Anyone know anything about depression?

The secret is that you have to find that thing that is keeping you down and overcome it...Good luck...

If you're thinking about killing yourself, DON'T DO IT! Let someone else have the pleasure of offing you. At least give that back to this world in exchange for all of the oxygen you wasted being alive.

Sounds reasonble, after all if was going to kill myself I might take people with me.

Scarry thought

DO IT! Take your entire genetic strand out with you! Fuck knows that the world is better off without it.

Fuck Paxil... Get a 9mm!

Just kiddin'... Suicide is bad. Mmkay?

Your right, good bye everyone

I've suffered with depression over the years and it can take something small to set it off.

Try taking a course of B12 tablets it might help.

Today is a bad day for me as everything I do seems to be going arse up.

me too

lost at poker,

lost at madden 2004

washing machine broke

a bunch of work came up.

Shit I hate bitchin

Trying to get CCBill to work on our sites.

Trying to capture a video, that's shit.

And can't sleep at night.

I seriously never know why I feel depressed, I got a great wife, daughter, job and life. Yet some days just seem like I should have stayed in bed.

exercise always helps

You just have to overcome your depression. You're depressed cause you weren't able to get what you wanted or expected. Try to figure it out and face the world, you'll see some changes in you!!!!

u might have real clinical depression or u might just be sad occassionally. doctors and the drug companies are in cahoots - they want everybody tio have some kind iof official illness that they can treat and manufacture drugs for. So lots of people are getting diagnosed with depression who really aren't clinically depressed - but that said, depression is a real disease, so if u keep feeling down and there's not any real reason for it go to your family doctor or any general physician and tell him.

Some people dont have enough serotonin in the brain.
That make them feel depressed for no reason at all.
I've had a depression for 8 years before I finally did something about it.
I've been on Paxil for ~2 weeks now. Not much has changed but I feel better today...

See your doctor. Tell your doctor you asked for medical advice here. That should be good enough to get some neat pills

If your doc doesnt have screening test (questions) and talk to you before just passing pills, you should see another. Unless you just want pills...

pretty true... but some people can get over it without meds, like me for example. Everything was going great and then out of no where I started feeling really depressed. I lost my appetite, could barely sleep a wink was always anxious and restless. This lasted about 8 months. I lost about 50 pounds because of my lack of apetite. There was also a 6 month waiting list to see a phsych, by the time I got to see one he said I WAS clinically depressed but some people's chemicals end up balancing themselves.

Ask Amp, he seems to have experience in this field

Its best to treat depression with a mix of medications and therapy. Often the medications can alleviate enough symptoms that you can benefit from talk therapy.

The newer anti-depressant medications (Lexapro, Effexor, Paxil, etc.) are great, and have few side effects. But Paxil leads many to weight gain. Lexapro does not seem to have this effect.

I was a therapist in my previous career in case anyone was wondering.

tim is the greatest healer but it won't take the pain away.

It is worth seeing your Dr

I had depression for years until I saw a shrink...... It turns out I have a serious condition (Bipolar), and now with treatment I have been ok for a while.

I feel 100 X better than I used too. I was so bad that even when I was depressed I thought it was normal, that it was how everyone feels.

The only time I feel sad now is when I think of the years I wasted.

sometimes life throws curves we can't seem to be able to deal with...

been there myself
(like a lot of others it seems)

go see a professional
it is the best thing you can do for yourself

in the meantime
i'll be sending good thoughts your way

i struggled w/ depression, and i finally was cured when i discovered nihilism.

there's nothing more liberating then coming 2 the realisation that u r really 1 big zero, just like every1 else.

8 years!!?! 1 year for me. I heard a lot about the drug zoloft...know anything about that?


If any one want to know if THEY are depressed take this test : http://www.zoloft.com/index.asp?pageid=4

normaly it takes 2-3 years to balance itself.

I have heard a little about it. Nothing bad.
My partner was taking Zoloft and it was working for him.
Sometimes you need to try alot of different SSRI-medications before you find something that is working for you.

The bad thing is that the medication needs to be taken 2 weeks to ~4 months (i think) before you can see if it is working. And alot of people feel much worse under that period.
All (?) SSRI-medication have bad side effects under the first period.

Use MOAi Drugs (parnate/nardil)

Shoot I have most of these symptoms since I was about 12.

I'm in trouble.

Author Iris Chang Found Dead in California


Associated Press

LOS GATOS, Calif. - Iris Chang, a best-selling author who chronicled the Japanese occupation of China and the history of Chinese immigrants in the United States, was found dead in her car of a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said Wednesday. She was 36.

Chang, who won critical acclaim for her books "The Rape of Nanking" and "The Chinese in America," was found along Highway 17 just south of Los Gatos, Santa Clara County authorities said. On Tuesday morning, a motorist noticed her car parked on a side road, checked the vehicle and called police.

The official cause of death has not been released, but investigators concluded that Chang, who was hospitalized recently for a breakdown, shot herself in the head. She lived in San Jose with her husband and 2-year-old son.

Born in Princeton, N.J., in 1968 and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., Chang earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Illinois and a master's in science writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Chang worked briefly as a reporter for The Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune before leaving daily journalism to pursue her own writing. At age 25, she published her first book, "Thread of the Silkworm," which tells the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, the Chinese-born physicist who pioneered China's missile program after being driven from the United States during the Cold War.

In 1997, Chang published the international bestseller "The Rape of Nanking," which described the rape, torture and killing of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital during the late 1930s. "The Chinese in America," published last year, is a history of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in the United States.

The late historian Stephen Ambrose described Chang as "maybe the best young historian we've got, because she understands that to communicate history, you've got to tell the story in an interesting way."

Chang suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized during a recent trip researching her fourth book about U.S. soldiers who fought the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II, according to her former editor and agent Susan Rabiner.

Chang continued to suffer from depression after she was released from the hospital. In a note to her family, she asked to be remembered as the person she was before she became ill - "engaged with life, committed to her causes, her writing and her family," Rabiner said.

No pot, no alc no cigs..
When I'm depressed that works best for me.

Take some dhea, it works great for my brother

see sig

dark cloud over you and you just want to die.

the crazy 'wants' (money and the never ending drive for success) are what I have seen ruin many of my friends and some family members.

The pills did not help them (IMO, but they may work for others), rather they turned them in to zombies that only think they are happy/better.

Also, a co-worker spends all his time here or at home working. VERY BAD, in my eyes. Go out, see the real world and live life, not work to live. Then again, I do live in an old crackhouse (NK) so maybe it is the 'stuff' speaking.

write your problems down and tear each one up into separate lil peices and tackle them one by one.

I know that living in the Webmaster-Cave and seeing 2-3 people a week when you peak out of the cave... causes depression.

B12 is right!

depressed on and off for 8 years. can't take anti-depressants, so i'm on and off tranquillizers and drinking binges.

The key to curing depression is to change your environment. You'll approach life from a different perspective and hopefully this will make every day a little more interesting. Beyond that, chemical help may also contribute to improving your situation.