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Yarr, if it was me I'd do something in order to get regular sleep and start eating very well before I relegated my fate to a pill. I feel medication should only be taken as a last resort, especially if you're young and your brain is still developing. There have been many documented cases of medications actually making the problem worse, so be careful.
Get some sleeping aids, get 9 hours of sleep, go buy some healthy food, and save the pill for last =[
On October 24 2006 05:47 ErlinG wrote:
Eh having depression 1-2 times a week isnt normal ?
Heh, I had the same thought. You know, doctors can find something wrong with almost anyone. I'm sure any one of us here can go to a doctor and tell him our basic thoughts and we'd get the "oh, this guy has OCD, this guy has ADHD, this guy is depressed, blah blah blah" and we'd all get perscriptions. This doesn't necessarily mean that people don't have some sort of condition, but it does mean that doctors do hand out potentially dangerous medications way too freely.
I'm positive that if I went to the doctor looking for drugs I could get them, as any of us could. But I don't think there's anything wrong with me. Sure, I have the same inexplanable emotional swings that everyone on the planet has, but I don't think these make us different so much as they make us human.
I don't know.. =[
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Feeling sad or be in a bad mood is normal. Having depression 1-2 times a week is normal. But constactly waking up every morning and hating your life and everything you see is not. I had this stage but i overcame it two years ago. When i moved to Korea i just had my eyes open. You know its ok to blow some steam or having a bad day but dont let it ruin your life like suicide. I usually just take a walk outside. Also talk with your very close friends. Dont expect someone on tl to magically solve this and make your depression go away or anyone in the world. The first step is correcting your attitude and way of life and thinking.
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On October 24 2006 07:31 WhatisProtoss wrote:
I have a friend who is really depressed. She has to take anti-depressants. I personally think it's a load of crap, since depression is non-existant in Korea. I think it's just a social thing. (Of course, I never tell her this).
The thing is, many friends get depressed (along with me) because of the sheer difficulty of school: studying hard, exams, getting bad scores. I always cook for my friends after a hard week so that we can hang out and be happy.
But this particular friend with her chronic depression.... she does not like such things. When I see friends trudging along, I usually bump into them and cheer them up, making them smile even when they don't want to. But this friend tells me to leave her alone, because it frustrates her to be laughing when she's sad. Since she gets really angry if I persist, I have to back off.
The difference between her and non-depressed friends is that she wants to be alone and marinate in her sadness. If I get depressed, I try to get out and exercise so my mind and body is distracted. However, if I stay inside and alone, my sadness just grows.
That's why depression is so large in the US. The US alone has the most "clinically depressed" people in the world.
You just need friends to rely on. People you can talk to and hang out with to make you feel better. Don't go to a mental health clinic. Talking to some stranger about your problems is ridiculous.
i think the US example is correlated to the growing obesity rate
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talk to your real friends about it, not on here. that will help some. break some habits, dont make bw/tl.net the focus of your life. and do go to a psych and do take the pills. just be smart and read up on what your taking. dont listen to anyone here who says dont go to a psychiatrist, they have no clue what they are talking about. they are professionals. what you have is a real problem. i cant really psychoanalyze you from words, but you being really productive when you happy and then complete opposite when your sad, which varies frequently, is a symptom of bi-polar, manic-depressive disease. it doesnt mean it is, because those symptoms are for a number of other ailments as well. but your best bet is to go to a psychiatrist. you wont get proper help any way else.
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On October 24 2006 07:59 Way wrote:
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i think the US example is correlated to the growing obesity rate
I tend to agree. I think it goes for all of North America as well. Western society is fucked. Unhealthy body --> Unhealthy mind.
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Get yourself some motivation.
try to find the movie "The Secret" (I wont link to a torrent because i got banned from TL by doing so previously) and try to find anthony robbins program on limewire if you don't wanna pay for it. It's great, even though i'm still feeling depressed a bit it has helped me a lot and I see things a lot differently. You need to put some effort into it.. when you are deppressive you are lazy so its hard to get out of it I've been depressive since i dropped out of school at 15 because i had some serious mental issues (anxiety disorder,panic attacks all the time) that I kept hiding to everybody until i was like 18.
Those 2 things helped me and Metal/Hardcore did as well, a lot.
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oh yea, it definite falls back to our habits in america. thats why we have such high obesity, poor mental health, such high debt, etc.
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On October 24 2006 07:31 WhatisProtoss wrote:
I have a friend who is really depressed. She has to take anti-depressants. I personally think it's a load of crap, since depression is non-existant in Korea. I think it's just a social thing. (Of course, I never tell her this).
non-existant? wow, you're an idiot. you try living up to insane expectations from your parents, being forced to join the military and living in fear of the north coming down to kick the shit out of you your whole life, then tell me that theres no depression there, ok? even if none of those existed, you can still become depressed. it happens to many people because of a chemical imbalance.
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So when your entire familiy dies in a car crash and your girlfriend fucks your best friend and you get acid thrown at your balls by accident at work and you cant pay the rent, and you lost to a poor player in a public game do you get depressed?
LOL no depression is non-existant in Korea
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Chuck Norris is never depressed, let that be thy guide.
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unless you talk to whatisprotoss, tl.net's resident toolbag. he knows about working out too, being that he is HUGE! ROFL
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Weird parentheses name, if you had a lot of shit to do you wouldn't have time to be depressed. All the really depressed philosophers for example showed up as their countries became prosperous enough for them to sit around and think all day instead of getting shit done.
I feel like there isn't anyone I can talk to so I'm posting this the only place where I know people might read it and maybe help ^_^;. People in classes aren't close friends. People I do extracurricular work with are extremely status and image focused; not really an option to talk about a topic like this w/ them.
There's your problem. Get some friends who'll be there for you and not just be like "oh man, that sucks." Tough love or whatever.
Take the pill if you want (I guess you don't), see a counselor and make sure you're not manic-depressive or something instead of just reacting poorly to stress, and work on each day at a time. Get some real friends. Don't spend five hours looking at tl.net late at night.
Honestly you sound like a loser who deep inside knows it - which is what's making you depressed - and is maybe in denial about it. It can't be that hard there to get off the computer and get a life.
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On October 24 2006 09:03 Patriot.dlk wrote:
So when your entire familiy dies in a car crash and your girlfriend fucks your best friend and you get acid thrown at your balls by accident at work and you cant pay the rent, and you lost to a poor player in a public game do you get depressed?
LOL no depression is non-existant in Korea
Hahahaha I love that you threw in starcraft as a reason to get depressed next to all these horrible things. Here's hoping you're not serious...
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On October 24 2006 09:15 des wrote:
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Gread advice. Deuche bag.
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yea getting friends will help, but without a doubt, being that no one here cant tell you exactly what is wrong with you and youre incapable of diagnosing yourself, a pysch is your best option. you could have a number of things wrong with you, some of which can put you at a high risk of suicide and other shit. take the safe option, go to a psych.
when you go, make sure you read up personally on what hes telling you. this is the best thing to do in life with everything when going to see a professinal... ask questions. read up on what he tells you to do. this way, when he tells you to do something or take this pill, you understand what youre doing and not just doing it because someone tells you.
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The song at the end is Breaking Benjamin - Rain
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On October 24 2006 09:18 glaex wrote:
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Gread advice. Deuche bag.
what hes saying could be true. if youre mentally trapped into playing bw and your life revovling around it, youre gonna get depressed. i dont see how that makes him a deuche for pointing that out.
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On October 24 2006 06:33 KrAzYfoOL wrote:
i once spent many hours helping this girl out with her depression i'd always call and make sure she felt better, one day i had severe depression and i asked for her help but she said she was too busy and again she fucked me off the next day.
ever since then i will take revenge on the world, nah not really but i realised if you're naturally depressed over such simple things just take a good long look at yourself and picture someone in a worse scenario like a gosu guy playing a noob with heaps of obs only to lose embarassingly to a 4pool etc.. O:
You mean the game where oov lost to draco in WCG because draco proxied? i kid, i kid. well he did just win by cheesing and got huge amount of fame because he proxied. for crying out loud he cheesed him and everyone was like "OMFG, he's sooo korean now" when really all he did was execute a cheesy cheese whiz play. what was more interest in the WCG was the fact that Midas lost twice and only a few people were like "OMFG!".
oh and about the depression sorry i'm not going to mention my sever depression because i like to keep it to myself. i can deal with my depression better that way.
Edit:wait a minute, i might be wrong did Draco ever play Midas? did draco ever beat midas?
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Don't take the pills.
Smoke some joints instead.
I'm serious.
Not saying it will help though. Cause it most likely won't. But hey, it's still better than taking pills. 
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