Depression

There was something that I was reading in a forum I belong to that kind of got me thinking. As someone who has to deal with manic depression I can have very little sympathy for people who are depressed of claim to be depressed, and I know at first that might sound like a bit of a paradox, becasue I have been through it and I know what it feels like, but that is exzaxtly why I feel the way I do, and I will explain myself a bit.

As someone whom struggles with depression I know its temptations and it can be easy to give into at times, it is a tool that can be used, for in truth sometimes it is a lot easier to just be depressed and wallow in your self-pity as well as try to feed off the pity of others as a way to gain attention then to pull yourself up and give yourself a good kick in the ass and get over it. And it can be done, though a person cannot always help if they are depressed, though in some cases it really is all in a persons own mind, you can choose weather or not you are going to stay depressed. People who need to take pills or go to the docotor or seek help, it is becasue they make either a concious or sub-concious choice to just give up and do not even try and they lack will power.

There are bascialy 2 different type of people when it comes to depression those that really do not want that to intrude upon thier life, and know it is something they have to deal with, but are able to take a step back and recgonize thier own irrationality and say I am not going to let this dictate my life, and I want to live, and face it head on,  and those that just feed into it and make the choice that they are incapable of dealing with it.

And I know because I have been on both sides of the coin, and I have been that person that has decided that I was depressed and that there was nothing I could do about it, and woe is me, but then I woke up and realized it did not have to be that way and I could acutally do something about it if I took some incitive and got over the pity and stopped just trying to garnish sympathy and attention from people

8:06 AM - 11/11/2006 - post comment

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Hey! I've been really depressed for a few years, dammit! Oh well, I'm over it now, and the best remedy was to get out in the sun, so... if you encounter any more of these people, just tell em to get out more.

dutchboy - 4:54 AM - 11/13/2006

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