I know that this works for some people, but frankly, if it does, I don't think what you've got is depression. Yes, everyone feels low from time to time and if you tell yourself it's not that bad or whatever then you might be able to pick yourself up, but that's just not the case for everyone. As Emon has said, depression can't be fixed just by thinking positive, when you can barely drag yourself out of bed, telling yourself that everything's fine and dandy certainly isn't going to make any difference. Frankly, it's insulting that you'd say so. Playing down depression doesn't help get rid of it, it just makes the sufferer feel more lost and helpless.

And also, I'd like to know what qualifications you have in treating mental health problems that allows you to predict what a therapist would tell someone.

I've had many friends go to therapists for depression and other things. Granted there are different therapists for different thing, but basically the ones for depression have you sit and talk, keep a journal, and try to get you to think positive (sometimes with drugs.)

At work I've had to work around too many cases like this. There are some depression cases that do need the serious help, but so many of them are self inflicted. It's sad.

Depression is one of those things that experiencing it yourself gives you unparalled experience with. I've had it for years and I'm still fighting it, others in my family have it, I have friends that have had it. And I've spent probably a dozen or two hours reading about it.

Oh man dude, sounds like your life sucks so much


You've got a couple problems. It's not the end of the world. Aww, you're sick. Aww, you're starting to feel sad! Well thanks for sharing, I'm sure it's terribly hard to cope with a god damn cold.

Condolences about the dog, though. It's always hard to let a pet go.

/me humps Ruthy <.<

That'll make you feel better

(But no really, the white russians aren't the solution to your problems - you could probably do to take it easy and ditch your snot, then work on the other stuff. When it's all better THEN you celebrate with white russians :))

ok things got better...

dog got a new lease of life, and parents are still together,
Still feeling a bit low, and goddarn this cold is anooying.

Oh btw, I NEVER meant to say I was depressed.
I'm not a depressed person anymore.
Quite happy, just miffed recently..

Posted cos I was bored.... can ya dig it?

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

Damnit, now you've made me look like a fool. And I've been cheated out of a Vampire: Dark Ages game.

FOR THIS YOU SHALL DIE

At the end of a bit, Jay Mohr told the audience a story he was told by another comedian(can't remember who though, it was an old guy).

"Whenever I'm feeling depressed, I just remind myself of the siamese man whose brother is gay. And his brother's boyfriend is coming over and they share the same ***. Then I feel better about my life."

Haha, I loved that bit.

No! he still has to release the mod! :p

Hopefully things will straighten out again real soon.

My suggestions, though I dunno how helpful they would be, would be to try to relax, maybe sleep in a while (trust me, it really passes time). Perhaps sit down and watch some movies for a couple hours to kill some more time. Whatever you do, don't do anything that could cause stress (this, however much I hate to say it, could mean putting off the stargate mod for a bit more, though not like you haven't already mastered that ...j/k) Maybe then you'll also end up not smoking (all) those 40 cigarettes and you'll get a few extra [insert british equivalent term for 'bucks'] in your pocket, as was mentioned

Feel like wasting hours and hours of time on your computer and escape from reality? Install Gentoo Linux! Or just play Morrowind....;)