Blasty wrote:
Jookia wrote:
It insults me how you guys try to help me when you don't personally know me. I'm just another sick person. Yeah, I'm ill with depression.
Then quit posting. You obviously wanted sympathy and input, or you would have kept quiet and wouldn't have made this thread. People who post in this forum expect helpful input.
So sorry we tried to help you, oh exalted one. On second thought, don't do anything to better your life. Just continue to sit around with the shades drawn, poking at yourself with kitchen utensils and thinking about why everything sucks, until you finally decide to really try hitting the abort switch. Yeah, I know about depression. It's not permanent, although it sure sounds like you want it to be.
Enjoy wallowing in your misery.
No.
It isn't that simple. Having gone through pretty much the same type of depression myself recently, this is a case where the mind is too ****ed up to make up it's own mind. The person will ask for help, then retreat from the given help, double-thinking the help - thinking he's not worth it, or unable to take the help. Or just bleakness that the help wouldn't help at all. Also, an inability to make any decisions, constantly wishy-washy. So typically it does seem futile, but he's not ungrateful. In that state, he wouldn't know how to be grateful. (My parents almost abandoned me at the hospital for having these symptoms.) AS makes Clinical Depression complicated.
That second paragraph's counter-productive. If anything, not posting would've been better. For someone in that condition, being told that,
he's more likely going to actually take it seriously and actually off himself - unlike in the movies where when someone's told that, they actually reform themselves and save the day. Assuming you wouldn't really want your post to cause him to kill himself, and therefore have you be part of the responsibility (such instances
have happened), the "joke" doesn't serve it's purpose.
Either way, he's going to get counseling, and hopefully, some recovery down the road before depression leads to worse problems. Best of luck to him.