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Originally Posted by BadWolfC
, I was put on antidepressants for several years because the doctors thought it was chemical depression. The meds didn't ever help the nearly 10 years I was on them, most of them just made me sick. I tried therapy several times over the course of about 5 years, and that never helped either. I didn't realize until recently that the reason nothing made me feel any better is because I'm not like most people with depression. I have existential depression, not chemical depression.
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Can you explain this better for me?
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The world is a total mess, and I think most people just ignore it because it scares them. It seems to me that it's gotten to the point where it can't be completely ignored anymore, but now we're past the point of no return. Even if every person on earth united and did anything possible to fix all of the world's problems, it would still be broken. And I suppose that's why I just can't care about anything anymore. It doesn't matter what I do, it never will. It never has. And on top of that, there's no way my life is ever going to be happy. Even if the world wasn't so screwed up, I'd still be a lonely outcast with no money, no job, no car, no friends, and no future. I'm a failure. I just don't know if the world failed me, or if I failed the world.
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What if you saw it as.. people are not ignoring the mess that the world may be but they are choosing to think positively and not let the messy world mess them up? Attitude can help a lot. I know when I start thinking about all the crap that makes me seem like a bad person it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. "Well I already suck at this, this and this so why bother?" or I project negative before its happend: "I will never find love because I suck and do not deserve it" well, if that is what you project and think then your own natural reaction will be to make that come true. I am not saying positivity cures all but as an ex -catastrophic, negative thinker I can tell you that its easy to fall prey to our own worst selves.