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#26
Feb 16, 2014, 07:10 PM
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OH! How could I have forgotten?! Someone shared this here quite awhile back, and it's just the thing:
Heheheh. |
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#27
Feb 17, 2014, 08:23 PM
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I am laughing my head off! Love the sarcasm. First good laugh I have had in a while. If thinking only positive thoughts worked then we wouldn't need pdocs! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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#28
Feb 17, 2014, 08:26 PM
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Rotflmao! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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#29
Feb 17, 2014, 10:57 PM
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I fukn hate FB I stopped going on it bc the little positive poems bug the hell out of me. And so do the Bible scriptures. I do not mean to sound disrespectful, hateful and blasphemy. It's just that it would not just be one. My newsfeed would be LOADED would them back to back. Reading them did not change my mood not one big in fact it only pissed me off more. I turn to social media when I'm trying to escape from what's on my mind. I seek something mellow like info from pages I "liked" on FB.
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#30
Feb 18, 2014, 01:48 AM
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[QUOTE=Teacake;3579483]I know.
Makes you want to reply with photos of dead cats hanging on a clothes line and the latest counts of child war casualties and soldier suicides. The road to hell is littered with cute pictures of fluffy bunnies. Hahaha I loved this comment so very much. I so badly needed to laugh, And also might try this idea! Too awesome! |
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Feb 19, 2014, 06:46 PM
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That's OK. Some asshat 'friend' of mine posted a picture of a hanging, dead elephant that had been "executed" for trampling one of her trainers, somewhere back in the 1930s or something. I could've done without that. I've got a wicked sense of humor but wasn't NOTHIN funny about that, not at all.
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| hamster-bamster, Happy Camper
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#32
Feb 20, 2014, 04:33 PM
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I had to take a hiatus from FB because of things like this. Everyone seeming so happy and I was in the worse depression possible. 2 months off FB and I don't miss it much and I think its just what I need right now while I get myself together.
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#33
Feb 20, 2014, 07:02 PM
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  The other day a friend of mine posted up some photo-story about some guys written complaints about a coworker. It was posted at something humourous. It was plain and simple workplace bullying that the man had been subjected to, so I pointed that out right away. My friend responded and said something along the lines of me taking the humour of things.
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Feb 20, 2014, 08:45 PM
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People who think non-humorous things are humorous don't have much sensitivity or compassion. Some things are never funny.
Hangin' in there
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| Axiom, BipolaRNurse
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#35
Feb 20, 2014, 09:19 PM
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I know someone who says, "Not positive, but possible". I like that.
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Feb 21, 2014, 02:52 PM
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My suspicion is that unhappy people read some meme that helps them feel better and they think it will help others... Not realizing that it is just making some of us feel worse. I don't blame them.... I avoid them. PC and my friends here understand me and so I hang out here instead of FB. Hugs
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#37
Feb 22, 2014, 01:25 PM
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 That and unicorn threesomes. Last edited by Axiom; Feb 22, 2014 at 01:44 PM. |
| BipolaRNurse, Trippin2.0
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#38
Feb 22, 2014, 01:32 PM
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"And currently, my biggest ire (as in the biggest thing to piss me off in the past 3 minutes) are all the little positive sayings that float around on fb in pictures."
Oh yes, I am with you on this. Sometimes these little clever sayings make me want to break things...but I won't Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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#39
Feb 22, 2014, 01:46 PM
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Positive thinking, the nameless god
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May 10, 2014, 05:46 PM
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I am So with you on this one! Super annoying to read all the "life is great" stuff when you're feeling down, angry, agitated. The only people who understand are those who also have this condition. It's not in our imagination & we do not have the power to just "think positively." It's good to have a place to rant about this stuff!
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#41
May 10, 2014, 06:10 PM
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Red Panda thanks for this thread, it was great and not once anywhere did anyone say in the face positive crap. I laughed anyway.
Now whenever I see a fluffy bunny I'll think about the road to hell and mentally post pics of hanging dead cats to all those annoyingly cheerful people. 
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#42
May 10, 2014, 07:17 PM
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I see stereotypical so-called positive thinking (it isn't raining, I see rainbows and butterflies!! The puddles and wetness aren't happening!!) as a form of denial so people can function for a little while. I don't think it's very useful beyond about five minutes! Surely a better way is realism (yes, today does in fact suck badly) along with applied optimism (it sucks but there has to be a way to improve this situation, I believe I can do that ...), and looking for real positives (today sucks, yesterday sucked, but last month was okay and maybe tomorrow can be also).
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| hamster-bamster, PoorPrincess
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#43
May 10, 2014, 07:30 PM
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#44
May 10, 2014, 07:58 PM
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I hate the whole "positive thinking" movement. It irritates the hell out of me. It's BS. Thanks for starting this thread. It's nice to know I'm not the only one fed up with that ****!
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May 10, 2014, 09:17 PM
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I think people confuse positive thinking with mindfulness. Mindfulness can lead you to have more positive thoughts, but people with our disorder seem to have a faulty connection, or a switch that flips.
I do know that if I effectively practice mindfulness excercises (note the effectively), I can affect a change in my mood. And I've watched The Secret, and though I can't always control my thoughts I believe in the principle. There's a Native American story I really like about a war between the two wolves that live within us all. One is all positive emotions; joy, love, fun, compassion, gratitude, peace, friendship, etc. The other is negative emotions; hate, jealousy, fear, envy, anxiety, depression, anger, etc. An old elder is explaining this to his grandson, and the child asks him which wolf wins? The elder replies, the one you feed. I think I have gotten more effective at shortening the duration of my episodes because I have found a way to become more and more aware and mindfull of my thoughts. And by telling myself ' hey you're thinking (insert bad thing here) an awful lot... notice that?' it seems to stop the thought in it's track. So I can't rant about positive thinking with ya'll  ... even though it's supremely annoying when I'm stuck in it. I want to fight the good fight, because feeling good and thinking positive DOES feel better.
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#46
May 11, 2014, 12:31 PM
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The positivity slam for me it's akin to saying to the blind
"Just open your eyes and you'll see!!" 
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#47
May 11, 2014, 01:28 PM
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In one of my classes I took last semester we studied "Positive Psychology". We were looking for what actually makes qualifies as actual good/useful positive psychology. Positive psychology is a pretty new subject, generally used as a way for people to make money.
You could write a good self-help book. However in my opinion and experience when I am depressed that kind of stuff is not going to help. The best thing for me is to borrow from CBT and try to change what I am thinking in general. Although, that is easier said than done. |
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#48
May 12, 2014, 12:16 AM
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I am surprised that compassion was listed as a positive emotion alongside joy in the Native American tale. For me it is a very painful emotion. Not negative, no, but at times brutally painful, as if I were undergoing an open heart surgery without anesthetic. I would never put it in the same rank as joy and happiness.
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| PoorPrincess, Trippin2.0
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#49
May 12, 2014, 01:30 AM
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The deluge of unsolicited FB memes and posts (of the "positive" and "negative" varieties, both of which I find non-constructive) are why I stopped using the website. My sanity has soared.
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| Atypical_Disaster, PoorPrincess
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#50
May 12, 2014, 07:05 AM
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Oh I'm so glad this thread was started. I don't post anything on FB about my illness. So I have to lie and pretend everything is fine so I mostly don't post at all.
It's like everyone telling me "oh I've had depression just put on your big girl panties and suck it up. Really? Just live in my head for a day and then see if you have that attitude! I detest the positive thinking memes constantly in my news feed. I struggle daily to have some semblance of a life without those stupid things reminding me I'm failing. LOVE the fluffy bunnies! That made me smile
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