I started off down that road when i was 19, been making the pharmaceutical assholes rich for 10+ years. EXCEPT FOR EXTREME CASES all this shit does is mask the problem, not to mention you cant get a nut on half these meds.

about a month ago i started weaning and ive been telling myself this is all bullshit, my brain has been bullshitting me - and i feel much better. when i feel the bad shit rolling around, i tell it to go get fucked. kind of hippy tree hugging shit, but i give less than a gorilla shit what anyone thinks about my pursuit of inner peace.

life is a shitstorm for everyone - i have been diagnosed by every shrink ive seen with the "seratonin and epinephrine (sp?) imbalance" ... fuck that shit. you gotta find the power in your mind to deal with shit, and also find the things you enjoy doing and do it.

its ez for me to say all this in hindsight. seriously depressed people (not "im lonely and wish i had a bootie call tonight") may need to take meds for a while - paxil did aleviate some of my symptoms ... but you can find the solution without the pills later and be free of the side effects - keep that in mind.

Conclusion - Web causes depression.

90% of webmasters are on prozac

I have known them for years ;)

Anti-depressants are bullshit, either they are placebo effect-reliant snakeoil or they have undesirable effects such as slowly killing your entire spectrum of feelings as well as decreasing your creativity. Don't let them put you on a zombie prescription just for feeling a little lonely (like all humans feel, and ultimately are). The real cure is to find a friend or a girlfriend, or convince yourself that you don't need such things to begin with. You can find friends online if you aren't much on the outside world, but I think the best way to find people you can really bond with is to go to some sort of a social arrangement for a hobby or a sport you really like and then see if you can find someone of your approximate age and philosophy.

Feel free to hit me up on ICQ or MSN (or phone if you don't mind a thick Norwegian accent :1orglaugh) when you want to talk to someone. I enjoy conversations with people from all walks of life.




*As a side-note to would-be entrepeneurs, there could be a high potential in match-making for friendships (as opposed to dates). People value true friendship almost equally to romance, and I think relatively few of them ever find friends to whom they can bond on more than a superficial level in today's flat and hasty reality.

Grab a beer and relax... life isn't perfect :2 cents:

depressed of what? there must be a reason or something..

I had a major depression a few years ago. The most important thing that I know now that NO ONE could tell me at the time is that there IS a light at the end of the tunnel.

I am depressed. About the shit that is going on in the world all the time and stuff :(

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

this is a depressing thread

Sometimes I feel depressed over my status as a mortal being. I want to live forever and know all there is to know. Sometimes the reality that we all take for granted seems an alien notion with a superficial and even meaningless quality that I find very tragic. And then I have to go on with the trivialities of daily life, the realities of which almost renders the notion of the notion itself a foreign notion. Is ignorance a prerequisite of our construct of reality? Maybe I am just foolish.

If you (we) lived forever, nothing would be worth shit. no moments would be special, it would suck. If youre doing something you enjoy, and would be proud to be remembered for, there is nothing trivial about it. true no one will give a flying fuck about anything me or you did in the year 4003 but i dont think this species is gonna last that long anyways... :2 cents:

I get bummed pretty often actually, mostly because I work too much (in my opinion). Not much to do when most of your friends are at least a one hour drive away.

WG

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I think it happens around this time of the year . When summer is over , well glad i'm taking off to California for few weeks :)

apparently more than I realized