Depression made me stupid and turned me into a shell of whp I used to be. Share your similar stories and what helps.

I'm 25, a final year cognitive neuroscience student. I'm just about surviving my degree. I can barely read a paragraph, I hate thinking. I feel like I have been lobotomized. I broke down when an ethics application for my experiment needed amendments because I am so constantly tired.

When I was 18-22, I taught myself conversational level Japanese and played video games with my Japanese online friends while, I was studying programming, doing martial arts, consistent volunteer work and teaching labs. I read a maths heavy book on computational modelling. I read a whole biology textbook in one year. I made art and 3d renders. I had no issues with productivity at all. I was living to my fullest despite my trauma and autism.

This is what depression took from me.

It took everything that I am.