Are you....?

[Dommius]

I'm... Here I suppose. Not exactly happy most of the time, but nor am I overly depressed. I take my meds and go through another day every morning.

Though looking at what I typed above it would seem that no, I am not happy. There are things missing within my life that I wish I could find the drive to fix but that kind of enthusiasm has been drained for a long time. I just don't care really. Ah well, that's my lot in life for now.

 

[manic_depressive13]

Nope, I'm pretty miserable. My life doesn't suck half as much as it used to. In fact, I'm really quite well off. I used to hate everything around me and when I couldn't justify doing that anymore, instead of letting it go I just focused my loathing inward. I guess what I'm saying is I hate myself and want to die.

 

[Alternative]

The question is:

Are you happy?

honestly no im not, my world is going to shit, i cant find work where i live, im being ousted from my family and ive been told i have type 2 bipolar disorder. thats jsut the general gist of whats wrong in my life but there is so much more i could say. which is why i have an actual psycologist to go visit.

but apart from that devil may cry hd collection is an amazing bit of nostalgia, complete with controller chucking difficulty.

 

[Scarim Coral]

More or less. Well for one thing I ain't depress althought I could be more happy if things had been going my way. Regardless I cherish the things that make me happy right now (got a job and still keep in contact with my closest friends from Uni and etc.)

 

[hazabaza1]

Pretty much, yeah.
My biggest worry is exams, but I've never felt exam stress. I imagine that'll come back and bite me in the arse in August though.

 

[malestrithe]

Relatively happy. I mean I'm not entirely where i'd expected myself to be at 33 years of age, but I'm closer than before. I have a "job*" at a 2 websites where IO write 3-5 items a day for. I also have some freelance writing stuff, some that I got paid for. I should be able to pay back my student loans this time next year.

Job. Well not really a job. It has all the trappings of a job. Long hours, annoying bosses, but does not have that being paid burden to go with it.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Nope. I can't seem to motivate myself at university and my first and only relationship ended about two weeks ago. Other than that... it's not awful.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

The question is:

Are you happy? Is it strange not to find such a simple thread here, one about simply how you feel, and how you are. as a psychologist, i find that many times one just needs to tell some one how they feel. so why not here? so ill ask how are you? Are you happy?

I wouldn't go over enthusiastically happy/ Still have a underpaid job and I don't quite have a place to call my own. Still I too have an amazing wife and a nice gaming life. Together they make it a bit easier to deal with the things I'm not too happy about.

and how does that make you feel?

sorry couldn't resist.

Got a hot, sexy, but still thinking and funny wife that loves me utterly (i know cause she will attack any woman she believes looks at me)

lol oh the worshiping stare of complete and utter addiction towards another person. Do you ever get tired of that? I don't.

 

[Elemental]

Yeah. Sure we all have our down days but other than that, Life's pretty cool.

 

[beniki]

Can't say that I've ever been that unhappy... unlike 90% of the internet it seems. Never had any psychological problems, and my biggest dive into depression was solved by a 5 hour walk across a city followed by a cold beer and hot pizza.

I always read about people being depressed, and talking about how they're on all kinds of anti-depressants which don't seem to be working, but the only thing I've ever needed to keep me going was said by a cartoon character on an English dub of a Japanese kids show.

Calumon: "Just think how happy you could be if you didn't work so hard on being sad."

And imagine that said in the most annoyingly cutesy voice possible.

But, to be fair, I might just be weird.

 

[Badong]

Fuck yeah I'm happy with my life! I get to study in the finest school in my country, get all of my education funded by my parents, have a generally bright future ahead of me, excellent health, more good friends than I could ever ask for, and MLP:FiM, my penultimate idealistic moral compass in which I strive to follow each day.

So overall, I feel like I'm the luckiest fucker in the world! And to think, all it took to change me from an empty pessimistic shell recovering from a botched suicide attempt, to a cheery, sunny-skies-all-day kind of guy was the watching the aforementioned children's show and finding the will to do good from it!

 

[Rawne1980]

I'm happy.

I'm always happy. All the bloody time.

I have a great life, great kids, great job, great income, own my house and I have an amazing wife.

 

[Starik20X6]

Yeah, right now I'm doing just fine. Could be better, but I could also be a heck of a lot worse off.

 

[RustlessPotato]

With me it depends. From february untill may I feel superb. From may 'till october/Novemberish I feel miserable to the point of not having any energy to get up sometimes. And from December untill february I feel normal. It's really weird but it's been that way since the last couple of years

 

[Charli]

Mmmm no, not really. I do remember a brief period of my life I was truly happy, but it got wreaked as such shit does. I am... quietly content for now, if constantly hoping for the future counts...

Can't do much but move forward, maybe that brief shining moment is as happy as I'll ever be, never to be recaptured, so I can't waste my time wishing I was there instead of now, I make the best of whatever I'm given, and that'll have to do me.

From a psychological stand point and I have actually asked someone who has studied normal cases quite extensively, the problem is my case is not normal, and moving on from it is... a toughie. Talking to someone about it can't really solve it, so it sits there like an unwashable stain on a table cloth, I just have to live with it being there. Some unfathomable changes in my life would have to occur (moving/changing nearly everything) so achieving that as poor as I am isn't really a possibility. Help is expensive... so it'll probably just fester away unless I pay it as little attention as possible.

I'm not really happy but I am trying to be.

 

[Padwolf]

I am very happy. I've just finished university, I will finally be moving from this area that has been the source of misery for me these past two years, I have an amazing boyfriend who I utterly love and who loves me. I have great friends and family, adorable and loving pets. All I need now is a job and life will be pretty much complete.

 

[Doclector]

I'm happy enough, certainly better than I've ever been, though with my early life, that's certainly not hard.

I have a lot of friends, I have lots of free time (especially at the moment, when I'm just waiting around for a few things to be sorted out before I leave my year one student accomodation) I'm not even doing that bad for money.

Though, at the moment, things are taking a slight downturn. I haven't got a summer job and the only have decent place to go where I'll be living over the summer has closed, leaving me with the prospect of a holiday spent just playing games at home, which I know will be kinda pleasant for the first two weeks or so, but'll eventually become intolerable. On top of it all, recently I keep being reminded that I'm still a virgin at 21, and that's probably never gonna change because popular as I am, I'm about the ugliest person around. Unless I get really rich, nobody's ever gonna want me.

 

[Hawk of Battle]

What is this "happiness" you speak of?