Bi-Polar bear
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Personally, if chemical inbalance is what causes depression, why would doctors treat it with powerfull drugs? That makes no sense either.
moth
(Oct 2 06, 05:45)right on. that is why i refused meds, still do. and my therapist is a psychologist, not a psychiatrist.
psychiatrists only subscribe shit instead of putting a bit of energy in the matter. cunts.
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watch it bolus.. Crouwel might hump your leg on the dance floor... ;)
moth
(Oct 2 06, 05:46)oh shut up now!
he's not supposed to know yet! ;)
- bolus0
watch it bolus.. Crouwel might hump your leg on the dance floor... ;)
moth
(Oct 2 06, 05:46)-----
i never enter a dancefloor if there's someone humping legs...
- Nairn0
I learned to deal with myself after employing a couple of people who were pretty strongly affected by their particular sense of their condition. Not going to go into it too much, but now "I'm quite happy to be depressed" - the main thing (for me), is knowing how and when (and why) to 'snap'.
Also, giving up innapropriate use of drugs helped massively.
Not to say that harder drugs (again, for me) should go right out the window - I find the occasional psychedelic excursion (by myself, on my own terms) massively helpful to re-align perspective.
I've made myself content knowing that the things that make me happy aren't the things that make everyone I know happy - that I'm a bit different.
Truth is, when capitalised, it's that difference that makes me who I am. So regardless of how I feel, I have to accept that that is Just It. Helps me re-frame the purpose of existential angst.
Sometimes, anyway.
- Nairn0
Christ, that ended on the precious depression-treasuring note i'd so despised in previous posts in this thread.
Oooh, how it doth define me!
*loathes self.
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hehe
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Christ, that ended on the precious depression-treasurin g note i'd so despised in previous posts in this thread.
Oooh, how it doth define me!
*loathes self.
Nairn
(Oct 2 06, 05:58)At least it didn't end in McDonalds with a 9mm.
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did I hear loathes self?
- paraselene0
as per my previous post, you can see that a ton of different genetic precursors have converged on my particular person. i don't think for a minute that i'm "sane" or "balanced", but i also don't think for a minute that i'd like to be.
i also realise that i'm pretty lucky and, if i have been affected by depression, it's pretty bloody mild compared to what's going on for some of the other members of my family.
as a good friend of mine said recently, i crack up and i crack up all over anyone in the immediate vicinity, but then i still get up and put the kettle on.
in that sense, self-management techniques (meditation, martial arts, aerobic exercise, creative outlets) are probably the most successful treatments anyone has; this is how we learn to control the natural seratonin, dopamine, adrenaline and endorphins running about in our systems.
i do tend to dabble with the synthetic varietals from time to time though. less and less as i get older, but still...
- Nairn0
he he - you know, I actually bought the domain 'dfens'.co.uk a couple of years back, as an outlet for my world-hating-ness (as yet unrealised, typically)
dfens, in case you're not aware*, was the license plate in Michael Douglas' car in Falling Down
* congratulations, that means you have a life.
- Nairn0
er.. that was in response to Moth's McDonalds with a 9mm comment.
um.
* goes outside.
- bolus0
* congratulations, that means you have a life.
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you really are against me, aren't you ;)
- Nairn0
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..er.. Sorry -
:)
- bolus0
for you nairn, i hope you like this one :)
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nice bolus!
- kidswift-0
After I was diagnosed with it and started meds, I kind of took it upon myselft to do that whole Alcoholics Anonymous step of fessing up to what I had done. I systematically went through and told all my friends (or the ones I felt comfortable telling at the time) what was up with me and how sorry I was for the things I may of said / done to hurt them and or make them worry about me. Most, nearly all totally resptected me for being straight up with them and it made it a hell of a lot easier on me. As I now felt, well now they know about me so I don't have to be worried about what they think or constantly making excuses for my random behaviour. For those that didn't take it well, well I don't really see them anymore which is a shame but they have to take me as I am now. Vespa your right about talking too much online isn't too healthy but then again its fantastic when you get a thread like this of people helping each other out and saying things like they are. I make sure I check in with a couple of close friends though as my family is half a world away from me. Its my friends that keep me in check and is God dam priceless..........
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amen!
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a good thread this was. odd to be so open to some complete strangers. i guess that is the internets.
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shine on
- Jaline0
I know what you mean janne (is that even your name???? I just realized I have no clue).
It's weird, but sometimes sharing stuff with strangers is so much better than sharing with family and friends because there's the possibility of less judgement.