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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: The E on May 10, 2013, 12:31:32 am
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As some of you may know, there's this blog called Hyperbole and a half. It was responsible for the creation of the ALL THE THINGS meme, and is a generally awesome collection of good posts by Allie Brosh. For the past year and a half, it was on hiatus, but now it's back.
As it turned out, Ms Brosh suffered from severe depression, and she wrote a massively long and incredibly insightful piece about the experience here: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.de/2013/05/depression-part-two.html
There's also a part one of that here: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.de/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html which is also recommended reading.
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I was so surprised when I saw it on my RSS feed, and just really happy to read the thing, and that she's recovering.
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This made me legit tear up. A lot of it hit home.
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I've unfortunately too much first hand experience with depression
Great read though. Pretty accurate
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embrace nihilism. you cannot stop the entropy.
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When I first read the title, I thought it was going to be the thread about the economy... :nervous:
Anyway, a good post indeed.
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She also invented the alot.
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Didn't even knew someone could get depressed for no reason at all.
Could not read through the entire thing...too alien for me I guess, and very depressing, I just couldn't keep going on it.
And just for the record, I'm not trying to make a fool of anyone.
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Not really all that similar to my symptoms. Except when I was on meds. Too many meds will put me there. Depression for me wasn't not feeling, it was wishing I didn't. Being on meds for depression and anxiety put me into this long state where I didn't really feel all that much, positive or negative. I was pretty joyless and difficult to be around, very difficult to love. But I was at least
marginally more functional than I'd been before.
From my observations, though, depression can manifest in a lot of different ways at different times even in one individual. The spectrum gets spread all to hell and back once you start trying to encompass the general population. So, it shouldn't be that surprising that my symptoms were different. I'm also a lot further along the anxiety axis than it sounds like she was.
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Didn't even knew someone could get depressed for no reason at all.
Could not read through the entire thing...too alien for me I guess, and very depressing, I just couldn't keep going on it.
And just for the record, I'm not trying to make a fool of anyone.
Yes, I found out just a few weeks ago that you can get depressed over nothing.
It surprised me, but it's not such a surprise when you think about it, your body can have problems with the balance of all kinds of things, and emotions are no different, you don't decide what emotions you feel, you have no control over it.
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When I first read the title, I thought it was going to be the thread about the economy... :nervous:
Anyway, a good post indeed.
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The self-criticism thing is so accurate, it's nice to have someone point out that all the stupid things people say with regards to depression ("Just get over it, life isn't that bad" etc) has already gone through your head and not done the job.
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yeah, currently still a bit between congealed self-loathing and desire for something to happen to end all the bull****.
then again, i do have some more practical reasons to be depressed along the lines of "where will my next meal in 5 months come from?"...
oh well.
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I saw this posted on io9 as well.