I'm sure others here can relate but I experienced depression like I never had before after my boyfriend broke up with me. After that trigger point it got progressively worse to the point where I went from living on my own in NYC, a place I had dreamt about living since I was a little boy, for years to being miserable and feeling burnt out everyday deciding it was just best to quit my job and moving back in with my parents to "figure things out" (seriously bad decision looking back).... that was years ago and now I'm still at their place.

Unfortuantely it got compounded by a couple of toxic work enviorments as I attempted to build up savings to move out again and I've been job hunting for a while but after not getting any offers I'm left feeling like my life is in shambles - I'm a grown adult living with his aging parents (which gets some major judgement from family members, most are extremely concerned but don't know how to help) feeling like one of the biggest losers on Earth. And I'm broke now... with a resume gap that is a bit long also.

Sadly, depression kills your motivation and zaps your physical energy so it's difficult and overwhelming when I think of all the thyings I need to do to get out of this.... And I feel all of them are urgent since I've fallen so far behind other people my age. I have some pretty large future goals but right now just getting a job that pays $30,000 -50,000 and moving into a studio apartment seems impossible. Even though I did it before in one of the most difficult and expensive city's in the world to live in.

How are people fighting their depression here? I'm taking vitamin D, trying to go out for walks and such but there's more to it than that. How do you take positive action for yourself when all you want to do is curl up in bed...? The fact that a few years ago I was living happily and independently in NYC and am now living in my parents house is mind boggling but depression hollows out the human soul it seems and robs us of our self esteem...