I'm really friggin miserable.

[Danger Mouse]

And I hate it. Ever get that feeling?
I love being depressed.

[SPKrazy]

1. Send In Some Clowns!

evil bastards




Sorry you're depressed


I'm there with ya!

[Danger Mouse]

2. Those are just about the sleaziest clowns i've ever seen...

the one on the right makes me think of my dad...

[SPKrazy]

3. Yeah, Google Ain't Always Your Friend!

first one I came to

:shrug:

[Danger Mouse]

4. and he looks like he wants to kiss me...

ew, sleazy clown-related nightmares...

[SPKrazy]

5. He he He

he wants you Elrond
he wants you

he wants
he

:spray:

[Danger Mouse]

6. Oh man, think i'm going to...

:puke:
well at least it's better than...

[SPKrazy]

7. Now I'm Freaked Out

come here to try to lend a hand

and now there's scary frickin' clowns!

:spray: :yoiks:

[BarenakedLady]

12. Why why why why

Do you continue to taunt me right before I go to sleep.:scared:

[TOhioLiberal]

8. Clowns are ultimate EVIL...

...so sayeth Billy on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

[SPKrazy]

9. you are right

[crim son]

10. I know the feeling well.

I'm sorry. I could tell you some things to do to try to work it out of your system but I bet you know them already. :hug: Tomorrow is another day.

[Danger Mouse]

14. Thanks for your support :)

:hug: good friends always help, and DUer's are the best friends a person could ask for.

[MoseyWalker]

11. How can you hate and love it at the same time, unless

I'm obviously missing some level of sarcasm.

If it's just a twinge of depression, take a mind altering drug, and tomorrow will be better.

If it's more than a twinge, seek out people to talk with honestly about your thoughts and feelings.

If it's a big problem, seek out the assistance of those who make it their life's work to assist in this type of thing. They really can, and do, and will, help.

peace.

[BarenakedLady]

13. I live that feeling

:hug:

[Danger Mouse]

15. I wouldn't have guessed but...

it's good to hear that someone understands, cause sometimes it feels like people don't...especially when someone is trying to start an argument with you and wondering why you're so depressed, cause you know, there has to be a REASON for it :P
argh. lol.

[BarenakedLady]

16. Or the ever popular "just snap out of it"

Or "be happy!" like you can miraculously make the fucked up neurons in your brain act correctly. Sigh...I'm sorry you are going through this. I am clinically depressed, on meds and therapy. Every day is a struggle. :hug:

[Danger Mouse]

17. I'm better now, not in a fantastic mood but not in the frame of mind i was last night...

but I know that feeling, and those words.
People often have no idea what one goes through, and couldn't care less besides. They just berate you for being miserable and wonder what's wrong with you.
And I have no use for people who criticize those who are benefited by medication...working with emotionally disturbed kids, I can tell you that medication can be a VITAL part of regulating a kid's behavior...some can't function without them.
That's why I hate that moron Tom Cruise for spouting off about medication. He doesn't know jack shit, just what his idiot scientologist cronies fed to him.
Oh well.
I'm sorry things are so rough for you.
I know what you're going through, and you always have a friend in me.
:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

19. Thanks

and right back atcha :hug:

[Danger Mouse]

20. I'm glad to know you....

...in fact, I'm glad to know ALL of you.
:grouphug:

[rug]

18. If the clowns don't work, maybe a mime will.

[Danger Mouse]

21. Mimes are silent clowns.

nt

[Ouabache]

28. Yes the mime can find the opening in the walls of depression

which surrond you, just give him time to feel his way out of the box.

[Danger Mouse]

31. If you shoot a mime, does it make a sound?

nt

[Redstone]

22. Uh, no. Enjoy being depressed? Then you're NOT really depressed. REAL depression

is not something anyone can enjoy, nor is it a joke.

Redstone

[Danger Mouse]

23. Sarcasm.

You know?

[SPKrazy]

24. Clown This !

[Danger Mouse]

25. Imagine if suddenly....

Ronald turned to the guy sitting there, opening his grinning plastic mouth to reveal razor sharp fangs, suddenly digging them into the man's soft neck, ripping it out, spilling blood down Ronald's plastic clown suit...

[SPKrazy]

26. He Did That Already

it didn't phase the guy, he just kept messing with his camera

[Danger Mouse]

30. I keep thinking of this scene in the book 'It' where a giant

plastic statue of paul bunyan tries to kill one of the characters with its axe. Then later on it turns into a giant plastic Pennywise the Dancing Clown, his lips as red as blood, his smile the smile of a demon...

[SPKrazy]

32. See Clowns Are Evil, Even Ronald McDonald

:evilgrin:

[Redstone]

27. Sorry, I didn't catch that. I apologize for being oblibiousm, which I am now and again.

Actually, with more frequency than "now and again."

OK, most of the time.

Redstone

[Danger Mouse]

29. It's okay...

LOL, if I enjoyed being miserable, I'd be one of the happiest people on earth at times...but actually I hate it :P
Don't worry about it, anyway, i'm usually pretty oblivious myself. Woohoo.

[Redstone]

33. And, judging by your screen name, you like to make fun of those

aliens-in-the-volcanoes folks.

I like that.

Redstone

[Danger Mouse]

34. Not so much the people who get into it...

I sympathize with them more than anything else, because I feel that they've been victimized. I prefer to make fun of the religion itself, with its comical beliefs, and its thuggish way of dealing with believers and enemies. Says Tom Cruise: 'If you have a problem with Scientology...well...well, fuck you.'
More or less...he actually said that.
If you're interested in the evils that gave rise to scientology, http://www.xenu.net has all the information you could ever want about them.
P.S. Scientologists aren't told about the volcanoes and the intergalactic warlord Xenu until AFTER they've given most of their money to scientology and are pretty much decimated financially.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a cult run by charlatans with a hard-on for making money hand-over-fist. They prey on the disenfranchised, the miserable, the lonely, and confused, and fill their heads with feel-good self-help garbage.

[Redstone]

35. That's the funny part, that they don't tell you the ridiculous bullshit until you've forked over

fifteen grand or so.

Any other religion, they'll sit down with you and explain their whole belief system for FREE. All you have to do is ask.

And then those Scientologist dupes will get SO upset when you refer to them as a cult, rather than as a religion.

Aliens and volcanoes and H-bombs, oh my!

Redstone

[Danger Mouse]

37. You ever hear of their 'fair game' doctrine?

All enemies of Scientology must be destroyed, by any means possible.
These are evil, evil people.
Unfortunately, the general public has NO idea how harmful Scientology is, and it's not like the media is helpful. At all.
And moronic celebrities like John Travolta or Tom Cruise aren't helping the situation either.

[Redstone]

46. Yes, I know. I've done the research.

Redstone

[Danger Mouse]

49. Good to see someone else out there who knows about this stuff...

have you ever heard of a flash series called 'You Are a Fucking Moron'? they did a feature on scientology once. it was pretty good.

[gemdem]

36. Every friggin' day...

It's really bad of late.

Hugs to you and everyone else who knows the feeling. :hug: :hug: :hug:

[Danger Mouse]

38. Hugs to you as well...

...and an offer of support, if you ever need to talk to someone.
I'm a very good listener. It's how I earn my paycheck :)

[gemdem]

40. Thanks.

Planning on going back to see my guy soon. Need to offload the crap I'm carrying 'round. I've gotten pretty good at it, just going through a rough stretch now.

[Danger Mouse]

44. Good...i'm glad that you have someone to share that with.

Best of luck to you.
:hug:

[gemdem]

50. Good luck to you, too.

:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

39. .....

:hug:

[gemdem]

41. Thanks!

Back at ya, BNL! :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

42. Yep, I know the feeling.

Hope you feel better soon. :hug:

[Danger Mouse]

43. Doin alright...thanks for your support.

:hug:

[Danger Mouse]

45. I know I've said this before but...

I love you all. :cry: :grouphug:

[SPKrazy]

48. -_-

keep hangin' on dude

I'm there with ya

lots of others here too

just breathe in and out and take it a frickin' minute at a time.

It just sucks to be depressed

:(

:grouphug:

[SPKrazy]

47. No Clowns This Time

depression sucks

that's all

sucks

:mad: :hug:

hope things get better for you soon.

[leftofthedial]

51. I have been so depressed for so long now

that I don't remember what anything else feels like.

[SPKrazy]

52. I'm Sorry

I can unfortunately relate to that

mine gets better, then worse, then better, then worse.

Then shit happens in life that factors into that as well.

Right now I'm in the shits, and a lot of things are not as I would like them to be. Some of that is depression. Some of that is circumstance. Some of it is poor judgment. Some of it is WTF?

But, depression sucks.

When I get to feeling good, I think there's something wrong! But there isn't. It's just how things are supposed to be.

:hug:

[Danger Mouse]

54. I hope YOU'RE feeling okay.

nt

[SPKrazy]

55. ...

not so much

but i've been so much worse before

[Danger Mouse]

59. I'm sorry to hear that.

Hope my evil clowns didn't do that to you. :/
:hug:

[SPKrazy]

60. thay's it!

damned clowns

[Danger Mouse]

61. It's truly clowns that are at fault for all the world's ills...

nt

[BarenakedLady]

66. Hey you

I'm sorry. :hug:

[leftofthedial]

56. thanks, man

it gets to be such a spiral of depression and shit happening that you can't tell cause from effect.

and I guess it doesn't matter


and now, in honor of my depression, I intend to pour copious amounts of distilled Irish depressants down my neck and howl at the latest in a series of massive winter storms that have turned my formerly sunny world into Moscow circa 1971.

[SPKrazy]

65. Oh That's Right!

how is the winter wonderland?

[leftofthedial]

84. highs in the single digits for a few days expected

and more snow

either 8 inches

or maybe just an inch or so

when it's this cold, we rarely get much snow

it is W-A-Y cold out now and a dusting of snow on top of some frozen rain

wind chill about .... let's see . . . . oh boy, 2 below.

[SPKrazy]

88. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr It's Supposed to do some freezing rain here

over the weekend

oh boy, can't wait.

[leftofthedial]

89. on the positive side,

I now have the world's biggest refrigerator right out my back door.

[Danger Mouse]

53. I've been there before...

...and it's cold, dark, lonely place.
We're all behind you, my friend.
:hug:

[leftofthedial]

57. thanks

I've reached sort of an ironically detached state of perpetual not-quite-amusement about it

[Danger Mouse]

58. Had that feeling...realizing what a torpor i was stuck in...

...and yet feeling powerless to change it.

[leftofthedial]

62. I keep trying

but recurringly, my attempts seem to end very badly

it's either awful luck

or I suck

or someone's following me around sabotaging my life


I tend to believe the latter.

[Danger Mouse]

64. 'If you're going through hell...keep going.'

-winston churchill.
of course, it's not always that easy. it's rarely that easy.

i prefer this quote myself:
'But the lows are so extreme
That the good seems fuckin cheap
And it teases you for weeks in its absence'
Rilo Kiley - "A Better Son/Daughter"

[leftofthedial]

67. two great quotes

Country Artist, Rodney Atkins, recently had a hit with a song called "If You're Going Through Hell." I didn't realize he was ripping off Winston Churchill.

That Kiley quote is excellent.

"the good seems fuckin cheap"


also, I'm sorry for walking on your thread. I'm sorry you're having a tough time. Keep plugging.

[Danger Mouse]

69. I just love Rilo Kiley, that entire song is a great song if you're feeling particularly bitter...

...and hush. You're not walking on my thread. You're sharing, and being a friend.
I'm glad you're here, and talking about it, so we can all be supportive of each other.
That makes me feel much better, honestly.

[gemdem]

63. Seems to be a lot of that going around...

Hang in there! We're all here for you! :hug: :hug: :hug:

[BarenakedLady]

68. Me too

:hug:

[Danger Mouse]

70. Eek...now I feel like I opened a can of worms...lol, sorry...

:hide:

[SPKrazy]

71. Yeah Right

all of us were fine until you started this thread dammit!

:eyes:


puuuuuhhhllleeeeeeezzzzzeee!

:pals:

[gemdem]

72. We're all here for each other

Honestly the Lounge, and occasional threads like this are a relief. You guys are GREAT! I felt pretty shitty when I logged on tonight, and while I'm still not feeling great I am feeling better. So, thanks! :-)

[Danger Mouse]

75. This is true...and that's why you guys are all so great.

and after all...misery loves company

[BarenakedLady]

74. No,

It helps to know there are others out there that are going through similar situations. IRL, often people just don't "get it", as we discussed further up this thread. There is still a stigma attached to depression. It's easy to feel embarrassed about it and not want to admit to it. I feel better knowing that there are others out there that understand and support me. It also helps to be helpful to others. It's a good thing. :)

:hug:

[Danger Mouse]

76. Oops

Self-delete
:)

[Danger Mouse]

77. Good

I'm glad that I shared then.
I almost didn't. It was gnawing away at me. It was mostly...just looking for some attention, as sad as it sounds.
But I appreciate what I have gotten...love, support, friendship...and offer the same to all of you
:hug:

[leftofthedial]

85. I feel better too

but that might be due to the irish whiskey

[SPKrazy]

73. hey

i could use one of them

:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

78. I gave you one further up...

But I'll certainly give you another...

:hug: :hug: :hug:

or more. :)

[SPKrazy]

79. oh- thanks!

B-) :hug: :hug:

[gemdem]

80. Hugs for you and everyone else here

:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:
:hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug: :hug:

There's plenty more where that came from everyone!

:-)

[Danger Mouse]

81. That's when this comes in handy...

:grouphug:
but here's some especially for you :hug: :hug: :hug:

[MsKandice01]

83. Me too...

I don't really know what the real, undepressed me is. To be honest, I'm almost kinda scared to find out.

[BarenakedLady]

86. I'm sorry

:hug:

[MsKandice01]

87. Thanks...

:hug:

Unfortunately, depression and anxiety run on both sides of my family and I ended with a double whammy...panic disorder and depression. I've got my panic attacks under control now but I haven't been as lucky with my depression. Luckily, it's never severe but it's been a constant in my life since I was about 15 or 16 years old. It's a major pain in my ass.

[Danger Mouse]

82. Goodnight, my friends...and thank you for everything...

...i added you all to my buddy list, hope noone minds :)
sleep well, and take care, and hang in there to those of you that are in pain right now...
:grouphug: :hug: :hi: