Metal Reviews

I've been depressed for quite awhile now, but I think I'm getting better... Slowly, but surely.

I just think that it can't always be this way. Something has to happen, and that I can't go on living being depressed all my life, and I'll keep living, depressed or not, until that something, whatever it is, happens.

Suicide is simply out of the question. It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Yea, I've been depressed before. It's suicide that I think is retarded.

I'm not sure if drugs are the answer to depression. I admit I haven't been at the level where medication would be recommended (though I have come close), but isn't it simply masking the problems and maybe even creating more?

I would suggest hunting homeless people. If I get my government grant I plan to build a safari park where tourists can hunt bums (and clowns for an extra fee) in a rich savanna landscape. You can hire any type of weapon you want, from the rocket propelled grenade launcher to the humble baseball bat.

It's just a suggestion anyway.

Hello, I'm a biomechanical machine that is producing consciousness as an arbitrary side effect. I have no reason not to kill myself except one: Evolution gave some reason, and some even more. However, those with too much reason realized the pointlessness of their lives, and cut their life-lines before producing any offspring. Coincidence, all my forfathers were parents, so I'm more likely to follow in their footsteps. I seem to be enjoying life, but that's of course no reason not to put and end to it. I've been given reason, but also enough feeling to see the beauty of my misserable existence.

WOW. So many depressed people here. Yes, i too have depression, and i take zoloft. It came about as a result of having OCD for years (i was a washer) and not telling anyone cos i was ashamed.

Depression and OCD are actual diseases. they involve chemical imbalances in the brain, causing it to function in a way that is not normal. And if anyone says that there is no normal, consider this. It doesnt make me HAPPY. It made me want to kill myself and wash my hands 50 TIMES A DAY!

Yes the pills do help, but its not all i do. I also do cognitive restructuring therapy with a psychologist.

To the people who say that their depression was based on the world at large, my depression made me think that my friends hated me and that i was worthless, so i couldnt keep it, even if i felt i had a unique perspective on the world. Depression for me was about hating myself, and making myself believe everyone else did too.

As for God, i dont believe in him at all. Read jadens post, it sums up my viewpoint on religion. As for purpose, there is none really in my view. I believe we are all the Gods of our own lives, and our purpose is to be happy. I guess if you want to be sad that can be your purpose for sure, but when your brain cannot function properly in a chemical sense, that is different because you CANNOT think properly.

And husker, how much were you on? I have almost no side effects taking a 100mg tablet every morning.

Actually, believe it or not, working out is the best anti-depressant! The body produces endorfin which is the organism's natural opioid. In other words you'll wake up the next morning feeling naturally high!

I never felt depressed enough to start taking pills..

It was about three years ago, reading Nietzsche’s philosophy and reading Ancient Greek philosophy and etc. That I just became depressed. But there is a point; there is an art, so called "The Art of Balance". Well from when I was 15 I've been living without God and you know what? I am much fuckin’ better (Now I’m 21). Although it is just a hand made god for the weeks to hold on to a rock not to fall in difficult times but it just did not work for me anymore. And the depression: I just became strong the "I" prevailed over the week "me" and started reading more philosophy but combining it with astronomy and actually finding out about the universe and of course the Chaos Theory! The nature of human beings is Ignorance, and remember not to pass that point at anytime.

* :evil: Rise and Fall :evil: *

Sufferance: Can You Bare it?

Hehe... I have light OCD.

I used to have OCD with my hands. I would literally rub them together so much that the skin would just come off. idk why I did it.

Would anyone here say they are a philosopher at heart????

I say this because a friend of mine once said one of the most profound thing i have ever heard.

He said 'philosophy's for people who are unhappy with life.'

It may not sound so profound, but the more i thought about it, the real meaning of what he said sunk in.

I do have panic attacks too. But lately they've become ridiculous because I realize it every time and it just goes away. Weird.

Same here, it used to be pretty bad but its very light now. :oops:

The only psychological issues i think i have are about my anger management.
I stay calm for some time, then when i had enough of it i just burst like a balloon..

My point is, pills DO help. but you have to do more than just take pills to beat that shit.

more or less..

This is true. My psychologist even told me this.

I know your pain......
I used to wash my hands with a gritty soap that made my skin fall of and cut me, and in winter my skin was so dry from having water on it all day.

And i knew why i was washing, but at the same time knew my reason was absolute shit.

That's a far too generalized statement. Perhaps philosophers need to find more complex routes to achieve happiness, but simply being philosophically attuned will not result in a miserable life.