Got Depression?

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IceToEskimos

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I'm not talking about "the blues" or "feeling sad", I'm talking about full-on existential crises that result in a complete and total lack of emotion.

Wondering if WF has any experience with this, and what if anything has helped to alleviate it.

I know some of you fat bastards are clinically depressed, so speak the fuck up.
 


IceToEskimos said:
Old friends can help, I think. I don't drink alcohol though.

I can't shake the feeling that every gain, no matter how significant, is ultimately an exercise in futility.
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I don't think I've ever had depression but I have had long stints of having difficulties dealing with nihilism and the meaningless of life.

For me it was a change of scenery that helped a lot, although I still have problems dealing with nihilism from time to time.
 
Do you get enough exposure to light? You can cause something similar to Seasonal Affective Disorder if you stay inside all the time and work in a dark room.

Ever tried something OTC like St Johns Wort or 5-HTP? Just some ideas.

I've never experienced depression but have some feels anyway:


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I've been there, I honestly believe Zoloft saved my life (haven't had to take it for years now). Feel free to PM or ask any specific questions in the thread.

Remember: if you genuinely have depression it's a chemical imbalance in the brain. It's very hard (or was for me) to work your way out of it unmedicated, but once i started taking Zoloft it was a massive help.
 
IceToEskimos said:
Old friends can help, I think. I don't drink alcohol though.

I can't shake the feeling that every gain, no matter how significant, is ultimately an exercise in futility.
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Take some time off bro, always helps... I'm usually super motivated to go after spending a day or two not anywhere near a computer, it doesn't happen a lot these days but I know when I need to take a day off. Go visits friends (family). Won't hurt to get outside more. Ride a bike, go hiking do something adventurous to get your mind out of the place it's in, even if temporary. Are you depressed when you sleep? naaaaaarm sayin? You will find a way out of your slump, typically when I feel that way I try to future pace a little, which is nothing more than looking into something positive for myself down the road, sometimes I don't even do this consciously, so it's like autopilot self-help after a while. Always keep a good balance between the past, present and future. If you get too crunched up in the present, it could easily get you into this kind of a situation if there is something bothering you.
 
Depression comes from a cocktail of self-pity and avoidance of reality.

Been there.

You've got to want to not be depressed before anything positive can happen. If you're not serious about beating it, you won't.

  • Break habits.
  • Forgive yourself.
  • Accept what you cannot change, and change what you can.
 
cardine said:
I don't think I've ever had depression but I have had long stints of having difficulties dealing with nihilism and the meaningless of life.

For me it was a change of scenery that helped a lot, although I still have problems dealing with nihilism from time to time.
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This sounds about right. It gets to a point where everything becomes some sort of Sisyphean ordeal, and it becomes very difficult to see a way out.
 
i have a sads.
i'm in a sadface funk cause my puppy died this morning. and by puppy i mean 12yr old partner in crime mastermind who cleverly disguised herself behind the fascade of a cute dog called mitzy.

but no - thats not the deep dark stuff you're referring to.

i did cry like a little bitch today. it was horrid but i couldnt help it.
 

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Everyone's different, but the one thing that's always shocked my mind for the better is traveling. And I don't mean to a campground a couple hours away, but another country on a different continent.

Pack a bag of clothes, grab your laptop, book a hotel for a few days over the internet so you have at least somewhere to go, and head off to the airport. Take a few days to scope out the area, and find a decent place for a few weeks, or however long.

Hit a new country, with a totally different culture & language, and it instantly awakens almost every sense in your brain, and for the better.
 
cardine said:
I don't think I've ever had depression but I have had long stints of having difficulties dealing with nihilism and the meaningless of life.

For me it was a change of scenery that helped a lot, although I still have problems dealing with nihilism from time to time.
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Been here too. Life only has the meaning we give to it. You either give your life meaning or you don't. It's your psychological experience, it's up to you to craft it appropriately.

As far as nihilism, the mountain is there, let's climb it. We don't need a better reason than that the mountain is there.

Action derives from imperfect knowledge. Omniscience is death.
 
guerilla said:
Depression comes from a cocktail of self-pity and avoidance of reality.
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I actually relate to the avoidance part of the equation quite well, although I've never been one for self-pity. It does seem like working online allows me a degree of escapism, and it's certainly much easier to bob up and down in a digital pool than it is to face the real world some days.
 
IceToEskimos said:
It gets to a point where everything becomes some sort of Sisyphean ordeal, and it becomes very difficult to see a way out.
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Out to where?

This is the thing. You can do whatever you want. The question is why aren't you?

If you don't like where you are, or what you're doing or who you are with, change it. You're the only one who can.

Don't do what you don't want to do. Do what you want to do.

It's not a complicated decision, but I know how hard it is to make when you're down.

Look at it this way Sisyphus, you have nothing to lose. You can be just as miserable doing what you want, as you are not doing what you want.
 
guerilla said:
If you don't like where you are, or what you're doing or who you are with, change it. You're the only one who can.
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It's not really a case of my being displeased with any of the details of my life, I think that a lot of people would be very happy to have the kind of life that I have. It's like some sort of spiritual ennui or something. I've had it since I was a child, and it's definitely worse in the summertime.

I keep standing on my front porch thinking about the revolting sameness of everything, and while I'm not sad, or unhappy, I'm not really present, either.
 
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