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splatterviz (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
mironasee, I agree. I believe this video has good advice; that depression is (or should be) a natural sign that things need changing. However, I also think it's naive for the Dr. to say that's always the case. It can grip you, and not let go. He seems to start with the "ideal" case of depression, failing to address this...that many have circumstances they "cannot" change ie; chronic pain/illness. That's why we're depressed!
I will say that suffering does lead to growth, but too much doesn't.
doyouwanttoknowmeeee (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
he means it well. :) anyway depression is a state off mind wich is impossible to understand if you havent had it yourself. everyday i think off activity's everyday i think off ways to better my life but something inside me prevents me from doing so, and i think that is depression. anyway bettina i hope your doing allright:).
MentalSelfMutilation (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
The only emotional problem I ever seem to have is.. being burnt out. I'm still shining deep inside, but though my body and thoughts are all good, I'm just burnt out. And I dunno what to do about being burnt out, especially in such a boring, narrow-minded place as this place I'm currently living in.
MentalSelfMutilation (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Eating well and excercise work for me, while I swear the Lithium didn't do anything but kept my parents from accusing my words and actions of being caused by imbalances that didn't even do much to anybody. My dad reminds me of the song 'My Give-a-Damn's Busted' by Jo Dee Messina & 'Straightjacket' by Alanis Morisette, blaming all his random violence, carelessness, and general psychopathic, weak, ugly stuff on Depression.. but then he's always taken his anti-Depressants with lots of fat and beer.
MentalSelfMutilation (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
As a kid, all my elementary schools set up inbreds, "helpers," to follow me around, and they never let me have water, and people always stole my food, then I'd come home and not eat because of my family's dinner-manners; those were the worst of my "Bipolar" days, according to my parents. But now I walk eight miles a day (I'm serious), take vitamins, forget repetitively what the morons are saying, and never have imbalance-issues occur in my body. Us Americans need to eat better and exercise more.
MentalSelfMutilation (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Born with Bipolar.. eighteen years, thirteen of them having been zombified.. When I sulk, I think about all the kids in the world who went through what I did, all the kids who had it much worse having been shoved a bit deeper into The Combine (One Flew Over the Cookoo's nest reference), though I've always felt happy deep inside, despite all the random psychological crap people have put me through. But then Bipolar people are always half-happy & half-sad, and I'm ill for always being a bit happy.
mironasee (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
those two cars and nice house sound pretty good after 9 years of depression... I am 23 and have had to temper many of my ambitions because of my anxiety and depression. I have had to come to terms that I need A LOT of love and nurturing from myself before I can pursue other goals. This video still treats depression as a condition that will "Solve itself", speaking from experience, it wont. I dont like the idea that Betrayal/Suffering is necessary to growth.
splatterviz (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Bettina, you took the words right out of my mouth (fingers) : )
Are you O.K. now?
splatterviz (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
ahxuan, you're right about life. However, I only wish it were that simple. When I was severely depressed, I didn't have the ability to do or enjoy those things. I'm a "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" kinda guy, but I was absolutely dead inside. I kept going like that (somehow) for a long time, but it's exhausting...at the end of my rope, it was meds or something worse, I chose meds.
BettinaFromBrazil (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
ok, i dont wanna be impolite with my answer, but for depressed ppl, theres no friends, then, travel alone doesnt make any sense and we often think we dont hav loved ones so, what will make up our lives? well, i know i sound to be crap too, but thats what happen with us. Only a depressed one knows what im talking abt. So, thats why most of us give up life, bcuz we feel theres no reason to be here. I hope u understood |
