Poll: Depressed?

[zelda2fanboy]

wait so ur saying if im depressed and on meds im an asshole?

and what do you mean be belief in bad people?

That some people arnt born assholes? Im actual confused here mate

I'm not saying anything about you. I've never met you. In my personal experience, I've seen depressed people act like jerks. When they got treatment for their depression, they got better and weren't angry and confrontational all the time. Yes, I'm saying people aren't born assholes. It's possible to be raised into being an asshole, but that's fairly rare. It's more likely that your common everyday asshole has a psychological disorder causing his/her asshollish behavior or generally has a shitty life and is taking it out on others.

 

[Blackadder51]

I'm not saying anything about you. I've never met you. In my personal experience, I've seen depressed people act like jerks. When they got treatment for their depression, they got better and weren't angry and confrontational all the time. Yes, I'm saying people aren't born assholes. It's possible to be raised into being an asshole, but that's fairly rare. It's more likely that your common everyday asshole has a psychological disorder causing his/her asshollish behavior or generally has a shitty life and is taking it out on others.

I wasn't referring that as an attack on myself sorry.

Oh ok, i now understand from what you are coming from. I however do disagree on the part about assholes being not born as one, but alas that why we are all human and we are not all meant to agree.

Sorry bout that mate

 

[Kimdeal]

Yes i have depression. Its not as bad as it was (no longer trying to bleed/burn out the bad feelings).
I was in therepy for a while, but that wasnt really effective.
Pretty sure its something ill carry with me for the rest of my life. I dont really mind anymore. Reckon id have an identity crisis if it went away. It makes me strive to be a more interesting person, someone people will remember.


P.S. I ve written out a response to this about 6 times now. I've gone from writing my whole story to just a handful of words. This seems about the right balance, i think.

 

[KiruTheMant]

Nothing can depress me,I chipped one of my wisdom teeth,my parents are divorcing,and i'm wasting my money on hotel room currently.

Heres a quote from me.
"Lifes too long to waste time being depressed, Go hire a hooker instead of wasting money on pills."

 

[Mcface]

While incredibly sad at the moment due to my dog dying im not one of those people who simply assume that there suffering form depression.

I think the majority of depression is just bullshit. Attention seekers and self pity and what not. There are some people who have it pretty bad, but I don't understand how your little suburban life can be depressing.

 

[Caliostro]

Was deeply depressed at one point. Simply had nothing to live for. Then I found something to live for. And now I'm now I'm fine.

I never took anti-depressants, because nobody ever found out at the time. I'm a good actor. Nobody even found out I tried to kill myself. Glad it didn't work though, and part of me is glad they didn't (and still don't) know a thing. Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger, ya know.

That said, anti-depressants do work, they're just not everything. They're also often prescribed for no reason, which makes the side effects worse than what they're supposed to be treating.

 

[DSK-]

My experience is in the spoiler box.

Spoiler

I got depression a few years ago during college. I went to my GP who gave me these SSRI tablets and the first time I took them I had such a life-like and colourful (that's the only way I can explain it) dream in which I died in (lol).

It had really strange side effects like crying for no reason and getting into an almost murderous rage for the slighest thing. I stopped taking them and resolved myself to fighting this depression on my own.
I went to some mental health meeting (or whatever the hell that crap was) where it was asked "How do you feel?" How do you think I feel? I had a massive pain in the area that feels like the corpus callosum and my skull felt 5 sizes too small for my brain. The pain was at times excruciating and I wanted to kill myself to be free of that pain. And the fact that I just felt so apathetic. My dog had died and I didn't feel any emotion. I was deeply saddened but nothing would come out and this annoyed me to no end. I also had trouble being able to sleep properly.

Then I asked to see a proper counsellor and that helped somewhat. During this time I was going to the gym regularly which helped immensely - and I would give honourable mention to Gintama for making me laugh.

Now I'm a lot better. I don't have pain in my head, but I still have trouble sleeping and I still have a slightly apathetic viewpoint on things - to the extent that I believe having depression has changed my idiosyncrasies.

 

[tehweave]

Have depression. Not on meds. At the moment, it isn't working for me, but I also can't afford to go to a therapist, so sucks to be me.

 

[Jonluw]

I have been what I want to call depressed, but I feel bad calling it a depression because I know that a lot of people have (had) it worse than me, and I don't even know what constitutes a depression.

So my answer is this: I have been really sad and unhappy for certain periods in my life.

 

[Dapsen]

I've never been depressed. Been sad, but never depressed.
I'm not going to get into the discussion of whether anti-depressants work, sorry.

 

[TheButteryGoodness]

Nope. Sure I have times when I am a little down, but never depressed.

this got me wondering, how many people have had depression on the forums? It would seem from the replies on the thread that there was alot, but I thought that I would make a thread to see.

I have never been depressed but some one close to me is and they are on prozac, which seems to work ok for them, but I think that they have a chemical imbalance.

Personally I think depression is way over diagnosed. Such are the problems of trying to assign medical diagnostic criterion for something that has not outward signs, unlike physical illness. Add to that the subjectiveness of the criterion in the first place, depression diagnosis aren't exactly accurate.

Not that I am saying that depression doesn't exist, it certainly does. It just seems that any time someone says the word unhappy they are depressed.

Also, depression is a chemical imbalance. Serotonin, dopamine and various other hormones are controlled by the various type of anti=depression medication.

I agree completely, it seems anyone who is unhappy is diagnosed, and are giving pills which they really shouldn't take.