Depression

[Division56]

What's your level of past or current depression?

[Miss Padfoot]

Currently- not too bad. I'm doing okay, probably until school starts. My worst depression stage was about a year and a half ago.

[Vagabond]

I've been heavily depressed for the last couple of years - the last 4 months have been better. I am almost out of it now, actually all that is left for me to do is regain my internal balance before I am my good old self again. (You may feel free to doubt the "good" part :D) I am almost there.

[HairlessBluetick]

I've been in an on-again-off-again depression (ranging from moderate to severe to - rarely - non-existant) since the time I was about 14. Sometimes I feel like I'm coming out of it, sometimes I feel more or less doomed to it.

[Vagabond]

I don't think I will ever again get so severely depressed unless I have a major reason. I know now what caused it, and I know what to do to avoid it. Of course it is questionable whether I will manage to keep up. ;)

[flan2dave]

Thinking you're not depressed anymore is a good way to jinx it. :lol: :ph34r:

[Claverhouse]

I've only once been to the dark place; and never want to again; but I get a heavy bout every autumn ( which has nothing to do with that delightful season [ 'Fall' in America, from 17th century English ] ). Just happens, more than triste, but nothing terrible.



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[HairlessBluetick]

Here's a thought: if one has been exposed to repeated depressions -- is it likely that the pattern will continue? Oh, what a life...

Interesting... that thought used to depress me (....) but it's been so long that I just consider it a part of my life now, like any other "disease."

[Melody]

I think we all need to get laid. I'm not really joking. Maybe it would help.

[HairlessBluetick]

I think we all need to get laid. I'm not really joking. Maybe it would help.

I agree.

[Melody]

I guess I meant a relationship.

[HairlessBluetick]

I guess I meant a relationship.

Which comes with its own set of problems.

[jittus rye]

Maybe life comes with problems.?

[Vagabond]

It's all in the mind.

[jittus rye]

When I went looking for my mind I couldn't seem to find it.

[HairlessBluetick]

"With your feet on the air
and your head in the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah
Your head will collapse, if there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself...
Where is my mind? Where is my mind?"

- The Pixies "Where is my mind?"

[Melody]

Well, as I said elsewhere I sure do not want to stay lonely. Must...get...someone.

[Birdsnest]

About 6-7 years ago when I was a student studying CIT, (the wrong topic) I was pretty stressed out. But that was one time really. Usually I don't feel depressed.

[Melody]

What is CIT?

[Birdsnest]

Computer information Technology, (programming).

[CosmicDust]

Lonely folks: do you have any pets? Cat, dog, fish, ferret, hamster, bird? I set up my 1/2 gallon fish bowl and my 3-gallon tank after a long period of nonuse due to doubting I could have fish in my apartment (since it said "no pets" and didn't list any exceptions - yeah, it's dumb, but I tend to be like that sometimes), and got myself a betta (Chaos) and a goldfish (Symmetry). I have a peace lily in the betta bowl too - that used to be "the thing" a few years ago, and I thought it would be cool to try, since the plant roots could provide both nitrogen removal and a "busy" environment for the fish to swim around in, and I sort of "collect" plants also. (How does an INTP keep plants alive? I water them, feed them with liquid food I can put in their water, and learn which ones can survive me and my apartment by trial and error. I have killed my share of plants.)

Getting fish seemed to help lift my mood from the doldrums it was in a few days ago. I like watching their movements and admiring their beauty - it's kind of hypnotic.

I've never been clinically depressed and known it, but I'm not upbeat either. I get "the blues" sometimes just like most people.

[Melody]

Computer information Technology, (programming).
The teacher said it required contact with people? I see what they mean, but...

Well, I want to become a videogame programmer. I know some contact is needed for modularity to work and the groups might take a trip or two to Disneyland, but I don't think it is as bad as you may think. Also...memorize code? I can't memorize anything, but I am an exceptional, almost God-like programmer. I plan on getting the title of Software Architect, then designing my own videogames. Kawaii.

[Birdsnest]

I would think programming would be perfect for introverts, and if you know you are good at it, and aren't getting stressed out by it, then this is perfect for you.

[flan2dave]

I actually got into a small debate with my computer science teacher over this issue. I argued, to be your best as a programmer, you'll inevitabely need to spend most of your time alone, because people would only break your concentration while your building complex programs. While I doubt anyone would argue my point, that doesn't mean this quality is what's important in the programming industry itself. Companies aren't concerned with cultivating the talent of the individual, they have jobs to be done. I suppose it's unfair for me to stereotype this portion of the job market this way, but from what I've heard I'm better off...well, actually, I could probably rest assured that every discipline has this issue! Ugh...

[paladinoflunaria]

Melody wrote:
I think we all need to get laid. I'm not really joking. Maybe it would help.


Are you the other guy who's never had a relationship? You and I are both textbook INTPs, so if you're the other guy, then I know where you're at. Holy shit, yes, the idea has been plaguing me forever. I've thought about it a lot and when I can suppress stupid damn emotions I see that it's meaningless.

Ultimate enlightenment, complete detachment. That's what I'm going for right now, but it's the hardest thing that can be done, I think.

[antireconciler]

Sometimes I feel like I'm coming out of it, sometimes I feel more or less doomed to it.

I find that a certain situation can only depress me so much so many times before I simply learn a better response to it. If you are subjected to situations that depress you enough, it's hard to believe you would not develop resistance to it. People evolve inside very much like like species and technologies do.

And there are only so many things that can get to you.

[int]

It's my own issue and I deal with it when it arises.

<edit>It gets harder to deal with each time, but at least it's always a learning process.</edit>

[Melody]

Ultimate enlightenment, complete detachment.
Sounds like sex to me.

[int]

Ultimate enlightenment, complete detachment. That's what I'm going for right now, but it's the hardest thing that can be done, I think.

How do you know what's real if you completely detatch (not that I'd mind...sometimes I wish I could just simply observe for eternity. Makes me wish I believed in heaven..at least I'd know my role.

...

But I digress, in parentheses nonetheless...)?

[Avengardh]

I finally caught up to my own mind after I stopped going to school during the summer (meaning this one), so I had to deal with all the depressive stuff over the last few months.
It wasn't fun, but it helped me a lot, just to deal with things, on my own, without any "help" from my friends. I had to isolate myself for about 2 months or more, but I got through it, and now I can say I have changed a lot, dunno if for the better or for the worst, but I changed.

I will admit that it was "safe" to stay depressed, for me, because I had been for almost my whole life, it's like a state of being for me, and I am attracted to sad and nostalgic things because of artsy reasons, but getting better feels great. It will take a bit more this time, to get me down.

~*Aven*~

[file cabinet]

I would say I was fairly 'depressed' in high school. and I was unhappy in college .. luckily I'm not going to college this semester.. but lately I've been bummed due to loneliness (I think).

[Miss Padfoot]

I guess I meant a relationship.I'm doubtful about anyone's ability to have a successful relationship while depressed. And an unsuccessful relationship would only highlight a depressed person's inability to cope with the world, making him or her feel even worse about him or herself.

[Melody]

I agree.

I think unsuccessful relationships are common all over the place, not just depressed people. I think staying away from relationships for fear of being hurt is cowardly logic. I want a relationship, I am waiting for a girl I respect that isn't already taken. Them critters don't arrive very often, though. ;_;

[jittus rye]

Depression isn't always outwardly expressed. Some people could be depressed and look perfectly normal, and act perfectly normal, it isn't until you find them alone that they get 'all goofy on you'.