Clearly my state of mind has improved quite a lot in 6 years.
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I don't know what I have. I still firmly believe that my condition is nothing requiring medical help. No clinical depression requiring meds here, I'm just an entitled but unlucky bastard. It's just the result of being an attention whore not given the required amount of attention I believe I'm owed. Maybe.
I don't know. If it's so easy to rationalize then why can't I think of anything when it happens to me ? When it strikes me ? I'm left sad, confused, angry and lonely, can't stop moving or can't find the strength to move and nothing seems worth anything anymore while the only thought going through my head is "I'm a little useless sack of shit".
Then it stops. And I just don't understand why I couldn't think of anything else, why I couldn't move or couldn't calm down. The sadness is gone and the sense it made at the moment is nowhere to be found. And I hate myself, or at least what I just was. It's just not who I want to be.
The more I think about it the stronger it becomes I need to stop and do something else fuck fuck fuck
http://vonboche.deviantart.com/art/.....-Year-95472472
http://vonboche.deviantart.com/art/.....-Hour-95472852
I don't know what I have. I still firmly believe that my condition is nothing requiring medical help. No clinical depression requiring meds here, I'm just an entitled but unlucky bastard. It's just the result of being an attention whore not given the required amount of attention I believe I'm owed. Maybe.
I don't know. If it's so easy to rationalize then why can't I think of anything when it happens to me ? When it strikes me ? I'm left sad, confused, angry and lonely, can't stop moving or can't find the strength to move and nothing seems worth anything anymore while the only thought going through my head is "I'm a little useless sack of shit".
Then it stops. And I just don't understand why I couldn't think of anything else, why I couldn't move or couldn't calm down. The sadness is gone and the sense it made at the moment is nowhere to be found. And I hate myself, or at least what I just was. It's just not who I want to be.
The more I think about it the stronger it becomes I need to stop and do something else fuck fuck fuck
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Come up with a list of everything that you think should make you happy, and come up with a list of all your bad feelings and all the reasons you have them. Go through your list of things that make you upset, and get really fucking mad at every single one of them. Go through the list, get indignant because you deserve as much happiness as a normal person (you do, whether you think so or not). Bring every one of those things to mind, recognize that you shouldn't be oppressed by those feelings, you should be pissed off that you have to deal with that shit. Think about something you hate, hate it hardcore, then delete it from your head - and move on to the next thing on your list. One at a time. The goal is to go through the list and just get livid at it all. Then when you're done thinking of all the things you can be mad about, don't think about anything. The most important thing is to use up all your energy so you aren't thinking about anything. Literally nothing. Don't try to "get the answer" or "figure things out". You'll fail if you try, so don't even bother. Just find a peaceful state and exist without thinking about anything.
Then go through the list of things that you already have, and think about the things that you think make you happy. Think about all the ways they make you happy. My list, for instance, has on it being outside, my pets, learning cool stuff, music, furries, my friends, and particularly nice things people have done for me.
Of course, that only really worked for me after I had been on fluoxetine for a few months. If you want to solve these kinds of problems, you need a crutch to get you sane enough to legitimately think about them in a way that isn't just destructive. In my personal case (which is different from every other) fluoxetine (prozac) almost worked too well - I was so pleasant all the time that I didn't really feel any pressure to do work, so I took a break from medication to see if I'd stay alright. Now I'm stable enough to use "strategies" to keep myself sane. After having depression for a while, you start to understand those "auras" that precede a really big down. Whenever I feel an aura like that, I immediately stop thinking about whatever I was thinking about and empty my mind completely. And if I ever think I'm getting depressed again, you can bet I'm going back too the psychiatrist to get my happy pills. Because it's fucking medicine, arguably the pinnacle of human civilization. There is no logical reason to be averse to something that's therapeutic and makes you healthy, there's only fear. And the only thing you should fear is fear itself.
Then go through the list of things that you already have, and think about the things that you think make you happy. Think about all the ways they make you happy. My list, for instance, has on it being outside, my pets, learning cool stuff, music, furries, my friends, and particularly nice things people have done for me.
Of course, that only really worked for me after I had been on fluoxetine for a few months. If you want to solve these kinds of problems, you need a crutch to get you sane enough to legitimately think about them in a way that isn't just destructive. In my personal case (which is different from every other) fluoxetine (prozac) almost worked too well - I was so pleasant all the time that I didn't really feel any pressure to do work, so I took a break from medication to see if I'd stay alright. Now I'm stable enough to use "strategies" to keep myself sane. After having depression for a while, you start to understand those "auras" that precede a really big down. Whenever I feel an aura like that, I immediately stop thinking about whatever I was thinking about and empty my mind completely. And if I ever think I'm getting depressed again, you can bet I'm going back too the psychiatrist to get my happy pills. Because it's fucking medicine, arguably the pinnacle of human civilization. There is no logical reason to be averse to something that's therapeutic and makes you healthy, there's only fear. And the only thing you should fear is fear itself.
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