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"Depression"?
Tweet Topic Started: Oct 9 2008, 02:45 PM (1,085 Views)
Mcgeezle	Oct 17 2008, 10:22 PM Post #16
Heeeey...this isn't my house! >_< Posts: 507 Group: Member Member #3,751 Joined: October 17, 2008 Favourite Anime Fruits basket, Azumanga Daioh, Elfin Lied, School Rumble What Browser do you use? Firefox/Safari Favourite Manga Magical X Miracle	I pretty much agree with everything the OP said, in our family we make a point of never making "depressed" a mood - you can be down, sad, or angry...but never depressed, if I even mentioned that I was feeling depressed when I was younger (about 11 or 12) my mum would set me straight right away by saying I don't know what it is to be depressed, and I'm glad she did; those people who act a certain way, purely for the drama, and call it depression really need telling.
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Meowth	Oct 18 2008, 07:43 AM Post #17
=._.= Posts: 130,670 Group: Princess Member #23 Joined: November 22, 2004 Gender Female Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya What Browser do you use? FireFox Favourite Manga Fruits Basket	If you took the word depression away from those people though, they'd just find another word to abuse for attention. Those who want to look and seem depressed only want attention and possibly sympathy, who knows. I avoid describing my mood as depressed by my own choice, I am personally more likly to say I'm in a bad mood, irritable or down, but I doubt I've used depressed. I don't want to link such a stong word with myself, depression is serious and isn't something that someone should fake just to get attention, I can't see how it is cool to be depressed. I would much rather be happy and energetic than depressed and slow because let's face it, when you are down and sad, you generally feel a little slow right and don't want to do stuff, well, I do anyway. I imagin depression makes someone feel even slower and really not want to do anything, compleatly demotivated. I don't know anything about how moods affect the mind, I'm just guessing to the best of my ability, so if I am wrong, do let me know because I'd like to know more about how moods affect the mind, it's quite an intresting subject.



Mcgeezle	Oct 18 2008, 09:11 AM Post #18
Heeeey...this isn't my house! >_< Posts: 507 Group: Member Member #3,751 Joined: October 17, 2008 Favourite Anime Fruits basket, Azumanga Daioh, Elfin Lied, School Rumble What Browser do you use? Firefox/Safari Favourite Manga Magical X Miracle	Kyonko Oct 18 2008, 07:43 AM I don't know anything about how moods affect the mind, I'm just guessing to the best of my ability, so if I am wrong, do let me know because I'd like to know more about how moods affect the mind, it's quite an intresting subject. I completely agree that people would simply abuse another word if depressed wasn't available, and I too think what I've quoted is an interesting point to bring up. It's something I've read about quite a lot because depression could potentially affect someone who I care about a lot and I want to be prepared. To the best of my knowledge people who suffer from depression have a hormone imbalance as a symptom and, because of this, have low serotonin levels meaning they have less control over their moods. Oddly enough this would supposedly make someone more likely to be aggressive, and you don't really hear a lot about depressives lashing out at people, do you? If I'm wrong let me know. This also got me thinking about another point, body language. If you were to look up "How to cheer yourself up" on the internet I can guarantee it will say something about simply smiling and tricking yourself into thinking you're happy, so I guess putting on a happy face can occasionally be genuinely helpful. The same goes for confidence too; basically if you act confident, the mind will follow. I'm going to stop here before this goes into a body language rant, I know that plastering a smile on your face isn't suddenly going to make all the symptoms disappear; but I wonder if this has been looked into at all.
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Meowth	Oct 18 2008, 09:35 AM Post #19
=._.= Posts: 130,670 Group: Princess Member #23 Joined: November 22, 2004 Gender Female Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya What Browser do you use? FireFox Favourite Manga Fruits Basket	Oh I know a bit about certain mental illnesses, not too many though, only a few and haven't learn't too much about them. There is a history of mental illness down my mothers side of the family though, not sure about my birth fathers side, lol. Pretending to be happy when you actually arn't doesn't really work too well though, even if you can fool people to thinking you are happy, you aren't really going to fool yourself too easily. Eventually you might start to feel that you are lying to everyone and that they can't see who you really are or how you feel. I really don't think you can trick yourself to thinking you are happy without actually feeling a sense of worth and such, if you don't think anything is going right for you and you don't enjoy doing things then you can't just pretend to be happy and expect it to make you happy, you can fool others though, that's not as hard because they can't read minds and most people can't read body language. I walk down the street to university and often wonder what other people are thinking as they walk past. I know I'll never find out though, lol. Anyway, that's off the whole subject. I'm not really sure about the whole tricking yourself though, I mean to be able to fool yourself to making you happy, you would probably have to be able to accept praise from yourself because lets face it, praise and rewards are what normal people enjoy I imagin because you are telling them they did something well. To trick yourself to being depressed is quite dangerous, you would be beating yourself up inside and putting yourself down, punishment makes people feel bad right. So if you are fooling yourself to be depressed you could form depression, I think anyway. Though if you only pretend to be depressed on the outside and are still happy on the inside, you just want attention really. Some of the people who pretend to be depressed, when around people they know look really happy and seem to be enjoying things. Obviously people who are depressed can do this, though without medication or help they are more likly to not be all happy and energetic around friends. Maybe you get what I mean.



Lennox	Oct 31 2008, 09:24 PM Post #20
Posts: 7 Group: New Member Member #3,780 Joined: October 31, 2008 Favourite Anime DBZ and some others. What Browser do you use? IE. Favourite Manga DBZ, its too funny. Though VK and FB are funny too.	I got depression when I was 14 and I'm only now starting to recover from it. All I can say is; I hate it when people blow something tiny out of proportion and take things forgranted. I know what its like to feel empty and so breakable. But things can get better, there's no use in dwelling on everything. Life's tough, you've just got to be stronger than the things that are thrown at you.



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