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tulipgoose -> Diagnosed with Depression? (6/6/2007 12:59:47 PM)
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Were you diagnosed with Depression? Do you believe in it? Do you agree with the diagnosis? How do you cope? Are you happy?
I was diagnosed with Depression when I was maybe 12 years old. I refused meds or any "help" as the "help" offered only seemed to hurt me. I grew up in therapy..... because of being adopted, having health issues, and my parents divorcing. Therapy does nothing for me. I could literally talk my way out of that paper bag so easily. It seems to go back and forth, without truly fixing the problems. I know and have always known how to cope with things, it is merely a lack of desire to accept things as they are, and often the true inability to flip them around, at that point it was due to the fact that I wasn't an adult. These days it is merely the choices of fate, and luck.
What did I do to become happy? Got the heck out of therapy! It kept spinning me around and around... I felt like a ping pong ball... when I got out into the world I kept begging to be released to I felt 100% better.
We all have trouble sometimes, and certain things which just urk us a bit, we all desire a better world, a more simple yet beautiful one. That does not make a person depressed. Some people are happy in sadness, just as some people as we all can grasp in a place like this, enjoy pain. Some people find greater meaning and joy in dwelling on sad things, it sometimes makes them better people, not always of course.
I believe that being labeled with Depression more often than not is giving a person a valid sometimes legal excuse to procrastinate and not "live" but merely exist. Far too many times I have had friends who I asked to do things with me and they would say "I can't today, I'm depressed, maybe when these meds kick in" ~ months later "Oh, they're changing my meds, maybe when they kick in" ~ later still "Maybe some day, this is a long term thing you know" ~ Years later "Sorry......... I just can't"............ These are true examples of excuses I have been given........
A way I used to make myself happy is by smiling. As soon as you smile, it tends to do something....... it just, lifts you. We all survive as long as we are meant to. Whatever you do, make sure it truly makes you happy, and is important to you. So many times I hear young adults saying that they listen to angry music when they are upset because it "helps" them..... it doesn't..... it more often than not makes them hostile, and more sad..... with a "Fuck You" attitude towards the world...... If you're one of the rare few who uses it as a true release well then bravo! You're a rare gem and deserve applause for it. It is difficult, but you just need to release those feelings into the beat of the music, and not inflate them.
Anyway, enough ramble from me........ So.... get yappin! Oh, and SMILE! :)
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