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Old Sep 27, 2015, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by mforbez View Post
So, I don’t really know where to start this, but I’ve been dealing with depression and social anxiety for years now and I’m only getting worse. I feel extremely uncomfortable in almost every social situation and this has led me to isolate myself. I’m only 17 and am still in high school, which is basically torture for a person like me. I was bullied in middle school and have always been rejected by the majority of my peers. I usually just wallow in my sadness, but recently things have changed. Along with my depressive thoughts I have started to experience extreme amounts of anger and hate. Every time I go to school I see all of the other people who seem to be perfectly fine and recently its been pissing me off. I constantly think of the people who have rejected me or taken advantage of my kindness, and I want them to pay in some way. These feelings have made me hate my peers as I grow angrier at the unfairness of it all. Why should others get to have perfectly normal lives, while I am afraid to go out in public? And yes, I’m aware that everyone has their problems, but I’ve heard that said so many times before and I guess I’m just sick of hearing it. I don’t know what I expect to get from posting this, I just wanted to voice (or type) my thoughts. I just don’t understand, I’ve been really nice to the majority of people I’ve come across and they either take advantage of me or reject me. I don’t even want to be accepted by people anymore. I just want to be happy any way possible I don’t care anymore.
Hi mforbez,

This just came up in the "Coping with Emotions" section...

Without realizing or deciding, a depressed person will stop deciding what they think and feel. This makes them vulnerable to ruminating thoughts that feed on themselves. Thinking and feeling responses become hypersensitive and long lasting because of that.

For example, for a healthy person, if something irritating happens, they are irritated for a while and then they go on to something else. For a depressed person, the irritation feeds on itself. You don't think about it once and feel irritated, you think about it 100 times over and over and over again. Over time, this makes you hypersensitive to the various things that can make you angry. Tiny things will then set you off for a long lasting out of proportion emotional response.

That's why, I believe, being irritated or angry or afraid all the time is a sign of depression. I believe that the stereotypical angry teenager or grumpy old man are most likely depressed.

I believe that all this is caused by that one underlying mechanism explained in the notes.

http://egg.bu.edu/~youssef/SNAP_CLUB...0164151576.pdf

- vital