life help: Got an opinion on depression? - Help.com

Worth asking whether it comes and goes thru the seasons. It may be partly SAD and you can get lamps to help with that.

I’m not depressed, but…

How you sleeping?
Not well. I have insomnia, and now I can’t sleep in my room for reasons I don’t feel like going into.

What do you eat?
Whatever I can afford. Instant oatmeal and ramen noodles.

Are you living somewhere you feel completely safe, comfortable and wanted?
Safe? No. Comfortable? No. Wanted? No.

You have any exercise, even walking, in your day?
Yes. I walk so I can smoke.

Do you have a way of expressing your emotions?
I come here…

Do you have someone who you know cares about you, and can tell anything?
No.

Do you have something you are working towards, something that YOU really want?
Yes, but none of my effort goes into that, as right now, I have to concentrate all of my effort on survival.

If you had all that sorted, do you think you’d feel happier?
I’d certainly be less irritable.

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How’s your love life?
Mostly non-existent. I boink a new person now and then, proceed to get bored with them, and lose contact.

Do you feel your lonely despite the fact that you have a lot of friends ?
I don’t really have any friends in this state. I might feel lonely, but I never notice, and I hate being around people for long.

Did you seek professional help ?
N/A.

did you talk to somebody ?
Not really.

Do you know the cause ?
See above/past posts, lol.

How was your child life ?
Oh, f**k. Put me on the couch, why don’t you?

MOST IMPORTANTLY : Are you suicidal ?
Never.

Xeno, wrong on number 6!

Also, hope you can start getting a good night’s sleep. I guess my time in the military helped. Sleep deprivation was common, so when you finally got a chance to sleep, you could sleep right next to a roaring generator, or in a depression in the ground, or in a metal folding chair. I still have periods of sleepless from time to time, though. Sometimes the neurons just won’t stop firing. Then I get up and just look at things on the computer until I’m too tired to do it any more.

My father suffered from depression. The doctors’ solution was to give him medication . . . forever. With all due respect to the medical community, I believe that drugs should be only a short-term solution. The only real “cure” for depression is to get off your butt and start living your life. If you sit and mope, you’ll only become more depressed.

The shrinks give people Prozac like it was candy, and don’t bother to tell them that it wrecks the libido. The depressed person’s significant other feels deprived of love and affection, and the patient lives in a separate, medicated world. I think such drugs can be helpful for a short period of time, but psychiatrists need to work on getting depressed people back into the real world, instead of creating an artificial one for them.

chev.jame wrote:
Xeno, wrong on number 6!

Also, hope you can start getting a good night’s sleep. I guess my time in the military helped. Sleep deprivation was common, so when you finally got a chance to sleep, you could sleep right next to a roaring generator, or in a depression in the ground, or in a metal folding chair. I still have periods of sleepless from time to time, though. Sometimes the neurons just won’t stop firing. Then I get up and just look at things on the computer until I’m too tired to do it any more.

When I say I can’t sleep, trust me- it’s not just my usual insomnia. It’s that I literally can’t sleep in this room. It’s… not healthy.

wat numbr six?? the childhood one?? whys that wrong??

sammy08 wrote:
wat numbr six?? the childhood one?? whys that wrong??

6- Do you have someone who you know cares about you, and can tell anything?
No.

“Xeno! You can’t die! Life would be boring, then.”

Lol. That’s really all anyone would have to say to stop me if I ever wanted to kill myself.

i cant sleep sometimes