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05-01-2013, 03:59 AM | #31 |
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As someone who has come out the other side of depression, I have to say that a lot of the stuff you've all said rings true, but honestly, i think it's a different journey for everyone. I guess that's why it's such an insidious disease. There are no rules, and definitely no boundaries. I look back now and wonder how I could ever have felt life was so worthless and pointless.
Luckily for me, my issues were situational. I have a lot more empathy now for people who deal with depressive illnesses than I did before. Previously I thought depression was just people being sad and making bad choices, and I suppose to a point, I think that is the case with some people, but mostly, I just think it's devastating and you can't understand it till you've lived it. Not really. You can have sympathy and you can try and be understanding, but you just can't comprehend how it feels. I hope I never feel that way again.
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05-01-2013, 11:03 AM | #32 | |
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05-01-2013, 11:07 AM | #33 | |
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05-01-2013, 11:11 PM | #34 |
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05-02-2013, 06:02 AM | #35 | |
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Well...that's not really accurate is it. Because suicide absolutely does end the chances of life getting worse.
What it should say is: Suicide ends the chances of life getting worse but eliminates the possiblility of life ever getting better.
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05-02-2013, 04:51 PM | #36 |
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There might as well be a revolving door on the front of my office. I see a lot of the same people at least monthly, or more often.
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05-02-2013, 09:40 PM | #38 |
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I must be in a mood today. Intellectualize the whole god damn thing, everyone has a silly stupid opinion and some well thought out advice or some such. We contemplate suicide because of one thing and one thing only. It. is. hopeless. If you can't relate to the hopelessness through experience, and offer some hope through experience then all you really have is intellectual bull shit. It's well thought out and sounds nice, the fact is that the suicide rate has surpassed the rate of death by automobile accident in the US.
Keep up the nice sounding well thought out and well intentioned advice. The real question is just how do we offer the hopeless....hope. The rule of threes applies here. A human can live for three minutes without air, three days with out water, three weeks without food, and three months without hope.
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05-02-2013, 10:19 PM | #39 |
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WTF, Joe, isn't what we're doing, trying figure out how to approach, how to reason with, people who we think are suicidal. What should we do, walk away, knock 'em out, ask if we can have their x-box?
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05-03-2013, 09:45 AM | #40 |
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Please disregard. I came home late, tired, rode hard, and put up wet.
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05-03-2013, 12:59 PM | #41 |
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No, not disregarded, because "late, tired, rode hard, and put up wet" is when people cut the bullshit and get to the point. I wish you'd expand on it, because it sounded like you might know shit I don't.
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05-09-2013, 11:46 AM | #42 |
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one woman's journey in depression...
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.ca...-part-two.html Allie is back
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05-09-2013, 12:28 PM | #43 |
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Awesome news. I've missed her.
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05-09-2013, 12:36 PM | #44 |
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me too
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05-09-2013, 01:40 PM | #45 | |
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Bloody hell, that was excellent.
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