Coming down

[Loz]

I've been quite depressed over the past day or so, and I've just worked out that I've been coming down.

However, it's caused me to re-evaluate my life, and I'm going to make some big changes because of it.

Coming down is great!

[Sheridan]

I thought you didn't do drugs...

[Jeniffer Mills]

I hate coming down on whatever...It ruins my mood for at least a week.....One reason why i hardly do any pills, meth ,coke anymore..... The only positive effect though: IT MAKES ME HORNY AS HELL for the first 24 hours!

[gunjack]

it all depends how you do it.... coming down with a fridge full o 40's and big sack of herb is cool. coming down by yourself in moms house locked in your room trying to sleep sucks ass.

[Loz]

Originally posted by Sheridan
I thought you didn't do drugs...

I don't

I was high on life. I'm now coming down... off life.

[gunjack]

i call shenanegans on this thread

[garew]

Depression can have it's moments of enlightenment. That's for sure. Always a silver lining. Hope you get through it. :-)

[Jeniffer Mills]

Originally posted by Loz


I don't

I was high on life. I'm now coming down... off life.

As discussed before, i know what yer talking about....Fuckin rollercoaster it is.....

[Jeniffer Mills]

Originally posted by garew
Depression can have it's moments of enlightenment. That's for sure. Always a silver lining. Hope you get through it. :-)

Sometimes i love to dwell in sadness...Weird, but like addiction. In a medium ratio it`s quite ok, the scale of "3" to "4" from 6. Anything above though is cruel..

[Loz]

I spend large periods of my life depressed. I reckon that I might be manic depressive, but too scared to be diagnosed, in case it causes problems in my life.

but the come down is nicer than normal depression, since I can always see a way through, allows me to take stock of the world.

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by gunjack
it all depends how you do it.... coming down with a fridge full o 40's and big sack of herb is cool. coming down by yourself in moms house locked in your room trying to sleep sucks ass.


exactly.

[penciLneck]

you need to do something different Loz. Do you work in an office all day?

[Loz]

I have big changes in all facets of my life planned.

[penciLneck]

thats very cool. get it on it.

p.s. glad you survived the flood.

[Loz]

thanks

I am a 5th time Glastonburyer. I laugh at rain and floods.

[garew]

I figure this. If I have trouble putting my shirt on because I can hardly muster the strength. Then I'm probably clinical. I'm trying to get off my current subscription of seroquel. It helps me sleep. So afraid it's the only reason I'm able to get zzz's. I didn't sleep for a month before (had an acute anxiety attack). Wish me luck. I hate being on meds.

[gypsy_cream]

sounds bad garew...cant even imagine...best of luck to you!! <3

[Loz]

coming off meds is hell, but I reckon it's worth it in the long run

stick with it, aim for a goal, and keep to the path


probably cutting out any other drugs at the same time (especially stimulants and alcohol) will help you, too

[JonnySpeed]

7 Superfoods for the Blues (http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/SuperfoodsBlues_01192005.xml&catref=cat3810004)

[Hagbard]

Originally posted by JonnySpeed
7 Superfoods for the Blues (http://www.bhg.com/bhg/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/bhg/story/data/SuperfoodsBlues_01192005.xml&catref=cat3810004)

looks like a good link but its knackered..

[mustard gunn]

werked for me

[phil]

Originally posted by garew
I figure this. If I have trouble putting my shirt on because I can hardly muster the strength. Then I'm probably clinical. I'm trying to get off my current subscription of seroquel. It helps me sleep. So afraid it's the only reason I'm able to get zzz's. I didn't sleep for a month before (had an acute anxiety attack). Wish me luck. I hate being on meds.

sort it out for fuk sake

[phil]

dont tell me GareW, u did some Acid and now u shit your self because u keep feeling connected to everything and think u are the only one that exists? am i right or am i right. Well dont worry about it.

[grobelaar]

Manic depression is also called Bi-polar disorder as it has two extremes - depression and mania - hence manic depression... It should probably have been called manic/depression as I guess some people think it just means really bad depression...

So sufferers get really high highs and really low lows - it's usually quite severe not the sort of thing you just muddle through on your own - that's just depression and life and shit...

Have to say I sorted this out since quiting booze...

[Loz]

I find the manic times I get always end up being incredibly unproductive, though, I spend weeks just milling around, letting it all wash over me.

[djerome]

sounds like you are manic depressive, you can understand you're cycle. some peoples depression is days, some weeks (i think). sounds like yours is by the weeks? in any case i recommend exercise every day it makes the body and the mind feel better

[Loz]

mine changes, sometimes it's days, sometimes it's weeks

the longest period of real deep depression was about 3 months, that was terrible

[Hagbard]

Originally posted by djerome
sounds like you are manic depressive

I dunno if you can really say that.. I mean you've never met the guy right?.. It's fair enough for Loz to say it, but he also might be wrong... This isn't really a great topic for amateur psychologists ;)

[Loz]

I probably am wrong in all honesty. Not only am I a manic depressive, but I am also a hypacondriac and melodramatic.

[djerome]

yes you're right... you may never know...
unless you go see someone and get a diagnosis!

[stinkfinger]

i keep feeling the urges to bludgeon strangers who i walk by in the street to death, i reckon i might be psychotic, but hey, i think i can control it...

[Loz]

no, everyone gets that

[thembuzz]

mood-swings and cycles (at their most extreme) might be a symptom of manic depression, but they don't necessarily equate to the same thing. in fact, cycles like these can often be a symptom of good, honest old-fashioned depression classic. and i imagine this pattern also pretty much provides the map for everyone's lives - sometimes you feel good, sometimes you don't feel so good. it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you, per se

[Loz]

I think manic depression is more to do with the extremes of those feelings

everyone gets depressed (apart from a friend of mine, who's claimed never to have been depressed in her life - not sure whether to believe her or not) and everyone gets happy

manic depressives get extremes of the two

[gunjack]

Originally posted by grobelaar
Manic depression is also called Bi-polar disorder as it has two extremes - depression and mania - hence manic depression... It should probably have been called manic/depression as I guess some people think it just means really bad depression...

So sufferers get really high highs and really low lows - it's usually quite severe not the sort of thing you just muddle through on your own - that's just depression and life and shit...

Have to say I sorted this out since quiting booze...


yea i am a diagnosed bi polar. but fuck, the way i see it, fuck all this pussy, "oh i have this disorder or that" crap. muthafuckin cave men and aztecs and shit didnt act like such pussies. i think the "mental health community" is a fucking joke, trying to scare folks into submission and keep us sedated and easily controlled. how else do you account for the reelection of dubya? we MUST be insane.

[gunjack]

muddle through on your own. bah. i smoke lotsa weed and it keeps me from going to high or low. better than taking lithium 3 or 4 times a day and being all uncreative and numb. they say it is just a salt, but i will never take lithium again. when i was on it i was a slug. when i stopped taking it i flipped out for two weeks. now, nearly 10 years without it, i have come to recognize the start of my highs or lows, common sense and spiritual balance can do alot more than lithium or tegritol (i can't even believe they prescribed me this at one point...for fuck's sake).


anyway no psycho jokes plz.

[Hagbard]

Perhaps cave men didn't get it though, maybe it's a modern condition, we have too much time to ponder these days maybe.. we should all be out hunting woolly mammoths, it tires you out and you don't have time to think.

[gunjack]

thats the thing, ppl nowadays sit around feeling sorry for themselves and looking up conditions to justify lethargy.

[Ava]

Originally posted by stinkfinger
i keep feeling the urges to bludgeon strangers who i walk by in the street to death, i reckon i might be psychotic, but hey, i think i can control it...

thats psychopathic, not psychotic

[decadnids]

my dad claims to never have been depressed. - he said he never had time to be depressed. - i believe him.

[Theindigo]

Originally posted by Ava


thats psychopathic, not psychotic

yeah really