Feeling Depressed? Express yourself!

[luccadeas]

Hello Escapists! Are you feeling sad, melancholy, and or depressed? Well then it's time to express yourself!

It's no good to keep your feelings bottled up inside of you, so I suggest you post your feelings on here.

Let me break the ice: I am rather depressed because my whole life I have been expected to do greatness, and I cannot feel physical love without being assaulted by massive waves of self loathing and shame.

Now, go ahead and vent!
Captcha: GIDDY GOAT. Ironic? Perhaps!

 

[run_forrest_run]

I'm massively depressed. I have a job, a high standard of living, I have saftey, rights, and I live in a country that's not at war . I live in a country which offers free primary/secondary education and a cheap 3rd level education. I can vote for who I want to lead the country. I am so wealthy I can access luxury goods. The list just goes on.

Dude, who is this aimed at? Are you inferring things about the OP? or are you arguing that people who have any of these privileges shouldn't be allowed to feel depressed. Yeah, there are much worse situations to be in, but depression isn't something to shit on, regardless of social status.

 

[Vegosiux]

I'm massively depressed. I have a job, a high standard of living, I have saftey, rights, and I live in a country that's not at war . I live in a country which offers free primary/secondary education and a cheap 3rd level education. I can vote for who I want to lead the country. I am so wealthy I can access luxury goods. The list just goes on.

Gotta show them wannabe edgy emo kids that you can out-edgy them any time of day, eh?

But yeah, depression is a rather more complicated can o' worms, and all posts like this show is that the poster hasn't the faintest idea about it.

As for me? Oh I have a whole array of issues, but the main one would be that I simply don't easily trust people, so that makes it difficult to talk about those issues ^^

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

A very awesome friend died (and all the junk attached to that), dysphoria is eating away at my very core, I've got banks stating intentions to repo my shit for their mistakes, I am teetering on the brink of loosing my job. And other stuff I do not wish to disclose.

Despite this look at me smile like a good little girl



*crumbling on the inside.*

 

[TheRookie8]

Bah-bum-bu-bah-bu-bu-du-da-de-duh...buh-buh-duh-dah-dah-dah-dah...express yourself...!

Anyway, I often feel depressed when I don't feel useful. There are people who have useful skills that other people depend on, and I sometimes feel lesser than them, and therefore not as useful. Since we are beings of purpose, not feeling useful hurts our ambition.

The good news...this is easily overcome by effort and refining skill.

 

[Scott Rothman]

Depression is a medical condition. It's not something you feel every once in a while because girls won't talk to you or you got fired.

 

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

At twenty-three I need a cane to walk and live every day in agony. I have no idea why but the doctors are saying I most likely have early onset Multiple Sclerosis since it runs in the family. Also there are many days when I wish I could just die, today being one of them. I am not, however, suicidal in any way.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

Depression is a medical condition. It's not something you feel every once in a while because girls won't talk to you or you got fired.

I think everyone here is informed of the medical condition of depression and that it's more than just feeling blue. It might be an improper use of the term, but there is a difference between "feeling depressed" and "having depression". Either way, the OP was just making a play on words with "express" and "depress". Don't take it so personally.

 

[ninjaRiv]

I'm massively depressed. I have a job, a high standard of living, I have saftey, rights, and I live in a country that's not at war . I live in a country which offers free primary/secondary education and a cheap 3rd level education. I can vote for who I want to lead the country. I am so wealthy I can access luxury goods. The list just goes on.

I get depressed when people like this speak. Sorry, I'm not depressed right now (although, have a long history with it) but I always feel the need to call people out when they spout this shit.

And now I will leave you all to it.

 

[bojackx]

Depression is a medical condition. It's not something you feel every once in a while because girls won't talk to you or you got fired.

It's also when someone is "in a state of general unhappiness or despondency" if the definition from Google holds any merit.

OT: I don't have many complaints, except maybe being really bored all the time? Since all my friends went off to university in September I've been really bored all the time, and even when they come back it seems a little less lively. It's not that bad, but it gets me down sometimes.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I'm actually not depressed, but I have been depressed quite some time ago, so my sympathies are there. On the other hand, I did have a sorta-kinda-breakdown a couple of months back. I'm not depressed, but I am seeing a therapist, there's a whole load of things wrong that aren't simple enough to be covered by calling it 'depression' or whatever.

The point I'm making, badly, is that a lot of people you see on forums saying 'I think I'm depressed' probably aren't depressed, but that doesn't mean they're being a whiny dick, there's probably something wrong more complex than that. Being in a low mood isn't depression, but if you're constantly in a low mood that's a problem and the root cause needs addressing.

Given that most people claiming to be depressed aren't experts on the subject and aren't diagnosed, I'm generally hesitant to accept their own diagnosis, but not in a 'oh you big girl's blouse' kinda way.

 

[Blunderboy]

Well I am going through a bout of clinical depression at the moment. I've been getting better over the last few weeks and was hoping to return to work but the past few days have just become an atrocious slog, seemingly for no reason.

And speaking of atrocious things.

I'm massively depressed. I have a job, a high standard of living, I have saftey, rights, and I live in a country that's not at war . I live in a country which offers free primary/secondary education and a cheap 3rd level education. I can vote for who I want to lead the country. I am so wealthy I can access luxury goods. The list just goes on.

This guy right here is an asshat.

 

[Shadowstar38]

Under normal circumstances, I'd be depressed all the time. But a doctor gave me some colorful pills. Now I live in rainbows.

A very awesome friend died (and all the junk attached to that), dysphoria is eating away at my very core, I've got banks stating intentions to repo my shit for their mistakes, I am teetering on the brink of loosing my job. And other stuff I do not wish to disclose.

Despite this look at me smile like a good little girl



*crumbling on the inside.*

Would a hug help?

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

Under normal circumstances, I'd be depressed all the time. But a doctor gave me some colorful pills. Now I live in rainbows.

A very awesome friend died (and all the junk attached to that), dysphoria is eating away at my very core, I've got banks stating intentions to repo my shit for their mistakes, I am teetering on the brink of loosing my job. And other stuff I do not wish to disclose.

Despite this look at me smile like a good little girl



*crumbling on the inside.*

Would a hug help?

Hugs always help

 

[Griffolion]

Well I live a comfortable life, studying at a level 90% of the world don't get to do, and have a beautiful fiancee (we just got engaged 3 weeks ago). But still sometimes I feel like the weight of the world is on my shoulders, and I just don't want to talk to anyone.

I say this because depression doesn't just get the ones in the bad life situations, it get's those in the good, too. I think for the most part it's an indiscriminate condition.

 

[Bomberman4000]

Right now the things that have me down are as follows:

Low-paying, low-hour job that is boring beyond belief.
Mounting student loan debts always hang over my head
I've been out of college since 2010 and the only work I've been able to find is shitty part-time stuff.
I want to be a creative presence, either writing, or acting, or directing, but have a crippling fear of completing projects knowing they'll come under scrutiny and in my mind won't hold up.
I've always felt like I lived in the shadow of my older brother, and now I actually live with him and that feeling hasn't gone anywhere.
Girl troubles.


I wouldn't say I'm "depressed" in a clinical sense, but my outlook on my current situation is bleak.

 

[Something Amyss]

Depression is a medical condition. It's not something you feel every once in a while because girls won't talk to you or you got fired.

It's both. Even medical professionals understand and accept the kind of depression being talked about here as a legit concept.

You're talking about depressive disorders, which are something different, yes.

On topic: I am in severe pain daily due to a back problem. Doctors thought it was due to a bulging disc, but I've seen a specialist and he doesn't think most of it worked with the diagnosis. he gave me an injection and scheduled me PT. It seemed to be working for a little while, but I've been hurting worse than ever, even though I've stuck with the PT.

And I've lost a ton of weight. Seriously, this was supposed to also help. I'm down 30 lbs in the last year.

I can barely walk, and even sitting causes me problems. My mother has to do my shopping for me, and I'm in my thirties. Freaking embarrassing. Which would feel worse if I wasn't overwhelmed by pain so often.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I go through bouts of depression that will last for a good while and it just sucks really.

I have no idea what I'm doing and everything just looks bleak to me.

I'm trying to fix things for the better and so far so good, but that stupid small voice of doubt likes to mock me the whole time. The treacherous bastard that it is.

 

[redhatman]

This is going to sound really silly and cheesy but this web page might help. It is just a few hundred pages of jokes inspirational stories and cute animals

http://www.cracked.com/forums/topic/23218/the-pwot-happiness-generator/0

I know this won't actually help deal with any of the issues that are making you guys depressed in the first place but it might cheer you up a bit if you are feeling particularly down. Personally the page has brightened my day more than i few times.

Hope this helps.

 

[wulfy42]

Life is meaningless, time is an illusion. Eventually we all die and everything we experienced will cease to matter. The time between our birth and death is just a blip that will pass before we know it, and the only real thing that matters is avoiding suffering as much as possible along the way.

Accomplishments are pointless. Learning is pointless. The human race are like locusts at this point and are destroying the Earth. The beauty that does exist, waterfalls, forests, nature in general is being destroyed and if it keeps up, it may become permanent.

Death is something to look forward to. When you die, it's all over. No more pointless effort to exist, no more trying to find things to entertain your brain or keep it occupied all the time. No more responsibilities for others that force you to do things you would rather not. If there is anything beyond death for humans, we will all eventually have to deal with it anyway, so putting it off doesn't change a thing. So death is what should be celebrated, not birth. We should all have death days every year where we celebrate the day we will eventually die (planning deaths in advance would give us all something to look forward to!).