I play l4d2 with this bro that has no legs.

I always acknowledged that other people had it a lot worse. It just doesn't matter, it has no bearing on your life. And if your condition fucks up no one's life but your own; why bother feeling guilty about that?

A WOW addicted that got his account deleted by his troll brother can be as much depressed as an aidetic quadriplegic with down syndrome.

>>8687161

So it's like "I have all the opportunity and luxury in the world but I'm a gloomy cunt just because"

Cool life philosophy, bro.

I've been to 3 different doctors/psychs and they all said I have depression, I guess it explains alot of things for me but I still know alot of people have life worse off than me. Im not some emo that cuts himself and tells everyone about it, I kinda guess that if you are unhappy, then you are unhappy no matter about the situation, obviously being unhappy about not getting something is different to being unhappy about rape but it depends on the person.

lol I don't give a shit. My problem is mine. Their problem is theirs. I'll baww about my problems like someone with rights should.

>>8687191

When I think I was clinically depressed it was kind of like... I just didn't give a fuck about anything. Not in a wannabe hardcore or emo way. It was like that part was gone and I just went about my business as a mostly unfeeling robot.

I did grow up in poverty, and I have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. You don't have to justify depression. It sucks just as much as the rest.

>>8687212

I suppose the first amendment is essentially "the right to b'aww, isn't it..."

I have social anxiety. As in the real thing, diagnosed.

I can hardly leave my own bedroom without being utterly terrified. I can barely even talk to my own parents over the phone.

Coming home from a day at work I want to fucking kill myself for being so pathetic I can't even talk to my colleagues.

My life is pretty shit.

well, depression isn't so much about thinking "omg my life situation sucks." at least, not in terms of money/having all your limbs/having a family/etc. you know it's kind of good, or at least you know you have it better than others. the part that sucks is you can't take advantage of the good things you have because you can hardly drag yourself out of bed. and you don't believe you deserve to have what you have anyway.

well, that's how it is for me. i go to an amazing school and fucking love this place, but i get shitty grades and have no work ethic and fall asleep whenever i try to do anything.

I knew a quad who was set on fire by his wife. He died as a result of his injuries.

>>8687123
There's clinical depression and being down.

Depression is when you're down for no reason. So those people wouldn't be depressed they'd be rightfully down. Depression is a mental illness, being upset over having a shit life is... correct functionality.

Also people tend to adjust relatively and so they get used to a certain life and react to changes rather than absolutes.

Troll over.

I had testicular cancer and now I only have one ball.

I wouldn't say I'm depressed, but I live a pretty miserable life.

Your conditions may be different to someone elses.

And yeah, actually I have. My best friend has been diagnosed with a multiple personality disorder, resulting in severe depression. Her Dad is disabled and has continuously been getting worse since she was little, she can never remember him being able to walk, she was sexually molested as a child, has been raped as a child and even now still can't escape that. Her family live on 9 grand for a full year.

It makes me pretty fucking thankful for what i have, but I still get stressed and feel crap, y'know? If your situation makes you feel bad, you shouldn't feel horrible for being so ~*omg selfish*~ like some people would yell.
It's better to let it out sometimes.

i am seriously the kind of person who will look at the world around me and think about how beautiful and amazing it is, then bawwwing because i suck so much.

Well assuming someone has actual depression and isn't just a whiny emofag, depression really IS a chemical imbalance. They can have the best life ever and still be depressed. Shut the fuck up and KNOW WHAT YOU ARE FUCKING TALKING ABOUT BEFORE YOU TALK ABOUT IT, SHIT STAIN.

BTW, not depressedfag here.

It was a day I got told my former HS buddy got cancer at age 21 I realized my life is actually pretty chill.

>>8687123

people in these fucked up states are psycologically as happy as anyone, probably happier than you OP in some cases

you can get rich people who get laid all the time getting depression too

its all a day-to-day state of mind really

Wow OP is a stupid cunt.

>>8687344

How's your "depression" going, bro? Was it brought about because mom cancelled your xbox live account, or was it something REALLY SERIOUS like a girl turning you down?

>>8687265
Same here. OCD and social anxiety disorder, both diagnosed and reaffirmed by multiple doctors and therapists.

I cannot leave the house alone, can barely touch a phone much less use one, haven't been able to hold a job in four years, haven't been able to go to class in two, don't talk to anyone outside my immediate family. My medication fucks with my sleep and my sex drive, I stay awake for 40+ hours at a time and I can get it up, but barely ever orgasm.

It's not as bad as being schizophrenic or a quad, of course, but I am disabled and it does suck on a daily basis.

>>8687123
Yes, and they still enjoyed life more than I have.

There's really no benefit in having a good life when you can't feel joy. And, no, it's not that I intentionally try to achieve this. I've just lost interest and enjoyment in things that used to entertain me quite a lot.

I'm not depressed. I'm angry and have every right to be. There's a big difference.

>>8687123

I cite my abysmal lack of coping skills.

Also, I hope you have more photos or videos of this woman, otherwise you will have gotten my hopes up for nil.

>>8687402

OP here. Sorry bro, I even tried to tineye here and didn't have any luck.

She looks SCARILY like my friend's gf, I'm still not 100% sure it's not her. Maybe i should just convince my friend to hook me up with some nudes haha.

>hurr guys depression isn't a real problem that affects people and i say you arent allowed to have it. now excuse me while i fuck bitches with my 30 foot cock and backflip into my Maserati

dont act all high and might when you are picking on depressed guys on 4chan. fucking pathetic

>>8687191
no one chooses to be depressed, douchebag
i started taking pills and they worked.
i had no "reason" to be depressed, but when I was, I imagined I did
The brain runs on a lot of shit, and sometimes that shit CAN INDEED become unbalanced
get off your high horse

I've said it before an i'll say it again.

The nail in the coffin for "depression" is all the faggots who say "I used to have depression and all the drugs in the world didn't help, then [x] happened and i got over it" and [x] is always some gay shit like they found god or had a near death experience or went to a poor country or some shit.

If it's that easy to will yourself out of it's really a fucking joke.

>>8687358
a third of my current lifespan was wasted in a toxic relationship and I was betrayed by the one person I put all of my trust and faith in.
inb4 >yeah bro that's what you get for putting all your trust and support system in one person bro LOLOLOLOL
i know.
i tell myself that.
every.
fucking.
day.

>>8687516
Sometimes things happen at nearly the same time, and people blame the disappearance of one thing on the appearance of another. This is a logical fallacy as there is no immediate reason to believe a causal relationship simply by the fact that they happened to have happened at a coincidental time. They may have committed this basic error.

Additionally, those people may not have been depressed in the first place, as psychiatric medicine is not a perfect science. Given the nature of people, you can't expect it to be easy to really communicate truthfully what is happening inside their minds.

>>8687519

You know that pretty much everyone with a sex drive and four limbs go through this shit, and eventually nearly fucking everyone realises they just have to man up and get over it.

>>8687567
yeah well i'll take the advice of my shrink over some douchebag on 4chan
thanks for playing
stupid bitch

>>8687596

You're seeing a shrink because you went through a bad breakup?

Jesus christ you're a pathetic fucking faggot, that shrink must be laughing themselves to sleep.

>>8687567
not everyone is the same, man. people are born with innately different personalities and psychological makeup
a breakup like that could just be a month's worth of the blues to one guy, and a devastating psychological incident that begins a history of panic attacks to another guy

you are not a doctor, or a psychologist, or a psychiatrist

seriously dude, grow up

>>8687605
well that and my anger issues, watching my father beat my mother when i was a child and forgetting about it until very recently, being harassed all through elementary school and having teachers just like you give me the brush off, and what I'm increasingly sure is a slowly emerging schizophrenic state of mind

>>8687605
If you said this in front of me IRL , I would punch you in the mouth. That's not 4chan internet tough guy speak, you are a fucking asshole.

people who don't understand depression constantly embarrass themselves by talking about it. This phenomenon is alternately enraging and hilarious. I don't understand where people get off telling the depressed to just choose to not be depressed. how unintelligent and childish that is.

My dad has cancer. My aunt was diagnosed one too, few days ago. Family is in huge debt, and we'll loose our house before the end of year. I'm depressed as fuck, since I can't help any of it... Is that enough for you ?!

when someone tells me they're depressed i change the subject for 2 reasons:
1) i dont want to listen to their bullshit
2) i'm not buying their bullshit

I actually do have a chemical imbalance and I've been struggling with depression on and off for almost 10 years now. Attempted suicide once and almost a second time but I was caught. The only thing that's helped is drugs and they eventually lose effectiveness. Most of the people that say they have depression are just dumb shits who are having an off day.

It is a chemical imbalance, just because your a hot shot who doesn't have depression so you like to troll people who have it..

And besides, only pussies feel sorry for those who are worse off - fact. (Stop watching those shitty starving African charity adverts on TV, there's people starving in western countries too.)

>>8687796

If you wanted to be dead you would be, man up.

>when someone tells me they're depressed i change the subject for 2 reasons:
1) im a faggot
2) i'm a cocksucker

Fixed.

>>8687796
wow, even fags who HAVE depression don't understand it. disgusting. ignorance is disgusting. especially when there's so much information available. you're like a religious person.

>>8687796
I find the thing that helps is saying "it's a chemical imbalance, it's wrong I feel this way". You know it's true half the time, when you sit and look at what you have you can't argue any other way.

Not saying it's a miracle cure, but maybe you should, you know, fight it yourself too?

If your depression is not based on chemical imbalance, you are obviously a fag and should get rid of yourself.

>>8687810

How do I not understand it? What I'm talking about is people who run around boo-hooing about their depression, cutting themselves in conspicuous places as a cry for attention. Or people who go on and on about how much their privileged life sucks and how miserable they are. They're like self-diagnosed schizophrenics. People like that are stupid and they trivialize the disorder to the point where others no longer take it seriously, proclaiming it to be a made up problem. So excuse me for a being a little damn sore over people like that.

Yeah, and it just made me feel worse. I mean, here's a guy who has a reason to feel like shit. I have absolutely no reason to feel like shit. Everything bad that has happened in my life has been my fault, literally everything, and knowing that makes me feel worse than I did before.

Feels bad, man. :(

>>8687836

I have fought it myself. Right now I'm on a regime of daily exercise and a strict diet low in refined foods and sugars and it's helped me more than anything. Lately I've been feeling pretty good.

And I absolutely would never claim to have a bad life. I know how privileged I am, and thinking about my depression in those terms makes me feel so guilty it just compounds the problem.

>>8687808

FYI homosexuals are more sensitive to the surroundings therefore more likely to listen/help you. He's just an alpha male

I think a lot of people use "depression" as a scapegoat. Life as a whole, is full of bad patches. You're going to experience times when you feel terrible. Whether it's because you're lonely, poor, stuck in a rut, heartbroken, feel ugly, whatever, it's going to happen at least once in the average life time.

I think our generation is convinced that if you feel down, there absolutely must be a medical reason for it. People need a diagnosis to label themselves and a quick fix (medication, therapy, etc). They need that thing there to fall back on, to hold their hand and give them a reason to live a different life.

I'm not claiming that clinical depression doesn't exist, I can't, I've worked with people who suffer severely from it. But I am saying that depression is FAR too widely diagnosed. People need to realise that there is such thing as sadness and grief, they are both normal human emotions.

I try and live my life as positively as possible. There are days when the littlest thing will make me sad, I get wound up and worry far too much...but I wouldn't call that a disorder. It's just normal.

ITT: self-diagnosis

>>8687948
You know schizophrenics almost always have depression? You're an ignorant cretin.

>>8688016

> schizophrenics

all i see is self diagnosis, teen angst and being spoiled by democracy.

My mom has MS and can't walk(or do anything by herself, really). I have facial deformities(goldenhar syndrome) and never leave the house anymore.

I'd say these things are enough to depress anybody.

>>8688016

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>>8687945

Depression is something every single fucking person on earth experiences at least once. I'm getting sick of people pretending this shit is some sort of contagious disease.

>>8687945
Anyone who's taken psych 101 knows that almost everyone will at least on occasion show elements of at least one psychiatric disease. It just becomes a problem when it begins to take over your life. Then when it does take over your life, it's up to you as an individual to make the decision of whether to seek treatment.

Alright.

I know my neighbour's from the building next to mine. They are called Daltons, cos there are that many of them. All I know is two of them, the youngest and the one just older than he is. Anyway...they are poor, and been in juvie, deal drugs, steal from chinese shops, bust parking cars windshields, extort money from other kids...generally I like them! I used to help them a lot so they won't get much picked on. But seriously, they are real bro's keeping eyes out for each other! They're 15,13 now...

>>8688112
i'm getting sick of people thinking they need to control everyone elses lives.

>>8688112
You know, you're just coming out as a fuckwad. Of course, some people feel the MOOD depression, since it's an evolutionary response to avoid mentally harmful situations. But people can become locked in the DISORDER depression, due to whatever reasons.

>>8688112

Thanks for referring to my post. I don't necessarily believe they see it as a contagious thing, as most people who self-diagnose themselves with depression (and the other people you're referring to in this thread) are some of the most self-obsessed people ever, who think they're the only ones to ever suffer from it.

However I do find it difficult to believe that everybody on this site (seemingly) has clinical depression. We're talking a chemical imbalance, a genuine case of depression, not just feeling a bit blue. I cannot understand what the link between all these people could be, I don't see why they'd all have the disorder. Therefore I'm led to believe that it's actually more of a lifestyle thing than a medical issue. Lifestyle meaning = brought up with the internet, very few social skills, few friends, no social life, no confidence, no job, no life structure or goals.

I'm not saying everybody on this site is like this, nor am I saying that everybody who suffers from depression falls into this category...it's just odd that SO many people on this site suffer from the same thing and they've all been diagnosed.

I lived in somewhat poverty-like conditions. I always had cheap good-will or walmart clothes to wear, but more often than not my parents would go into debt over something stupid. For example, they'd decide they didn't like the color of the house, they wanted a new door, new windows etc (just because they got tired of it, not because things wear wearing down/looking bad) so they'd spend asinine amounts of money on remodeling the house every goddamn year.

They've also gotten their identities stolen several times and fallen for just about every scam out there.

We'd often be left with little to no food money. When I was five I lived off of old cake icing and kool-aid for several weeks.

There was also some cases of neglect, I started getting epileptic seizures when I was six years old. It happened several times in front of my mother, sometimes when I was sleeping. They were sometimes violent, but she just passed them off was "muscle spasms" and refused to get me checked.

I got diagnosed with a brain tumor eleven years later when doctors noticed something wasn't quite right with me. They had to force my mother into taking me. My mother's reasoning for not doing anything was because several of my cousins and relatives had died from epilepsy-related shit, and brain tumors, and if I got diagnosed she was worried that I would die.

I still don't know wtf.

Most of my childhood has been a constant headache to say the least. I facepalm every time I have to talk to these people.

No one needs to justify depression.

>>8687358
It's because I can't sleep, when I am able to I wake up within 30 minutes drenched in sweat and feeling like I am about to die. It's because I've lost 20lbs due to nausea and vomiting. It's because my muscles are so tense they cause intense pain and spasm regularly throughout the day. It's because I have tinnitus all day. It's because I cough and vomit blood. It's because my body is going numb due to blood circulation that won't improve. That's not even the tip of the iceberg.

I'm happy as fuck, so you lose OP.

>>8688285
continued.

I was diagnosed with depression around six, but they all insisted it was a chemical imbalance and refused to let me have any "talk therapy" sessions or counseling.

I'm 22 and I moved out of the house and area about two years ago, and I can honestly say the depression disappeared.

Sometimes it's just situational.

>>8688164

One in six Americans, bro. It's an astonishingly common mental illness. Probably something to do with urban, post-industrial lifestyle changes.

Dear GOD!!! Thank you OP!!!!!

>>8688329

probably more to do with doctors over diagnosing so they can keep pushing pills on people who don't need them. same deal with add.

>>8688329

Wow, that really is surprising.

>justify your puerile "depression"

Don't have to, it exists regardless of how other people have it.

There are chemical imbalances that cause Clinical Depression, dude. Yes, I've met cancer survivors and shit. No, I don't justify me being depressed. I'm just sad. Leave me alone.

I'm a quadriplegic. I call out all you bitches at every opportunity on here, especially the cunts. Unless you shit yourself like a retard you don't have a debilitating mental illness. That means you depression faggots. All fat asses with handicap parking tags should also be incinerated as fuel. They all do nothing and just get bigger.

Everyone's problems are important to them, bro. Things are rough all over and ect ect. It's not an issue of 'comfort' or opportunity, it's an issue of attitude. Someone with the right attitude will be happy all the time, regardless of what happens. Someone with a poor attitude will be sad all the time, regardless of what happens. It's just that there're so many people out there that LET themselves be depressed and just wallow in self pity instead of working on changing their mindset and getting on with their fucking life.

WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE HAPPY JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE?!

>>8687123
I don't have the best life but I don't have the worst - yet 2 friends I know who are practicing "professionals" say I have a chemical imbalance and should be treated for depression (both of them have offered to pay for this.) I have politely declined. I plan on having a shattering disassociate personality incident as well - for the "lulz"

I detect the putrid stench of samefaggotry flowing out of this thread.

My depression is rooted in a stagnation of my physical development as a young child, which led to my being ostracized by my peers. That's how I justify it.

For me it really is a chemical imbalance, for lack of a better term. I can imagine there are some who "resort to it" because they're really just whiny bitches or they're deluding themselves or whatever. But anyway, for me it's quite obviously a physical/chemical phenomena and not a mental/psychical.

To prove my point: I have OCD and occasionally depression (the two are strongly related and comorbid). My elder sister has OCD. My elder brother has depression. My younger sister has depression. My younger brother has OCD. My mother has chronic, severe depression and paranoid delusions. My father has OCD and depression. My grandfather had depression and committed suicide around age 50. My father's grandmother had severe bipolar disorder. Another 5-10 relatives (can't exactly remember which) have also had depression and/or OCD and/or bipolar disorder. So quite obviously, there's a big fucking genetic heritage in our family, hence, it's chemical, not mental.

>>8687519
bro that's what you get for putting all your trust and support system in anything

FUCK TRUST AND SUPPORT. DO IT ON YOUR OWN!

Yes, I actually have a reason to be depressed. I don't mind people who think they have just a chemical inbalance, it's the people who lay it on thickly for attention that piss me off.

I have a friend (I swear I do) who has been raped 5 times.
She's 15 now.
She's as wierd as me and she can barely use the internet.

fuck you that's only in the comics