[WhatItIs]

Hi all,

So I've noticed for many years that when I have a setback or disappointment in life (not just talking about major things...more trivial things as well) that my depression is triggered. And I feel so stupid when it's small stuff.
Does anyone else experience this?

[Rohag]

Originally Posted by WhatItIs

And I feel so stupid when it's small stuff.
Does anyone else experience this?

Absolutely yes.

For me, it's as if the emotional-cognitive substructure beneath my senses has lost the ability to distinguish between the threatening and non-threatening, the benign and the serious. Too many examples...

Originally Posted by WhatItIs

Hi all,

So I've noticed for many years that when I have a setback or disappointment in life (not just talking about major things...more trivial things as well) that my depression is triggered. And I feel so stupid when it's small stuff.
Does anyone else experience this?

I do a lot! For an example, last night I went to the pool area to use the jacuzzi to relax my aching muscles after working out. I was alone (which happens the majority of the times) and was OK with it. But then a couple came in and I didn't like them right away. They came just as I was about to leave anyways. But still it would have been nice not to see them. So I went back to my place feeling very angry. I was angry because I had to see some people that I was not crazy about and seeing a happy couple together when that's not happening to me.

Another thing that gets to me is when someone says or does something to me that's not nice. It seems like it does not take much for that to happen.

The weirdest thing of all is that I felt like I was able to cope with the death of my parents much better than I can cope with those two things that I just mentioned.

[WhatItIs]

I know what you mean...dealing with something major is often easier than the minor, every day things. I have no idea why that is!
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one...thanks for sharing

[avlady]

I've heard it said "it's the little things that get to me, not the big things", my grandmother used to tell me that all the time, she lived to be 81. She was the strongest person I ever knew, her husband, my grandfather died when a plane crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945, and she couldn't handle sweeping the floor, but could handle her husband dying in a plane crash.!!!!!!!!!