Generally, I think the term "depression" is used too easily.

But I agree with your point. If your life sucks, work on improving that, instead of nagging. Of course, cons are always nicer than work, but if returning to your everyday is the worst feeling ever, your life needs change.

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I just used it because I literaly read "depressed" a few times. ;)

That's what I meant. People are sad that the con is over, so they claim to be depressed. (Maybe a few really are, but the majority is just sad.)

I strongly feel the same. I think people overuse the word just way to much. Depression is not just a feeling, its ja sickening that turns everything dark and worthless you fought for. And thats not what you should feel after a fun thing endet... its just not the same thing to be sad and being depressed.

I was depressed and while i was healing and recovering, i cried in gratefulness the first time i was just... sad again instead of being depressed. It took me years and i think you shouldn't use those words... if they are not true in the meaning.
You don't say i am bulimic, just because u can't eat right or you just need to throw up. Sadness and Depression are two totally different things. One is normal and helps to overcome things in life, the other is something that ends life.

Some people have really depressing lives, for any of a number of reasons.

Some folks chose therapy and other actions to improve their mundane lives. Others....

Oh god I'm already depressed cause your post is over again :'( no just joking hehe but yeah... It's sad if a cool Con is over again but for real way to much peeps are crying way to much as well hehe... After the Con is before the next one ^.^

and you used another german quote, slightly different but its still the quote ("Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel" - S. Herberger)

Yush just thought about a translation which makes sense haha ^^

It's a complicated issue. I personally can absolutely understand some forms of PCD since I did wrestle with some of it in the past myself when I was younger. I do come from a very rural area. One of those uber-conservative little villages in southern Germany (think Lederhosen and Sauerkraut) and in the past it was awfully hard to be yourself if your interests were more complex then attending the local Schützenverein or Stammtisch. There was no one to talk to who would understand, no one with whom you could share your dreams or visions, essentially there was no one, around whom you could simply be yourself. I always had to pretend I am someone else, someone I deep down was not and when I went to my first furry con all this “acting” and pretending was suddenly no longer necessary.

I could finally open up and didn't have to hide and bottle up my feelings anymore. It was a liberating experience and, yes, also an intoxicating one, in a way. And when the con was over and I had to go back home and back to the situation I had considered normal back then it filled me with dread. I simply didn't think I could go back to pretending I was someone I really deep down wasn't and it saddened me to think that I would have to wait a whole year before I could be myself again.

Nowadays things have changed for the better. More furs have appeared around my place. One living just 20 minutes away from me and I can reach a quite large furry community with a 1 to 2 hours drive so things are better now than in the past but back then, going home from a con felt like going into exile or jail. (back then there were only two cons in Germany)

But isn't that exactly why you should have other things to make your life better when there is a moment when the furry fandom can't do it?

It's not about the fandom per se. It's more about the environment you're living in and how you can relate to the people around you. If you come from a rather conservative surrounding there is not much chance that you can really form strong and deep interpersonal relationships merely by the fact that you cannot open up to the people around you out of fear of ostracism and rejection when it comes to sides of your personality which deviate from what is considered the "norm" in your environment.

This doesn't even have to be furry related. It might just be the fact that you're gay, for example. Where I come from, that was still a bit of a taboo. Not in the sense that one would get assaulted but in the sense that one would have trouble being part of the community. If you experience a much more open and inclusive community and then have to go back to the former, it can be a quite emotionally taxing situation.

As for other things to make your life better. There are not many things that can replace a sense of belonging and deep interpersonal relationships to a lot of people.

Life is cyclical. There are good times, there are bad times and there are boring times. It's that way even with conventions.

I've had some cons I went to and had no problem going back to work the next day. I have had others that were so much for or enjoyable that it was hard to adjust to reality. The same goes with vacations, and even some days at work.

Conventions should be part of the good time cycle of life. There's nothing wrong with that.

I am only happy at con. I've lived 36 years as a human being and it's not fun anymore.