what makes you depressed?

[KilnerLUFC]

The happiness of others often has a very unpleasant effect on me. I feel almost physically sick and just want to scream out. I refuse to say I am depressed, but happiness in my life has been a fleeting experience.

This is most likely due to my inability to be content with my lot. I often suffer from near-megalomaniacal delusions about myself. Can't help it, my mind just goes that way. And, of course, when reality fails to match up to fantasy I am left feeling pretty low.

I refuse to give up though. Seriously, right now I've got at least three crazy schemes going on at the same time in order to become rich and important. I sometimes wonder if the insane, illogical schemes are more fun than what I'd actually get if one of them succeeded.

 

Also, I am incapable of really accepting praise, I question the seriousness of others when they congratulate me on something. I know my family and friends view me as an amiable weirdo, so I am constantly worried that they are simply humouring my ideas and not really giving me my due. Yet, and this is the funniest part, I am often driven to pretty odd lengths when I feel I'm not getting enough praise. Case in point, I once spent three years writing a novel and grew so upset and angry I binned everything I had done. Literally got up and shoved it all in a black bag.

 

So yeah, lots of stuff gets me down. But I'm not depressed

Quoting this since it also relates to how I feel in everyday life. As I said, my depression has ruined relationships, and one of the reasons is that I refuse to accept any praise, and believe that everything nice said about me is just a big lie. I never feel proud about anything that I do in life, and always feel bottom of the list in everything I do.

 

All you complaining about homework and sh*t depressing you, pffft.

[Robinski]

 

Yet, and this is the funniest part, I am often driven to pretty odd lengths when I feel I'm not getting enough praise. Case in point, I once spent three years writing a novel and grew so upset and angry I binned everything I had done. Literally got up and shoved it all in a black bag.

This makes me sad*. It's always sad when someone pours their heart and soul into something only to lose all their hard work (whether through their own action or not). Also the fact that I'd honestly love to read a novel by you Typhus. I imagine it'd be very biblical, whether literally of metaphorically.

 

*Note: not depressed.

[Notna]

Really, man. That makes me feel like f*cking sh*t.

 

I said homework just as a f*cking example. I didn't start to list all things what about I become depressed, cause it only depresses me more than what I am at the time.

Yes. I am really depressed now. Butters, I sometimes feel like you. When someone praises me, it feels like it's just a lie.

 

And, I am depressed as hell already, I heard that my grandma's brother has died. Only thing that makes me feel better that today is the birthday of Finland and it's snowing.

[Typhus]

Yet, and this is the funniest part, I am often driven to pretty odd lengths when I feel I'm not getting enough praise. Case in point, I once spent three years writing a novel and grew so upset and angry I binned everything I had done. Literally got up and shoved it all in a black bag.

This makes me sad*. It's always sad when someone pours their heart and soul into something only to lose all their hard work (whether through their own action or not). Also the fact that I'd honestly love to read a novel by you Typhus. I imagine it'd be very biblical, whether literally of metaphorically.

 

*Note: not depressed.

It was called The Secret Kings of England and was basically a story about a man attempting to start a second English Civil War and reforge the country into a democratic Republic. It ended up as a love letter to tyranny, a justification of using violence to justify ones political ambitions and a hodgepodge of self-indulgent straw-man characters and needless violence.

 

It was absolute tripe. Now, however, I am working on a comic and am really proud of it. Whenever I do something creative I'm the kind of person who has to be mindful that my natural egotism and holier-than-thou bullsh*t doesn't contaminate everything.

[Jimmy_Leppard]

What makes me depressed is when the results of something I worked for/on don't come out to be what I expected.

[DEALUX]

I think I am depressed. I have been suffering from limerence in the past five months over this girl I barely knew. I had no control over it, it just happened one day. And each day I would like her more and more but in the end I realized the sad truth, that she didn't like me at all.

 

This has had a big emotional impact on me, as stupid as it may sound, but I never really "loved" anybody like that, she was perfect in my eyes. I think I screwed everything up, I might have had a chance, had I taken it more easily but I think that I spooked her.

 

However, I am aware that it is not my fault. I think that every choice that we make is influenced, determined even (not in the religious sense), what had to happen, happened. I only wish I would have wanted her more than doubting myself and my choice.

 

This event has created a wound inside me, I don't really want her anymore, even though I still consider her perfect, but I need to find somebody and until that day comes, I don't think I will ever be really happy again. Surely, I will have a laugh every now and then, but I don't feel that my life is worth much anymore. I have come to realize that life is nothing but purposeless sh*t. But I am not going to give up, even though that in death nothing matters, I have time to die later.

[anus]

@okei, Take probiotics.

Edited December 6, 2011 by Warlord.

[Artful.]

This is what makes me depressed

People who pose as a friend but then stab you in the back the first chance they get because they are a worthless, petty child who no one cares for and no one ever will.

It is even sadder when you treated them with respect and nobody else did and they are still willing to betray you.

[trip]

Aside from social injustices, not much depresses me. I do get a bit bummed out when I spend a large amount of time on a project(like a year), only to have it not released due to political bullsh*t that pops up at the end because someone decides to be a dick. Losing a years worth of hard work can be pretty disheartening.

[OchyGTA]

I have trust issues, sometimes it gets me so down that I feel completely alone and isolated from my friends.

[unopescio]

I often suffer from near-megalomaniacal delusions about myself

Well I could have told you that. Seriously though I hope you do find some place better for yourself in life, maybe one day you'll look back and think of how silly it all was. Id probably suggest leaving home and the area you live in as it seems to be the source of alot of your problems.

[buzbegone]

 

This is what makes me depressed

People who pose as a friend but then stab you in the back the first chance they get because they are a worthless, petty child who no one cares for and no one ever will.

It is even sadder when you treated them with respect and nobody else did and they are still willing to betray you.

Big deal. I see this on Facebook 24/7... well, people complaining about this on Facebook anyway.

[schwebe]

This makes me depressed, and angry too:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-20...slag-FREED.html

 

What happened to you, Britain?

[Capricornus]

Anytime I hear about the death of a child, whether its some waste of sperm parent killing off the child, or the kid falling from a 18 story building. It always gets to me.

[GTA_stu]

Anytime I hear about the death of a child, whether its some waste of sperm parent killing off the child, or the kid falling from a 18 story building. It always gets to me.

Have you got any children yourself? People say your outlook is completely different when you have your own kids.

 

Personally, I don't get that upset when I hear about a child dying. No more so than if anyone else has died is what I mean. I'm not much of a kid person though, I'm really crap at being around them. If they're above 7 then I'm ok but the really young ones I just don't know what the hell to do with them. I kind of act weird and treat them like dogs, do silly voices and sort of play with them like I would my pet dog.

 

Seriously one time I had a ball, threw it across the room and was playing with this toddler "Go get it then! Go on! Ya gonna get it? Whose gonna get it? Are you gonna get it?" In the same voice I use when I play with my dog. His mum gave me a really strange look. I haven't done that since then.

 

 

[meta187]

The sh*t going on in Syria at the moment is as good a reason as any to be depressed or outraged, take your pick.

 

President Assad's recent ridiculous detached denial of the volatile human rights violations in recent months is both simultaneously sickening and a bit mind blowing. The fact this has been allowed to go on as long as it has either by casual onlookers or internally is again legitimately depressing.

 

Oh and f*ck that Jerry Sandusky dude, he needs to be drug out into the street and shot.

[sivispacem]

 

President Assad's recent ridiculous detached denial of the volatile human rights violations in recent months is both simultaneously sickening and a bit mind blowing. The fact this has been allowed to go on as long as it has either by casual onlookers or internally is again legitimately depressing.

No-one wants to piss of Russia, who cut massive cheques out of selling weapons to that lunatic. That said, I reckon the Western powers are already giving once-peaceful-now-armed protesters-cum-rebels clandestine assistance. It's like the Cold War all over again. Smells like...victory.

[Capricornus]

Anytime I hear about the death of a child, whether its some waste of sperm parent killing off the child, or the kid falling from a 18 story building. It always gets to me.

Have you got any children yourself? People say your outlook is completely different when you have your own kids.

 

Personally, I don't get that upset when I hear about a child dying. No more so than if anyone else has died is what I mean. I'm not much of a kid person though, I'm really crap at being around them. If they're above 7 then I'm ok but the really young ones I just don't know what the hell to do with them. I kind of act weird and treat them like dogs, do silly voices and sort of play with them like I would my pet dog.

 

Seriously one time I had a ball, threw it across the room and was playing with this toddler "Go get it then! Go on! Ya gonna get it? Whose gonna get it? Are you gonna get it?" In the same voice I use when I play with my dog. His mum gave me a really strange look. I haven't done that since then.

Ironically enough I have no kids as of yet, only 2 god-daughters. I can't explain why a child's death gets to me the way it does. It may be because something in my brain makes me think about how helpless/defenseless that child was at the time, or what pain they went through prior to dying.

[gogether]

Taking a poo. I get sad afterwards.:0

 

[KilnerLUFC]

This makes me depressed, and angry too:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-20...slag-FREED.html

 

What happened to you, Britain?

Turn the tables, and tell me what the sentence to that would have been.

 

 

 

[sivispacem]

 

This makes me depressed, and angry too:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-20...slag-FREED.html

 

What happened to you, Britain?

Turn the tables, and tell me what the sentence to that would have been.

 

 

 

The same. It's utter sh*t-stirring hyperbole, that article is. Everyone knows that admitting assault occasioning ABH will get you a suspended sentence. It's incredibly rare to get jailed for it regardless of any other contributing factor. There's no accusations of racial aggravation aside from by the defendant, and if there was any suggestion of a racial motivation then they would have been charged under that law too, which would have essentially doubled the possible sentence. But oh no, because it was a group of Muslims, then it's automatically racist, the same way that a group of white individuals who attack a black person are "automatically racist". Oh wait, it doesn't work like that in the real world, as most attacks of this nature are entirely pragmatic and have no regard for the ethnicity of the person targeted, and the vast majority of attacks either way are found to have no inherently racist undertones either way round.

 

Seriously, I despair at the attitudes taken by some members of British society.

[schwebe]

 

This makes me depressed, and angry too:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-20...slag-FREED.html

 

What happened to you, Britain?

Turn the tables, and tell me what the sentence to that would have been.

 

 

 

The same. It's utter sh*t-stirring hyperbole, that article is. Everyone knows that admitting assault occasioning ABH will get you a suspended sentence. It's incredibly rare to get jailed for it regardless of any other contributing factor. There's no accusations of racial aggravation aside from by the defendant, and if there was any suggestion of a racial motivation then they would have been charged under that law too, which would have essentially doubled the possible sentence. But oh no, because it was a group of Muslims, then it's automatically racist, the same way that a group of white individuals who attack a black person are "automatically racist". Oh wait, it doesn't work like that in the real world, as most attacks of this nature are entirely pragmatic and have no regard for the ethnicity of the person targeted, and the vast majority of attacks either way are found to have no inherently racist undertones either way round.

 

Seriously, I despair at the attitudes taken by some members of British society.

From the article:

 

"Judge Brown said that ‘those who knock someone to the floor and kick them in the head can expect to go inside’.

 

But he said he accepted the women may have felt they were the victims of unreasonable force from Mr Moore as he tried to defend his girlfriend, and handed the defendants a suspended sentence."

 

In other words; you are not allowed to defend yourself or your girlfriend. And if you watch the video, you can clearly see who is the aggressors and who is the victim. The woman got kicked in the head while she was laying on the ground, and the judge say: "Deal with it." Is that fair? Would you accept it if it was your girlfriend, sister, mother, etc.?

 

Edit: And not being used to drinking alcohol, is no excuse. The damage to the girl is still the same. I have never tried LSD, but that doesn't give me the right to take it and beat the sh*t out of people. Violence like this can't be accepted, no matter who did it.

Edited December 8, 2011 by schwebe

[KilnerLUFC]

<Never mind>

Edited December 8, 2011 by Butters 2011

[sivispacem]

 

This makes me depressed, and angry too:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-20...slag-FREED.html

 

What happened to you, Britain?

Turn the tables, and tell me what the sentence to that would have been.

 

 

 

The same. It's utter sh*t-stirring hyperbole, that article is. Everyone knows that admitting assault occasioning ABH will get you a suspended sentence. It's incredibly rare to get jailed for it regardless of any other contributing factor. There's no accusations of racial aggravation aside from by the defendant, and if there was any suggestion of a racial motivation then they would have been charged under that law too, which would have essentially doubled the possible sentence. But oh no, because it was a group of Muslims, then it's automatically racist, the same way that a group of white individuals who attack a black person are "automatically racist". Oh wait, it doesn't work like that in the real world, as most attacks of this nature are entirely pragmatic and have no regard for the ethnicity of the person targeted, and the vast majority of attacks either way are found to have no inherently racist undertones either way round.

 

Seriously, I despair at the attitudes taken by some members of British society.

Oh really...

 

http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2086784_...k_on_shop_owner

Proves my point quite definitively. That case was conducted on the grounds of a racial motivation, to which the defendants actually admitted. A the article states-

 

...with both of them previously having admitted racially aggravated assault

 

As I said, racially motivated attacks generally demand higher sentences than those that aren't proven to be racially motivated, as was the case in the previously mentioned article. If they'd denied charges of racially motivated assault but admitted assault occasioning ABH, they'd have most likely got a suspended sentence or even a community order.

 

As an aside, it really boils my piss when newspapers get away with alternately claiming that suspended prison sentences are either "prison sentences" or "set free". They're not. A prison sentence is a prison sentence, regardless of whether its suspended or not. You can't claim that a suspended prison sentence is setting someone free in one context, and then claim that it's sending them to prison in another.

Edited December 8, 2011 by sivispacem

[KilnerLUFC]

Admittedly, I read the article wrong at first, and thought that it had been proven it was a racial attack, and not only the defendants claiming that. On the outside though, regardless of race and whatnot, attacks like this should always result in some type of sentence. I remember them claiming that the police/courts were clamping down hard on random attacks, after a 'rise' in these one-punch kills.

 

As I said, my comment was wrong due to me reading the article wrong. Apologies for that.

[sivispacem]

 

I remember them claiming that the police/courts were clamping down hard on random attacks, after a 'rise' in these one-punch kills.

I agree completely. Sentencing policy in this country is far too lenient in some areas, and not nearly lenient enough in others. For instance, it's fully possible for a rape or serious sexual assault sentence to be 3 or 4 years- one individual received a 5 year sentence for riding his motorcycle at 170mph on an essentially deserted dual carriageway at 3am. That's truly insane, that a rapist who ruins someone's life gets a less stringent sentence than an individual who endangers no-one but himself.

[Fireman]

Not getting the internship that I was hoping for, because it was looking pretty good for me, now I just got an e-mail that they can't do anything for me. Sucks.

[A J]

I remember them claiming that the police/courts were clamping down hard on random attacks, after a 'rise' in these one-punch kills.

I agree completely. Sentencing policy in this country is far too lenient in some areas, and not nearly lenient enough in others. For instance, it's fully possible for a rape or serious sexual assault sentence to be 3 or 4 years- one individual received a 5 year sentence for riding his motorcycle at 170mph on an essentially deserted dual carriageway at 3am. That's truly insane, that a rapist who ruins someone's life gets a less stringent sentence than an individual who endangers no-one but himself.

You are an intelligient guy Sivis,

 

Care to try and elaborate why this could be?

 

Its beyond me why this country's law is so f*cking stupid. What are the reasons?

[sivispacem]

I remember them claiming that the police/courts were clamping down hard on random attacks, after a 'rise' in these one-punch kills.

I agree completely. Sentencing policy in this country is far too lenient in some areas, and not nearly lenient enough in others. For instance, it's fully possible for a rape or serious sexual assault sentence to be 3 or 4 years- one individual received a 5 year sentence for riding his motorcycle at 170mph on an essentially deserted dual carriageway at 3am. That's truly insane, that a rapist who ruins someone's life gets a less stringent sentence than an individual who endangers no-one but himself.

You are an intelligient guy Sivis,

 

Care to try and elaborate why this could be?

Honest answer is, I don't have a clue. With this particular example, it's probably got a lot to do with the last political administration's "war on the motorist" as it was often termed.

[Satourn]

My classmates, my friends sometimes, dickheads, those people disrespecting me, parents, Internet.