I had a period of depression during the beginning of the year. It mostly stemmed down to the fact that I've had a very difficult past year. I live on my own too and i'm only 18. It was possibly the worst time I've had because I had depression with panic attacks. I was homebound for 5 weeks
it was awful. But I was able to get a job locally and that sort of did the trick, just being kept busy and having something to do helped a lot compared to being stuck at home all day. I was also prescribed meds but I stopped taking them after a week because I didn't want to be too dependent on them :/ But all is well now, I feel much happier and slowly starting to enjoy life again!
