SBOTD - Good Boy! aka. Things You Don't Need to Hear

[B_M_W]

I don't think you can MAKE yourself be depressed...you just are.

But you can keep yourself there once you realize you are already in that state. I think the current pop-psych bullshit really removes the legitimacy of that, unfortunately.

agreed.

I'd also say it's perversely addictive. It's kinda comforting in a fucked up way.

That's just a vicious cycle of coping that doesn't really work.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Working doesn't even enter into it. The whole thing about depression is it's not working. Depression is a malfunction. A comforting, addictive malfunction.

Ehhh...I have problems with that statement.  First, I think there are plenty of depressives out there who just don't diagnose the problem as that, exactly.  They just climb into a bottle of whatever and get the fuck over it.  Or beat their dogs/kids/wives/husbands/bosses.

Also, ever notice depressives also have anger management problems as well?

I was a long time, diagnosed acute bipolar which has a depressive cycle. I noticed a lot of things about it. Whether they work out that they're depressed or not they become addicted to the mood is what I meant. Depression is like a spiral, once you're in it you make yourself more and more depressed unless something happens to snap you out of it. Once you're out, as soon as you start to feel depressed again you can't help jumping right back in there. I beat depression by learning this.

[Jenne]

THAT is a tough road to hoe, Silly...esp with the bipolarism. 

And a lucky sob in that you learned how to get yourself out of it.

[Jasper]

Really, man. I've observed BP disorder and it's a doozie.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Really, man. I've observed BP disorder and it's a doozie.

One of the strongest mindfucks known to man. Damn glad I did it. But would I wish it on my worst enemy?

(prolly for the lulz)

[LHX]

it seems like a lot of people here have travelled to a place that is beyond depression

[Mourning Star]

I don't think you can MAKE yourself be depressed...you just are.

But you can keep yourself there once you realize you are already in that state.  I think the current pop-psych bullshit really removes the legitimacy of that, unfortunately.

that sounds like something a clinically depressed person might say...

perhaps you need some medication for your obviously improperly adjusted brain chemicals...

[Mourning Star]

it seems like a lot of people here have travelled to a place that is beyond depression

definitely...

being robbed at gunpoint, and being disappointed that the gun wasn't actually loaded, that was definitely beyond depression for me...

[B_M_W]

it seems like a lot of people here have travelled to a place that is beyond depression

I think its because when people open their minds to the enormous schlew of problems that this world has and not a clue how to do anything about it, many times it simply overwhelms and causes a fatalistic, nihilistic, or similar view point, and the "newly awakened" slides into depression.

[Jenne]

I don't think you can MAKE yourself be depressed...you just are.

But you can keep yourself there once you realize you are already in that state. I think the current pop-psych bullshit really removes the legitimacy of that, unfortunately.

that sounds like something a clinically depressed person might say...

perhaps you need some medication for your obviously improperly adjusted brain chemicals...

Yeah, I'm drinkin' it now:  Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

*slurp*

[B_M_W]

I don't think you can MAKE yourself be depressed...you just are.

But you can keep yourself there once you realize you are already in that state. I think the current pop-psych bullshit really removes the legitimacy of that, unfortunately.

that sounds like something a clinically depressed person might say...

perhaps you need some medication for your obviously improperly adjusted brain chemicals...

Yeah, I'm drinkin' it now:  Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

*slurp*

Good stuff?

If so, link to specs?

[Mourning Star]

...o/` I'll make it through the day, with some help, from Johnny Walker Red...o/`

[Jenne]

Lemme see...
www.sierranevada.com

[LHX]

it seems like a lot of people here have travelled to a place that is beyond depression

definitely...

being robbed at gunpoint, and being disappointed that the gun wasn't actually loaded, that was definitely beyond depression for me...

i think there is a trend that people here have been thru some shit

not saying that its any type of necessity - but fucked up situations encourage people to look at things differently


there arent many other ways

[Jenne]

Well, when you have a non-Ozzy-and-Harriet existence, and you notice it, you start to question why that may be.