You ever get depressed?

Glad to help.

 

Everyone gets depressed at some point, I am just glad I'm smart enough to not take it over board my problems are not nearly as bad as they could be.

 

okay, depressed, it doesn't matter what your problems are.

that "it could be worse" the ability to say that disappears, you still know it is true, you still know there are people who are suffering, but it's not suffering that matters, it's that nothing matters.

horrible suffering actually makes it harder to be depressed, suffering can be a coping mechanism. depression is when you really stop being able to answer "why should I go on?" because nothing matters.

you're not sad, you're kinda suffering, but, it's not the suffering, it's the inability to care, and it's your incredible and deep mourning for the passion you once had, it's a loss of everything that matters, the world becomes grey and meaningless

unfortunately, you've been told in a lot of wrong ways what depression is, depression isn't being sad, it's not being unable to deal with a bad situation (although, SOMETIMES a bad situation makes someone lose objectivity and feel like they will never escape said bad situation, and, again, lose everything they care about, so it's not worth going on, but, it's not the bad situation, it's the loss)

depression is probably a genetic trigger built in to curb overpopulation really.

 

I couldn't be bothered to read this whole thread.

Depressed? Yeah, I guess. I get upset, I don't know if you could call it depressed. I get frustrated, I get angry, I cry occassionally! haha.. But I swear to god my eyes are weak! Honest!

EDIT: I think I know what it is; the lack of ability to change the remotest detail in my life.

 

I've been quite depressed this winter, not enough vitamin D last year.

 

Sunshine solves everything!

 

ten minutes at the most.

 

yeah. i dont know what balance is

 

Man I know how that goes. I either get very depressed when I fail and cry or I go into a rage and have to put the dogs out and get away from Andy until it's over. AND I'm on meds .
It will get better. You have a pretty important job right now, a lot of people who love you. I know you know that and it might not affect your mood, but sometimes it's nice to be reminded.

 

Everyone gets depressed and anyone who says that they don't is a liar.

I'm rather content right now though.

 

I think that most of the population doesn't actually understand what real suicide prompting depression is, unfortunately, there haven't been studies in the field, and I have to depend on my experience, and dialogues I have had.

 

Why do you think that they don't understand it?

Are they too dumb to recognize it?

Have they simply not lived for it?

Not in touch enough with their feelings to point it out even if they do experience it?

 

I think most people assosciate depression with sad, "oh they're just a little blue" is a really common thing to hear still, this does not mean they may not have experienced it, for a really long time I associated the feelings that are depression with "I don't want to go to school" I didn't know what it was, and it took me a really long time to understand "oh... okay, so, since this is why I want to kill myself, and, when other people want to kill themself they might not have a reasonable reason, this might be it"


now, I've seen a lot of people here, and elsewhere identify depression as something that's like, sadness or something, but, in my experience, and the experiences of people I know to have suffered it also, and talked to about it, it is an intense apathy, and a mourning about that apathy.

and, though it absolutely is widespread, I do not believe everyone has been depressed.

 

I think that you're right, and I think that "intense apathy" does describe it well.

Good job making me change my mind, doesn't happen often with my stubborn self.

 

it's my week to play activist, I think you're up on the calender next though, so, I'm working doubly hard.

 

Depression is a heart-wrenching and dibilatating state of mind. It's difficult to explain it to other people or for others who haven't experienced it to know what it is.

I'm not implying that people are too stupid to know what it is.

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it's also hard to admit to ones-self that you might have suffered from it, or be suffering from it, because in some communities (sand hicks, regular hicks, city hicks <i.e. republicans> brush hicks, hillbillies, rednecks, nascar enthusiasts, etc.) it's got a lot of stigma.

 

Nope, never. Im mexican. Depression is a spoiled persons disease.

 

:iagree:

This is completely true. You can't feel anything, and this is why some people self harm.

 

god that was funny!

i think of depression as absolute hopelessness. not situational. just feeling hopeless and helpless toward life in general. it does become debilitating.