you pray for help with your depression with an open heart, help will come to you. It won't magically disappear, but rather the exact kind of help you need will become available at just the right time. God answers prayers, just not always how you think He might.

I find that prayer and spirituality help me with my depression and anxiety. But they are only part of how I deal with it, prayer alone won't help and if you are not a spiritual person then it won't help at all regardless. There are many forms of treatment, find the ones that resound with you.

Look, this is headology. Plain, simple headology as practiced by Granny Weatherwax. If it isn't going to actually cause harm, most any useless remedy will have the same degree of effectiveness as any other that the patient -truly believes in- Headology is well and good in many cases, and when headology isn't working, then you know to bring out the big guns. Be they Magrat with her herbs or other medicines, or the serious stuff, the down in the bone magic that's knowing things others don't. But that's advice for those who live on a world that goes about on the backs of four elephants atop the shell of a giant turtle, a world that runs on narrativium. Most of us don't live there. At least not all the time. (But it is a good place to visit.) Well intentioned or not, you can't heal a wound that's being stabbed constantly. Good on you for knowing how useless such advise is.

I've been told the same thing about my severe anxiety. By someone in the medical field. I've been trying to pray their license to practice away, but it's not working.

i had depression for 9 years do what i did i got over it just stopped taking pills one day