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Living with depression

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Dyno, Feb 29, 2012.

  1. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    Hey Stain, how you feeling, man? Update, please.
     
  2. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Back to normal. It took about two or three weeks in total. A little over a week to bottom out, then a steady progression back up.
     
  3. 3OctaveFart

    3OctaveFart Guest

    There are children dying in hospitals.
    Smell the roses, please.
     
  4. Uncle.Ruckus

    Uncle.Ruckus Guest

    Please tell me you're kidding.
     
  5. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    There are sober children in Africa.
    So finish your booze.
     
  6. 3OctaveFart

    3OctaveFart Guest

    Do I look like a guy who kids?
    It's not a popular stance, I realize.
    But Jesus Christ, you are alive.
    And, yes, drink up.
    Let the nectar of life dribble down your chin.
     
  7. Norrin Radd

    Norrin Radd New Member

    When I see that someone who has a family is allowing their own individual feelings to allow them to consider ending their own life, I guess I just hope that individual can think first of how their passing will affect their family.

    Actually heard similar sentiments pretty often when I've had my own little episodes. In my case, it was good advice that I usually failed to take. Luckily, I didn't have a chemical imbalance or a need for medication; just had a lot of challenges both big and small pile up at once.

    And since RickStain seems on the road to recovery, in a case like that one, it's OK to tell someone that bad times will pass, and that life is worth living.

    Not every depression is what happened to Bradley Guire, or what was discussed on hockeybeat's old threads. Sometimes, it's just a series of bad days and/or events which make it feel like life is in the toilet. But if you can just get through those days . . .

    (Cue the sports deskers and writers with their genius-level knowledge of depression, its causes, its cures, its remedies, and above all, how to spell each of them and use them properly in a sentence)
     
  8. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    *shrug* If you've never felt that way, then you won't get it.

    It's not about being sad. It's about feeling disconnected, like nothing matters. You know in your head you should care, but suddenly the emotion of caring is just completely gone.
     
  9. Norrin Radd

    Norrin Radd New Member

    As apt a description as any.
     
  10. 3OctaveFart

    3OctaveFart Guest

    Have you lost interest in your passions?
    I agree, that would be troubling.
    Reconnect.
    Trip the switch.
    Do you ride a bike differently when you are in love?
    Do you ride it differently when you are depressed?
    I prefer holistic remedies over Big Pharm, but whatever it takes.
    I also prefer to see the world the way it is and not how some drug would translate it for me.
     
  11. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Not with a handle like 3OctaveFart.
    That's deadly serious.
     
  12. 3OctaveFart

    3OctaveFart Guest

    I work very hard to channel the 12-year-old boy that still dwells within me, friend.
    I just don't take myself that seriously.
    Or life, for that matter.
    Nobody said this shit would be easy.
    So gear up and fight.
    Someday this will all be over.
    Clock's ticking.
     
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