Serious depression...

As you know I don't understand how it can just drop down on us out of nowhere. Doesn't make sense. I have a depression on/off switch but I am not at the switch board. Maybe there is a delete button there too.

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I feel for you too. I too am seriously depressed.

A number of us seem to be riding the on the wave descending into the long dark of the night. I'm trying to take comfort in knowing I'm not alone and knowing there many here who understand what it like. Take care.

I, along with many on here I'm sure, really wish there was a delete button for out-of-nowhere depression too (and triggered depression too). How awesome that would be!

I'll second that, Newgal! I'm doing a bit better today... feeling kind-of deflated, if you know what I mean. But at least no longer at the very bottom of that dark pit. Thanks so much for your support!

I need to stop expecting the "happy people" to understand anything about anything.

Hello Zorghen: Thanks for replying to my post! You know what concerns me is this stuff we always hear about research studies that show people who are depressed have a more realistic view of life than do people who are not. This does not bode well for the future of humanity!

I am not sure what to make of that. If we were in charge would humanity be better off because we are more realistic? Of course we will never be in charge cuz only the happy people are in charge, we are to busy being depressed. Maybe that is why it doesn't bode well because only the happy people are in charge. But then there was Abraham Lincoln.

Here I go thinking to much again.

Some things are just beyond the capacity of humankind to comprehend, Zinco!

I have this unhealthy need for the happy people to understand. A lot of times I am just very open about my depression because I don't care who knows and I want to promote understanding and reduce stigma. But I often open myself up for a big argument with someone who is not capable of understanding. Its a double edged sword. Especially with my family. I want them so bad to understand and my siblings are uncomfortable about the whole topic it seems to me so they avoid it. I ran into this over Easter.

I do think the more open we are the more people are willing to learn and try to understand. Of course they will never truly understand. And I have to be very careful with my expectations. Risky business.

"Man's biggest source of unhappiness is expectations." I always believed that saying.

Hey don't forget Winston Churchill and his "black dog". How he led Britain during WWII whilst fighting depression and without modern meds is completely beyond me.

I tend to believe well never be in charge cause well never be aggressive enough. I think the "happy" people ignore those who are in charge and those in charge are just out for themselves......those with no remorse for others that they step on to get their own needs met.
Yeah, then theirs the very few like Abe, who was very realistic about life made hard decisions and suffered a great deal for it....and was shot for his pains.

HaHa wikipedia actually has a list. Just from a quick glance most are in the arts and most are writers. that is not surprising to me. Not many in positions of power. Like sidestepper says we probably have to much compassion to make it into positions of power and probably happy people do to. You have to have a desire for money and power usually, at least in politics. Not always though....I love Abe and Winston Churchill for sure.

List of people with major depressive disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia