The fuck?

Anyway hope you get over this funk-we all have them, just try to focus on something positive, a hobby, an outlet here will be good for you.

This may or may not help but when I got back from Iraq I used Anime as a sort of distancing device between me and the crap that happened, I saw and felt when it got bad, I mean Its hard to forget something you can see every time you look in a mirror but it helped a little bit, all the shows I watched introduced me to their own little worlds, their own little people and their own little problems. So for a few minutes I could be like I had never been injured, had never seen the various things that aren't fit for this discussion and just the sheer inhumanity, fiction is a long time outlet.

People have lost themselves in books, comics and etc for a long time, for me my outlet was Anime, hence why I suggest finding something like that.

Sully are you okay?

That's just mean, I mean how is that emotion ever getting happier if everyone just hates them? Depressions are just so clingy because they desperately long for a hug. Give in to them, pet it, nurse it, maybe treat them to a fancy dinner.



Now without the jokes, I can't say I'm familiar with depressions, but I had a pretty bad bout with a case of blow-out: the kind of nearly quitting university and job (though I did miss a lot of lectures, didn't take half the exams and didn't show up for some shifts I was planned for and only avoided being kicked out by the skin of my teeth and a very, very understanding boss), not meeting up with friends, not even calling up any family for a couple months to the point where they drove half through the country to check on me.

I was at the time studying AND working nightshift basically every day that I didn't spend at university (and I don't think I have to tell anyone how screwed up your sleepcycle and thus how little actual sleep you get when you have only little time for resting and at irregular times every odd day) to support myself.

Or in short: I'm sick of the world and just want to be left alone completely and sleep kind of blow out. Hell, my parents wanted me to see a psychotherapist at first, though after they literally picked me up (well okay, I was planned in for the day and the next for work and the boss couldn't just give me free on the spot, but (talk about an understanding boss!) I got the next day off and got leave for the following three weeks so I packed my stuff and practically went directly from working the nightshift for that day to jumping into the train home and had two and a half weeks of intensive family-love treatment.

It helped. I can't even really communicate how destroyed I was, but those weeks of proper sleep (I think the first couple nights I slept fifteen hours straight like a rock each), proper food (you don't eat healthy when you're stressed out like I was) and plain lots of love really brought me back to speed. They also kicked me in my butt and downright forcibly drafted my friends from university to get me outside regularily when I got back, dragging me by the ear if need be (those were the words of my mother, my father suggested (a) more intimate and painful spot(s) to drag me by ...), though I managed to avoid my eager friends (who were looking for payback after I had neglected them) dragging me out by going voluntarily. Regular phone calls, a less stressful shift plan (again, the understanding boss, can't be understated!) and the lecture-free time between semesters later and we managed to really pull me out of that blow-out completely.

So yeah, first and best thing you can do in cases of extreme stress (or highly emotional pressure), run for your family, get lots of hugs, good food and force your timetable to give yourself more time to rest and relax. Helps a metric fuckton!

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Yeah I hate depression as well Sully, but to truly make it stop you have to find out what the source of the problem is, and then take the necessary steps to get better. I've heard anti-depressants can help, but I really don't think that would eliminate the problem all together. Regardless though, we're here to help you get through this if we can.

Nice, I have Cheetor and whoever looks like a pterodactyl. At least I think it's a purple pterodactyl.

Sul, any chance you'd be up for voicing some TF stuff as well?

Just recording random lines and speeches from the series (and/or games) on Vocaroo. Was planning to do this BW Megatron thing sometime soon already, but would be interesting if there was someone around to one-up me so I don't get too comfortable.

Comfort yourself with the fact that at least you're not me OP.

I suffer from clinical depression and my solution is drinking and undermining everybody around me, try those.