I've spent 38% of my life incredibly depressed. I'd be crazy NOT to consider voluntary euthanasia.

I hear you... After 28 years of on and off depression (mostly on since I was a teen) I'm very desperate too. I've tried:

  • Therapy (years)
  • Meds
  • CBT / endless journaling
  • Aminos
  • Affirmations
  • Self-help conventions
  • Many self-help books, courses, and audiobooks
  • Dietary changes and fasting
  • Trying to find things to be grateful for daily
  • Meditation

And probably things I'm forgetting. For the past...couple of years now I think, I've started to think that my situation is terminal. I've gone to bed MANY times wishing I wouldn't wake up. It's hard to see a future when so much of the past has been pain.

I'm not sure what to do at this point. I looked at therapy again, but options are limited where I am, and the ones I did find were 45 minutes away and $125/hr. I just can't justify spending $500/mo for four hours of therapy and to be honest, after so many years of therapy I'm sick of it.

What do you do when it feels like a chronic, terminal disease?

Good question. For me, keep on keepin' on I guess. Eating, drinking beer daily, and just trying to inch along I guess. I still take aminos and once in a while feel somewhat OK. I go for drives and walk when it's nice out. I work on cool shit if I can which takes my mind of things (today has been bad though). But at this point I just can't see much of a future for me. My lifestyle will catch up to me eventually anyway and probably sooner than later.

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