Iam very depressed. What reason is there to be happy?

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Jessica	You should be happy because it feels better to be happy!!! It sucks to be depressed. Just remember, happiness is a choice. It is up to you to choose to be happy. If you are experiencing difficult times, and you can't change the negative things that are going on, at least you can change your attitude - it's up to you! Smile, even if you're not happy, it might help. Smiling actualy triggers a chemical reaction in your body that will improve your mood. Try watching a funny movie. Laughing always makes me feel better. Your life is not a dress rehersal, you are worth experiencing life in a positive way. Choosing to be happy is something you do for yourself. Best wishes :) Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Sulayman B	unsatisfy needs causes depression.i thinks the best way to become happy is try and forget it and engage in other activites u like most to relief ur stress. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

qwertykph	Are you alive? Then you should be happy. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

pikegulla06	Look around you. I am sure you have things to be happy about. Life isn't perfect and tough stuff happens to all of us. Look around you, people in your life, friends, family, living an adventure. You have the internet, so you have the ability to look around online, and discovery hundreds of millions of things. Pictures to laugh at, jokes, stories, even contact with other people. The world can only contain the part of you, that you allow the world to control. I work 2 jobs, I have 6 siblings, my parents are divorced, my car is a piece of crap, but I still smile everyday, I laugh everyday, I live life the best I can, and when things look bad, I just think to myself, "Someone has it tougher than I do, at least I'm still alive and can walk, talk, and breath with out the assistance of machines." Instead of looking at everything that is depressing look at everything that is amazing. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

cas	Keep lookin til u find one, you might find several in the meantime lol Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

supersonic_dragonrider	Think of all the good things that have happened through your life, think of why you are depressed and think of how you can improve it to make it happy and possitive. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Anna B	you should be happy in life think of people who live in the third poor countries they dont even have clean water and enough food to eat Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

navinsohanpal	things are not working out for u, thats why... may be i can ask my friends and with help from astrology we can make your chart and help u out, if you understand what is happening in your horoscope it will bring in patience and that will help the depression. good luck i will need day/month/year of birth time and place. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

TONY B	YOUR ALIVE, GET OFF THE COMPUTER, GO OUTSIDE AND DISCOVER LIFE... Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

SPONGEBOB	ITS THE WEEKEND. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Hannah Radar	The future might have a lot to offer you - even later today may find you happiness. The weather is nice, vacations are upon us, new babies were just born, flowers are blooming, you know how to spell and punctuate, it is the weekend, people love you, God loves you, and each day is a gift. If you don't feel better really soon, go to the emergency room and get some help - you are worth it! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

NightSpotter	Are you breathing? Live for today cause you are a long time dead. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

westcovinajoe	Krispy Kreme doughnuts Puppies Pina Coladas Smiles Or whatever you really like. One great minute makes an hour of pain evapoarate. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

♥babygirl♥	YOU WOKE UP THIS MORNING, DIDN'T YOU? Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

theGODwatcher_	Look at how bad other people's lives are...that should make you smile. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

lou	The sun is out and it's warm and lovely . get outside in the sun have a bbq with ur friends and forget your worries. if u r a couch potato watch sports relief loads of comedians and u mite feel proud of ur self if u donatees sum money! Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Katie D	be happy for your friends and your family, and think of the people who have no one in the world. Just think of all the people that are worse off than you and i think you will pull yourself together Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Jennifer K	there most be one reason why you get out of bed if not find some thing u like to do or add something fun to your schule Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

sylvsuchall	You should see the world through my rose coloured glasses i am very lucky. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

kents411	Find one quickly and enjoy it.There's just as many reasons to be happy as there is to be depressed.It is in the mind and the fact that we have free will that make it seem otherwise.I think you just need to make some better choices,but I'm no genius. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

erik c	I used to be that way then I got tired of being sad and just decided to be happy...probably dosnt help much but Im not sure why I quit being depressed...I guess I just accepted my life and am trying to make the best of it. If im going to be around I may as well enjoy it Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Emily Hobhouse	You've got the rest of your life in which to change the things that are making you unhappy today. Enjoy planning your changes. I hope you make them. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Lydia	Actually, you could consider just the very fact that you are breathing a pleasing thought. Happiness is all around you - just blend into it. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

hi_patia	If you are very depressed it will be difficult to see any reason to be happy, whether it's a positive reason (the sun is shining, the birds are singing, your belly is full), a negative reason (your feet don't hurt, you are not starving, you are not being bombed). It will tend not to work. I can only tell you what worked for me: I believed it wouldn't last for ever. I tried to keep busy. I tried to get out of the house and go for a long walk. I tried not to keep away from people too much. If something is going round and round in your head( some sorrow or some wrong that's been done you) try to throw it behind you. Once there was a man. All he had to eat was a banana. He decided to hang himself, but first he would eat the banana. He took a rope out into the forest, climbed up a tree, set up the rope. Then he pealed the banana, tossed the peal down to the ground and ate the banana. While he was eating the banana another man came along, saw the skin on the ground, cried out with joy, picked up the peal and gobbled it up. Then he went on his way singin. The first man felt ashamed, climbed out of his tree and went back home. Remember, however low you feel there is always someone who is worse off. The world we live in is the only heaven or hell we will ever know. We decide which it is. "Two men looked out of prison bars. One saw mud, the other saw stars." Try to see the stars. Good Luck. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Backtash123	i often think like you. i say to myself what reason is there to be happy? and for some reason when i walk into the basement, something about my location there with respect to the house and civilization makes me feel better and more optomistic. its like therapy. i've heard of feng shui, and magnetic therapy and electroconvulsive therapy. i think its something like that. something about the earth feng shui meaning of the room. im still not sure if its sitting or standing between the basement doorway or the actual basement that works, but its both in my opinion. i first noticed it when i started to go down there when i was depressed. i would open the door and stand between inside and outside the house. i would smoke a cigarette, and than the edge of the depression would dissinigrate. its like some kind of aroma therapy. i dont know. it wasn't the cigarette, because i've had the same sucess without the cigarette. cigaretts are bad by the way. do not endorse it. my personal belief is that im skeptical about the aroma therapy, magnets, st.johns wort, sam-e, and i've heard good things about electroconvulsive therapy. i have no experience with any of that. i used to take fish oil and will be getting back on it once i get the money. fish oil worked for me after about eight weeks. i took carlsons brand of 800 mg's of Epa and 300-600 grams of the Dha, lemon flavored oil. i also take Lamictal for my manic depression. so i take Lamictal will be taking fish oil again and the basement is therapeutic as well. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Jill	So many that I wouldn't even begin to list them... Get to a doctor. I've suffered from depression off and on my whole life. You may have a simple chemical imbalance that can be easily fixed (yes, with medication.) Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

kikibug	Count your blessings. To mention a few, you can read and write, you have enough to afford a computer and internet... Which means more than a lot of the world's population has. Think of children and grown-ups starving in Africa, think of people being bombed in Beirut... be happy you are not one of them. Read Pollyanna (very much recommended, if you have no other way to locate it, it is available among the other books at www.gutenberg.org). Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

FLOYD	May i suggest you listen to The Doors song The End.This will definately cheer you up Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

Your Drug Buddy	Ah, I'm sorry to hear this. You could seek a therapist to speak to. It takes time to find the right person for you and they are not miracle workers, you have to do the work of change. Once you find someone with whom you can have a useful two-way discussion with, about anything, someone who feels like a friend basically then gradually you can begin to open up and you have someone you can trust to always be there for you. Unfortunately there isn't much NHS funding given to this sort of thing so it costs. £35 an hour which is probably a high bill for most people. I visit my therapist or life-coach once every two weeks which makes it just about affordable. It has helped with my problems (not depression). Having had little experience of depression it is hard to offer much constructive advice. I wonder what depression is like. I wonder what thoughts you focus on that make you feel unhappy. I wonder if having a reason to be happy ultimately requires something of a leap of faith. I suspect that most people who seem happy on the surface are actually faking it and lieing to themselves in some way (me included), other than the ones who are in love. Rather than focusing on getting happy (which probably begets sadness anyway) you might focus on doing something, doing anything really, but focus on just doing it and doing it well, not on the happy/sad feelings that it generates. Hope is important x Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

pretty_brown_eyes	That you are alive. That you have access to things like computers to make a difference in your life and possibly other peoples lives as well. God loves you and so do we. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No

old_but_still_a_child	This is going to sound incredibly cheesy and cliche, but you have to get past that and actually hear what I'm saying and think it through. I've been very unhappy for a very long time. I now have a wonderful boyfriend who is making me very happy. You just need one thing in life to cling to, to draw your happiness from. I'm sure you mentioned in a past question that you were in love. Does this woman not make you happy? If something has happened and you're no longer together, then do you have a friend or family who make you happy? Once you have someone like this as a base, you should begin looking around. I deliberately changed my POV on life and started looking at small things. It's amazing what things make me happy now. I can stand looking at the sea for ages just taking it i and wondering at it. I got my video camera out and zoomed in on things in the garden, like flowers. Fascinating how they look up close. I started asking myself about everything, and trying to find out about it. Knowledge makes me happy. What makes you happy? What do you enjoy? Ask yourself and start doing little things to help you. Even if it's something silly like buying yourself an Xbox 360 and playing the latest games. Concentrate on spending time on the small things you like, and realise THEY are the reason to be happy. Was this answer helpful to you? Yes / No