Are you all happy or just pretend to be?

I'm usually pretty happy, some days more than others. Like someone else said, I have a strong connection to the weather, so cloudy rainy days make me more depressed/lazy, and sunny warm days make me happier and active. But I'd say usualy I hang out on the happy side of the scale.


By the way, Bill again comes through with a good post. He's right.

 

Bill's ALWAYS right!

 

I used to hate the world and everything in it. Now I realize I just don't like the way America is, and how my life will mostly likely amount to nothing despite all my personal accomplishments.


Although part of my grim view, comes from having a history of depression, I'm an athiest, so theres no light at the end of the tunnel, just decomposition.

Have fun, live fast, die young, die old. but have fun.

 

I used to hate the world and everything in it. Now I realize I just don't like the way America is, and how my life will mostly likely amount to nothing despite all my personal accomplishments.


Although part of my grim view, comes from having a history of depression, I'm an athiest, so theres no light at the end of the tunnel, just decomposition.

Have fun, live fast, die young, die old. but have fun.

 

I guess you felt that you really needed to get your point across, SoFarAway!

 

funny, i find rain is really calming. i love it best when its a sunshower. everyone always runs for cover in the rain but i just let it come, unless im wearing some special clothing or theres no shelter anywhere nearby in case it belts down with a sudden storm.

i especialyl love rain if ive got a raincoat and can just let my head get absolutely drenched in water and my body stay dry. i love the winter in that respect.
rain rain come and stay, then come again another day!

 

Hahaha, you really think you can tell someone with bipolar disorder to get over their problems without medication, that they can just eat special kinds of foods to balance out the chemicals in their brain? It doesn't really work like that... my friend commited suicide last year, and he was bipolar. Why'd he commit suicide...oddly enough he stopped taking his medicine a few weeks earlier. I in no way support the pharmeceutical industry, but realistically medication is ESSENTIAL for certain people with psychological disorders, specifically anti-deppresants, MAOIs, SSRIs, and people with bipolar disorder.

 

I think that's bullshit. I'm a walking case of proof that medication doesn't work to solve all your problems, it just makes them worse. I'm sure your friend commited suicide because he had stopped taking his meds. Did you ever think that maybe if they had told him to deal with his problems instead of drugging him up, that he would still be here? Once you stop taking a medication for a mental disorder, life becomes bleak. All the problems that you had are still there from before you started the medication. Now you have to face life and reality without any drugs to keep you calm.

They hand out pills now like fucking candy. The world is going to hell because the government and the drug companies have a great scheme going. People need to learn that life can suck and it;s hard but if you keep your head up and deal instead of running to the doctor because you think its "not normal" to feel the way you do. If feeling like shit sometimes is so "not normal", then why are there a good 25% of the population (if not more) on some sort of medication for a mental disorder? I think have bad days or weeks is perfectly normal. That's life. And i don't feel sorry for the weak people who fall for it anymore.

 

neutral

 

its an act for me im happy becasue i dont want the people around me to feel the way i do, they gots me on elevil or sumshit but that makes me feel even faker so i just pretend to be happy it seems to work out for every one accept me. and i agree with rhastapenguin dude, spring break was ok i didnt smoke alot only once or twice, i drank a whole lot and i fucked up my legs racing the wave runnerz i was goin like 60 or around that and i hit wake from a fraigter 3 miles of the shore line and i went up 4 ft and didnt bale my knees gave out i fucked em up and i fucked my tendends up from the impact. so yeah, once im betteer and weather is nicer( ah i live in florida it should alwase be nice) i will probobly do better

 

I'm sorry you feel like being happy is an act. I used to feel that way ALL the time. I had few things to be happy about in my opinion, but I didn't feel like moping all the time.

All I can suggest, is to be grateful for all the LITTLE things in your life right now that are cool. You have a home to live in, you have a nice tree in your yard, you have a favorite pair of jeans that fit just right, things like that. If you think about those little things, you find true happiness temporarily. Then you begin to do it more and more everyday and find lots of things to really be happy about. It isn't fake after a while.

you're young though. Not that age has much to do with it, but it does in some aspects.

 

psychosis, and severe forms of bi-polar, and other psychological diseases are over-diagnosed. once you diagnose someone with these things, they often amplify, because the person THINKS they have a problem.

the placebo affect works both ways. if you tell someone they have a problem, they can develop the problem.

the main propblem here is that MOST people who are depressed have no problem at all. this means that not only are the people who do have problems, not seen as important problems as they should be, but that it skews the way society views depression.

as heady said, if your friend was never on the meds in teh first place, they prol ywould have a) not had such bad bi[polar, and b) not felt so suicidal.

at any rate, some people do need medication, because the fact is that some people DO have chemical imbalances, we are all differnet, for a system as complex as the brain, its expected that some people will have problems.

but these are the onyl people who should be treated like this, and this way, the idea of drugs will change and the effects of drugs on a person and a community would change too.

 

No but thats where SSRIs and anti psycotics come in

 

i used to be a depressed person but then i got kind of an insight and realised that there is nothing to worry about...

 

I'm usually pretty happy