Regarding Freeper Obit. TrappedInLiberalHell and Depression

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[joesbucks]

The problems of depression and despair.

[baseballmom]

I wonder if the lack of sun light has more effect on this than just because it's the Holidays.

I've read this is a very real physiological problem - lack of sunshine, lack of seratonin, wreaks havoc on the brain.

I'm also realizing I haven't excercised much at all in the last week or so. I hate the cold weather, and the slippery surfaces of the last week or so have kept me indoors.

[P.O.E.]

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

There are medications which can alleviate the symptoms of depression. The only cure (for me, anyway) was prayers for forgiveness and healing.

I owe my current happiness to the intercession of saints and the love of a good woman.

[ArneFufkin]

I'm angry at Chris for leaving his wife, family and friends in such a heartbroken, lifelong conditon. That's selfish as hell. Life is precious, his action is tragic ... for THOSE HE LEFT BEHIND.

It is increasingly evident, from this thread, and the Schiavo thread, that self-indulgent people here have no intuitive boundaries. It's all about the Godliness. It's the "let's all bond" over no valid reason pathology.

Depression is well know, he knew he had the disease. That's evident from the online communiques that have been linked here before. He couldn't get over mommas death. Well, Mom and Dad die people. I know, my two marvelous parents are gone, way too early. Dad's gonna kick my ass up north if I pull this shit. He should have sought help. He knew his condition. He's not a man to be admired. He left a wife alone, not as a victim, but in everyone's eyes going forward as someone who didn't do enough, see enough, feel enough and care enough. "How could she let him do this ... or did she drive him to this? Hmmmmmmm?" She's the forever perp here! Bitch!

"What could we have done"? "What didn't we see?" "What must he have been going through?" Bullshit! Who would put people you love into that lifelong "coulda shoulda woulda" torment?

Consider this my FR Opus. This place is insane.

[Dysart]

"I have never once been depressed while having sex.

Not once."


You've never dated my ex,Janet.

[Vigilantcitizen]

For later.

[Lazamataz]

You've never dated my ex, Janet.

To your knowledge.

[ChemistCat]

Brain studies prove that the depressed brain functions differently. There are different blood-flow patterns and different electrical activity. The brain responds to stimuli different. Problem-solving is impaired, judgment is impaired, inhibition is changed. The depressed person is therefore in many ways a DIFFERENT person from the same person not depressed.

[ClancyJ]

I understand your feelings but the medications are doing the same thing we use all other medications for - to correct something that our body is doing or not doing on its own.

I think one of the reasons exercise helps is that it jars the brain stimulating the receptors and transmitters that produce the chemicals necessary to process the brain's messages of well-being.

Those with depression possibly have a chemical imbalance - why not take the medication that equalizes that imbalance? Why try to suffer through and cure the imbalance with thoughts, views etc? We don't suffer through misfunctions of the heart, lungs, digestive system with encouraging talks of how to cope and "make" the situation better. We face the fact that bodies don't always process everything as intended and use the medications discovered to correct the misfunctions.

No need for different handling on miscommunications of the brain, no need to refuse medication to help the imbalances.

[baseballmom]

That's dressing, yankee boy.

ROFLOL

[Az Joe]

I too have felt that way. Let's hang in there and make it a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

God bless you.

[ClancyJ]

Great comments.

[joesbucks]

I am probably more like you, the anxiety.

Our company just announced that they will be reducing overhead cost by almost a billion dollars annually and begin to focus on emerging markets (Latin and South American, Far East and Eastern Europe). I've already recognized that this was likely to take place and have began the process to move to a more self reliant career. There will be a transition time as the sideline becomes less an advocation and more of a vocation. I'm stuck with the perplexing thought of whether to volunteer to be cut free and have my feet held to the fire to perform on my own OR hope to be kept on and be even more tied to the job and have less chance to nurture the new vocation. That has been really weighing on me.

That's in addition to having lost a long time (27 years) job just a few years ago, having a wife of 25 years who I was hopelessly in love with say she no longer wants to be together and the subsequent termination of the marriage at the same time as the job loss, a new job, then new ownership and a remarriage. All within the past 3 years. All of the usual stress factors coliding in one short span.

[Born in a Rage]

Since I left the northeast ten years ago and moved to places that are perpetually sunny--I rarely get depressed.

I lived in sunny AZ for ten years and couldn't stand it. The sun was constantly in my eyes and the heat makes people irritable. Nothing ever changed there, imo. Everything always looked the same. To me, that was 'depressing' (although I never technically got depressed) and boring! I love it here in New Hampshire. That just goes to show how different people react to different circumstances :-)

[Monty22]

I was actually very close to suicide this year, from health problems and being broke and bankrupt from long term unemployment.

Found a job, and that really helped. Back to the normal life at least for now.

[IronJack]

there are times when we need to tend to the emotional side of things too.

This too is covered in the Bible, in the passage from Ecclesiastes where it says "There is a time to every purpose under Heaven."

Emotion isn't wrong. It's just sometimes inappropriate. But so is reason. It's a wise (or well-guided) person indeed who knows which to use when.

[joesbucks]

btw, I do enjoy your recipe threads.

[ChemistCat]

Cussin' during an Opus is like throwing rocks in the water hoping to make a permanent splash.

I'm sure it's very tiring.

[snopercod]

'My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength has failed because of my iniquity, and my body has wasted away. Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances. Those who see me in the street flee from me. I am forgotten as a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.'

Thanks. I'm going to include that in my Christmas letter this year.

[Born in a Rage]

leaving his wife, family and friends in such a heartbroken, lifelong conditon. That's selfish as hell. Life is precious, his action is tragic ... for THOSE HE LEFT BEHIND.

I agree. Also, suicide is self-murder and what people go to hell for.

[lavrenti]

I had depressed women. They weren't depressed afterward.