i like how this thread went from talking about being depressed into a thread debating whether or not weed is a good way to deal with depression
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i like how this thread went from talking about being depressed into a thread debating whether or not weed is a good way to deal with depression
jermangi like how this thread went from talking about being depressed into a thread debating whether or not weed is a good way to deal with depression
yeah then it turned into a shitpost thread
[quote=jermang]i like how this thread went from talking about being depressed into a thread debating whether or not weed is a good way to deal with depression[/quote]
yeah then it turned into a shitpost thread
yeah then it turned into a shitpost thread
Real talk?
There isn't a real way to get over depression. Chemical imbalances aren't fixed by doing things, aren't fixed by chemicals pissed into the toilet in 8 hours and aren't fixed with liking the little things. But 2/3 of those are great for forgetting about it for a time. If it's during your adolescence, it's common. And, for the most part, a passing thing. At 25 I'm a little less bothered by clinical depression. I have debt, employment and educational improvement pecking at me constantly, but focusing on those things only drove things deeper. Accepting that they will go away as long as I stay persistent and driven to keep them where they need to be is what keeps me from being crazy depressed. Do I still have times where the symptoms are overwhelming and make me want to just go lay down in a freeway? Of course. But if I do that, most of my debt goes to my parents and family. If I do that, everybody at work is fucked because I'm the only one working on large projects. If I do that, I'm forever marred as a drug abusing dropout that can't keep social relations in tact.
Having SOMETHING, be it a game, a friend or hobby to break the tedium is a good thing. When you start worrying what people think about that game, friend or hobby is when you go back to your self-loathing and all that. I will say that drugs are a great placebo. But after 5 years of pretty much going ham on whatever I wanted, it doesn't really do anything other than make the lows lower.
Keep doing what makes you happy, even if it's fucking stupid. If you get happy after making 300 lanyards a week, and get solace out of the process, then it's right for you.
Real talk?
There isn't a real way to get over depression. Chemical imbalances aren't fixed by doing things, aren't fixed by chemicals pissed into the toilet in 8 hours and aren't fixed with liking the little things. But 2/3 of those are great for forgetting about it for a time. If it's during your adolescence, it's common. And, for the most part, a passing thing. At 25 I'm a little less bothered by clinical depression. I have debt, employment and educational improvement pecking at me constantly, but focusing on those things only drove things deeper. Accepting that they will go away as long as I stay persistent and driven to keep them where they need to be is what keeps me from being crazy depressed. Do I still have times where the symptoms are overwhelming and make me want to just go lay down in a freeway? Of course. But if I do that, most of my debt goes to my parents and family. If I do that, everybody at work is fucked because I'm the only one working on large projects. If I do that, I'm forever marred as a drug abusing dropout that can't keep social relations in tact.
Having SOMETHING, be it a game, a friend or hobby to break the tedium is a good thing. When you start worrying what people think about that game, friend or hobby is when you go back to your self-loathing and all that. I will say that drugs are a great placebo. But after 5 years of pretty much going ham on whatever I wanted, it doesn't really do anything other than make the lows lower.
Keep doing what makes you happy, even if it's fucking stupid. If you get happy after making 300 lanyards a week, and get solace out of the process, then it's right for you.
There isn't a real way to get over depression. Chemical imbalances aren't fixed by doing things, aren't fixed by chemicals pissed into the toilet in 8 hours and aren't fixed with liking the little things. But 2/3 of those are great for forgetting about it for a time. If it's during your adolescence, it's common. And, for the most part, a passing thing. At 25 I'm a little less bothered by clinical depression. I have debt, employment and educational improvement pecking at me constantly, but focusing on those things only drove things deeper. Accepting that they will go away as long as I stay persistent and driven to keep them where they need to be is what keeps me from being crazy depressed. Do I still have times where the symptoms are overwhelming and make me want to just go lay down in a freeway? Of course. But if I do that, most of my debt goes to my parents and family. If I do that, everybody at work is fucked because I'm the only one working on large projects. If I do that, I'm forever marred as a drug abusing dropout that can't keep social relations in tact.
Having SOMETHING, be it a game, a friend or hobby to break the tedium is a good thing. When you start worrying what people think about that game, friend or hobby is when you go back to your self-loathing and all that. I will say that drugs are a great placebo. But after 5 years of pretty much going ham on whatever I wanted, it doesn't really do anything other than make the lows lower.
Keep doing what makes you happy, even if it's fucking stupid. If you get happy after making 300 lanyards a week, and get solace out of the process, then it's right for you.
i've had some problems with depression in the past that i'd rather not go into too much detail about, and for me individually, avoiding negative people/things and having someone you could talk to made things so much easier for me, and made me feel a lot more better about myself. bottling your emotions and feelings inside will only make things worse.
if anyone going through a hard time wants to talk, add me. i'm all ears.
i've had some problems with depression in the past that i'd rather not go into too much detail about, and for me individually, avoiding negative people/things and having someone you could talk to made things so much easier for me, and made me feel a lot more better about myself. bottling your emotions and feelings inside will only make things worse.
if anyone going through a hard time wants to talk, add me. i'm all ears.
if anyone going through a hard time wants to talk, add me. i'm all ears.
defyif you feel like shit you have to get out of the house, it's an absolute must
go chill with your friends, tell them why you're feeling down and out
i see your point here but i know from experience its not as easy as this, i've suffered from depression for about 6 years now and i personally am able to convince myself that nobody wants to hear my problems and my friends don't really want to hang out with me, the worst thing is i know its not the case, when my depression isn't bad and i am thinking clearly i know i can go to my family and friends but when its bad in my mind i can't turn to anyone. and i also know how it can often be easier to talk to people you don't know about how you feel because they won't judge you for what you say and even if they do judge you, it doesn't affect you in real life so that being said anybody else that suffers from depression is free to add me if they feel the need to talk to someone
[quote=defy]if you feel like shit you have to get out of the house, it's an absolute must
go chill with your friends, tell them why you're feeling down and out[/quote]
i see your point here but i know from experience its not as easy as this, i've suffered from depression for about 6 years now and i personally am able to convince myself that nobody wants to hear my problems and my friends don't really want to hang out with me, the worst thing is i know its not the case, when my depression isn't bad and i am thinking clearly i know i can go to my family and friends but when its bad in my mind i can't turn to anyone. and i also know how it can often be easier to talk to people you don't know about how you feel because they won't judge you for what you say and even if they do judge you, it doesn't affect you in real life so that being said anybody else that suffers from depression is free to add me if they feel the need to talk to someone
go chill with your friends, tell them why you're feeling down and out[/quote]
i see your point here but i know from experience its not as easy as this, i've suffered from depression for about 6 years now and i personally am able to convince myself that nobody wants to hear my problems and my friends don't really want to hang out with me, the worst thing is i know its not the case, when my depression isn't bad and i am thinking clearly i know i can go to my family and friends but when its bad in my mind i can't turn to anyone. and i also know how it can often be easier to talk to people you don't know about how you feel because they won't judge you for what you say and even if they do judge you, it doesn't affect you in real life so that being said anybody else that suffers from depression is free to add me if they feel the need to talk to someone
Adding on to my earlier post, I rarely go out of the house except if I need to get something for myself or for the house. I've lost contact with all of my friends from high school and college classmates who already graduated. The only social environments that I have are when I work, go to school, at home, or if I randomly meet someone I already know while I'm doing things for myself. The majority of my social interactions are done online, which is where I spend the majority of my time. Once I do get talking, I can talk for a while, which is weird to me considering all I do to avoid talking to people.
Adding on to my earlier post, I rarely go out of the house except if I need to get something for myself or for the house. I've lost contact with all of my friends from high school and college classmates who already graduated. The only social environments that I have are when I work, go to school, at home, or if I randomly meet someone I already know while I'm doing things for myself. The majority of my social interactions are done online, which is where I spend the majority of my time. Once I do get talking, I can talk for a while, which is weird to me considering all I do to avoid talking to people.
Living isn't easy, its a lot easier just to lay down and die then it is to keep on living through pain. But if you can get over the pain and depression its worth it to experience the things this time and universe has to offer.
Living isn't easy, its a lot easier just to lay down and die then it is to keep on living through pain. But if you can get over the pain and depression its worth it to experience the things this time and universe has to offer.
I've been going through something similar for about two years now redd, and I wish I could tell you it gets better, but it doesn't. However, you do get better at coping with it, and finding ways to stay happier. You've already got me added, feel free to chat whenever. It's different for everyone, but in my experience, keeping busy is important. If you're always doing something, be it hanging out with friends, playing video games, exercising, doing school work, or what have you, it's hard to find time to feel bad. Defy has a valid point, don't let yourself just sit around and shrink back into your own little world, force yourself to get up and do something, and a change of pace can often be the best way to feel better.
I've been going through something similar for about two years now redd, and I wish I could tell you it gets better, but it doesn't. However, you do get better at coping with it, and finding ways to stay happier. You've already got me added, feel free to chat whenever. It's different for everyone, but in my experience, keeping busy is important. If you're always doing something, be it hanging out with friends, playing video games, exercising, doing school work, or what have you, it's hard to find time to feel bad. Defy has a valid point, don't let yourself just sit around and shrink back into your own little world, force yourself to get up and do something, and a change of pace can often be the best way to feel better.
I apologize if the following comes off as strange. I've been quite ill lately and may or may not be under the influence of the lingering affects of NyQuil.
That being said, I battled feelings of depression for quite some time, but was able to overcome it through a bit of reading and thought. I basically learned that a lot of what I saw as "bad" was not inherently so. On the contrary, "bad" is just as essential to the natural order as "good". It's the two put together that makes life and nature's design beautiful. The more I understood this, the more I began to love and appreciate life.
Go do something you enjoy. Play TF2, exercise, throw on a good album, work on your computer, go fishing, pretend you're a bipedal talking animal, or take a walk through the woods. Appreciate life and its beauty.
As a fellow cyberathlete, I am rooting for all of you.
-Love,
Abramelin
I apologize if the following comes off as strange. I've been quite ill lately and may or may not be under the influence of the lingering affects of NyQuil.
That being said, I battled feelings of depression for quite some time, but was able to overcome it through a bit of reading and thought. I basically learned that a lot of what I saw as "bad" was not inherently so. On the contrary, "bad" is just as essential to the natural order as "good". It's the two put together that makes life and nature's design beautiful. The more I understood this, the more I began to love and appreciate life.
Go do something you enjoy. Play TF2, exercise, throw on a good album, work on your computer, go fishing, pretend you're a bipedal talking animal, or take a walk through the woods. Appreciate life and its beauty.
As a fellow cyberathlete, I am rooting for all of you.
-Love,
Abramelin
That being said, I battled feelings of depression for quite some time, but was able to overcome it through a bit of reading and thought. I basically learned that a lot of what I saw as "bad" was not inherently so. On the contrary, "bad" is just as essential to the natural order as "good". It's the two put together that makes life and nature's design beautiful. The more I understood this, the more I began to love and appreciate life.
Go do something you enjoy. Play TF2, exercise, throw on a good album, work on your computer, go fishing, pretend you're a bipedal talking animal, or take a walk through the woods. Appreciate life and its beauty.
As a fellow cyberathlete, I am rooting for all of you.
-Love,
Abramelin
squidsnip
Good to hear you're doing better man, your story is really inspirational. You've offered amazing insight.
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Good to hear you're doing better man, your story is really inspirational. You've offered amazing insight.
EDIT: edited to snip the long quote.
Good to hear you're doing better man, your story is really inspirational. You've offered amazing insight.
EDIT: edited to snip the long quote.
squidthere is ABSOLUTELY no easy fix. you can sit around in bed for days and weeks and months and you can never talk to anyone for the rest of your life if you want. you can see a therapist and talk about strategies to get through what you are dealing with, and you can get a script for SSRIs and take them for as long as you want. but this gets you absolutely nowhere.
you have to actually legitimately do something for yourself. i learned all of this the hard way.
i think it's something everyone has to learn the hard way.
it's almost morbidly funny that depression starts as something so personal and something that only you can really get a grasp on and it takes exhausting every option outside of yourself before you realize you need to really take control of it if you ever want to get better.
[quote=squid]
there is ABSOLUTELY no easy fix. you can sit around in bed for days and weeks and months and you can never talk to anyone for the rest of your life if you want. you can see a therapist and talk about strategies to get through what you are dealing with, and you can get a script for SSRIs and take them for as long as you want. but this gets you absolutely nowhere.
you have to actually legitimately do something for yourself. i learned all of this the hard way.[/quote]
i think it's something everyone has to learn the hard way.
it's almost morbidly funny that depression starts as something so personal and something that only you can really get a grasp on and it takes exhausting every option outside of yourself before you realize you need to really take control of it if you ever want to get better.
there is ABSOLUTELY no easy fix. you can sit around in bed for days and weeks and months and you can never talk to anyone for the rest of your life if you want. you can see a therapist and talk about strategies to get through what you are dealing with, and you can get a script for SSRIs and take them for as long as you want. but this gets you absolutely nowhere.
you have to actually legitimately do something for yourself. i learned all of this the hard way.[/quote]
i think it's something everyone has to learn the hard way.
it's almost morbidly funny that depression starts as something so personal and something that only you can really get a grasp on and it takes exhausting every option outside of yourself before you realize you need to really take control of it if you ever want to get better.
squida lot of what i see in this thread is moping and unhappy people who are having trouble making things better for themselves. it's not the end of the world to be depressed. don't feel bad for yourself. i am sure we all have A LOT to be happy about. every day i do stuff that i love. maybe there are days where i feel like staying in bed the entire time, but i pull myself out of bed and get out there and see my friends or do something, anything that interests me.
This paragraph in particular reminded me of something important. Ever heard the cliche "Every cloud has a silver lining"? It's cheesy, it's overly repeated, and it's true. I feel since I've become depressed, I've become more empathetic, that I understand other people better, I've become more thoughtful and more patient. Try to think of depression in terms of some of the potential positives, instead of letting it constantly drag you down.
[quote=squid]
a lot of what i see in this thread is moping and unhappy people who are having trouble making things better for themselves. [b]it's not the end of the world to be depressed[/b]. don't feel bad for yourself. i am sure we all have A LOT to be happy about. every day i do stuff that i love. maybe there are days where i feel like staying in bed the entire time, but i pull myself out of bed and get out there and see my friends or do something, anything that interests me.
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This paragraph in particular reminded me of something important. Ever heard the cliche "Every cloud has a silver lining"? It's cheesy, it's overly repeated, and it's true. I feel since I've become depressed, I've become more empathetic, that I understand other people better, I've become more thoughtful and more patient. Try to think of depression in terms of some of the potential positives, instead of letting it constantly drag you down.
a lot of what i see in this thread is moping and unhappy people who are having trouble making things better for themselves. [b]it's not the end of the world to be depressed[/b]. don't feel bad for yourself. i am sure we all have A LOT to be happy about. every day i do stuff that i love. maybe there are days where i feel like staying in bed the entire time, but i pull myself out of bed and get out there and see my friends or do something, anything that interests me.
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This paragraph in particular reminded me of something important. Ever heard the cliche "Every cloud has a silver lining"? It's cheesy, it's overly repeated, and it's true. I feel since I've become depressed, I've become more empathetic, that I understand other people better, I've become more thoughtful and more patient. Try to think of depression in terms of some of the potential positives, instead of letting it constantly drag you down.
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