depression and the artistic mind

[wobbles]

perhaps I should have added a or something, I was being sarcastic, something that doesn't translate too well in text!

no, sarcasm fully detected
u misread

[Mr Hyde]

perhaps I should have added a or something, I was being sarcastic, something that doesn't translate too well in text!

no, sarcasm fully detected
u misread

ah right it would be good if text had a sarcasm sort of font- like italics but slanting backwards or something. or even just a punctuation mark like a backwards ?

[wobbles]

no way the cool thing about sarcasm is confusing the shit out of people who dont get it

[oprs]

i dun get et, i guess im depressed nao thanks sarcism on ze interwebs

[Mr Hyde]

no way the cool thing about sarcasm is confusing the shit about of people who dont get it

true

[butter_man]

no way the cool thing about depression is confusing the shit out of people who dont get it

[wobbles]

lololol

[JBoy]

My point is though some people can suffer constant trauma and still remain positive, other peoples goldfish will die and they'll be depressed for months. Does that mean some people are more succeptible to mental illness or are they just being pathetic??

[Mr Hyde]

My point is though some people can suffer constant trauma and still remain positive, other peoples goldfish will die and they'll be depressed for months. Does that mean some people are more succeptible to mental illness or are they just being pathetic??

Its not like everyone living through constant trauma remains positive though, there are still suicides and depression in places where people struggle to survive.

If someone really is depressed for months about a goldfish death then they probably are susceptible to a certain degree of mental illness.

Clearly some people are better at remaining positive than others, just needs a bit of empathy to understand that, 'snap out of it, there are people worse off than you' doesnt really cut it.

[JBoy]

My point is though some people can suffer constant trauma and still remain positive, other peoples goldfish will die and they'll be depressed for months. Does that mean some people are more succeptible to mental illness or are they just being pathetic??

Its not like everyone living through constant trauma remains positive though, there are still suicides and depression in places where people struggle to survive.

If someone really is depressed for months about a goldfish death then they probably are susceptible to a certain degree of mental illness.

Clearly some people are better at remaining positive than others, just needs a bit of empathy to understand that, 'snap out of it, there are people worse off than you' doesnt really cut it.

Yeah fair point, i suppose everyone is different after all.

[fassyman]

i read somthing in metro today about how african children living in slums are generally happier than western kids...


iunno what my point is but it seemed kinda relevant lol

[Electric_Head]

i read somthing in metro today about how african children living in slums are generally happier than western kids...


iunno what my point is but it seemed kinda relevant lol

you joke but in all seriousness they do came across as more happy.
However if you actually go into their homes lives n what not, they`re actually not happy.
They know how to find happiness in the smallest things.

[JBoy]

i read somthing in metro today about how african children living in slums are generally happier than western kids...


iunno what my point is but it seemed kinda relevant lol

you joke but in all seriousness they do came across as more happy.
However if you actually go into their homes lives n what not, they`re actually not happy.
They know how to find happiness in the smallest things.

Thats it exactly. Take note depression heads.

[Genevieve]

People with major depression have a physically different brain. Both people with bipolar disorder and major unipolar depression share genes with people with schizophrenia. You're not gonna tell those people to just 'snap out of it' and stop hearing voices, are you?

It's got nothing to do with 'thinking', it's about perception. Your perception of reality is literally different. You can't tell someone in hell to start behaving like someone in heaven. Imagine yourself waking up in a world of misery and despair for a few months and then have people telling you 'to snap out of it' and 'go on with your life'.. What life? Life in this ugly world where everything is ugly and all people are hateful?

[Electric_Head]

get yourself an old car tire ex the rims and 2 sticks, roll the fucker down the road.


FUN FUN

Or make a car out of scrap wire

[Genevieve]

i read somthing in metro today about how african children living in slums are generally happier than western kids...


iunno what my point is but it seemed kinda relevant lol

you joke but in all seriousness they do came across as more happy.
However if you actually go into their homes lives n what not, they`re actually not happy.
They know how to find happiness in the smallest things.

Thats it exactly. Take note depression heads.

It's like telling someone who is psychotic so stop worrying because the voices inside their head aren't real.

'What? But you didn't actually kill your best friend! It's all in your head; these people, though, in Africa, boy, their life really sucks, it's not just inside their heads, they struggle to feed themselves, you? You just hear a bunch of voices. Snap out of it, you pansy'

Here's a good one; people with depression fucking hate themselves for being depressed. For being so well off while thousands of people die of hunger every day and they can't find a shred of happiness in their own miserable lives.

[JBoy]

get yourself an old car tire ex the rims and 2 sticks, roll the fucker down the road.


FUN FUN

Or make a car out of scrap wire

You see?!?!? some people just dont know how lucky they are!!!

[Electric_Head]

turns to first world problems thread

[Pistonsbeneath]

jboy is trolling

[Genevieve]

get yourself an old car tire ex the rims and 2 sticks, roll the fucker down the road.

That's stupid. You can't compare modern western standards of entertainment to those of Africans who literally don't grow up with shit. Yeah, we're spoiled and we can't find fun in that shit, it's because we grow up in a society where video games are the equivalent of tires and sticks.

"Playing.. with.. rocks? How lame. I've got tires and a stick, what kind of knucklewalking troglodyte can enjoy themselves with a some fucking rocks?