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[MikeyC]

“Depression is humiliating.
It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed. You alienate your friends because you can’t comport yourself socially, you risk your job because you can’t concentrate, you live in moderate squalor because you have no energy to stand up, let alone take out the garbage. You become pathetic and you know it. And you have no capacity to stop the downward plunge. You have no perspective, no emotional reserves, no faith that it will get better. So you feel guilty and ashamed of your inability to deal with life like a regular human, which exacerbates the depression and the isolation.
Depression is humiliating.
If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars and back off the folks who take a pill so they can make eye contact with the grocery store cashier. No one on earth would choose the nightmare of depression over an averagely turbulent normal life.
It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. At all. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too.
Depression is humiliating.
No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families, it ruins families. You cannot imagine what it takes to feign normalcy, to show up to work, to make a dentist appointment, to pay bills, to walk your dog, to return library books on time, to keep enough toilet paper on hand, when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself. Depression is real. Just because you’ve never had it doesn’t make it imaginary. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression. Have a heart. Judge not lest ye be judged.”
from here
Neurolove.me

So powerful, and so true.

 

[MollyBeGood]

“Depression is humiliating.
It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who can’t wash a dish or change their socks. It affects the ability to think clearly, to feel anything, to ascribe value to your children, your lifelong passions, your relative good fortune. It scoops out your normal healthy ability to cope with bad days and bad news, and replaces it with an unrecognizable sludge that finds no pleasure, no delight, no point in anything outside of bed. You alienate your friends because you can’t comport yourself socially, you risk your job because you can’t concentrate, you live in moderate squalor because you have no energy to stand up, let alone take out the garbage. You become pathetic and you know it. And you have no capacity to stop the downward plunge. You have no perspective, no emotional reserves, no faith that it will get better. So you feel guilty and ashamed of your inability to deal with life like a regular human, which exacerbates the depression and the isolation.
Depression is humiliating.
If you’ve never been depressed, thank your lucky stars and back off the folks who take a pill so they can make eye contact with the grocery store cashier. No one on earth would choose the nightmare of depression over an averagely turbulent normal life.
It’s not an incapacity to cope with day to day living in the modern world. It’s an incapacity to function. At all. If you and your loved ones have been spared, every blessing to you. If depression has taken root in you or your loved ones, every blessing to you, too.
Depression is humiliating.
No one chooses it. No one deserves it. It runs in families, it ruins families. You cannot imagine what it takes to feign normalcy, to show up to work, to make a dentist appointment, to pay bills, to walk your dog, to return library books on time, to keep enough toilet paper on hand, when you are exerting most of your capacity on trying not to kill yourself. Depression is real. Just because you’ve never had it doesn’t make it imaginary. Compassion is also real. And a depressed person may cling desperately to it until they are out of the woods and they may remember your compassion for the rest of their lives as a force greater than their depression. Have a heart. Judge not lest ye be judged.”
from here
Neurolove.me

Thanks for sharing. This is really powerful.

I was thinking the other day my propensity for happiness is off the charts, so suffering from depression for me is that much worse. I can be so happy with little things, often confused with being "simple" but it is actually that I am so grateful for things that most people take for granted. Being stricken with a deep-seated well of never ending sadness wouldn't be as bad if I was OK with the feeling...some people actually like dark things and gravitate towards them...I love flowers and kitties and all those fluffy things so having depression is horrible for me. I can be glowing from the simple pleasure of hearing birds sing so being constantly sad is hell on earth.
I think for me knowing that I have the ability to be very happy too, on the reverse, does give me hope. I just forget that when i am in the throws of it.

 

[jc972]

Haha no my boss saw her stuff a bunch of stuff in her purse and told me to keep an eye on her. So I walked down the aisle right next to her cart and made it no secret I was watching her. SO SICK OF THIEVES IN OUR STORE. People will look you in the eye while they stuff things in their pocket and walk out the door. I had it happen again later that night. Don't you know liberals are entitled to all freebies? This is America, they not thievez, they victimz. Da po-leese and deez corprashunz keepin the man down, duh. Anyway, she got mad and had to be escorted out by security LOL

It seems we're more alike than i thought. For some reason i thought you were an actress. Hmm... silly me. Anyway, how dare you victimize that victim of society? Dontcha know we all owe em somethin?

 

[Rawz]

You suck, reality. You suck.

 

[Regret93]

... it seems there's a lot of teens/ young 20somethings on here who have 'normal' severe teenage shyness and suffer anxiety, and don't actually demonstrate the severity of SA symptoms at all. Many confuse naivety and lack of social skills with SA.

So I guess I'm in the wrong place, I haven't been diagnosed, therefore I'm not anxious enough to be here, I guess I'm just naive, stupid, no skills... Funny how even a place like this can make me feel alienated... Bye

 

[Steiner]

G00000dzillla!!!!!!!

 

[jc972]

My heart's going out to the Ebola victims and their families. It's heartbreaking to read that the villagers can't do the traditional funeral thing for their dead for all the infection risks involved. It's sad.

 

[MikeyC]

My brother just showed me Nicki Minaj's song "Anaconda." Please tell me nobody here likes that song. Please! :thumbdown:

 

[BlackPuma]

My brother just showed me Nicki Minaj's song "Anaconda." Please tell me nobody here likes that song. Please! :thumbdown:

I got curious and checked it out.

What a masterpiece. I especially like the insightful commentary about society in the lyrics. And how she took Sir Mix-a-Lot's 'Baby Got Back,' the most influential song of the nineties and dare I say it; all of our lives, and made it worse.

 

[Rawz]

My brother just showed me Nicki Minaj's song "Anaconda." Please tell me nobody here likes that song. Please! :thumbdown:

Figured I'd check it out since you mentioned it. I made it one minute through then had to cleanse my ears with some Metal.

 

[MollyBeGood]

If there were more cool people in the world instead of what the majority of humans are like, I would be way more likely to want to be social. As it stands I am missing nothing by being anti-social.

 

[MollyBeGood]

My brother just showed me Nicki Minaj's song "Anaconda." Please tell me nobody here likes that song. Please! :thumbdown:

These are not musicians, that is not music.

It's brain-washing pure and simple by the powers that rule and the fact that you don't like it is Great!!

They think they can make sex so important in the eyes of the hormone driven populous that they will be too stupid to know that they are being fooled by a "waving a-s-s", which is all she is, and what you become when you watch her-A stupid a-s-s

 

[Graeme1988]

If there were more cool people in the world instead of what the majority of humans are like, I would be way more likely to want to be social. As it stands I am missing nothing by being anti-social.

 

[dottie]

^ word.

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[MollyBeGood]

my dog is having sneezing attacks every time I let him in from being outside. He sneezes so much that he almost cannot breath. My vet would recommend benadryl but I don't like giving him human drugs at all. I feel awful for him....The weeds are really out of control this summer due to all the rain we have been having. Usually it's dry as a desert here this time of yr.

 

[Graeme1988]

My brother just showed me Nicki Minaj's song "Anaconda." Please tell me nobody here likes that song. Please! :thumbdown:

Musically freakin' genius! Those lyrics were Springsteen-esque... Pfft! Sorry, couldnae keep a straight-face tae make that statement even remotely convincing.

Though, ah do huv 3 words tae sum up that song: Tragic. Sad. Pish. :bigsmile:

Right, I'm going to listen to some music that's actually good. :thinking: Kylie Minogue - that'll do.

 

[MollyBeGood]

LoL yeah Niki menaj wa twa is up there with Miley Circus in the talent dept. That stuff is produced for the sheeple. Gawd what a freakin Joke! Just when we thought the 80's had the worst "music".(someone will not agree I am sure)

 

[dottie]

my dog is having sneezing attacks every time I let him in from being outside. He sneezes so much that he almost cannot breath. My vet would recommend benadryl but I don't like giving him human drugs at all. I feel awful for him....The weeds are really out of control this summer due to all the rain we have been having. Usually it's dry as a desert here this time of yr.

Benadryl is not just for humans. This is what all vets use for dog allergies. (I used to be a vet tech) Give it to your dog!!! We use this for bee stings, too. My dog recently got stung by a bee, her face got so swollen she looked deformed. As soon as we gave her Benadryl she was back to normal. It has the antihistamines that your dog needs!

 

[MollyBeGood]

Benadryl is not just for humans. This is what all vets use for dog allergies. (I used to be a vet tech) Give it to your dog!!! We use this for bee stings, too. My dog recently got stung by a bee, her face got so swollen she looked deformed. As soon as we gave her Benadryl she was back to normal. It has the antihistamines that your dog needs!

Aw thanks, Dot. I know I have worked in vets too, so it is common, but it makes me feel so weird and kinda worse when I take them- I don't want to harm him with them.

There is no alternative except to keep him away from these weeds so maybe I will try that first. That seems simple. It is weird he has never been this reactive to anything before...my one terrier would have sneezing fits too. It must be because dogs noses are far more sensitive to smells than ours that makses it more likely to happen-these fits of sneezing.

 

[BlissfulMoments]

Happy as can be!