Learning to Live with Clinical Depression | Angelica Galluzzo | TEDxWesternU

Almost 20 years..

I have struggled with mental illness and my mental health since I was a kid. Before I even knew what those terms were. After years of depression, anxiety, and even an attempt to take my life, I never thought I would be able to live without psych medications. I clung to them because it was the only thing that made my mind quiet, but it also made me a zombie. Microdosing has given me control of my mental health for the first time, and they essentially gave me my life back.

I have depression ,anxiety and anhedonia please anyone can help me how i will cure from that without any treatment please 😭🙏

Poor girl sounds like her voice is trembling

The worst part is that it's so stigmatized and no one understands that it's not just being sad. It takes hundreds of thousands of lives a year but you're told you're being lazy and dramatic. The constant/recurring feelings of doom, hopelessness and emptiness are not the same as just being upset. One of the symptoms is that it just saps the joy out of things you like and you can't enjoy them anymore because of it. Everything becomes bland and pointless and people judge you for struggling. The brain is an organ that can get sick and have conditions like any other part of the body but because most of the outward symptoms are behavioral people call you an attention seeker. It sucks so bad I'm so tired

I wept through this entire video.

Such a great share...Thank you...🙏

Low dose ketamine has worked for me! 40 years of grayness is lifting. Research it it works

i'm 18 and i got diagnosed weeks ago, rn i'm working through acceptance

My suicide thoughhts started when i was 6 years old.

Thank you.

Thank you for this. I often totally forget the acceptance and allowance part of it. I just feel angry and sad that I am going through it - again! I guess I have to allow for that, too and just get on with functioning through it and resting when I need, because depression is a very real energy sapper.

I love this. I was diagnosed earlier this year

Informative.

Watching this on a Friday afternoon. Knowing I will be on the couch the next 50 hours. Alone. First ever depression episode at 42 already lasting 12 weeks. I need answers but getting none.

I always feel like it's not if i do it, but only when.

Thanks to her 🥹 I can relate so well

I'm a non diagnosed, medically neglected, ethnic minority, unemployed, undeveloped,unsupported,unhappy British woman approaching my 30s with no life quality and ideating suicide each day. Yet I pretend all is well. I'm not here to boast but to say that acting fine can indeed be done. In an ideal world every one would care for one another's well-being but since this is reality, and especially as an ethnic minority who is already marginalised, you have to pretend all is well.

Great vid. Anyone suffering from depression should start running and taking omega 3 fish oil pills

Acceptance is key; surrounding yourself with people who understand that you're not mad or bad but you are who you are. Keep on fighting; it always gets better.

Thank you for this. I’m 18 and my dark cloud developed at 13. Just came out of nowhere…… but this is very insightful I’m going to try to accept myself and my illness more.

The world must already find a way to treat this cursed disease in a way that will eliminate it forever!

How do you ask someone who’s going through pain that you’re going through they don’t know no one knows everyone depression is horrible I wish I could find a cure.

Thank you ❤

Thank you

Family and friends that loved you... I've seen enough

This young lady is brilliant! It took me many, many years to understand what the bad feelings were (clinical depression), start working on it and me and come up with ways to manage it. She did this relatively quickly. It rarely goes away, but having ways of coping is extremely helpful. This was a very powerful speech. Thank you!

I also have clinical depression. I was thinking about trying microdosing on psychedelics to help "unlock" my brain. What do you guys reckon?

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So youre telling me im going to be depressed for my entire life??

Hearing this after trying to suicide 2x in a month... gives hpoe, and perspective

She is so honest and brave. I cried listening to her. I'm going through exactly the same thing. I thank her for her messages.

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My last most depressive episode was 2019, now it has come back in 2023 September in a new country altogether

This is so helpful because it focuses on the present/ intention and taking it day by day. What do I need right now? How can I invite gentleness into my life and how can I show that to myself?

Thank you for this Angelica❤

It's important to check in with yourself. Thank you for sharing. Very brave!

Proud of u

this helps me a lot ❤❤❤❤

This was great

Yours was the best presentation I’ve heard on living with depression. Beginning now I will utilize the plan you created, because it makes more sense to me than anything else. Thank you so much Angelica. You have given me hope.

in a person, energy comes and goes through the head, the crown, and there they constantly steal from us shorter, and in some religions they cover their heads with any headdress, especially after sunset. And among Buddhists, after adopting their rules, a person feels an invisible umbrella without a headdress, this is protection from "unlight forces". Wear something on your head, a hat, a hat, anything, especially those who are depressed. Help honestly.

Loved this. Her story and advice. Thank you.

Going Through It

The strongest souls fight the most difficult battles. Depression is like an angry dragon that fights us. To master depression, you have to go through it. One does not defeat the angry dragon. Because you are the dragon and the depression. You slowly become one with the dragon and the depression and gain strength in going through it.

Wow amazing speech

You are so brave ❤ I know the struggle thank you for “you’ve gotten better from this before you’ll do it again” when I was 18 I went to clinical depression back at it again 😢

Watching as I cry on the shower floor. Water hitting my feet feels nice

Thank you! I now feel that I am not the only person dealing with depression

Put your faith in Jesus. He is alive and He still saves. He saved my life and made me new. I survived suicidal attempts, was hospitalized and on life support. For over 20 years I battled with depression, anxiety, insomnia, low self esteem until Jesus delivered me of all of the demons that were trying to steal, kill, and destroy my life. If you are struggling with mental illness, call onto Jesus! HE HEALS! He completely healed me and made me new. Repent of your sins and ask for forgiveness. He will give it to you. God loves us so much. He doesn’t wish to see any of us perish. Time is running out! Please call on Him, ask to be born again, in Jesus name. He will come soon, and every knee will bow to our almighty King! He who died on the cross for our sins and was then resurrected. Jesus Christ is King!

it is high functioning depression i have it going to school everthing looks normal but inside we feel same as major depression lack of interest insomnia anxienty and more