thats some sad shit right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
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thats some sad shit right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
As I said before I am a fucking ray of eternal sunshine; I am jaded as fuck, as anyone on this board is; but I'm still really easy going and optimistic. The only times I can remember being depressed in my life was when my grandfather died, and the first week I started uni and had no friends whatsoever; which really sucked for me since I'm a fairly social person.
So I'm kinda interested, when you guys are depressed. Are you just sad for no reason at all? Or do you just fixate on a "problem" in your life so much that you turn a mountain out of a molehill?
My job really grounds my perspective on life, it's hard to be emo when you have a two month old dying of cancer in front of you...
My problems is nothing.
This probably comes out in the way I act when I say stupid shit online, but I think I probably have high self-esteem because I don't really associate what I do with the quality of who I am. It’s like I know who I am, and no matter how many times I fuck up, or waste/miss an opportunity, my own opinion of myself doesn't change. If I do something wrong, or something bad happens I don't blame myself. To me, shit just happens. Maybe I could have done something different, maybe I couldn't. I tried, and that is what matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
I'm not saying that I think I'm perfect. I'm not the man I know I am yet. I just accept things and keep on chugging. Shit happens.
Most of the people in this thread are talking about the mopey-dopey, o-I'm-so-emo type of depression that everyone gets and eventually goes away on it's own.Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
What Lithium, myself and a few others are talking about is full-blown, crippling, severe clinical depression and the fact that most people seem to be incapable of understanding the difference. Clinical depression hits you like a wrecking ball to the skull for no reason at all. Everything could be going your way in life, but you're still severely depressed because, in short, your brain isn't doing what it's supposed to do.
Both Lithium and I have done cognitive therapy in different ways (he through intensive therapy and I through sheer willpower) and forced our own brains to rewire themselves and act right.
I don't see you busting physicists balls for not coming up with unified field theory. Physics, the very way we describe how the universe is a haphazard science yet I see you're trusting your messages of enlightenment to a science that doesn't fully understand the way electrons work. But they understand it just enough to build and maintain complicated objects like oh say... the Internets. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
Science isn't some magical answer machine, it fucking takes time. If you want a perfect answer ask God and get back to me. I'm sure he'll provide. Until then, learn about the scientific process and why it works. Its a method for gathering data and refining theories about how the world works. Congratulations, you failed at understanding what science is.
This was the conclusion of Fight Club. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
My wife suffers from clinical depression. She has to take Prozac, Lorazapam ( Low dose Valuum) plus Trazadone (another anti-depressant with a sleeping aid).Quote:
Originally Posted by Master of 7s
Like you've said here, clinical depression is a totally different ballgame. On the worst days, you could have won the lottery and still be sad. When times get tough, her depression kicks in big time. She's going through hard times at work and it's affecting her now. I have a hard time dealing with it, but we get through it.
You are SO right about these bitches. I used to date a girl that was seeing a female therapist (hey, if you put a space, it's "the rapist") and she suggested that I come along this one time. Now, I'd never met this woman before. At one point I interjected something into the conversation and this cunt of a therapist jumped all over me, almost yelling, saying that I cut off my gf and that I should let her speak and how it was such a horrible thing I did. I mean, the bitch was angry. We just kinda sat there in stunned silence, and later my gf was all like, "wtf was that all about?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Satsuki
Weird. I guess I'd understand if she and I were arguing or something and she was telling her therapist about it, but we weren't having any problems to speak of at the time.
you bitch slapped her right? tell me you slapped that bitch.
The therapist? I damn well should have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dragonmaster Dyne
The mantra of the downtrodden.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
I don't usually get depressed without a reason. I don't usually stay depressed because I've learned that, as shitty as life can get sometimes, things always eventually get better, that they could be much, much worse, that you have the power to change the situation that's making you depressed (well, usually anyway), and that no matter what, the situation will be the same if you either curl up in a corner crying or if you just do your best to deal with it and move on. It's all prespective.Quote:
Originally Posted by AstroBlue
And even on the rare occasions that I do get depressed for no reason, I think about it, and if there is nothing actually wrong that I can tell, I just try to ignore it, and 9 times out of 10, I carry on fine.
It's really amazing how easy it is to just wallow in sadness…there's a solace of sort in it. But not much fun.
Yeah, what that man said. Try it, it works for me. Then again, I live far up in the cold, dark north. I heard they offer these free to use at your workplace in Norway. Light is my god.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master of 7s