Useless Conversation

[ghost]

On a not unrleated note, certain people here are looking for an arrow in the knee.

I think Sam is right about surrounding yourself with idiots.

He said assholes, not idiots.  Big difference. 

[Ironwood]

Not to me.

[Bunk]

This is the greatest comic blog post on depression and recovery ever made.

I was hoping that was what it would be when I saw your link.

Her entire blog is really worth the read, plus it started one of my favorite memes.

[Sjofn]

Yes, I really enjoy her blog. 

The whole "fuck, I don't even have a REASON to feel this shitty" is the most annoying part.

[Ironwood]

Aye.

[Engels]

Kinda uneasy that that was the last blog entry and facebook post she's made. A bit over a year ago. I sorta want to know how the horror movies and skittles were, you know?

[Ironwood]

 

[pxib]

I'm pretty sure she's been working on her book.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Is it a good thing I'm becoming somewhat proficient with SAP?

[bhodi]

I am glad that my brain now translates SAP as Socially Awkward Penguin.

[Xanthippe]

This is the greatest comic blog post on depression and recovery ever made.

Thank you for that. I've never seen it before - it's awesome.

[Strazos]

I thought I was possibly depressed for...years? Turns out I just had a shitty job and was unhappy about doing nothing with that degree.

[MuffinMan]

I thought I was possibly depressed for...years? Turns out I just had a shitty job and was unhappy about doing nothing with that degree.

Yea this is me, minus the degree part.

[Ironwood]

I thought I was possibly depressed for...years? Turns out I just had a shitty job and was unhappy about doing nothing with that degree.

Here's the trick :

Get pills.  If they help, you WERE depressed.

[Paelos]

I thought I was possibly depressed for...years? Turns out I just had a shitty job and was unhappy about doing nothing with that degree.

Here's the trick :

Get pills.  If they help, you WERE depressed.

Yep.

[Sjofn]

Indeeeed.

I need to get back on 'em, evidently.

[Der Helm]

I prefer coffein and sleep deprivation to fight my very very very light  depressive phases. Kind of wish I (I kid, I kid) was manic depressive, I got shit to do and simply can't be bothered.

[Sjofn]

My depression and my insomnia are very best friends, but it doesn't help ME at all. 

[Fordel]

Helps you level alts though!

[Samwise]

It probably doesn't work for everyone, but the advice I always got from my shrink (which turned out to be dead on) was to treat depression with exercise -- in my case that's usually going to the gym and doing at least half an hour of cardio.  Of course it requires being able to recognize when I've slid into a mood and then muster the willpower to do the thing I need to do to get out of it, but after a while it becomes an almost automatic response.  Some combination of the endorphins and the feeling that I'm at least doing something productive instead of moping around the house usually serves to get me out of whatever funk I'm in.

[Morat20]

This is the greatest comic blog post on depression and recovery ever made.

I particularly enjoy her tales of moving with two dogs -- and her Christmas and Easter holidays as a child.

Also, her views on procrastination.

[Selby]

Get pills.  If they help, you WERE depressed.

Amusingly I had to run through like 6 different pill regimes over the course of 3-4 years to finally get it all sorted out.  Once I got the chemical imbalance working and then exercise added, I'm a completely different person now.  It's great having a life again (or really, for the first time).

[Ironwood]

Indeeeed.

I need to get back on 'em, evidently.

Ditto.  But at least it's not coming out as anger this time.  Merely apathy.

[Ironwood]

It probably doesn't work for everyone, but the advice I always got from my shrink (which turned out to be dead on) was to treat depression with exercise -- in my case that's usually going to the gym and doing at least half an hour of cardio.  Of course it requires being able to recognize when I've slid into a mood and then muster the willpower to do the thing I need to do to get out of it, but after a while it becomes an almost automatic response.  Some combination of the endorphins and the feeling that I'm at least doing something productive instead of moping around the house usually serves to get me out of whatever funk I'm in.

Good advice.

An hour of sexual release with a high class prostitute also works, but it's not for everyone.

[Sjofn]

Helps you level alts though!

This is absolutely true.


I hate exercise for exercise's sake (like ... I liked playing sports growing up, but I hate jogging or whatever) but I might as well give it a whirl, rite?

[Sky]

I hate exercise for exercise's sake

WOOD PILE

[murdoc]

It probably doesn't work for everyone, but the advice I always got from my shrink (which turned out to be dead on) was to treat depression with exercise -- in my case that's usually going to the gym and doing at least half an hour of cardio.  Of course it requires being able to recognize when I've slid into a mood and then muster the willpower to do the thing I need to do to get out of it, but after a while it becomes an almost automatic response.  Some combination of the endorphins and the feeling that I'm at least doing something productive instead of moping around the house usually serves to get me out of whatever funk I'm in.

This advice you got has made all the difference to me - like you said though, the hardest thing is getting the willpower to go do something when the sadness sets in. I play different sports year round and if I miss a couple weeks for whatever reason I really feel it. When I am regularily doing something active, my 'down' moments are shorter and less often.

For me the sadness turns into panic as I just shut down - work, family, and friends no longer matter and I just want to sit in my basement in the dark doing nothing which causes me to panic even more because I'm worried about losing my job, family and friends.

Dragging myself up and out to do something active almost always begins the turn around. I'm still not at the point where it's become an automatic response - it takes a LOT of effort to do it somedays, but it's better.

[Lantyssa]

For me the sadness turns into panic as I just shut down - work, family, and friends no longer matter and I just want to sit in my basement in the dark doing nothing which causes me to panic even more because I'm worried about losing my job, family and friends.

Prozac was a godsend for me.  I'm glad a friend convinced me to talk with my doctor about it.

I was so anxious about the job situation, and everything which would be affected by losing it, that it was feeding my depression.  Now I laugh at the absurdity all around me with only a hint of worry.

[RhyssaFireheart]

You people are making me feel guilty for not being on any drugs to deal with issues.

[Engels]

You shouldn't feel guilty or anything. Depression is just a medical thing, like migraines. You can sit about being affected without drugs and let it pass, or you can take meds and it sometimes can help you get out of the mire faster. Nothing to be guilty about, since its not a moral or ethical issue.

[Cheddar]

Good advice.

An hour of sexual release with a high class prostitute also works, but it's not for everyone.

Does not have to be high class.

[tazelbain]

Then what are the in-home prostitutes for? *ducks*

[Ironwood]

You shouldn't feel guilty or anything. Depression is just a medical thing, like migraines. You can sit about being affected without drugs and let it pass, or you can take meds and it sometimes can help you get out of the mire faster. Nothing to be guilty about, since its not a moral or ethical issue.

Yeah, this.  Treating it as anything other than a medical issue just fucks your head up worse.  It's a sickness that occasionally kills people, just like flatulence.

[Strazos]

I hate exercise for exercise's sake (like ... I liked playing sports growing up, but I hate jogging or whatever)

+1 to this - I HATES IT. 

I should probably start doing it again soon, but...I can never find the time.

[MuffinMan]

You could probably go outside and pick a fight with an elephant or something for exercise.