You ever get depressed?

I go through bouts of depression. It's hard for me to get out of those dark places. I usually pretend that everything is fine.

 

yes i do. i`ve been depressed for about a year.

 

can you expand on this more? i think i know where you are going with this statement and it's very interesting.

 

For the last five years I've been suffering for anxiety, with a few frequent short periods of feeling kind of normal or severely depressed. I experienced some real breakthroughs last year and went about six months of feeling completely mentally stable. My social life flourished, I felt healthy and ate well and I even tried dating for a little while, then around March I started to experience awful panic attacks at work and after that I spiralled into a really bad depression. Everything is kind of falling to shit and I feel pretty powerless to do anything about it. Meanwhile I'm trying to do the right thing even if I don't feel like it, which doesn't always work but some days but it helps me hold onto my family, my job and my closest friends and I'm just hoping that this will pass like all the other times and I'll go through another period of feeling ok for a long time.

 

most people who suffer from depression are suffering from purposlessness

a lack of purpose only happens when there are enough people in a community that part of the population is no longer strictly required.

we have developed societies wherein people are told it's okay to be useless to a certain age, which, is dangerous.

that lets them get triggered.

some don't survive.

 

sometimes yes.

 

very insightful. i couldn't agree more with this reasoning...this is the reality beneath our social surface.

i want to add by saying that many intelligent people are very susceptible to depression. intelligent people have a inner purpose that guides them, but as already above said, this cannot always be manifested in todays developed societies. this of course is just an opinion, but it does have some truth to it.

 

you don't need to be smart to have a role.

you need to have a piece of paper.

 

i get depressed
absofuckinglutly
i usually bottle it up, drink my pain away and occasionally try to kill myself
you know the usual

right now i feel fucking great though
i really shouldn't considering the state of things
but i work out alot now and working out makes me really fucking happy
and i think during the winter time i get low on vitamin d, now that i can sit out in the sun i can replenish my body with that much needed vitamin

i don't think i'm actually happy, my body is just high on serotonin and dopamine

 

absolutley.


having a role in soceity has nothing to do with higher intelligence. that's the complete opposite of what i was getting at in my above post...if that is how you interpreted it, then i was not clear enough.

 

With all there is to do, see, and experience in the world I couldn’t even imagine
what it’s like to be depressed


Hotwater

 

know it's all there, know you can't be passionate about any of it, and know how terrible that is.

and want to die because you know how you can't comprehend how much you've lost but you feel as much of it as you know how to.

or rather, feel the lack of feeling as much of it as you know how to.

 

Not exactly a state of consciousness anyone would like to achieve aside
from perhaps a Vulcan

But isn't that lack of feeling, a feeling within itself?


Hotwater

 

i think depression is anything but lack of feeling. it`s more too much, too intense feelings.

 

I'm depressed just about everyday. I have however managed to control my depression and people would hardly be able to tell I'm ever hurting inside. I used to be on antidepressents but I have weaned myself off of them.

Now days few things bug me to the point I cannot control my emotions. Though there is still one lingering issue that wears on me...

 

Depression is a form of sadness.

 

All the time. Recently a lot more than normal.


buuut i'm trying to change my attitude.

 

That's how I've always felt.

When I'm depressed I feel like I don't give a shit about anything.... but if I don't give a shit, why do I feel this way. It always leads me back to thinking that I care too much about stuff, as opposed to too little.

 

when i`m depressed i care too much. way too much about anything. of course there is no happiness in depression, but when i say that the feelings are more intense i mean sadness, aggression, the idea that you can`t stand this or that anymore-hate, repulsiveness and all that-everything is doubled, more intense.

 

I agree with Dave_Techie 100% on the depression issue. I don't ever talk about my depression, or bring it up.. but when my friends try to relate, or say they are 'depressed', I just explain to them that breaking up with a boyfriend or having your dog die is sadness, and not anywhere close to depression. When you're sad you feel everything, when you're depressed, you feel nothing. It is like someone came and sucked every bit of feeling and emotion out of you, and all you are left with is guilt, and an exhaustion so intense that something as simple as walking to the bathroom feels physically strenuous.

What I want to know, is when other people are depressed, can they eat? or do they undereat?

Personally, I undereat. The thought of food in my stomach makes me sick, and nothing tastes good anymore. When I'm depressed, I always drop weight.