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2017-05-22 at 6:33 AM UTC
Originally posted by Malice Then why have you attempted suicide multiple times and claimed or at least suggested you were severely depressed?
Because sometimes I get really miserable. 95% of the time I'm bored but content. 5% of the time I hate my life and want to die. Right now I'm in the 95%. A line charting my happiness would look like space and the gravity well of a black hole. Pretty even and then a sharp decline into the abyss and then even again. -
2017-05-22 at 6:35 AM UTC
Originally posted by Phoenix Because sometimes I get really miserable. 95% of the time I'm bored but content. 5% of the time I hate my life and want to die. Right now I'm in the 95%. A line charting my happiness would look like space and the gravity well of a black hole. Pretty even and then a sharp decline into the abyss and then even again.
Honestly I think that's about as normal as normal gets. I can second having this pattern of feeling myself.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-05-22 at 6:39 AM UTC
Originally posted by Kolokol-1 Strange. Social isolation has dramatically improved my mental state.
It may for a while if you have issues like severe anxiety, paranoia, or PTSD, and are in a negative environment, around bad people.
For many it may seem exceedingly rare, but there are people who can be a highly positive factor in your life.
Originally posted by Phoenix Because sometimes I get really miserable. 95% of the time I'm bored but content. 5% of the time I hate my life and want to die. Right now I'm in the 95%. A line charting my happiness would look like space and the gravity well of a black hole. Pretty even and then a sharp decline into the abyss and then even again.
Honestly, I thought I was happy alone and being a hiki as well, but then I realized I had been alone and unemotional for so long I really didn't know what happiness was. It had just been my baseline state for so long, I was able to endure it and at least felt somewhat at peace alone, that I thought I was content. I wasn't, I was severely depressed and eventually that graduated to bouts where I had serious thoughts of suicide. -
2017-05-22 at 6:44 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny I mean if you have an objection to foundational ideas of your society then literally everyone and everything you interact with is going to be malignant on grounds of being a part of it, your default assessment is going to be negative regardless of the individual merits of those people or institutions.
I'm fully aware of how edgy it sounds but I couldn't think of a better way to say it. I'm specifically talking about power - geopolitics, government, big business, extreme corruption in every industry, 'civil rights' being used as a weapon...
Truth isn't subjective, but nobody is comfortable telling it in full.
Originally posted by Malice Also, this is highly pertinent. Maslow be damned: http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2011/05/maslow-be-damned-how-social-belonging.html
that is an interesting article, makes a lot of sense -
2017-05-22 at 7:26 AM UTCOnly when high or jerking off
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2017-05-22 at 12:53 PM UTCThe youth of my X Gen wasn't real bad, but the sex life was awkward because of AIDS
The Me Generation fucked and did cocaine all night long and slept in the daytime if they weren't dragged off to Nam first
and the MOON PERSONs seem to not be affected by HIV and developed an ap which they hooked up and fucked on the spot.
What the hell :( -
2017-05-22 at 3:55 PM UTC
Originally posted by Malice Then why have you attempted suicide multiple times and claimed or at least suggested you were severely depressed?
Honestly, I didn't even realize I was severely depressed until it felt too late and I had a mental breakdown.
Also, this is highly pertinent. Maslow be damned: http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/2011/05/maslow-be-damned-how-social-belonging.html
I accepted a while ago that social isolation, a lack of fulfillment, were the primary drivers behind my depression and even greatly contributed to anxiety and other problems.
That article is dank Mal. -
2017-05-22 at 4:50 PM UTCI smoke a lot of pot and masturbate. Not a bad lifeThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2017-05-22 at 5:57 PM UTC
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2017-05-22 at 6:06 PM UTCSome of us have learnt to live in the here and now
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2017-05-22 at 8:07 PM UTCNo. I smoke spice and shoot myself repeatedly with an airsoft gun
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2017-05-22 at 11:24 PM UTC
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2017-05-22 at 11:27 PM UTC
Originally posted by Malice What's gotten you out of the slump?
There's actually interesting research that the highly intelligent are actually more likely to suffer from certain disorders, mainly generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and bipolar. The odds ration actually seems to be quite stark.
For the latter, full blown bipolar isn't necessarily the standard, the severity is a spectrum, like autism and anxiety, other things. It does seem that many highly successful and productive period have had regular bouts of mania and depression, or, in terms of other aspects, bursts of productivity and creativity followed by troughs of stagnation.
Things can honestly just hit you out nowhere. There really is a strong biological basis for many people, especially if certain things seem to have been consistent throughout your life, particularly after puberty (not having anything to do with women/sexual relations, seems to have to do with neurological development), with no apparent environmental cause.
Unfortunately there are a lot of reasons to feel down as a human being and no guarantee of lasting gains in happiness (hedonic treadmill). Although, this book is actually quite good and sound, supported by scientific evidence and reasoning: https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Guide-Developing-Lifes-Important/dp/0316167258
Mainly getting your brain to shut the fuck up and stop dwelling on negative and metaphysical issues whose resolution won't bring about happiness anyway, just being in the moment, forging strong social relations, feeling like a part of something larger than yourself, like you're actually seriously contributing to something you're passionate about, that you care about and is important to you.
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2017-05-22 at 11:36 PM UTCThings are seemingly alright at the moment but I don't really ever take a long view of things. Not many debts to be paid right now, a job on the horizon, not broke. I don't really have much ambition so these parameters met I'll usually just take it easy, sit around and read, listen to music, smoke weed, go randomly stroll around the city. I'm sure as fuck not miserable right now, so I guess I'm happy? when the feeling of stability takes hold I usually embrace the illusion.
Originally posted by Malice
My work sends me into some really shitty apartments, this conjures and image me of some fat bitch with like three snot nosed unruly kids, and a filthy apartment, it's on the 3rd floor, it's 30 degrees and smells horrible, the sink is filled with dirty dishes, I go to fix a tap that's been leaking for 3 months, and lo and behold some bullshit like this is plastered on the wall over the kitchen table.
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2017-05-22 at 11:51 PM UTCA Dialogue on Happiness
Bretty decent, actually. Of course, it's meant to be mildly amusing.
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/42
