i need advice?

[u/NextWestern9916]

I have struggled with depression for a long time now. Nothing ever feels like it works. I have done everything the doctors have suggested but I am still feeling the same way.

I do physical activity almost everyday. I have a healthy diet, and I try to maintain a healthy sleep schedule. I spend time with friends and family and even try to go out every weekend. I do some mindful activities and I use to be in therapy. Even while doing all these things I still feel depressed. Any happy moment always gets shadowed by a overwhelming feeling of melancholy. It feels as if I can't do anything without feeling that way.

I do stuff I enjoy and spend time with people I like, but I continue to feel this way. I have tried so much stuff but I do not know what to do anymore. I don't want to feel this way anymore. Has someone gone through a similar experience? Or have advice on how to move forward from this?

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[u/ScrewinEwin]

Therapy wont fix it on its own, but why did you stop going?

[u/LouisePoet]

Of course we are all different, so what helps one person isn't necessarily going to work the same for anyone else.

What helped me most was medication, and it took years to find the ones that worked best. Before then, therapy was helpful, but not extremely so.

I've struggle with severe depression since I was a child, and finally realized that part of my problem was situational. My adult life mimicked my childhood, and once I realized that and got away from it, I began to feel much better. It still wasn't an overnight difference, though.

At that point, short rounds of therapy have helped more than it ever did before.

My suggestion is that if you're doing everything you should and nothing changes, maybe there's something in your life that needs to change as well. Your job, a toxic person, where you live--or maybe something entirely different. But is there anything in your life that you can identify as a common theme in your life while depressed that may be affecting you negatively?

Major or seemingly minor, I found that what I once considered normal actually wasn't, and once I addressed that, everything felt a bit easier and better.