Bittersweet Candy Bowl

so who here has depression
C’mon don’t be shy
I have it…had it since i was 13
People didnt like me very much
I was too different for them
So they excluded me
And i went deprimentally insane
Such is life

do you have a girlfriend?

guess

do YOU have a girlfriend?

My mood swings around way often these days. One day, I’m depressed as hell then I’m back to being my happy-go-lucky self.

That being said, depression doesn’t last long in my case. I’m just too happy.

of course not…why would anyone ever want to

Go go mood swings!

Stop being depressed. I’m the only emo in these here parts.

i could out emo you any day of the week

@skykitty
Nothing like a good round of Top Gear videos to get me laughing like a complete idiot

oh stig…..*drools*

(thats right i fantasize about a guy in complete white coveralls and a blue tinted visor helmet)

i hope its not a male you’re talking about

the stig has no gender….he’s the stig

anymore sad confessions ?

And the person who suggests out-emoing loses. Emo is not a competition.

Just cheer up, dude. Depression sucks. Find something to do that keeps you active.

thats the thing there is nothing i’m good at or interested in…..and im too awkward to talk to people in person

You’re letting your laziness and inhibitions prevent you from getting over this depression. That is all that is going on here. Do SOMEthing.

During my last depression spell, I got back into ballroom dancing. Try that.

I would say the same as the others, but as a citizen of depression city, i can’t say the same. I don’t know your story, besides the small facts that you shared with us.

I just give you the advice that i’m following too. Try to go ahead, if you don’t have a motive or dreams, keep walking, you’ll find one someday. That his life sucks? Indeed. That people sucks, that’s true sometimes. I have a GF and i love her, but she is as depressive as me, so we match in that way.

Beware of transform into an attention whore, that won’t give you any good points. Better to share, as you’re doing here now, and to keep the rest with you until someone really cares and/or someone ask about it.

That’s all.

Can you go make a happy thread now

ughh!! Trust me the last thing i want to be is an attention whore or ‘deRPresive’


@Kaxbe you have no idea how many things ive tried
I’ve tried. Ballroom dancing, jui-jitsu, going to the gym, photography, poetry, programming, chemistry, biology,
And it seems that only video games and poetry ever worked. And people don’t generally care about either

Are we talking normal depression or medical depression?

Because I definatly have fallen into normal depression this last year. I am 32 and have never been in a relationship no matter how hard I try. My job has me so stressed out that I leave work everyday with a headache and some days sick to my stomach. I am continually getting pressure from those around me to “find someone” even though I am trying. (their requirments for a girl freind are female and breathing). And to top it off due to some recent unforseen bills I am almost broke.

I know that if I could find the right girl that would pull me out of this depression, but I have pretty much lost hope at this point. (one of the reasons I am so depressed) I can handle the being broke and the job stress, but the being alone is the real killer.

yeh i spent the first four years of my teenage life without proper human contact

I’m sorry you feel that way, honey.

Do as the others have said - find an activity to spend your time with. But not for the activity itself, rather for the social opportunities it provides. Believe me, talking with people will (almost) always help.

to be honest my depression ends during the summer, I suppose that my atmosphere at school is just depressing with all my dick “friends” who I don’t talk to anymore, there is nothing more painfull than a bully, except if that bully was your friend….

I’m depressed because I have a permanent case of diarrhea.

Magnus, get more sunshine.

I’m not depressed. I’m not depressing. I may be extremely annoying on occasions, but such is life, deal with it.

I’ve always wondered at why depression is a medical condtion… I think it’s more a frame of mind really. Hell we all get depressed, I get depressed by looking at Sock’s drawings. (So… damn…. good&hellip But gotta realize that time heals all wounds and do something. Distractions and forgetting are what keep me going!

Depression can be a medical condition because an imbalance of neuroreceptors in the brain has been found to cause otherwise normal people to be irrationally depressed. When depression is not caused by a biological imbalance, it is just a frame of mind, and a temporary one at that. The difficulty is differentiating between the two without cutting the person’s head open.

Ace: It’s been proven many times that changes in climate, diet, and other environmental/chemical changes can force a person’s mood to change even when they’re of sound mind and usually strong willed.

Depression isn’t always what I would consider a “condition”, but it certainly can be one. It sounds like you have a naturally progressive outlook on things, if not positive, so you see depression as something that merely slows you down from time to time. Some people, however, can be put into a state of depression from shifts in the weather or from simply eating something they aren’t accustomed to.

McCain talks like a Cymbalta commercial.

Is it good or bad that I don’t know what Cymbalta is? (antidepressant I assume)

when i get depressed, i also get insomnia as a side effect. guess whos had insomnia for the past month? ill give you a hint: me.
i hate being around people… there always so… together… without me… … *sigh*….
i’m not sure whats worse, knowing how i could end this depression, or knowing i cant (due to other people)…
o well…. ill just go back to concentrating on living throughout day to day life… which is a very valuable skill…

(if im not making any sense, its because im really tired… )

I’ve wanted to kill myself before. I doubt many of you can say that. Oh and really don’t tell me I need help because I’m not like that any more. I look back on that and think shit that’s a really dumb idea. I find it unconsevable to do such a thing to myself now.

ive been depressed since i could fully understand human nature.
but i can release seratonin into my brain at will so it balances out pretty close.

Inconceivable, not unconsevable.

Anyway, Spell-Check aside, I do know what you are talking about, HB, and yes, it does look pretty stupid once you’ve escaped the mental labyrinth that convinced you it was a good idea in the first place.

Isn’t it amazing how drastically a person’s state of mind can change?

Wow you just read me like a book. Yeah one hell of a labyrinth After being built from when I was like idk seven?

The power of the human mind to convince itself of something so obviously false never ceases to astound me. We get so used to being right, that we refuse to admit that we might be wrong. We refuse the help of those who see our downward spiral, we try to shake off the people who try to comfort us, intent on our own self-destruction.

But fortunately, we often have friends who persist until we drag ourselves out of the mess we are in. And sometimes, we realize the danger in time to pull up on our own.

Still looking like a book?

Close but not quite. As soon as I realised how shot life is I snaped out of it.

Ah, you saw the ground swiftly approaching, and decided not to hurry it along, to continue the airplane analogy.

*sigh* Yes wemmaster SuitCase.

Sorry. It’s how we get to know each other though.

It’s like butt-sniffing, only we do that after introducing ourselves and not before.

I get depressed every night for one reason or another and then take enough xanax to forget how to spell and enough Red Bull to keep me awake. I don’t do it for fun, I do it to turn off.

So you just put enough contradictory inputs in until your brain just gives up?

Basically. I’ve been doing that in some form or another since November of last year when the girl I was dating for the previous three years literally disappeared, only back then it was Full Throttle and powerful painkillers which started after I had back problems so bad I couldn’t walk without painkillers at all.

Remind me, was this the bitchy girlfriend?

Yes.

Ah. I remember.

But through some terrible combination of sexual depravity and overuse of medications, you manage to fend off most of the depression most of the time.