re: If You Struggle Or Have Struggled With Depression Would Reading A Poem Help?

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Last night fr33 started a thread that had good intentions, it was a poem that was for those who struggle with depression.

Having struggled with depression at one point in my life I can only speak from my experience and I know my experience wasn't as bad as a lot of other people's experiences or what they are currently dealing with.

The thing I don't think people understand is that depression isn't about how you view life. Its a feeling. In general, the law of average is how I view life. Everyone has a different average, but I don't think we live in a dark world, nor do I think we live in a near perfect world. It's made up of both. You have to take the good with the bad and vice versa.

But when you are fighting depression it isn't about how you view life. It is a feeling. You can realize how you view life, but if you are fighting depression it doesn't matter because the feeling is holding you down.

There is nothing anyone can say or anything you can read or see that will suddenly make you feel better an if you assume that a poem will help someone, cheer them up then you don't really understand depression. There is a difference between feeling down on yourself and fighting depression.

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You are talking about the difference between clinical depression that can be chronic most likely caused by a chemical imbalance and acute depression caused by an unfortunate event like divorce, death, loss of income etc.. They often overlap too. Ive suffered from both and while words of inspiration or listening to a certain song wont bounce me out of a deep depression, it can uplift my mood if only temporarily. And sometimes when you are in a very dark place just trying to live from one day to the next that little bit of respite is a enough to keep you going. So I appreciate FR33's gesture.

Exercise,proper sleep, the occasional course of anti depression meds, and just being aware of my moods and how I feel keeps my depression in check.

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You are talking about the difference between clinical depression that can be chronic most likely caused by a chemical imbalance and acute depression caused by an unfortunate event like divorce, death, loss of income etc.. They often overlap too. Ive suffered from both and while words of inspiration or listening to a certain song wont bounce me out of a deep depression, it can uplift my mood if only temporarily. And sometimes when you are in a very dark place just trying to live from one day to the next that little bit of respite is a enough to keep you going. So I appreciate FR33's gesture.

Exercise,proper sleep, the occasional course of anti depression meds, and just being aware of my moods and how I feel keeps my depression in check.

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Thank you!

This is exactly what I was looking for.

As I said, I was speaking from my experience. I just wanted to know other people's experiences.

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georgia

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Hold the phone here...you are telling me that using Tolkien and Hemingway, two of the most famous writers and literally required reading (the Hobbit and The Old Man and the Sea) in high school, as examples of vastly different styles, is somehow flexing my linguistic nuts?

It’s the absolute opposite of that.

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bite my arse

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digits, is that you???

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Hold the phone here...you are telling me that using Tolkien and Hemingway, two of the most famous writers and literally required reading (the Hobbit and The Old Man and the Sea) in high school, as examples of vastly different styles, is somehow flexing my linguistic nuts?

It’s the absolute opposite of that.

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I'll say this. Of all the things that you could complain about regarding Oweo's posting, and they are legion, his being long-winded rings most false.

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Just as I expected

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Why did u do it then?

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I deal with depression everyday. 

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I thought u had a 10 inch dick and banged a different chic weekly.

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does not endear you to others the way you think it does

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I didn’t write that long poem (though it is well crafted) and I know that anything more than a paragraph or 2 will be met with “TL;DR”.

But sometimes things are worth saying. I’m not worried about being endeared, otherwise i’d post gifs of bouncing boobs and explosions (which I have)

But come on, it was a serious topic about a serious issue that effects a lot of people. Not some ploy to collect meaningless upvotes.

I just don’t think referencing an extremely well known author, who pretty much every high school student has read, is some sort of literary snobbery.

And I know I can be verbose and not always use the simplest terms but it isn’t to wow or impose some sort of superiority on anyone.
It’s just the words that come to me. I don’t even think about them usually.