'I'm Fine' - Learning To Live With Depression | Jake Tyler | TEDxBrighton

Jake is 31 and lives with Depression. Last year Jake embarked on a journey to manage his mental health in a new way, through exercise, sharing and the great outdoors. Jake has now walked over 2000 miles around the UK, vlogging his experiences with thousands of online followers as he goes and attracting the attention of both the BBC and the Royal Family. In this talk, Jake shares his insights into living with depression and how connecting to and opening up to a wide online community has affected his relationship with depression.

[mellymel]

“Do you actually want to die or do you just not want to feel this way anymore”?
Powerful.

[JRob]

I read this quote once that said "people with depression aren't faking being sick they're faking being well"

[whitishfour]

Still freaks me out that people go through life without ever feeling depressed, people exist without mental illness, absolutely insane

[songbird]

The problem with depression is that you spend so long in denial that by the time you make the realization you are so deep into the water it that there’s no air to breathe.

[GVOSOUL]

I’m convinced that The only people who understand depression and how it works are those who suffer with it.

[davids]

When you wake up and your first thought is "Damn. Another day.."

[Niallmylove]

One of the worst parts of depression is questioning whether happy moments in your life are truly happy and if that’s what happiness really feels like and just not knowing.

[yetundekayode]

Depression really hits differently when you're stuck with no one to talk to. It's like that moment when you're just like, "Wow, there's legit no one I can spill my feelings to." Everyone else is wrapped up in their own issues, and you don't wanna bother them with your own mess.

[desu]

Honestly, simply being alive itself is starting to feel like a goddamn chore.

[nicklausardahsasta]

you know you're such a lonely person when you read through the comments so you don't feel so alone.

[briand.reynolds]

I think the worst part about depression is it's the one disease that the worse it gets, the less you want to do anything about it.

[jessicaday]

it’s really hard when you’re doing better and you think "yes man! this is finally it, i’m free from depression“
and then something happens, or sometimes nothing really happens, and you feel worse and worse and you kind of don’t notice until it’s too late and you’re really bad again and the happy times feel like distant memory

[sil]

Depression is not “I need attention” It’s “I need help”

[xxtatogangxx.p.]

*"Usually the funniest people's are the saddest people"*

[nidakhan-hxir]

Is anyone else here to cheer themselves up ? Reading comments i felt like im not alone

[Portia]

It's a pain that cant be explained.. people who end their lives just want the pain to stop. Its a constant battle 24/7

[Burning_the_toast]

the worst part of depression is you tend to want people to come to you and ask how you are but pushing away everyone who does or no one asks

[jety]

“nothing kills a man faster than his own head”

[nicolebjn]

People don’t fake depression, they fake happiness 😢

[marybrowns]

That one line he said “I felt overwhelmed because I had forgotten how to feel happy” really had me. I sat down and thought “when was the last time I felt genuinely happy?”