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Depression = Good?

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I am sorry for speaking sadness in this forums lately but I am speaking my mind untill someone tells me to stop.

I was in depression like a month or two ago and I am out of it now..
It seems that depression made me feel better about myself :S
Like as if There were no rules... when your happy you have rules in mind but when in depression you feel the rules dont matter.
Its like I was more free.. Like I escaped from the average life and was popped into a blank space.

Is this normal or what?

(Lock this thread if you wish)		2010-08-20 04:11:00

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Unknown User

Why were you in depression?2010-08-20 04:12:00

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Snrm
Posts: 6419

The longest story and worst chain of events in my life >.<2010-08-20 04:15:00

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Unknown User

This caught my attention for some reason. A few years ago I was depressed too, because I saw so many wrong things with the world, and nearly forgot how to see the good things. Once I got out of the depression, I felt much better and try to see only good in everything.2010-08-20 09:13:00

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Sackwise
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I never felt free I felt confined and alone :/2010-08-20 22:55:00

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Kern
Posts: 5078

wait i thust got a short depresion and
2 times had lost my mind

but i learned things from it youknow		2010-08-21 00:45:00

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Unknown User

Hmmm....Never been depressed in my life(at least not for more than two days), it's not that nothing bad happens to me, .....but I struggle not to see the good. I'm quite a positive person 2010-08-21 00:52:00

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MrFunctionality
Posts: 637

Depression is bad!!! don't be a depressed person. you still have rules even when your depressed you just choose to ignore them. and that can just lead to more problems !!!2010-08-21 00:55:00

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HollieCat
Posts: 197

You realise how stupid rules/laws are and how useless everything is and it opens you up to see the things that are actually important.

Which is...nothing, right?		2010-08-21 02:18:00

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qrtda235566
Posts: 3664

I know someone that got so depressed that they never got over it and hung themselves .=2010-08-21 03:02:00

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HollieCat
Posts: 197

Sometimes, I feel depressed, but I never have a long depression (more then 1 or 2 days) SURPRISINGLY because I think I have a pretty hard life. Not saying some don't have it worse but yah. I am only 13 so only time will tell. Anyways, I'm glad some people get something good out of depression, but I am saddened many others don't.2010-08-21 03:28:00

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Mod5.0
Posts: 1576

I know how you feel. Being depressed was good in some ways, even though it was unhealthy. I don't know if I am over my depression yet or if I just act like I am, but I don't care. As long as I don't feel that way again, I am fine with it...2010-08-21 04:52:00

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Unknown User

I ignore rules that don't make sense anyways. If anybody voices any particular distaste of this I'll argue my point, usually if I think a "rule" is particularly illogical I will have several good reasons for it and be able to produce a relatively coherent argument on the subject. If they persist I'll continue to make my point and twist their perspectives around entirely, which seems to give people a wicked existential crisis. It's actually kind of funny how much you can mould somebody's life from something so insignificant.

Anyways, there isn't anything wrong with depression, I think. It's "natural" after all. Plus, if you're never depressed you don't really have any contrast. You can't really have an appreciation for happiness if you don't experience its opposite. Plus, you certainly worry a lot less when you are depressed . It's a nice stress-ball effect, I think.		2010-08-21 05:24:00

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microchirp
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I dont understand why people say depression is so bad.. well yea if it gets bad enough were suicide happens than yea its bad but I look at it as a time to look back on the past.. time to think without caring for anything else so it doesnt bother you.
For me it was like free time to think and plan what to do with myself in the future..
I was depressed for about a month not a few days btw		2010-08-21 05:30:00

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Unknown User

lol,stop messing with my words.
Stalker! D:
jk
Being free, not being a slave to idiots of 'power', seeing past the lies of the media, thinking for yourself...





We're all as free as it would ever matter. We all exist just to exist. Obeying rules doesn't make a difference. Disobeying rules isn't any more important.

Or that's how I see it at least. 		2010-08-21 05:51:00

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qrtda235566
Posts: 3664

i find the longer you let yourself brew in depression, the more baggage you build up coming out.

i've been there myself and i have no desire to go back. my life is great and i do my best to keep it that way. i can't really see depression as a good thing, sorry-plus, no one likes a depressed person.

"Im the one whos got to die when its time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
-Jimi Hendrix
i'd like to add that hendrix did drown in his own vomit. if that's the kind of life you choose, so be it. 		2010-08-21 06:09:00

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monstahr
Posts: 1361

Nope. I can rationalize whether rules are worth following, depressed or not.

There is nothing good about depression. One should learn to see the good things of life without having to feel like... rap. What happens when I'm depressed is not that I analyze the rules, it's that I ignore the rules, rgardless of their utility or futility, because I'm moody. Depression doesn't make you smarter. It makes you a jerk.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go brood and listen to depressing love songs. Le sigh.		2010-08-21 07:07:00

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Astrosimi
Posts: 2046

I haven't had a really tough depression, but just the feeling of being alone, and that those you had were against you. It doesn't feel nice. I never really liked my childhood, because it felt like that. I could just sit and cry every evening not knowing why, because I had not tried to live different. Later it got worse, so I got sick of it and just said a lot of stuff, to the persons that *****ed me. I wouldn't just do nothing anylonger, and everything got better. I got friends, and I felt stronger I also stopped crying for myself. That was just a really good time :]2010-08-21 08:21:00

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Mugsig
Posts: 85

Depression can lead to Alzheimer's disease later in life and give you mental problems etc. So don't worry and be happy.

Sorry to be so dark, but that is the truth. This reminds me btw of this game which I recently played:
http://www.kongregate.com/games/GregoryWeir/looming		2010-08-21 11:26:00

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moonwire
Posts: 1627

I've had depression since my 12 and I'm still having it (15 now)2010-08-21 13:17:00

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oldage
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^^that must really suck2010-08-21 15:01:00

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Unknown User

Depression (A word I don't really like to use, as I see it as one of those things like Insomnia, no, just because you have trouble sleeping, doesn't mean you're an insomniac, Insomnia is NOT sleeping, as in, at all. I see depression as something really serious, like, the suicide thoughts kind, and not just as the "I'm in a particularly bad mood"/mopey thing that people seem to call depression now-a-days.) for me, has always been a subject of much serious thought. Which shouldn't be surprising as everything is a topic of serious thought for me. I've always had my suspicians that I've suffered from bouts of depression, but I've always told myself that I was being stupid and that there were people who actually suffered from depression out there, and I should just stop pitying myself. I've never talked to anyone about it, because I'm slightly afraid that I will be "Depressed" as the current system describes it, (I also believe that doctors/psychologists are far too eager to tell people they have the problems they think they have, now-a-days, and that most people don't have any of the problems they think they have. "Oh, you had a bad break-up, and did things you regret, and now you want to feel better about yourself? Let's call it trauma, say you have PTSD, and give you these drugs to make you happy" ), and then be given drugs which I don't want. I've been happy, and I am happy the majority of the time, with help from nothing other then my friends. I don't need drugs to do what I can do on my own. So I don't talk to people about it. (You don't count, I doubt any of you can or will force me to see a shrink ) Anyways, I've had some bad bouts, the worst being my constantly hurting myself, bashing my head against walls, not eating, and going on walks, telling myself that I was looking for a cliff, but knowing that I wouldn't find one, and wasn't actually looking for one. More of a cry for attention, then an actual attempt. Still, that was the worst, and was pretty bad.

As I started saying earlier, I think about this subject a lot, and think I've got most of it worked out, for how I work. When I'm happy, I have things I want to do, things that make me happy, and things I want to avoid, things that I know will make me sad. (Examples: Hanging out with my friends make me happy, thus I seek that, and avoid angering my friends, as then I will not be able to hang out with them, and I will not be able to be made happy). When I'm "depressed" everything is flipped. I know that hanging out with my friends WILL make me happy, and I want to be happy, but I tell myself (Lies) that it's my friends' fault that I'm "depressed", that they don't care about me, and that's why I'm like this, and that ******* them off will make me happy. Generally I don't do it (Thank the heavens), but sometimes, when I've taken to much, and I'm in one of my worse moods, I'll do it, and then I just feel worse. Luckily, the cycle usually ends there, as my friends are ****** off, I'm left on my own, and eventually I drink a glass of lemonade (My miracle drug), feel better, and I go back to my friends pretending it never happened. They're pretty used to this, and just accept it.

I lost one of my best friends this way. I was always so happy around them, that although we were quickly growing to be best friends, they had never seen my depressed side. Eventually I snapped, told them to get as far away from me as possible, and they did it. Although we eventually became friends again, we will never be as close again. Before I snapped we were hanging out around two times a week, and we haven't hung out outside of larger groups since.

This is why I see "depression" as NOT A COOL THING. It has messed my life up on so many occasions, leading me to be expelled from school, ******* off a different school, and thoroughly embarassing myself in more naive years. (The culmination of which, was the REALLY bad stuff I described above.)

I still have some... less then healthy thoughts sometimes, but know I'll never act on them. The scary times are when I try to convince myself to actually do it, and I can't tell the difference between my "depression" talking, and my rational mind. (Lawl, rational... Like that's close to the truth) My relatively rational mind.

On the cool side, I haven't cried since my really bad streak! (3 or 4 years ago, now)		2010-08-21 15:19:00

Author:
Enjay
Posts: 79

Nope. I can rationalize whether rules are worth following, depressed or not.

There is nothing good about depression. One should learn to see the good things of life without having to feel like... rap. What happens when I'm depressed is not that I analyze the rules, it's that I ignore the rules, rgardless of their utility or futility, because I'm moody. Depression doesn't make you smarter. It makes you a jerk.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go brood and listen to depressing love songs. Le sigh.

Depression always destroys my ego, and being the smug "WE ARE ALL ONE" ****** bag I am from listening to Tool too much, I think that's a good thing. Being depressed helped me realize that I always thought with emotions clouding my judgement and never detached myself from the situation and try to rationalize things. So I think that it helped me realize a lot of important things. That said, socially, I was perfectly fine while all this was going on. I didn't act differently. I just thought about things differently. So I was already a jerk, depression didn't make me any more of one! Suicidal thoughts and moping around, that happened privately.

But depression isn't good, perhaps ego death is, but I don't think depression is necessarily a good thing.		2010-08-21 17:00:00

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qrtda235566
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depression doesn't give people incredible brain power, allow them to think outside the box.

if anything it really clouds your judgement and makes you disregard context for the rules. rules are usually in place for a reason, no matter how depressed and edgy you are.

don't think i'm not familiar with depression. i'm on medication for it. i think way more clearly now.		2010-08-21 17:28:00

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monstahr
Posts: 1361

Okay well there must be different stages and levels of depression..
The one I was refferring to is the one Bremnen talked about		2010-08-21 18:44:00

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Unknown User

depression doesn't give people incredible brain power, allow them to think outside the box.

if anything it really clouds your judgement and makes you disregard context for the rules. rules are usually in place for a reason, no matter how depressed and edgy you are.

don't think i'm not familiar with depression. i'm on medication for it. i think way more clearly now.

Well I don't agree with the "rules are bad! " crowd. I went through an existential crisis more than depression, I guess. I was depressed until my existential side took over and said "There's no reason to be depressed, there's no point, we're all going to die, live happily and die".

Pretty much, I'm a lot less full of myself than before. It made me better at rationalizing things. That said, I'm not saying I'm better than other people, I'm just better than I was before, because I was a much bigger egotistical ****** than before. I guess I should say that an existential crisis helped me see things more clearly and disillusion myself with my huge ego, a looot of other people can already do that.		2010-08-21 19:05:00

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qrtda235566
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Yea rules are there and always will be but we choose to obey them or not.
Depression ussually changes the amount we obey.		2010-08-21 22:26:00

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Unknown User

If what you say above is the "norm" then it can and will be broken according to what your saying right?
Also are you saying that nothing will ever stay the same, that every generation new crimes will be made and old ones die.
(I could be way off, I dont have 100% trust in what I say)		2010-08-21 23:27:00

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Unknown User

I think most of the people in this thread have depression confused with angst.

Just saying that, Depression is serious ****, it's the kind of thing that will ruin a life from the inside out. The reason I don't say I'm depressed is because I only act like the things you're all describing, the "clear" feeling of thinking, the disregard for things I've been told/know are good.
I just call that being moody, which I'm pretty sure every teen has done at some point.
Now when I was actively causing myself damage, with a slight side of anorexia, (Another word I hate, it gets used incorrectly so often. Anorexia is a symptom, it means that you do not have an appetite. It can be caused by HUNDREDS of things. Yes, depression is one of them. Anorexia Nervosa, is what people normally talk about, it means that you no longer have an appetite, because you've worked it up in your mind that you eat too much, and do not need to eat any more) I call that depression. And I hope I never fall that far again.		2010-08-21 23:27:00

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Enjay
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@enjay
If someone cries every night.... never smiles nor laughs... does what he/she wants to do even if rules don't allow it, Cause physical harm to yourself intentially, get reccommended to see a special counciller by a school counciller, scaring everybody that cares about you just because he/she is moody?

Just wondering		2010-08-21 23:35:00

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Unknown User

at places like school you have to follow the rules. like how to dress and stuff. or they think your depressed (even if your not)and call stupid people like CFS or whatever they are called.if your a kid or a teen.2010-08-21 23:36:00

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HollieCat
Posts: 197

You dont have to follow the rules. There is a choice of not following the rules but that comes with pros and Cons.
Just like every choice.		2010-08-21 23:38:00

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Unknown User

A man chooses a slave obeys - Andrew Ryan

So your saying if you follow any rule then ur a slave?
Then the world has never had a leader?		2010-08-22 00:15:00

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Unknown User

there is rules to everything in life.in fact there is rules for on this site !!!! sometimes you should just follow them otherwise things would get crazy. Also people should be happy because life is short so be happy while your living it. !!!2010-08-22 00:19:00

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HollieCat
Posts: 197

A man chooses a slave obeys - Andrew Ryan

So your saying if you follow any rule then ur a slave?
Then the world has never had a leader?

I don't think you really got the quote. I can choose to follow the law and not be a slave. In Bioshock, you are literally being controlled by Atlas, as in mind control. I can think "I'm going to not stab someone because it's a **** thing to do." I'm following a law, but that's because I choose to. Most laws I find agreeable.		2010-08-22 00:38:00

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qrtda235566
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Bremnen, throughout this thread you have thanked every single one of Awesome's posts, but you're saying something completely different. A true intellectual would see that the rules are there for a reason. This isn't 1984 or some Big Brother stuff like that, dude.

For one, you're talking like some sort of righteous revolutionary. It's frankly very cliche and somewhat sad. That whole 'stick it to the system' thing is really overrated and frankly bull-$#!@. All of this wasn't made just to mess with us. Yes, there are some rules which are stupid, but some of them are there because people are naturally stupid and they'll do some things which they think are right but really aren't. I shouldn't have to bring up something with you personally if you've done something wrong. It's not that laws are made to control the population; laws are made to PROTECT IT. Having a preset view of what is good and what isn't is the best way to avoid shooting sprees, robberies, and other assorted crimes. Yes, some cops are less than savory, some laws are unnecessary, but most aren't; the system isn't flawless but it's the best we can do. Also, that 'system' which you so despise keep the 'prudes' you hate in check. Without the rules and the laws, these guys would be running rampant, doing whatever they wanted, setting their own standard for what is right and wrong to how it suits them. It would be just like the Medieval Ages.

Or, you could just move to North Korea. That's a perfect example of where your train of thought leads.

I choose to follow the rules, and I know why I do. You here, sir, are the one who does understand what he pretends to alienate himself from. Go to school, then talk to me about the system.		2010-08-22 02:02:00

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Astrosimi
Posts: 2046

I know people who've been really depressed, and "good" is probably the last way they'd describe it.2010-08-22 02:17:00

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alexbull_uk
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I laughed at the post above me, not because i think it was stupid or false, just somehow I thought it was funny..
also its strange how this thread turned into, Are you a slave if you follow rules?		2010-08-22 14:49:00

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Unknown User

I laughed at the post above me, not because i think it was stupid or false, just somehow I thought it was funny..
also its strange how this thread turned into, Are you a slave if you follow rules?

If you think people who follow rules are slaves, are you following an anti-slave rule of not following rules, thus making yourself a slave?		2010-08-22 15:10:00

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qrtda235566
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I dont think if someone follows a rule it makes them a slave.
I just put that quote up because I like Bioshock and it reminded me of what people were talking about.		2010-08-22 15:14:00

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Unknown User

Oh god, this is getting confusing.

Depression is bad. It's possible it can give you a bit more perspective on things but it doesn't matter because you're still unhappy and you're better off repressing it, playing video games, banging your head against the wall, or doing things that actually make you happy. Sadness is inherently bad. There are a lot of better ways to gain perspective and contrast.

I'm a nihilist deep down, I believe that nothing really matters. That said, if nothing matters, there's no point to think about things like our existence and the meaning of life when it makes you unhappy. If there's no point, then there's no reason to be unhappy. We can talk about things like following rules and being "slaves", but at the end of the day the idiots who think the most important things in life are hair and clothes are probably having a better time than us.		2010-08-22 15:23:00

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qrtda235566
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If nothing really matters then why do you even post in this thread if you thinking it doesnt matter? :S2010-08-22 15:35:00

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Unknown User

Lock this thread if you wish :/
I am sorry for speaking sadness in this forums lately but I am speaking my mind untill someone tells me to stop.

I was in depression like a month or two ago and I am out of it now..
It seems that depression made me feel better about myself :S
Like as if There were no rules... when your happy you have rules in mind but when in depression you feel the rules dont matter.
Its like I was more free.. Like I escaped from the average life and was popped into a blank space.

Is this normal or what?

(Lock this thread if you wish)


i was read your thread from the beginning and i would like to say to you that i do not believe that the depression makes feel you more liberated, we all in difficult situations of the life have happened for stages like that but i do not believe that a disease makes you feel free, the depression is not a state of mind but an evil that at present affects many persons, though you do not explain the reasons for which you founded in this condition i do not believe that the depression has been the one who was liberating your soul, rather your change of spirit and your exit of the depression they helped to that you were feeling liberated, but do not get confused that being anybody patient is nice.		2010-08-22 16:13:00

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psyntens
Posts: 562

I get in depression all the time. It always gets cured by the smell of fried chicken though.
On topic of depression being good...
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>_>
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>_<
/runs		2010-08-22 16:52:00

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JspOt
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...It's not that laws are made to control the population; laws are made to PROTECT IT...

That's a very dangerous statement...		2010-08-22 17:15:00

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Unknown User

Ha, where I live, it might as well be 1984 or North Korea.
I don't live in a city, or even a town. I live in a VERY small community where the local government holds power like a dictatorship. We have two roads, one to come, one to go. The streets we have branch off from the sides of those roads and everyone lives in poverty while we see oil tycoons living in mansions on many acres of private property. The people who are part of our local government sectioned themselves off from everyone else because they are rich, and can afford to do things like that. They put at least a dozen cameras on every street to watch everything anybody does at all times of the day. 97% of the people that live here are old racist caucasions who couldn't hate minorities more than they already do.
These old people could tell your race just by looking at you, doesn't matter what your skin color is, you could look white and they would still know and treat you differently. This is beyond the boondocks, this is the middle of NOWHERE.
They make any law they want because they know we live so far away from everyone else that the propaganda and lies they fill kids heads with will make them obey and since this has been going on for generations, everyone obeys because they've never known anything different. People always complain about big city police brutality, they've never seen police brutality.
Look at a police officer the wrong way and he will beat you in the middle of the street, break a bone or two, then throw you in jail. Ever heard of the Patriot Act? How about the Military Commissions Act? Those two Acts make the constitution void and gives the government/the police the right to do whatever they want to anyone in this country. They don't normally do it in cities because of the media, but in small localities, they treat us like we're less than nothing. I bet you've never been beaten by a cop or even seen someone beaten by a cop, I bet you've never lived without having rights. You've never seen the true face of this establishment so before you start saying its all overrated bull****, and "this is the best we can do", take some time and find out what this country is really like and why depression is so prevalent.



My mind is telling me not to believe you, but where the heck do you live? As far as I'm concerned, though, it doesn't happen here not because it's populated but because people are normally decent. Perhaps it's bad for you there, but here it isn't. The problem with your town is not the rules, it's that no one, by no one I mean your authoritative figures, follows them. And I'll have you know that I used to live in a country where this ran rampant... Your town is, in fact, proof AGAINST your arguments. Your townspeople need to rise up, not against the rules, but against those who think they are above them.

And yes, LBP333, I took a risk by saying something that blunt. But there is normally a reason why we have rules and laws in place.		2010-08-22 17:22:00

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Astrosimi
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As far as I am concerned, if authorities tell me to do something that I wouldn't do to begin with, they can go (...well you know...) themselves...2010-08-22 17:32:00

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Unknown User

I've read through every post in this thread (something really unusual for me!) and I'm still unaware of how/why the debate of depression being a worth-while thing has led to a discussion on disobeying rules or "the machine". What has being rebellious got to do with depression!?!


A mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity.

Nowhere does that say "the desire to rebel and RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!" I understand that when feeling depressed (or just generally a bit low) you don't really wish to involve yourself with the outside world, and in most cases (from my experience anyway), you'll lock up your feelings and hope they magically implode, bursting the bubble of unhappiness that's surrounded you and held you back. But that doesn't really compare to disobeying laws and rules that have been put down for all the right reasons. There's a difference between despondency and resistance. I don't wish to make any harsh judgements here, for I don't know what anyone has been through, but it seems to me that there is some confusion as to what depression actually is, I'm no doctor and I haven't really had serious depression, but I'm extremely close to someone with clinical depression, who needs active medical help, and I have never seen or heard them saying such things as "**** the rules, I'll do what I want" or "why am I constantly conforming to what others want?" - nothing close to it! So why the subject of rebellion has appeared, I have no idea!

As to whether I think depression is a good thing, I'd have to disagree. Though I can see that, perhaps in some cases, on coming out of a serious bout of depression you may feel closer to yourself and mentally stronger. But I can't see that a prolonged period of unhappiness and despondency is good for anyone. It messes with your mind, your thoughts become jumbled and what you desire becomes unclear (once again, speaking from my own encounters with depression), it also messes with those around you. So to those who truly have been through serious depression, well done for staying strong! And to those who are currently going through clinical depression (not that "oh I feel upset, **** the world" feeling a lot of people here are calling depression) good luck and I hope it hasn't messed with you too much!		2010-08-22 17:55:00

Author:
Leather-Monkey
Posts: 2266

Rules are for cowards who are too scared to stand up for freedom.


C'mon man, you've got to be kidding? You're smarter than this. Rules may be good for hiding behind sometimes, if you're that type of person but others stick to rules in order to maintain some order and respect the rights of others. Pure and simple. Some rules are anti-human rights, but not all rules are bad, are they? I'm glad there are rules that exist to protect my children and my property and in some cases the human rights of the general population. I'm glad people have to drive on the correct side of the road and stop at traffic lights, because it lessens the road toll. We see what happens when they don't.

Prisons are full of people with no regard for rules or feel the rules do not apply to them. Where's their freedom now? Let's be sensible, okay?		2010-08-22 17:56:00

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BabyDoll1970
Posts: 1567

Im talking about the stupid rules that are there to stop people from having simple freedoms, not the ones like "don't kill people" yea that makes sense. "Don't talk to _____ because they are ______" that doesn't make sense, thats the kind of laws im talking about.

In fairness, your previous posts did read like "rules are there to be broken, consequences don't matter, I'm gonna do whatever the hell I like and **** everyone else because I'm a moody, selfish git". Which probably wasn't at all what you meant, but you weren't exactly phrasing it well... So it's understandable that people got the wrong end of the stick.

Needless to say, breaking the rules for the sake of breaking the rules is as moronic as following all the rules blindly. And rules certainly not just there for cowards. Without rule, you have anarchy, and society and civilisation would fail. And you can just as easily, arguably more easily, differentiate and act upon injustice if you are not in a state of clinical depression.

Of course, if you live in an area where systemic racism is the rule, then fighting out against that is a noble thing. But that doesn't extend to all rules - indeed, you even talk about how the local governors aren't respecting the rule coming from above them, which in your foolish "rules are for cowards who won't stand up for what they believe in" line ironically puts them in the right? If racists break the rules because they don't agree with them, then that's laudable, according to your earlier postings. Of course, you will clarify what you meant now, but understand why your previous post might have seemed to be a little off balance.

Clinical depression is a terrible thing. Yes, if and when it is overcome it can lead to greater personal strength and put certain thing into perspective, but I don't believe that having "a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity" is good and I say that both from an analytical standpoint and from my own personal experience.		2010-08-22 18:40:00

Author:
rtm223
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Yep, my post was more a "this is why you are being misunderstood" than anything else.

Anyway, surely it was the realisation that things were unjust that made you depressed, not the other way around? Or is this a bit of a chicken and egg situation perhaps? 		2010-08-22 19:03:00

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rtm223
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...While I was depressed, instead of moping around I laid in bed thinking about what causes depression, why was something unjust happening, and then I started getting really philosophical in my head...

That sounds eerily familiar, only I didn't question something specifically, I questioned...everything. I am convinced I am no longer depressed (after 4 years), but when I was, thinking like that almost drove me into insanity (I may have thought to much). I am still sad about how things are in the world, but not how I was before, now it is just because I am aware of it...		2010-08-22 20:45:00

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Unknown User

Im talking about the stupid rules that are there to stop people from having simple freedoms, not the ones like "don't kill people" yea that makes sense. "Don't talk to _____ because they are ______" that doesn't make sense, thats the kind of laws im talking about.

I wasn't aware such rules existed anywhere in the United States. Well, your argument is valid where you live, but in the areas of the United States that people don't decide are their own country, the system works. But, if you're not exaggerating, I see your point. And by god, I hope you are exaggerating, because I'm getting sick to my stomach, thinking of something like that within our borders. However, you seem to get the gist of what I was trying to convey, and I am satisfied with that. You're cool with me, I guess.

All I can say is, good luck, and to the rest of the thread, depression is 100% bad. That is my finalized conclusion.		2010-08-22 23:40:00

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Astrosimi
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I think depression that makes you purely just depressed, or commit suicide is bad, but depression caused by opression that makes you realize whats going on, is useful.

I wouldn't call that depression, I'd call that 'This town sucks because we're basically a small, racist dictatorship within the USA'. Of course, I'd be depressed if I lived in such a carphole, but I think realizing that you're being depressed is not so much a symptom as it is an separate condition, which usually arrives at the same time as the depression. But yeah, I see what you mean.		2010-08-23 00:57:00

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Astrosimi
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I wasn't aware such rules existed anywhere in the United States. Well, your argument is valid where you live, but in the areas of the United States that people don't decide are their own country, the system works. But, if you're not exaggerating, I see your point. And by god, I hope you are exaggerating, because I'm getting sick to my stomach, thinking of something like that within our borders. However, you seem to get the gist of what I was trying to convey, and I am satisfied with that. You're cool with me, I guess.

All I can say is, good luck, and to the rest of the thread, depression is 100% bad. That is my finalized conclusion.

Eh, I'd consider drug laws bad. All it does is help gangs. Especially when drugs like cigarettes and alcohol are legal, I think things like marijuana and acid should be legal. Cars probably kill more people than drugs. I don't think it's necessarily the government's job to decide whether or not I can ingest a potentially harmful substance, especially when McDonalds is around.

But prohibition laws aren't really something to get depressed over.		2010-08-23 05:17:00

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qrtda235566
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This thread is no longer about depression, right? Or am I reading this all wrong? :|2010-08-23 14:58:00

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alexbull_uk
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Thank You Allexbull its about sometime someone comments on it. 2010-08-23 15:31:00

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Unknown User

The interesting thing about depression is that most of the people who get it are often not those that you would expect. Depression is more common in developed countries, I think the psychology behind it might be to do with what people are used to and how they handle situations. When survival is involved the world gets a whole lot simpler. Its very confusing that the mind can handle intense situations but crashes on things not a bit life threatening. Perhaps situations that make you feel awful without actual physical pain are far more likely to depress you.

Hmmm...sorry I am kind of stating the obvious, but I guess I just think too much about things.		2010-08-25 15:53:00

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PygmyOwl
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