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Originally posted by judus
I feel it and have done for years.
I just can not see my future anymore if i try to look 10 years ahead its black I am scared. I think about it everyday the feeling that something bad is coming. My wife used to think I was nuts when I used to talk to her about it but in the last three months she has changed and also feels it she is a very logical thinker this is very out of the norm for her.
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Step 1: Go to a board filled with crazys
Step 2: Ask if anyone feels crazy
Step 3: Gain confirmation, therefore making you think your sane.
I wonder if people at a "fat farm" suddenly think they aren't fat considering they are the norm in that place.
ok, less offensive way to put it...you say you are a sufferer of depression and such for years. many on this conspiracy website have mental issues..not like their ideas are wacked, but a chemical or neurological issue going on that messes with their perception.
So, basically, its a fully tainted question and any feedback you get from here should be put in perspective...considering 1/3rd of the people on ats are doomsday fetishist anyhow.
Talk to the man on the street..talk to a therapist, hell, talk to your family..but don't come to a conspiracy website to evaluate if you will treat a medical condition you have (which is what your doing). These are the same folks that started starring Jared Loughner's posts -after- he shot that congresswoman..saying he made sense with his ramblings on here.
Originally posted by CynefriElm
reply to post by Griffo515
Guardian Angel: It may be anxiety due to the drugs you indulge in.
Originally posted by BalkanSounds to me like you have so much negativity festering inside that people sense it and reject you. Noone wants to be around a negative nancy. Would you?
Originally posted by Anthropormorphic
Originally posted by wavemaker
Originally posted by Anthropormorphic
Originally posted by storm2012
From my knowledge, I would like to tell you is everyone in this life faces some sort of adventure. It could be fun or for some it can be harmful, it all depends in your past life karma. Depression is something you can personally can get rid of, its you who control your mind, nobody else.
Your knowledge is wrong, and not only is it wrong, it's irresponsible. I cannot imagine what the world would be like if other medical conditions were as stigmatized or trivialized as mental illnesses.
To suggest that someone with clinical depression not only caused their own illness, but can also "think it away", is rediculous. Clinical Depression is serious and it can no more be controlled with "mind control" than a brain tumor or colon cancer.
Just to inform you though, medication because of depression is rare in Asian countries. There are a lot of ways to deal with depression without taking medications.
Actually "diagnosed" depression might be rare, but suicide rates in Asia are astronomical. The reason for this is that depression in Asia carries a HEAVY stigma. Depression is considered a weakness. Most of the time people don't even admit to it, or discuss it. You either "think your way out of it" or you end up taking your own life, what it equals is an archaic attitude towards mental illness and an extremely high suicide rate.
I think that people talking about depression here, are throwing around their personal ideas of what depression is. I have been speaking SPECIFICALLY to the OP's description of his depression and what he described is clinical depression which involves chemicals in the brain, on top of emotional aspects.edit on 21-11-2011 by Anthropormorphic because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by NineSquared
I too suffer from clinical depression. Those of you saying you can pull yourself out of it, it is just a mood...forgive me, but you have no idea what you are talking about. What OP is suffering from and feeling (from what it sounds like to me) is so much more than "I haz a sad." It is not an emotional state. It is not something that can be fixed by "thinking positive." A person can, at any given time, feel happy when they are depressed. It is a sense of hopelessness. Low energy. Everything is a little bit washed out. There is a thick plate of glass between you and the world, and you are simultaneously defeated and relieved by that fact. Nothing brings you joy. I do happen to think that sensitive people are more succeptable to major/clinical depression. Also smart people. For the same reason. That sense that the world is, for all the beauty that is in it, a sh***y place. Things need to change for the better, in a serious way. But they won't. It is a true illness in the sense of being a biogical function of a brain that doesn't quite work the way it was designed to. And yet, a person's sensitivity can aggravate the illness.