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what if there is this person who is incredibly dopey/dumb, like i cant even tell you how much. and they are bullied about it, from friends and family all the time. the bullying is never going to stop is it, because the dopiness is a part of their personality and they arent going to change. does that make the bullying ok?
Keep on keeping on
good sign showing that there is a part of that actually WANTS to live and get better and feel happy and enjoy life..
I like how they explain that what helps are the simple little things and actions such as exercise and getting out of the house. The only problem with me is that just when I get ready to go outside I start having a panic attack. So that adds to the problem.. But I’ll keep going, cos I do want to get better.
@TheAtomicusBomb: lol! I love the idea of “Depression Expo”! I think it w
good sign showing that there is a part of that actually WANTS to live and get better and feel happy and enjoy life..
I like how they explain that what helps are the simple little things and actions such as exercise and getting out of the house. The only problem with me is that just when I get ready to go outside I start having a panic attack. So that adds to the problem.. But I’ll keep going, cos I do want to get better.
@TheAtomicusBomb: lol! I love the idea of “Depression Expo”! I think it w
Oh, and Thank you to everyone here who has left a post and shared their experiences!! I feel much lighter now knowing that there actual living and feeling people out there who know through experience how I feel. I don’t feel as alone any more..
@DrNjtp: you have basically put into words my own experience! The only thing is I cud never do it cos I am too much of a chicken and also I get this awful historical crying as if I’ve already died! It’s very frightening!! But perhaps it’s a goo sign show
public take this illness seriously ester than an ego-centric flimsy personal crisis.
And THANK YOU for posting!
public take this illness seriously ester than an ego-centric flimsy personal crisis.
And THANK YOU for posting!
Thank you SO much (whichever production company it is) for making this documentary and showing people’s experience and how they’ve coped with them! I can’t express how much support it gives me to be able to see these issues being voiced AND put out there!! Am being someone how is even now is coping through a familiar experience I cannot express how much support it gives when people around you have the knowledge and understating if what is going on with you! AND it’s helping make the general pub
Whoever doubts the effects of depression has quite obviously never been through it. Depression is like a cancer, it can get worse and worse unless treated. I myself am going through depression. It comes and goes in waves, it eats you from the inside. I don’t wish it on the doubters or skeptics because it can be hell, I just wish they would realize their own ignorance and try their best to help someone who they think or know is depressed. This way we will have less and less suicides per year fro
@malteeaser101 listen to this and tell me what u feel ??
/watch?v=DvFF12gkexQ
@Jordz600 you’r welcome
@KhaledMr25 Thanks mate
Insidegame33 you are a MORON !!!
Stephen Fry’s self-loathing has gone too far as to seek the sympathy of his audience under the false pretense of “mental illness”. What a cheap advertisement, if I’d seen any. I wonder how much money the American Psychiatric Association payed him for this gimmic…
Thanks Stephen.
/watch?v=DvFF12gkexQ
just enjoy
good energy to all my brothers and sisters on here
So it isn’t normal to think about killing yourself?
yes exactly! and i should already know because it’s nothing new to me.
but since it’s not all that bad at the moment (like you said, it does not cause real misery.. and i do know how that feels like! i’m just very lazy and unmotivated and, well… feel lonely) i think it’s all but impossible to make a start…
i wish you all the very best, keep it up!
@thealphabetist You are right, not leaving the house will amplify the depression.
I think of depression as a vicious cycle. It makes you stay shut in, isolated, disrupting sleep, sitting there. But these things only make the depression come on even heavier.
For me the only reliable way to break the cycle was long brisk walks, or other prolonged physical activity (biking or jogging could do it too). This is how you can fight it.
May you have the best health.
who can i talk too?
@Jotto999 i think that’s exactly how i feel… maybe i should give it a try. because to avoid leaving the house won’t make you feel any better, that’s for sure.
As a teenager I had some bouts of depression and loneliness.
Now I only have loneliness without the bouts of depression, or at least ones so mild as to not cause misery. The secret was long, brisk walks for 5 kilometers a day, minimum. I don’t care what else I’m planning that day, I go for my walk and it makes all the difference. I return home more talkative, energized, appetite back, sex drive back, feeling good, my thoughts break from the rumination cycle and I there is a future again.
Buy a guitar, and listen to sludge. It’s cures depression. Check out the band Eyehategod. It’s like downing a bottle of xanax!
@pdalaigh @the90sprince Cheers guys, just got depressed alot as my birthday and christmas are all in december, well 25th and 26th to be exact and new year isnt exactly jolly for me as thats when my dad left my mum.
Just have to cope with the shit which comes my way but thanks. Appreciate it.
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