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Published: 2010-03-31 11:50:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 1148; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 32
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I am feeling so depressed lately. I have no reason to. But sometimes I just do.A long time ago I had severe depression for a couple of years, and I feel like some times I am experiencing aftershocks of that.
I just feel for a week or two like not going outside, going out of my room, or doing anything. Eating, sleeping, drawing, etc. Everything seems so monumental, and tremendously hard to accomplish.
When I sleep I don't even get into bed, I just sleep in this chair. And I really need to shave. Badly.
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One unusual phenomenon I have noticed seems to occur during the course of these mini depressions. I start reading about a lot of morbid and macabre things. I especially waste my time looking up ship wrecks (usually on wikipedia). One thing that strikes me is that the old "women and children first" rule seems to have actually killed far more women and children than it saved... that is that for various reasons the first lifeboats launched tended to be the ones that sunk, overturned, got smashed in heavy waves against rocks, or whatever. For some reason nature just seems to hate women and children in lifeboats. In fact there are SCORES of shipwrecks where not a SINGLE woman or child survived, despite the fact that the women and children rule was intended to keep them safest. REALLY WEIRD EH?
I think one of the worst ones was the SS Valencia... anyway I'm rambling.
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I feel like that sometimes too. I think it may be common in artsy and creative types.
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the next time you get depressed, skip the shipwreck wiki and draw a chihuahua. sketching a chihuahua will snap you back to productivity.
I don't know what it is about those little bug-eyed things, but they are imbued with soul-saving POWER!
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i had super depression a while back. and i couldn't do anything. and now its hitting me in the face.
this advice.... from the guy 2 above me: "buy ice cream, force yourself to make sport, if you have a girlfried etc. have the whole day sex"
admittedly sometimes i want to have the whole day sex with you. badly. especially when we are both depressed and need a shave.
who am i kidding. i want to have the whole day sex with you. ALL the
time.
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lololol your place or mine hun buns?
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did you not sleep or just up early?
depression sure sucks.
could be havin sex.
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we would probably start at my place. and then get on a train while continuously having sex.
train sex.
and eventually we would end up at your place.
i think thats how these the whole day sex things work. it makes you better. but i'm pretty sure we would just keep going.
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I don't think they allow that on trains.
Maybe a private slumber party would be more appropriate.
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probably.
in other news my nose bled for the first time in years just now. i forgot how strange it is to have nosebleeds. did you know attila the hun died from a nosebleed?
must be all this pervy talk. my new life goal is to have the whole day of sex.
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jajaja I had a nosebleed yesterday in the first time in forever.
But I think it had more to do with my allergies than where my mind was.
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my room is just really dry. blergh im too broke for a humidifier.
school. gross.
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I kind of go through that as well. It seems like when you're in one of those melancholy moods nothing you try to draw comes out right. Even so, I'd like to see you do some sort of mini comic showing what you're like in one of those moods. I'd like to see how you would approach that. Say, if you do one, next time I'm in one of those moods I'll do one as well.
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Thats totally normal for artists because they use a lot of soulenergy during they create artworks. So they need a break.
I have this breaks too. Just sleeping the whole day, watching stuff, hanging around etc.
And after a while the energy level is high again and the drawing etc. begins again.
This kind of depressions can have a lot of reasons but the most time the reasons are in childhood.
There are a lot of things what can make high your energy level. If you feel this depressions then you can just rest and sleep and wait until you feel better enough to stand up. Or buy ice cream, force yourself to make sport, if you have a girlfried etc. have the whole day sex, if you feel anger then kick the face of a villian or a person you hate etc.
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i suppose you're on wiki looking up the meaning and origin of 'rime'?
hurrhurr you know ilu. <3
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I already know the origin. = 3=
cause i'm smart like that
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Ah, so you and I are not so different after all... except that I'm much better looking but I won't hold that against you.
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I think everyone I know had these kind of feelings, including my self. The best thing is not to get walced over by the feelings... Doing nothing or browsing randomly the net is destructive D:
One has to keep thinking about fresh important things and stay occupied even when you don't feel like.
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my favorite way to waste time on wikipedia is to read articles from the list of people who disappeared mysteriously and the list of unsolved murders and deaths . lots of intriguing stuff there.
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i always look up serial killers and stuff on wikipedia
mainly cannibals :I
but i hope you feel better
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your work is amazing, so don't doubt yourself. it's normal to still have aftershocks of depression, but you just have to rise above it.
anyway, i hope you feel better!
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I hear you man. It's something that you always have to battle. To make things worse, those feelings usually hit you when you're already down and drained of energy, and it kind of cycles in on itself. Having good coping tools is the only way to go -- you can't really stop it from happening, but when it does you know what to do to stave it off from creeping in worse. That's funny about the shipwreck stuff, that really is true! Women and children get the shitty end of things all too often, but it is interesting... When I was a kid one of my favorite things to do was read the encylopedia when I was bored or drained (this is before wikipedia, lol!) Now I do what you do and just kind of research strange things for the fun of it. There's nothing wrong with examining the darker side of things, especially if it puts things in perspective. In a way it can be quite a relief of sorts. Anyway, such is the life of a creative person who is never satisfied with what has been put in front of you -- there is always more out there -- more to learn, more to the story, more things to be done, more joy to be had... Also, more pain, but that's okay too...what can we do but be the best that we can? When you look around, there is always some support there for you, even in the stangest places and people sometimes.
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Lately I got these feelings too sometimes, but the most important thing now is NOT TO GO TO TVTROPES. It'll only make things worse!!!!!!!!!
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There is no need to shave. Grow a beard.
Go outside,lie on the grass and watch the clouds go by.
Draw ships!
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I hate the way beards feel though.
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You must know,then,that "the way beards feel" hates you,too.
It is by inducing stronger feelings of hatred within your enemy that you ultimatively beat him and gain the upperhand. Insodoing,you can overcome that feeling of depression and make people think that you're a homeless dude!
HEIL GAGA
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I can't explain why I like this so much, but my word. I do, I do.
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love it with every iota of your soul.
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