Can you suffer from depression if your life is actually shit?

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^ Just that really. I am in a deep, dark place struggling to find any relief from the cloak that is suffocating and I don't where to begin to find help.

As I understand depression to be, is a terrible illness and it can attack people who have everything going for them and they have no control or sometimes obvious reason for it. But my case is completely different, I have every reason to feel down. I have crippling debt, work in an min wage job, rocky relationship, live in a horrible place and have no friends, not one.

So i guess what I am asking is, do I feel depressed, or is it that it is a reaction to my shitty life &circumstances ?

Normal reaction. Called reactive depression I believe. Sorry things are shit

Sponge seems right. Sorry your feeling do down and things are so shit. Big hugs. X

I was just coming onto say reactive depression my device is about to run out ill come back just wanted to respond and not lose your thread

Reactive depression is a type of depression. You should see your GP and consider talking therapy and/or anti depressants

Yes you can have depression and have a lot of good things in life, but are probably even more likely to suffer depression when life is tough. A CPN once told me depression is one way your body responds to too much stress. Go and see your GP they can help. Sometimes it takes something like antidepressants to help you get to a place where you can see a way forward and start to make practical changes in your situation.

Thank you for your replies and your kind words. They mean so much to me, they really do.
I just googled reactive depression an it says that one answer may be CBT, is that talking with a therapist ?( I am not one for opening up with things like this and wouldn't want to burden them with my rubbish).Do they teach you techniques in dealing with things?

But surely depression can also be the cause for some people having a shit life. It can cause you to lose friends, have money problems, have poor career prospects, feel stuck in a bad relationship etc. It can be a vicious circle.

Depression sometimes comes of nowhere, sometimes is triggered by circumstances. both 'valid' in terms of the illness iyswim.

Sorry everything is rubbish.

CBT saved my life when I was anxious and depressed (triggered by life events).

Sometimes it's hard to know where 'shit life' stops and 'clinical depression' starts. If you suspect you might be depressed it's worthwhile talking to your GP. Physical symptoms as well as feeling low can be an indicator of depression.

Are you getting any support with the debt/relationship problems? From what you've described I'd imagine it's easy to feel overwhelmed

Sorry you are feeling so low about your life.
It could be reaction to your situation but depression makes it difficult to make changes in your life. Looking through a fog of depression and feeling lethargic is hard then to evaluate your current relationship and work. Once the depression lifts, maybe
through help of medication and therapy, then you will be in a better state of mind to work out what needs to be changed.

As Tangledup123 says, it could be depression that is causing the other problems.

I went through something similar and thought to myself, no wonder I feel depressed, look what's happening in my life! I carried on like that for a few years but eventually realised that it was my depression that started the ball rolling and created all the other problems that followed. Once I knew what was happening I was able to turn things around.

Running up debts can be due to depression because the quick fix happiness that we get from the purchase makes us feel good but is short lived so we buy something else, book a weekend we can't afford etc. None of these things really make us happy, they just give us temporary relief from the depression.

The same can be said for our relationships and careers etc.

Until you get the depression under control, it can be difficult to tell what came first. For me it was a significant event that happened years ago and things just spiralled downwards from there but I didn't notice it was happening at the time.

Really have no idea, but it is possible that you may go through depression.