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Regarding Freeper Obit. TrappedInLiberalHell and Depression
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Posted on 12/13/2003 5:58:47 AM PST by joesbucks

The problems of depression and despair.


TOPICS: Unclassified; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: chatbait; clearitwithwidow; depression; despair; hehasnoclue; opuslist; thisisnews
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To: snopercod
Too funny
201 posted on 12/13/2003 10:09:08 AM PST by Ben Chad
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To: dubyaismypresident
FR has an *opus list?
202 posted on 12/13/2003 10:09:31 AM PST by snopercod (The federal government will spend $21,000 per household in 2003, up from $16,000 in 1999.)
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To: Amelia
Or perhaps only the FReepers who have experience in those areas tend to post on those threads, giving the impression of larger numbers?

I think it indicates Freepers, by and large, are courageous,honest people, willing to open up with their fellows and offer help,support or even a sounding board.

Freepers are hardly the moral weaklings our counterparts on the Left are.Sometimes we do fall, and sometimes, sadly, we don't get up as quickly as we should or could.
Trapped's loss is a sadness and a lesson for us all. If we,any of us, find ourselves down,m we can turn to the friends we've made here. Most of us will go beyond a damn screen to help.

203 posted on 12/13/2003 10:11:22 AM PST by gatorbait (Yesterday, today and tomorrow......The United States Army)
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To: ArneFufkin
I'm still mad at Karen Carpenter for killing herself.
204 posted on 12/13/2003 10:11:30 AM PST by snopercod (The federal government will spend $21,000 per household in 2003, up from $16,000 in 1999.)
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To: ArneFufkin
I may miss you after all. You do have a way with words.. LOL.. :)
205 posted on 12/13/2003 10:12:14 AM PST by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: Siouxz
I have not had alot of experience with that nor known alot of people with that affliction. That is a whole different thing I suppose. It's tragic.

Are there no medications that can help?
206 posted on 12/13/2003 10:13:17 AM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: ArneFufkin
Haven't learned how to follow a recipe, eh?
207 posted on 12/13/2003 10:15:50 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife ("Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." --- GIBRAN)
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To: frithguild
I'm sorry. I didn't realize that you had posted to me. I'm not sure what the intended message of your post is. I'm wondering if it was intended for someone other than me?
208 posted on 12/13/2003 10:16:04 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: RaceBannon
Thank God my Christian counselor didn't think like you. He knew better than you or me that my brain needed medicines to help it out. Just as a broken leg needs crutches or imperfect vision needs glasses. Do you wear glasses or eye contacts? If you do, where's your faith, man?

Many people are able to pick themselves up by the bootstraps and get on with it. But as my counselor explained to me at the time of my crash-n-burn, my bootstraps were broke. The Body of Christ is supposed to be helping the weaker ones out, not kicking them when they're down.

210 posted on 12/13/2003 10:23:13 AM PST by Ladysmith
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To: snopercod
I'm just so sick of those Christmas letters touting the family...
I know just what you mean. When I see one in my mailbox, I drop it in the trash wihithout reading it. I don't understand how people equate Christmas with time for self-aggrandizement.
211 posted on 12/13/2003 10:24:19 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Lazamataz
LOL.. my default state is that I'm really happy. I like that.

Lazamataz... Funny.. but I'm listening to Everybody Hurts by REM right now.

I tried... but I couldn't embrace the "total abstinance" of AA or NA. That "yee-haw... let's get it on!!!" state of mind has always been with me and total abstinance made me feel even more split.

Now..I acknowledge the addict in me.. have even come to love her. For she is the part of me that screams to the heavens when the shit starts to fly... "F**K YOU!! You'll never take me down!!!!"
212 posted on 12/13/2003 10:24:42 AM PST by bikewench
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To: All
A note to all non-depressives reading this thread:

Regardless of how you view depression, if you know someone who is or may be
clinically depressed, love them unconditionally.

Absolutely, positively, 100% of the time.   No exceptions.

As a depressive, I have never met a non-depressive who can really understand
depression's hell.   Depression can be extremely difficult to escape and your
unqualified love may be a significant part of a depressive's lifeline.

Also, I believe that those left behind by someone who passes on by his own hand
should not blame themselves. Depression can be brutally powerful and often
near-impossible to recognize.

My sincere prayers to TILH and his family.   May TILH rest in peace.

213 posted on 12/13/2003 10:26:22 AM PST by jigsaw (God Bless Our Troops.)
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To: ArneFufkin
anyone at a suicidal precipice
I hope you never have to take a walk in those shoes.
214 posted on 12/13/2003 10:26:54 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: joesbucks
Bookmarked to read later.... Thanks for starting this thread...
215 posted on 12/13/2003 10:27:56 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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To: Clara Lou
Questionable? No. Will everyone agree with that choice of words? No. Does it apply to everyone? No.

As I said, am I totally convinced that there are those who allow themselves to wallow in depression........because either they can, or think they can?

ABsoLUTEly.

216 posted on 12/13/2003 10:30:06 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: ClancyJ
Yet, it could be that the gene pools have evolved bringing forth modern day illnesses or weaknesses that were not prevelant in earlier times.
You do know that depression and suicide were problems for settlers who crossed the Great Plains in the 1800s? You do know that a number of women who settled in the plains back then committed suicide over the long winters? Depression isn't new. Record-keeping and data bases are what's new.
218 posted on 12/13/2003 10:32:10 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Violent aren't we? ~grin.

heh heh ;o)

Painful though. Very painful. And costly.

Yet worth every second of it. As silver refined and tested by Fire to the limit. Just praying I never have to go through that lesson again! ...yeeee...

219 posted on 12/13/2003 10:33:08 AM PST by Ladysmith
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To: joesbucks
bttfl
220 posted on 12/13/2003 10:33:52 AM PST by Cacique
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