Poll: Are you happy?
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Was... was that a double entendre?
As for happiness? Nada, pretty sure it got replaced with hate and bitterness. I could be biased though.
I am content.
I become happy when I feel myself progress in a meaningful way. Currently, things are stagnant but not bad.
I become happy when I feel myself progress in a meaningful way. Currently, things are stagnant but not bad.
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I'm even more depressed that I have to elaborate to avoid a low content warning.
Let's see. I'm overworked. I'm underpaid. My home situation is financially beneficial. Yet, it's detrimental to a quality personal life. I am woefully behind in the "Meeting the right woman and start a family" expectation of someone of my age. Getting married and having children is a financial luxury I cannot afford right now. I can't foresee anything that will change my situation short of winning a lottery or quit my job without having another job lined up.
The only thing that cheers me up is the option of suicide. Knowing I can end it all at anytime gives me a peace of mind. At least, I have some control in this massively unfair world that is under the control of assholes.
Sorry about the downer note about suicide. I know it's a controversial thing to believe. Different strokes for different folks. I hope you will respect my point of view for what it is.
I'm even more depressed that I have to elaborate to avoid a low content warning.
Let's see. I'm overworked. I'm underpaid. My home situation is financially beneficial. Yet, it's detrimental to a quality personal life. I am woefully behind in the "Meeting the right woman and start a family" expectation of someone of my age. Getting married and having children is a financial luxury I cannot afford right now. I can't foresee anything that will change my situation short of winning a lottery or quit my job without having another job lined up.
The only thing that cheers me up is the option of suicide. Knowing I can end it all at anytime gives me a peace of mind. At least, I have some control in this massively unfair world that is under the control of assholes.
Sorry about the downer note about suicide. I know it's a controversial thing to believe. Different strokes for different folks. I hope you will respect my point of view for what it is.
I don't think it should be a controversial thing. Choosing to die is, if anything, the last action you'll take as a free willed person. But could I perhaps make a suggestion? It might help and costs nothing, and has about a 90% chance of registering a much higher Oxford Happiess Scale test rating afterwards for people who are clinically depressed.KissingSunlight said:
Have you tried the Expressing Gratitude test? Cheap, takes little time, and can lead to long term benefits if used when one is feeling significant degradation of self esteem.
The test is pretty simple. Sit down, with a pen and paper. Close your eyes, somewhere quiet, somewhere fairly dark ... just focus on your breathing. As you become calm, disassociated from your current qualms, think about someone who has done you some phenomenal act of good will. Someone that helped you with a financial difficulty out of pocket, someone who helped you out of the goodness of their own heart. Someone still alive, and contactable.
Then write down everything you want to say to that person. Everything. Don't hold back (Within easonable limits). Take time to read it ... make it personal and coherent in a spoken sense. Then ring up that person, or invite them to somewhere comfortable ... and just tell them personally EVERYTHING you have written down. No matter how embarassing.
Just ... just give it a go. Okay? Next time you think about self-harm, just try it. Expressing gratitude, and practicing it, is one of the simplest tools to feeling closeness with others. It also helps build a support network and it helps to allow friends to be closer to you and better empathize with how you feel.
My default mood is usually "cynical wanker" but I actually feel pretty good right now.
I haven't made any progress in my life - the opposite, in fact - but I saw a beautiful dog taking a dump in grass with a "no dog litter" sign next to it so that just made my day.
I haven't made any progress in my life - the opposite, in fact - but I saw a beautiful dog taking a dump in grass with a "no dog litter" sign next to it so that just made my day.
Eeehh....Happy? I dunno.
Content, more like. I'm not like "wooo! Happy times!", but I'm in a relatively good mood. Got through a bit of a rough patch recently, doing better overall, so...Content.
Content, more like. I'm not like "wooo! Happy times!", but I'm in a relatively good mood. Got through a bit of a rough patch recently, doing better overall, so...Content.
I'd say the scales tip more towards happy than not fortunately.
I became a homeowner late last year. I have a great wife and we have an awesome mutual girlfriend who lives with us and we're expecting a child soon (October / November). I enjoy my hobbies (collecting toy robots and fixing up old arcade machines) plus I have what should be a dream job...I own a comic book and toy store.
The only drawback is the store's rent has skyrocketted and the store has struggled over the past year. We're trying to secure financing to move to a much better (and cheaper) location but because they wouldn't let me out of the lease where we are the most current financial information is bleak so securing the financing has proven very difficult...and if we can't the store that I've worked so hard to build up is going to just have to close.
I became a homeowner late last year. I have a great wife and we have an awesome mutual girlfriend who lives with us and we're expecting a child soon (October / November). I enjoy my hobbies (collecting toy robots and fixing up old arcade machines) plus I have what should be a dream job...I own a comic book and toy store.
The only drawback is the store's rent has skyrocketted and the store has struggled over the past year. We're trying to secure financing to move to a much better (and cheaper) location but because they wouldn't let me out of the lease where we are the most current financial information is bleak so securing the financing has proven very difficult...and if we can't the store that I've worked so hard to build up is going to just have to close.
Haha, honestly, I'm a bit dead inside!
tl;dr: boo hoo, mental illness
I've been struggling with depression and several anxiety conditions (OCD, social phobia, etc.) for a really, really long time. I let them completely ruin my college experience, and now I'm kicking myself for it. I barely managed to scrape by and graduate somehow, despite constantly floundering with my work and failing several classes. Now I'm back home with my parents. I spent about a year as a shut-in, and just recently got a minimum wage job. I just feel so empty. Nothing is fun or interesting. I'm seeing a therapist but really don't want to go on medication, since it almost made me suicidal last time. I realize I'm incredibly lucky to have my parents as a financial safety net, but really I feel like I'm just letting them down. Everyone's too busy to serve as any kind of support, though. I have no dream and I'm too scared to do almost everything. If I do make the Herculean effort to try and talk to someone, my mind goes blank and I can't hold a conversation. To describe it succinctly, it feels as though I'm trapped inside my own head. I'm also useless at everything and just kind of ugly inside and out lmao
Yeah, I'm pretty happy.
I'm in a good relationship with a good woman, and we have a good future together.
I have a well-paying job, and I'm about to start a very well ranked university degree in something I find interesting while I develop a few games I've always wanted to make.
In a few months, all of my debts will be paid off, I'll have moved to another city, my teeth will be fixed, and I'll be making cool shit and spending time with the woman I love.
Life is good.
I'm in a good relationship with a good woman, and we have a good future together.
I have a well-paying job, and I'm about to start a very well ranked university degree in something I find interesting while I develop a few games I've always wanted to make.
In a few months, all of my debts will be paid off, I'll have moved to another city, my teeth will be fixed, and I'll be making cool shit and spending time with the woman I love.
Life is good.
Depression is not something that really happens to me. I get sad, but I just don't have the proper capacity for a prolonged meloncholy sulk. So yes, I'm happy. How about you?